Michael Grunwald

This is the second straight summer friends of ours have lost a daughter on the bay. We’re still thinking about Ella, too. The families all deserve answers.

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10-year-old, Miami Beach sailboat crash victim has died from her wounds Sunday, Temple Menorah has announced the funeral service of Arielle Mazi Buchman.

We are absolutely gutted by the passing of Ari Buchman, beloved daughter of our dear friends Rhonda and Todd. May her memory be a blessing. Our hearts are broken for all the families affected by this horrific tragedy on Biscayne Bay.

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What fascinates/horrifies me about Rogan are his weird heterodox knee-jerk views that are almost invariably wrong. I mean, obviously right-wing-populist wrong about Trump and climate, but also left-wing-yogi wrong about seed oils and pasture management and the 2008 financial crisis.

Does Oscar Meyer have weiners?

We're losing a soccer field worth of tropical forest every six seconds to agriculture. That’s what’s eating the earth. We need to eat, but kinder and gentler farms that produce less food per acre need more acres to produce food. They sound “natural,” but they tear down more nature.

Yes, I do think it would be helpful to cultivated meat (which I'm bullish about anyway), electric tractors (I drove one a couple weeks ago!) and automation generally. Also land-based fish farms. But electricity isn't usually the limiting factor in ag.

I guess the immediate impact would be vertical farming would be less cost-prohibitive, but I still don't see it making much of an impact beyond lettuce/berries/weed. Do you think it would have a big impact on outdoor farming?

We know how to decarbonize energy. The food sector should take notes. Climate-friendly agriculture is two decades behind clean energy. Here are lessons food and farming can learn from the rise of renewables and cleantech.

Clean energy is in trouble — but at least it’s made progress for the Trump administration to roll back. On food, there’s been virtually none, writes @mikegrunwald.bsky.social:

One of the lessons is that we need some Solyndras for food and farming.

We know how to decarbonize energy. The food sector should take notes. Climate-friendly agriculture is two decades behind clean energy. Here are lessons food and farming can learn from the rise of renewables and cleantech.

My new column for @canarymedia.com kinda sums up what I’ve learned over 20 years of climate reporting. It’s about what the transformation of the (fucked up but improving) energy sector can teach us about the (fucked up and not improving) food/ag/land sector. www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

I've visited 43 and I think filed stories from 33. Being a national reporter is a great way to see the country; I hit every state except Hawaii in my twenties. Still haven't hit Hawaii!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Balancing High Yields and Sustainable Practices to Fix our Food System. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Presented by the Breakthrough Institute, this webinar brings together Michael Grunwald and Peter Lehner for an engaging conversation about their visions for the future of food. Topics include explorin...

Tune in today at 1 pm ET to hear me talking with the leaders of @earthjustice.org and @sentientmedia.org about the future of food and farming. It's not the lineup you might expect for a @thebti.bsky.social event, but this stuff really shouldn't be ideological.

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We absolutely do have a land problem. It's just that the problem has nothing to do with solar.

It’s not edgy or interesting to point out that obviously bad things are bad, but carbon emissions are bad, global warming is bad, bullshit deregulatory actions on behalf of fossil-fuel donors are bad.

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed revoking a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

Those of us who disagree with some left-wing climate rhetoric and strategy should make it clear: Trump is a climate disaster, this is environmental vandalism, the deniers and do-nothing lackeys are the big threat to the planet.

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Reducing the climate impacts of food and farming Michael Grunwald joins me to discuss how to increase agriculture's output while reducing its carbon footprint.

Loved listening to @drvolt.bsky.social's and @mattyglesias.bsky.social's podcasts about agriculture & climate change w/ @mikegrunwald.bsky.social.

Got me thinking about the fundamental divide in Dem / left politics today.

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I've used this line a lot lately but EPA repealing the CO2 endangerment finding reminds me of Abe Lincoln's riddle: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg?

The answer is four: Call it whatever you want, it's still a tail.

Call CO2 whatever you want, it's still dangerous.

Agriculture was invented 12,000 years ago, and it’s always made a mess. Early farming warmed the planet; a South America-sized wilderness was cleared for agriculture before 1800. Ag will never be a climate solution - the goal should be less mess.

Real talk about agriculture and climate An interview with Michael Grunwald

I was honored to go deep into the politics of climate, the power of vibes, and the uncomfortable food and ag reporting in WE ARE EATING THE EARTH with @mattyglesias.bsky.social. He called it "one of my favorite policy books in a long time."

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Trying to decarbonize the earth while continuing to vaporize forests is like trying to clean your house while smashing your vacuum to bits in the living room. You’re making a mess, and crippling your ability to clean up the mess.

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How to Feed the World Without Frying the Earth Author Michael Grunwald shares 5 key insights from his new book, We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.

We Are Eating the Earth was a @nextbigidea.bsky.social book of the month so they've shared my Five Key Insights. If you want to avoid my weird voice there's a transcript too! nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/fee...

I started reporting WE ARE EATING THE EARTH at the peak of the alt-protein hype cycle. Fake meat founders were vowing to end real meat. But the dogs didn’t like the food, so now we’re in the trough. That doesn’t mean we’ll stay here.

Climate deniers and delayers still use the bizarro-world argument that it’s pointless for the US to act because China and the rest of the world won’t. The rest of the world is sprinting so far ahead that it can start using that argument about us!

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Three makes a trend: Wildtype approved to sell cultivated salmon, Mission Barns approved to sell cultivated pork fat, now Believer Meats has FDA green light to sell cultivated chicken. I didn’t expect RFK Jr. to let this happen and I’m glad I was wrong.

I liked the blurb-words like "powerful" and "impressive" but my favorite line was probably: "Grunwald is no vegan bore."

Thanks so much - enjoy!

Thanks! Unfortunately, if your vehicles are in the US, you are putting corn ethanol in them just about every time you gas up.

We Are Eating the Earth - Michael Grunwald ***** If I'm honest, I assumed this would be another 'oh dear, we're horrible people who are terrible to the environment', worthily dull title - s...

A nice 5-star review of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH by @brianclegg.bsky.social for the Popular Science blog: "I was surprised to be gripped from early on." My hope is that at some point readers are going to stop being surprised!

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Trump’s EPA delays rules requiring toxic coal ash cleanup The agency’s move to extend compliance deadlines for “legacy” coal ash dumps is the latest in a string of Trump admin attacks on environmental regulations.

Make America Healthy Again

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