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Living on Earth is an environmental news and information program. Each week host Steve Curwood guides the listener through a mix of news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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Food & Drink

Alex Vardakostas had a dream about creating a robot burger-maker in college. He's now poised to open a restaurant with his Creator Burger robot in September.
(Saroyan Humphrey)
NPR
Lifestyle

Fad or the future? Robot-made burgers wow the crowds in San Francisco

An audience gathers around the transparent 14-foot-long "culinary instrument" in a restaurant called Creator in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood.

7 years ago

Rolling Harvest Food Rescue Founder and Executive Director Cathy Snyder in her element.
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Farming stories

Guests: Cathy Snyder, Gail Koskela, Jess Niederer Today, three different perspectives on farming in the greater P ...

Air Date: August 23, 2018 10:00 am

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The sign on a Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh, photographed in 2017.
(Gene J. Puskar/AP)
NPR
Health

Chipotle to retrain employees after latest outbreak of food poisoning

Health officials have determined that a type of bacteria found in food left at unsafe temperatures is the cause of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.

7 years ago

You Bet Your Garden

Getting the Most Out of Your Garlic

Your garlic harvest is in…now what? Use it fresh before it sprouts? On the latest You Bet Your Garden, host Mike McGrath will ...

Air Date: August 17, 2018

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Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s Dîner en Blanc takes over City Hall

Fashionistas and foodies trekked through the streets of Center City Philadelphia in their finest pressed white attire to dine outdoors at the seventh Dîner en Blanc.

7 years ago

Beer bottles with crowned caps crowd the conveyor belts of a filling plant in the Veltins brewery in Meschede-Grevenstein, western Germany, in January.
(Rainer Jensen/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Lifestyle

Uh-oh, Germany is rapidly running out of beer bottles

In Germany, beer consumption is up as temperatures remain unusually high. This is good and bad news for the beer industry.

7 years ago

Philly Eats The World
Community

Philly Eats the World: Essen Bakery

In a little bakery off Passyunk Ave, a South African baker is serving up babka, challah, and bagels that put New York to shame. ...

Air Date: August 14, 2018

Heart shaped petal sits atop a dessert served at the restaurant for the cast and crew of Cirque Du Soleil's VOLTA, in Oaks, Pa., on Aug. 8, 2018.
View Finders
Arts & Entertainment

This circus travels on its stomach, but lightly

A team of international chefs working in a portable kitchen keeps Cirque du Soleil performers happy and fit.

7 years ago

Louisiana crawfish caught in waters in and around Berlin are on display at Fisch Frank fish restaurant in Berlin. They are an invasive species and authorities recently licensed a local fisherman to catch them and sell them to local restaurants. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
NPR
Lifestyle

For Berlin, invasive crustaceans are a tough catch and a tough sell

In a shaded stream in the middle of Berlin's rambling Tiergarten park, fisherman Klaus Hidde lowered himself into the water recently.

7 years ago

The logo for Campbell's Soup appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, May 18, 2018. Campbell Soup plunged 10.9 percent after announcing that its CEO, Denise Morrison, was retiring effectively immediately. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Money

Activist investor blasts ‘abysmal leadership’ at Campbell Soup Co., urges sale

This year Campbell’s earnings declined, its stock price dropped, and its CEO retired.

7 years ago

Listen 1:49
Tony Guido explains features of a composting vessel he helped build for a Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council design competition. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

To vanquish food waste, a competition aims to design and compost

A competition to invent a new, better bin was launched last year by the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council, which is overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability

7 years ago

Shaun Harris, Tim White and Jerry
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

The long road to becoming Pa.’s first black-owned brewery

This weekend, Pittsburgh is slated to host the first festival of black craft beer brewers from around the country.

7 years ago

Listen 5:08
Philly Eats The World
Community

Philly Eats the World – El Compadre

Cristina Martinez brings the passion of Mexican culture to the Italian Market, in the form of mouthwatering tacos on freshly made tortill ...

Air Date: August 8, 2018

Along the back of this field of sugar snap peas, sunflowers and bachelor buttons at Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center is a buffer of maturing big-leaf maples and red-osier dogwoods. It's a combination of forest and thicket that the farm has left standing to help protect water quality in the river and aquifer.
(Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center)
NPR
Science

Which vision of farming is better for the planet?

Farmers face a growing dilemma. Specifically, a food-growing dilemma. How do you feed an increasing number of people without harming the environment?

7 years ago

The flavors of summer. (Photo Courtesy/BigStockPhoto)
Philly Parenting
Community

Fun Philly ice cream shops for the family

The dog days of summer are in full swing and there’s one sure thing that can make cranky kids and parents feel refreshed and happy: ice cream.

7 years ago

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