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Earth Eats is a show about food and farming. It’s storytelling, recipes, farm visits, and kitchen sessions. We have conversations with scholars, chefs, growers, and food justice activists. We hear from authors, artists, scientists, poets, and people who love to eat. Earth Eats is a production of WFIU Public Radio and Indiana Public Media.
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Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes, is a Household Toxins Health Specialist. For over 40 years, she has been researching, studying, and talking about toxins in your life and home and how they can affect your health. She helps you reduce your exposure to chemicals that are in your personal care and cleaning products, food, and other items in your home that expose you to harmful chemicals. She guides you in having a low-tox lifestyle that can reduce the risk of potentially chemical-induced illnesses, ...
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Green Living Chats is a platform to discuss solutions to emerging environmental issues and challenges in and around the world and to promote environmental-related projects. We are looking forward to making a positive impact on our planet. So let's build up a community and learn together. GLC podcast is brought to you by Eco Amet Solutions Ghana. Be INFORMED!.
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Starting Sustainability: Sustainable Living: eco-friendly: environment: green: recycle: zero-waste
Kaylin Chenoweth
From the popular blog www.startingsustainability.com we have created a podcast to help you learn the simple ways you can incorporate sustainable practices into your lifestyle. Follow Kaylin along with her triumphs and fails of navigating a sustainable lifestyle. Everyone can do more than re-usable bags and cups. Getting everyone to do an extra few steps towards sustainability will have a greater impact than just one person doing it perfectly. To learn more check out www.startingsustainabilit ...
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The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
Rico Verde
We all know about the doom and gloom associated with environmental issues. We need to tell ourselves a new story. Instead let's talk about energy independence, green jobs, livable cities, clean water, clean air, and healthy children. This is where politics, perceptions, and life-style meet the catastrophe that is unfolding in front of our eyes. Here's a suggestion — subscribe, tune-in, and stop doom-scrolling.
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Jennifer Brower: Author of Silent Killers Shares Her Journey Through Complex Illness and Healing
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In this episode, Jennifer Brower shares her 25-year struggle with Lyme disease, mold toxicity, mercury poisoning, and coronavirus. Starting from a spider bite in 1998, Jennifer's journey led her to write her book 'Silent Killers' to inspire and guide others facing similar health battles. She discusses misdiagnosis, the limitations of traditional me…
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SHOWNOTES In this, the third podcast in a three-part series, we start buy discussing the fundamental difference between Republican and Democrat voters. Next, a deep dive on how Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 — by not winning the popular vote, and how he could easily do it again. Then, insights on how the nation has to prepare itself on ele…
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“We know that there are all sorts of good chemicals that come out of the dirt and working with land–working with plants–that are beneficial to our mood and our health. For refugee populations that have had to be on the run or had to live in refugee camps for decades, having a little piece of land that you can tend to that you can take care of and t…
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This week Tee is delighted to welcome Cindy Vallone. Cindy was born and raised in South California. She is a busy wife, a mom to 2 teenage boys, and an entrepreneur. She and her family have been using essential oils for over 7 years and have made strides to reduce their toxic load. Today, they use doTERRA essential oils as their first line of defen…
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“At least 100 years ago, the last robber barons, we got nice libraries out of it. This one, it’s like ‘oh, what is the family using its money for? To gut public education via charter school networks?’ It’s kind of Machiavellian–it’s Machiavellian in a really sad way” This week on the show, I’m talking with Austin Frerick, the author of Barons: Mone…
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SHOWNOTES In this second of three episodes in series, we are delving into what an unnatural force of nature, Donald Trump will be. Worse than any fire, flood, or hurricane, for the future of our planetary systems, and also on human institutions that will have to deal with the magnitude of the consequences of his policies. That’s a strong statement,…
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This week Tee is honored to welcome Amy Ziff. Amy is the founder and executive director of Nontoxic Certified & the MADE SAFE® Certification. Amy pioneered the rigorous MADE SAFE® seal; the revolutionary Ecosystem Screening Process, MADE SAFE® Banned List, and the Red List Powered by MADE SAFE. MADE SAFE® is America’s first independent, 3rd party c…
