Pushing Regenerative Agriculture To The Mainstream With Josh Tickell
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Regenerative agriculture is not just the solution to reinvigorating soil health and improving the way we eat. It can also address the long list of problems caused by humanity’s addiction to the extraction economy. Corinna Bellizzi sits down with Josh Tickell, an environmental activist and filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary “Common Ground.” He shares how he tackles the urgent need to embrace regenerative agriculture today through his film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and coming soon to Amazon Prime this April. Josh also discusses how the public can take action and join the regenerative movement, which aims to unlock better farming opportunities put an end to the use of destructive chemicals, and encourage people to eat more healthily.
About Guest:
Josh Tickell is an environmental activist, acclaimed filmmaker, and bestselling author. A renowned speaker and authority on regeneration and climate change, he frequently appears on CNN, Discovery, Reuters, NBC, Fox, and NPR. With his wife, Rebecca Harrell Tickell, he co-founded Big Picture Ranch, a regenerative farm and film studio creating impactful environmental films. Their latest documentary, Common Ground, narrated by Jason Momoa, Laura Dern, Donald Glover, Rosario Dawson, and Ian Somerhalder, is the sequel to Kiss the Ground. Directed and produced by Josh and Rebecca, the film premiered at the Tribeca Festival, earning the Human/Nature Award for its powerful message about regenerative agriculture and its potential to combat climate change.
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshtickell/
Guest Website:
https://www.bigpictureranch.com
https://kissthegroundmovie.com
Guest Social:
https://www.instagram.com/joshtickell/
https://www.facebook.com/EcoDude/
https://www.instagram.com/commongroundfilm
https://www.youtube.com/@commongroundfilm
https://instagram.com/kisstheground
https://www.youtube.com/@KissTheGround
Show Notes: Raw audio
- Raising Awareness About Regenerative Agriculture - 05:23
- How To Start Eating A Lot Healthier - 19:30
- The Sad Reality Of Animals In Cages - 28:33
- Insights About Different Certifications - 33:10
- How Josh’s Films Come Together - 38:56
- Why Regeneration Means Setting Politics Aside - 51:45
- Closing Words And Episode Wrap-up - 59:24
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| 0:00.0 | This is a crazy system. We're poisoning ourselves to grow more calories in order to destroy our soils and our waterways and our climate. For what? |
| 0:10.4 | So that we can make money. We can make money other ways. I've got news, right? And that's what regeneration is. Is a total system disruption. It begins with food because that's the most degenerative system we have. |
| 0:22.6 | Food is the number one way that humans interact with the planet and the climate. And so we address that first, but when you start to see, oh my gosh, you can take a monocropped soy, massive farm, and transition it to regenerative agriculture to a multiple species, |
| 0:38.3 | biological, thriving ecosystem within three to five years, you're building soil, |
| 0:43.3 | you're building equity in that farm for the next generation. |
| 0:48.3 | My God, what else is possible? Right? That's what common ground really shows. |
| 0:53.3 | It breaks that mold, and it says, |
| 0:55.6 | look what we can do over and over and over again. |
| 0:58.6 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact |
| 1:04.7 | of conscious companies and everyday heroes. Here inspiring stories from those who put people |
| 1:10.6 | in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 1:13.3 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 1:18.2 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 1:21.9 | Hello and welcome to Care More Be Better. Each week, I invite you to care more about a specific social or environmental |
| 1:28.9 | issue so that we can create a better world together. This week, we're going to dig back into the |
| 1:34.6 | topic of regenerative agriculture as I introduce you to Josh Tockel. Josh is an environmental |
| 1:40.2 | activist, acclaimed filmmaker, bestselling author, and sought after speaker. He's become an authority on regeneration and climate change and frequently appears on |
| 1:49.0 | CNN, Discovery, Writers, NBC, Fox, and NPR. |
| 1:53.0 | He co-founded Big Picture Ranch, a regenerative farm and film studio with his wife, Rebecca |
| 1:58.5 | Harel Takell. |
| 2:00.0 | Together, they create impactful environmental |
| 2:02.6 | films, including Kiss the Ground and the would-be sequel, Common Ground, which is narrated by |
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