Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes.

Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain.

You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today.

Here's your host, Karina Belize.

Now, if you're a foodie who cares about the environment, you are in for a treat today.

I'm joined by Mark Easter, an ecologist and researcher in academia and private industry since

1988. As a greenhouse gas accountant, his mission is to understand how greenhouse gases move

into and out of soils and plants on farms and ranches.

He's traveled globally to collaborate with farmers, ranchers, researchers, and foresters

to learn how people grow food and fiber to make agriculture healthier

and less damaging to our climate. He's here today to connect these many dots as we explore

his new book, which is The Blue Plate, a food lover's guide to climate chaos, published by

Patagonia Press. It is out as of September 18th. With that, Mark Easter. Welcome to the show.

Hey, Corinna. It's great to be here. Thank you. It's so good to see you again. Now, I had the pleasure

of interviewing you once already on my other podcast, Care More Be Better. So today we're going to

dive in a little deeper. And because you're on, Nutrition Without Compromise, I decided to resurrect one of my earliest

questions as I launched this show.

I used to ask every guest, what does nutrition without compromise mean to you?

So with that.

Yeah, that's a great question.

For me, you know, food is just so personal to all of us and to me,

and it's hard to think about compromising when it comes to good taste, what we want to,

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