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“And that’s why we call it a food value chain.You know, it’s a supply chain but it’s based on the values that you have as far as how the land is treated, how people are treated, what kind of nutrition contents in your food–all those things [that] people up and down–from the farmer to the consumer have an interest in. And so, this system that we’re …
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This is the first of three episodes about how Donald Trump, if elected, will strangle Climate and Environmentalism in it’s crib. In this episode: Trump and his party have a new climate-strategy — acknowledging that change is happening, but refusing to actually do anything to stop it. Also, considering how shokingly unfit Donald Trump is for leading…
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This week Tee dives deep into the relationship between toxins and the autoimmune disease Hashimotos with guest Divya Gupta. Divya is a functional nutrition coach and educator. She helps busy professionals who want a healthier future. Divya creates personalized plans to help them regain their health and live life on their own terms. With her own exp…
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“When you have to make those decisions do you buy the nicest ingredients to make your food, since that’s why people are there? Or do you pay your employees two dollars more an hour? Or do you rent the building that’s gonna put you in the location that gives you the highest chance of success? I think that in many ways restaurant owners have one of t…
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This week Tee is happy to welcome Matty Lansdown. Matty is a scientist, nutritionist, and emotional eating and binge eating coach who specializes in helping women build their confidence and shift their food & body weight challenges. Starting out in the field of nutritional epigenetics and spending several years working in hospitals as part of a can…
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"...one of which is sorghum sudan grass, and if you don't mow that, it gets to be like ten feet tall. And so we had pigs that were running through there, that reminded us of the velociraptors in Jurassic Park–you know, you can't see the animal, you just see the top of the plant waving back and forth. And so we were always on safari when we had to g…
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This week Tee is excited to welcome human performance expert Justin Frandson. In this enlightening episode, Justin shares insights into the harmful effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) and 5G technology on human health. Drawing from his extensive experience working with top athletes, Frandson highlights how wearable technology and environmental …
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“Animal agriculture creates more greenhouse gas emissions than all transportation combined. Yet, as individuals we’re often told ‘you should take public transportation and ride bikes,’ all of which are good things but not very frequently are we told, ‘let’s reduce our consumption of animal products, and that will have a tremendous impact on the env…
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I'm back!!! It was a nice summer break and now it is back to the grind. The first 20 minutes of this episode is catching up with Kaylin. Learn about the garden, traveling to Texas, HR stories, work drama, Ruger, family life, etc. If you want to go straight to the embarrassing secret it is shared at the 20:45 mark.…
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This week Tee is excited to welcome Risa Groux, a Functional Nutritionist and Certified Autoimmune Coach in private practice in Newport Beach, California. Risa has always been passionate about nutrition and good health. Today she is also passionate about cooking and creating healthy, nutritious food. She works with a wide array of clients from prof…
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“Speaking directly to Black women and wanting Black women to know that their bodies are not the problem. The way that our bodies are treated and problematized and pathologized, we’re often taught that it’s our fault, that it’s our problem to fix or we just need to love our bodies out of societal oppression.” This week on the show a conversation wit…
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This week Tee is delighted to welcome Erin Yuet Tjam, PHD to the show for an in-depth conversation about the many myths that surround skincare routines, exfoliation, and moisturizing. Erin is a bicultural, bilingual health scientist and an adjunct professor whose work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. Over the course of her car…
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“I grow tomatoes at my house. My mom’s such a good shot, she was shooting cherry tomatoes off their stems” This week on the show it's back to school and into the garden. We meet kids in an after school garden club at Benjamin Franklin Elementary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Next we drop into a multi-age classroom in Bloomington where kids work with a c…
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This week Tee is excited to welcome Allison Samon. Allison is a Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner who works with clients to overcome chronic illness, escape mystery symptoms, and help redesign their lifestyle so they can be fit, energized, and pain-free in ways that are easy, fun, and sustainable. Allison struggled with unexplained ch…
