Unconfined
Episode 27 of Unconfined, in which a CLF dietary maven and a CLF policy wonk deliver the goods on RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines
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In this episode of Unconfined, Brent Kim breaks down the pros (meh) and cons (many) of manure digesters and the expanding biogas industry, which has been billed as a climate solution, and to which Brent says, Nah.
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In this episode of Unconfined, author Mariah Blake and former organic farmer Adam Nordell tell the dark tale of how the highly toxic, long-lived class of chemicals called PFAS made their way from government labs to corporate factories to a farm near you—and the happier story of how ordinary people are organizing to minimize the harm from this mess.
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In this episode of Unconfined, reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich and Theodore Ross of the Food and Environment Reporting Network, co-hosts of Forked podcast, tease out the contradictions and paradoxes of food policy in the age of Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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In this episode of Unconfined, Leo Horrigan tells us about his new book and all the ways we could use microbes to regenerate healthy soil, sink carbon, and grow more nutritious crops.
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In this episode of Unconfined, Michelle Hughes despairs over federal funding freezes for land- access programs and rebounds with an optimistic vision for the long-term future in which young farmers regenerate not only soil, but the industry as a whole.
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In this episode of Unconfined, author Michael Grunwald and host Tom Philpott grapple with the future of food in a warming world.
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In this episode of Unconfined, author Brea Baker teases out the 20th century’s great dispossession of Black farmers, and reports on a budding revival of African-American agrarianism.
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In this episode of Unconfined, James Skeet waxes philosophical on European-style, settler-oriented, colonialism-informed agriculture and re-imagines an agricultural practice that relies instead on indigenous regenerative intelligence.
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In this episode of Unconfined, author Austin Frerick discusses the barons who dominate US food production, including an Iowa farm couple who spun enormous, manure-spewing hog operations into a vast fortune.
info_outlineIn this episode of Unconfined, Dave Love explains oyster farming, why it’s impossible to industrialize it, and how oysters offer benefits ranging from amino acids to storm surge buffers.