Bart Elmore: What Environmental History Can Teach Us About Food, Power, and the Future

This week, we are digging deep on the relationship between humans, plants, animals and profit with Bart Elmore, who advocates for a fundamental respect for nature. His most recent book Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future traces the path from Agent Orange to Roundup and the impact it has had on public health, the environment and more. Bart is also the author of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism.

In this Choose the Hard Way episode, Bart shares about the false starts and the forces that shaped his professional path including basketball, electronic music and a failed attempt at a cross-country cycling trip.

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Jason McCarthy: Democratizing Fitness and Creating Community, One Ruck at a Time

Can human movement be used to repair the damage technology has created? Jason McCarthy thinks it can do much more than that; it can be the glue that holds our communities together. In this Choose the Hard Way podcast episode, he shares what he learned from hosting the inaugural GoRuck Games with the Sandlot JAX festival in Jacksonville, Florida, and more broadly how those lessons connect to community building and social health.

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