Episodes

  • Episode 4 - Plant-Based Diets and Alternative Proteins Series
    Aug 5 2025

    Food Pod for Humanity Season 2 explores Plant-Based Diets and Alternative Proteins

    • Regulations: U.S. FDA's Regulation of Pet Food
    • Press Release: AAFCO and FDA to End Longstanding MOU
    • Report: Pet Food Production and Ingredient Analysis
    • Journal Article: Determination of mammalian deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in commercial vegetarian and vegan diets for dogs and cats
    • Journal Article: Detection of Fish-Derived Ingredients in Animal Feeds by a TaqMan Real-Time PCR Assay
    • News Article: There’s something fishy about that pet food…
    • Journal Article: DNA Barcoding Identifies Endangered Sharks in Pet Food Sold in Singapore
    • Report: Pet Food Ingredients Market by Type, Application, Pet Type
    • Article: How Many Pounds of Meat Can We Expect From A Beef Animal?

    Featured Guest: Gabe Huertas del Pino

    Hosts: Dannie Dinh and Jochebed Louis-Jean

    Producers: Dannie Dinh, Ilana Schwartz, and Jochebed Louis-Jean

    Music: Pablo Martin

    Contact us -FOODSYSTEMS@climate.columbia.edu

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    39 mins
  • Episode 3 - Plant-Based Diets and Alternative Proteins Series
    Jul 22 2025

    Food Pod for Humanity Season 2 explores Plant-Based Diets and Alternative Proteins

    Show Notes

    • Podcast: Eat for the Planet
    • Book: Eat for the Planet
    • Book: Eat for the Planet Cookbook
    • Website: Plantega - Find a Location

    Featured Guest: Nil Zacharias

    Hosts: Dannie Dinh and Jochebed Louis-Jean

    Producers: Dannie Dinh, Ilana Schwartz, and Jochebed Louis-Jean

    Music: Pablo Martin

    Contact us - FOODSYSTEMS@climate.columbia.edu

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    52 mins
  • Episode 2 - Plant-Based Diets and Alternative Proteins Series
    Jul 8 2025

    Food Pod for Humanity Season 2 explores Plant-Based Diets and Alternative Proteins

    Show Notes

    • Fact sheet: Healthy diet
    • Fact sheet: Key Voluntary and Regulatory Frameworks
    • Initiative: NYC Carbon Challenge
    • Initiative: NYC Greenhouse Gas Inventories
    • Data: NYC Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
    • Data: NYC Greenhouse Gas Emissions Municipal Inventory

    Featured Guests: Francesco Branca and Neeti Jain

    Hosts: Dannie Dinh and Jochebed Louis-Jean

    Producers: Dannie Dinh, Ilana Schwartz, and Jochebed Louis-Jean

    Music: Pablo Martin

    Contact us: FOODSYSTEMS@climate.columbia.edu

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 1 - Plant-Based Diets and Alternative Proteins Series
    Jun 24 2025

    Food Pod for Humanity Season 2 explores Plant-Based Diets and Alternative Proteins

    Show Notes

    • Report: Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems Summary Report
    • Article: Nationwide shift to grassfed beef requires larger cattle population
    • Article: Yes, plant-based meat is better for the planet
    • Article: Friend or foe? The role of animal-source foods in healthy and environmentally sustainable diets
    • Study: What factors influence consumer attitudes towards alternative proteins?
    • Research collaborative: The Menus of Change
    • Study: Traditional And Contemporary Meat Options Study (TACOS): a Hypothetical Discrete Choice Pilot Study of the Effect of the Presence of Plant-Based Meats on Online Menu Selections
    • Books: Chloe Coscarelli Cookbooks

    Featured Guests: Mario Herrero and Matthew Hayek

    Hosts: Dannie Dinh and Jochebed Louis-Jean

    Producers: Dannie Dinh, Ilana Schwartz, and Jochebed Louis-Jean

    Music: Pablo Martin

    Contact us: FOODSYSTEMS@climate.columbia.edu

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    51 mins
  • Season 2 Trailer
    Apr 22 2025

    Teaser trailer for season 2 of the Food Pod for Humanity, coming soon! Brought to you by the Food for Humanity Initiative at the Columbia Climate School. Happy Earth Day!

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    4 mins
  • Food Waste Series - Episode 4
    Dec 3 2024

    This is the fourth and final episode of our limited series on food waste.

    Subscribe to be notified when our next series begins!

    Sources:

    City Harvest (recipes)

    Community Food Connection

    FeedNYC

    Gothamist - NYC fights federal food aid cuts while study says 2M go hungry statewide

    State of the Planet - Five Ways to Host a More Sustainable Thanksgiving

    US Food Rescue Locator

    Asia Food Rescue Locator

    Europe Food Rescue Locator

    South Africa Food Rescue Locator

    UK Food Rescue Locator

    Contact us:

    FOODSYSTEMS@CLIMATE.COLUMBIA.EDU

    Food for Humanity website

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    33 mins
  • Food Waste Series - Episode 3
    Nov 19 2024

    This is the third episode in our four-episode limited series podcast on food waste. Subscribe to get the rest of the episodes when they drop.

    Sources:

    Civil Eats - How Four Years of Trump Reshaped Food and Farming

    DSNY Composting

    EPA - How Does Anaerobic Digestion Work?

    Executive Order 13771—Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs

    Lower East Side Ecology Center

    Recycling News - France confirms 1 January 2024 as date for bio-waste separation

    Science.org - FDA enforcement actions plummet under Trump

    Skip Shapiro - Understanding Food Waste Laws in the U.S.

    Washington Post - How South Korea recycles 98% of its food waste

    White House Fact Sheet - National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics

    Vox - Why food recalls are everywhere right now

    Contact us:

    FOODSYSTEMS@CLIMATE.COLUMBIA.EDU

    Food for Humanity website

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    35 mins
  • Food Waste Series - Episode 2
    Nov 4 2024

    This is the second episode in our four-episode limited series podcast on food waste. Subscribe to get the rest of the episodes when they drop.

    Sources:

    C40 Research Report: The future of urban consumption in a 1.5°C world

    C40 Research Report: Addressing food-related consumption-based emissions in C40 Cities

    EAT Forum: Cities

    EJNYC: A study of environmental justice in New York City

    FAO: Save Food Cities

    Contact us:

    FOODSYSTEMS@CLIMATE.COLUMBIA.EDU

    Food for Humanity website

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    23 mins