How can our food systems become more sustainable?
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The climate crisis has a lot to do with what we eat. That’s what the latest season of Marketplace’s climate solutions podcast “How We Survive” is all about. On today’s show, host Amy Scott joins Kimberly to share her big takeaways from the season. We’ll get into the business of cell cultivated meat and the tradeoffs that come with regenerative farming. Then, we’ll do some smiles. Plus, Kimberly’s PSA to use your fancy china!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- "How We Survive" from Marketplace
- "State of Climate Action 2025" from Systems Change Lab
- "I paid $65 for a giant collection of vintage dishes at a thrift store. Then I found out it's worth almost $1,000." from Business Insider
Join us tomorrow for “Economics on Tap.” The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
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| 0:30.2 | Okay, I just had to check a stat that I love about cows. |
| 0:34.9 | All right, so let me just find my notes. And I am ready when you are. |
| 0:42.7 | All right. Here we go. Let's do it. |
| 0:48.6 | Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:57.4 | Marketplace's Climate Solutions podcast, How We Survive, is out with a new season, and hopefully |
| 1:03.3 | you've had a chance to check out the first episode that we dropped in our Make Me Smart feed |
| 1:07.0 | earlier this week. I listened to it. It's awesome, So I hope you have to. And if you haven't, |
| 1:12.8 | I can tell you that this season is all about food because the climate crisis is also a food |
| 1:19.3 | and agricultural crisis as well. And my buddy and show host Amy Scott and her team went to see |
| 1:25.7 | firsthand how some companies and farmers are |
| 1:28.3 | tackling these problems and Amy is here to share her big takeaways from the season. |
| 1:32.9 | Amy, welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 1:35.9 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:36.9 | It's great to be back on. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.8 | So I mean, your season is about how our food systems are hurting the planet and how the hotter planet is also hurting our food systems. |
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