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“When the phorids arrive, the ants release a pheromone that tells their nest mates, all the other ants that are in the vicinity, their sisters that are in the vicinity, tells them ‘Careful! The phorids are here! You better go back to your nest or get paralyzed.’” This week on the show, we get to nerd out on insects with Ivette Perfecto who studies …
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This week Tee is delighted to welcome Dr. Angela Zeng for an in-depth look at traditional Chinese Medicine. As the visionary founder of Karviva Beverages, Dr. Zeng has revolutionized the wellness beverage industry by marrying the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine with cutting-edge nutritional science. With an impressive academic founda…
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“When you think of literacy and you think of what does that mean and what are all the parts of it– think about reading a recipe. Think about measuring the ingredients. Think about learning how to cook. Think about planning a meal, or budgeting for that meal.There are so many things that are learning-through-play, learning-through-doing-it, in a tea…
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This episode is dedicated to my mother, Mary Forton, as her birthday is this week and she would have been 94. She taught me as a young child in the ’60s and ’70s about organic food, avoiding processed and fast food, staying away from chemicals in cleaning supplies and personal care products and so many other tips on living a low-tox life. Do you ch…
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“We’ve been presented with problems today that we’ve never dealt with before as an agriculture industry–like climate change. And I don’t think that the approach we’ve taken, historically, is going to work here…As long as I’ve heard the words ‘climate change,’ I have heard that Indigenous practice is the solution.” This week on the show, a conversat…
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In this episode, Tee welcomes Marla Mervis-Hartmann, creator of Love Your Body, Love Yourself. Marla opens up about her struggles with emotional eating and body image issues. She shares her transformative journey of self-compassion and self-friendship, which helped her overcome years of dysfunctional eating and negative body image. Marla explains h…
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Have you ever had a hunch about something, tested it out and been shocked by the results? That’s what happened to public health scholar Funmi Ayeni. She took a traditional Nigerian home remedy and applied the rigors of scientific research to test its efficacy. The results were nothing short of jaw dropping. This week on Earth Eats, food research th…
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This week Tee is delighted to welcome George Siegal for an informative conversation about what to look for and what questions to ask when you are buying or renting a home. George is an impassioned filmmaker, with a new documentary coming out this summer titled Built to Last: Buyer Beware, casting a spotlight on the impacts of substandard home const…
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“As I started to think more about theories around food, and it’s a thing that we do every day without fail, and it really shapes the way that we interact with one another, it shapes the way we interact with our environments, the ways that we create networks of relationships–being able to name it has given it a power to be able to use it to tap into…
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This week Tee is excited to welcome Dr. Richard Chen for a wonderful conversation about integrative medicine and taking control of your health and well-being. Dr. Chen is an integrative medical doctor with 31 years of experience. In this chat, Tee and Richard discuss the burden of toxins and their impact on health. Dr. Chen, who transitioned from a…
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“We use wood so that we give the various microorganisms sort of a place to colonize and live from batch to batch. And over time those colonies and those species that have taken hold will change, they’ll drift and so, you’ll develop a unique character to each tank that’s really interesting.” This week on the show we dive head first into a giant oak …
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This week Tee is delighted to welcome Mory Diané the founder and designer behind the revolutionary Rover device, created under his engineering design company, Cleyx. Mory shares his journey from the Ivory Coast to the U.S., his academic and professional background in civil engineering and the power industry, and his shift towards environmental sust…
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“The dominant vocabulary for talking about restaurants is ‘what food do they serve, what are the good dishes?’ People think that’s the only thing that’s important about restaurants.” Today on the show we talk with Historian Rebecca Spang, about the origins of restaurants, and what they mean to us today. “The experience just of knowing that there ar…
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This week Tee is excited to welcome Chwynyn Vaughan to the podcast for an incredibly insightful look at the benefits of organic botanicals for our health and skin. For more than 3 decades, Chwynyn has embraced a clean, toxin-free lifestyle. Chwynyn’s desire to use pure products coupled with a deep love of botanicals, regenerative gardening, and for…
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