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From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

In her new book, Girls Who Green the World, journalist Diana Kapp profiles 34 women who are working

in smart, creative, and often entrepreneurial ways to beat back climate change and other

environmental problems. These women have found ways to make meaningful climate change and other environmental problems.

These women have found ways to make meaningful change and we'll talk with Cap and two of the

women she profiled in her book, including Kayla Abe of the Bay Area favorite ugly pickle

co. And then before Luke Sy was KQED's food editor and even before he'd written professionally

at all, he was a chow hound. One of the legions of people who once flocked to the early website for food lovers, and

which sadly closed down after 25 years, will eulogize and celebrate.

That's all next after this news.

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Amidst almost unbearable climate doom of unfathomable scale, sometimes hard to find faith

that we can hip-check the planetary economy onto a more livable path.

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