Holy Scat! Why Antlers Are Freaking Amazing
Antler tissue is the fastest growing animal tissue on the planet. It grows faster than a human embryo, faster even than a cluster of cancer cells. On a hot summer day, some antlers can grow as much as...
10 Mar 202239min
The Immigrant Apple and The Hard Cider Comeback
Forget about beer, or even water; it was hard apple cider that was THE drink of choice in colonial America. Even kids drank it! And since it’s made from apples – the “all-American” fruit – what could ...
24 Feb 202235min
What the Tofurkey is Going On with Fake Meat?
Move over, beef: there’s a new burger in town. Plant-based meats are sizzling hot right now; in 2020 alone, the alternative meat industry saw a record $3.1 billion in investment, with 112 new plant-ba...
17 Feb 202258min
Even Hikers Get The Blues
When Jocelyn Smith was growing up, she told her friends and family she didn’t want to go to college. Instead, her goal was to hike all 2,190 miles of the Appalachian Trail, a rugged journey spanning f...
10 Feb 202238min
Dispatches from the New American Shore
When writer Elizabeth Rush visited neighborhoods already transformed by rising seas, she noticed that many people did not use terms like “climate change.” They still talked about it – it’s just that t...
27 Jan 202245min
The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part II, The Mountain
Decades before the first international permaculture conference or certified organic tomato, a farmer on an island in southern Japan turned his back on industrial agriculture and devoted his life to fi...
13 Jan 202229min
The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part I, The Revolution
Decades before the first international permaculture conference or certified organic tomato, a farmer on an island in southern Japan turned his back on industrial agriculture and devoted his life to fi...
13 Jan 202232min
It Was the Ladies Who Hugged the Trees
On May 21, 2021, an influential environmental activist died of Covid-19 and you probably didn’t hear about it. Sunderlal Bahuguna’s passing didn’t make the major news outlets in the US, but it was a b...
6 Jan 202216min
