Greenhouse Sass

We're back and apparently still not done talking about food. But this time we're not alone. We've brought on our good friend and colleague Joslyn Fritz, a food waste reduction specialist with Los Angeles County (i.e. an actual expert) to discuss California's battle with food waste, methane emissions, and systemic inequity.

We're not done talking about agriculture just yet (but we will be after this episode). Tune in for a too-honest discussion on ways to make our existing agricultural systems more sustainable, from taking notes from indigenous people's knowledge to reducing food waste in our inefficient and frankly superficial society.

Farming isn't what it used to be. In this episode, we talk about how farming has gone from the days of praying for rain and subsistence living to mass producing amounts of food our ancestors could only dream of. While these agricultural advancements have enabled our modern, shitposter lives, they've brought an array of ecological, health, and climate problems that add a whole new level of guilt to your liberal, first-world platter!

(We have so much to say on this topic it'll take us two episodes to get through it all, stay tuned!)

We can hypothetically talk about climate change, or how the climate has already changed. In this episode, we talk about how 2017 produced 25 million climate refugees, or people forced to relocate due to the changing climate. Tune in for some insights on who is most in danger and what is projected to happen over the next century.

The rent's going up in many ecosystems, which, thanks to climate change, are rapidly gentrifying. In this episode, we discuss biodiversity loss and how it's impacting the many animals that are constantly vying for space in Earth's increasingly competitive rental market. And no, we're not getting our deposit back.

What if your old racist uncle was a city planner? As it turns out, he probably was.

This episode focuses on environmental (in)justice - how certain communities and groups face disproportionate levels of environmental burdens.

The oil industry braces for devastation in the wake of COVID-19. Exxon Mobil plans on laying off 25 congressmen this year alone.

Greenhouse Sass is a podcast created by three graduate students in the environmental sciences - James Fuller, Sandro Lallas, and Karan Shetty. Each episode focuses on analyzing an environmental topic in the news in an accurate yet irreverent way. This episode's focus is renewable energy.

The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its third mass bleaching event event in five years, and is now downgraded to Adequate Barrier Reef.  Sandro, James, and Karan walk us through what corals are and how they're in danger, why they're important, and how we as individuals can reduce our impact on coral reefs.

Greenhouse Sass is a podcast created by three graduate students in the environmental sciences - James Fuller, Sandro Lallas, and Karan Shetty. Each episode focuses on analyzing an environmental topic in the news in an accurate yet irreverent way. This episode's focus is Coral Reefs.

This episode features the track "Loyal" by Odesza. All rights to the music belong to the respective owners.

The average American is estimated to ingest about 40 grams of gluten-free, vegan, free-range plastic a year in an unheard of and unintentional new diet fad.

Greenhouse Sass is a podcast created by three graduate students in the environmental sciences - James Fuller, Sandro Lallas, and Karan Shetty. Each episode focuses on analyzing an environmental topic in the news in an accurate yet irreverent way. This week's topic is Microplastics.

This episode features the track "Loyal" by Odesza. All rights to the music belong to the respective owners.