{"id":56180,"date":"2025-07-24T12:51:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=56180"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:51:52","slug":"event-podcast-we-are-eating-the-earth-with-host-michael-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/event-podcast-we-are-eating-the-earth-with-host-michael-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Podcast &#8211; We Are Eating the Earth with Host Michael Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"space-y-2\">\n<h1 class=\"text-4xl font-head font-medium mt-4\" style=\"text-align: center\">We Are Eating the Earth<\/h1>\n<h4 class=\"c-episode-post__subtitle text-xl font-normal mt-1\" style=\"text-align: center\">The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-episode-post__podcast-authors\">\n<div class=\"text-base font-normal leading-5\" style=\"text-align: center\">Michael Grunwald<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-base font-normal text-gray-700 leading-5\" style=\"text-align: center\">Hosted by\u00a0<a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/hosts\/profile\/56370181-df5e-4a52-b3a3-feb8b3c41c50\">Michael Simpson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/content?id=6hHx0AEACAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=1&amp;edge=curl&amp;source=gbs_api\" alt=\"Michael Grunwald, &quot;We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate&quot; (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2025)\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/we-are-eating-the-earth\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Link<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"text-2xl font-head font-medium\">Summary<\/h3>\n<div class=\"o-rte-content leading-6 text-base space-y-5\">\n<p>Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public policy and national politics, with the last fifteen years having him zeroing in or climate-related issues. His current book, which he wrote this after six years of research. It was a passionate journey to understand, not to advocate for any position.<\/p>\n<p>Because of his reporting for such publications as the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and Politico magazine, Michael won the George Polk Award for national reporting and the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting, as well as being honored with many other journalism honors.<\/p>\n<p>This is Michael\u2019s third book, and like the previous two, his journalistic research and writing states the major challenges to the feeding the world\u2019s population, but also provides a visionary path forward.<\/p>\n<p>This book not only delves into agriculture practices and consumers\u2019 choices about food, but the focus is on the immense climate impact from poor land land-use decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10410,"featured_media":34103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[390,299,5702,5823,8413],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56183,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56180\/revisions\/56183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}