Our guest today has a basic rule, based on research, about leaders of businesses and organizations.  They should, first and foremost, be experts in the activity they lead and then acquire and assume the leadership skills required to run the operation.  In too many cases, as has been the trajectory since the 1980’s, more and … Read More Read More

America’s food system is broken, bringing harm to family farmers, workers, the environment and our health.  But it doesn’t have to be that way and the new documentary and companion book “Food, Inc. 2” provides plenty of approaches to reclaiming a more natural and sustainable way to feed  America.  It’s all a follow on … Read More Read More

There is a war raging below the surface, literally, for the critical minerals–lithium, copper, cobalt and that packet called ‘rare earth’–needed to power the conversion from fossil fuels to electrification of our lives.  To build electric cars, solar panels, cell phones and millions of other devices will require the world to dig … Read More Read More

Last time we spoke to our guest on this podcast he was trying to help us talk to science deniers.  What ever happened to the America that thought better living(and longer life)could be achieved by following the science?  He told us not to be argumentative and try to understand those who might still be smitten … Read More Read More

Industrial farming and ranching began about 80 years ago and now accounts for almost all agricultural output in America.  We have allowed what once occupied nearly 40 percent of our population to be placed in the hands of of about one percent at the present time.  I can see where some would say that’s a … Read More Read More

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is recognized globally as the most important wildlife conservation law ever passed.  Having turned 50 in 2023, there is no requirement to update it, but given changes in approaches to managing the law and new and growing threats to biodiversity, it is a good time to reconsider what this … Read More Read More

The sale of electric vehicles(EV’s) has slowed owing to the high cost of the current crop and the fears of some that they will be on a road trip and unable to ‘fill up’ with electricity to continue on their journey.  Clearly, the industry is continuing to work on better battery life, longer ranges and … Read More Read More

Phil Lempert, aka The Supermarket Guru, knows his way around a supermarket and has been imparting great advice to consumers on trends in these important confines for more than 25 years as an astute analyst of consumer behavior, marketing trends, new products and the changing retail landscape. Perhaps you’ve seen him on NBC’s ‘Today Show’ … Read More Read More

It’s hard to look back at the period when Covid-19 was ravaging the health and well-being of the American public, let alone people through the world, and say that we miss some of its silver linings.  Yet government stepped up with added monetary benefits, extended unemployment assistance, a child care tax credit and delays in … Read More Read More

Ninety seven year old, Robert Jay Lifton, a chronicler of the pain, suffering and anguish of of the catastrophes of the 20th and 21st centuries–Nazi horrors, Hiroshima devastation, and the recent pandemic from Covid-19–as a ‘witnessing writer’ with a perception born of years of study as a pioneer in the field of psycho history, continues … Read More Read More