Hey folks, welcome to the latest episode of the You Can’t Eat Money podcast, we’re excited to have you at our table.  Joining us this week is Mark J. Easter, an ecologist with decades of experiences who wrote a really amazing book published by Patagonia that just hit book shelves called “The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos”. Mark is no lightweight, he has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific papers and reports related to the carbon cycle and the carbon...

Welcome to the dream restaurant, we've expecting you for some time! Like many of you, one of my favorite podcasts is Off Menu hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster. While I've loved many episodes, I don't think I've listened to one where a guest had an environmental or sustainability approach to their dream menu selection, so here goes - the dream menu of You Can't Eat Money! Ed, James, The Great Benito - Thanks for letting me steal for your format without prior approval. It's all in the name...

I was able to record an episode for my new podcast project Ecosystem Member (ecosystemmember.com) with a guest who I always wanted to have on You Can't Eat Money. I figured I'd share the episode here as well. Today on the Ecosystem Member podcast, we have Guy Singh Watson, the founder of Riverford Organic Farmers. For our non-UK listeners who maybe haven't heard of Guy, he's a bit of a business and farming legend in the UK. After growing up on his family's dairy farm and then becoming a...

This episode is one that has been in the works for a few months and I am stoked to finally share it. Back in June, Patagonia launched its campaign to end bottom trawling in our oceans with a series of incredible films about people and businesses taking action to guard our seas. Patagonia held an event in London to premiere these films and that's where I discovered Câr-y-Môr and one of its founders Francois Beyers. At the end the Q and A, Francois made a powerful speech about his passion...

Chef Dan Hunter is the chef owner of Brae in Australia, which is coming up on its 10 year anniversary in December later this year. Many of you might have come across Dan and Brae in Zac Efron's Netflix show Down to Earth. If you haven't, Brae is a restaurant with guest rooms located on a 23 acre organic farm about 90 minutes from Melbourne in an area where dinosaurs once roamed as Dan put it. In those 10 years, Brae has appeared on the World's 50 Best list along with earning Three Hats, which...

This one is a little bit of an experiment. To try to bring a wider variety of guests to the podcast, we're trialing a new format called SNACKS. We focus in on one producer, and maybe just one or a few of their products and the episodes will be a bit shorter, close to 15 minutes or so. This week we've got Jack Dyer, the co-founder and CEO of Topa Topa Brewing Co based out of Ventura, California. Topa Topa Brewing Co is one of the members of the Good Grain Collective that Patagonia Provisions...

Every week, I say how excited I am about the guest. And I mean it every week but maybe I mean it just a little bit more this week. Melina Shannon-DiPietro is the Executive Director of MAD. MAD was started by Rene Redzepi of restaurant noma in 2011 to empower the global hospitality industry to create sustainable change and transform food systems for the future. However, Melina’s relationship with the food and environment space actually starts prior to that when she was the co-founder and...

The latest episode of the podcast is with Alex Francis, the Director of Bars at Little Red Door in Paris. If you've never heard of Little Red Door before, it is not just one of the world's best cocktail bars, it is also one of the world's most sustainable. And both are a testament to Alex's work in shaping Little Red Door's transition to a farm to glass model, which helped land him on the Bar World 100 list for 2023 from Drinks International. You've probably heard of farm to table. In...

The latest episode of the You Can't Eat Money podcast is with Douglas McMaster, creator of Silo, the world's first zero waste restaurant located here in London and home to one of the most tasty and thought provoking meals I've ever had. I've wanted to have Douglas on the podcast for a while after reading his incredible book 'Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint'. The book it reminds me of most is Yvon Chouinard's book 'Let My People Go Surfing'. It's part instructional guide with great...

After a little bit of a break, we are back with new episodes of the You Can't Eat Money podcast. We have an incredible lineup of guests this season and we're starting off with the general manager of a company that has been on my dream guest list since I started the podcast about a year ago - Patagonia Provisions. Paul Lightfoot is about a year into his gig as the general manager of the food arm of Patagonia and joins us to talk about a range of issues when it comes to ecologically...

The latest episode of the You Can’t Eat Money podcast is with Jorge Gaviria, founder of Masienda, and author of the hit history-slash-cookbook ‘Masa’. If you aren’t familiar with Masienda, it is a company that originally started by working with subsistence, smallholder heirloom corn farmers in Mexico, to source corn for chefs like Enrique Olvera or Pujol and Cosme. After originally introducing its tortillas to the market, Masienda broke into the mainstream with its masa harina – aka an...

The latest episode of the You Can’t Eat Money podcast is with Chef Sean Sherman, the co-founder and co-owner of Owamni and co-founder of NATIFS, including the Indigenous Food Lab. Chef Sean was recently in the headlines when his restaurant Owamni in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was awarded Best New Restaurant from the James Beard Foundation for 2022. He is also the author of the best selling book The Sioux Chef and is involved in the BIPOC Foodways Alliance, which is working to end white supremacy...

In this episode, we talk with Ben Aguilar, Director of Operations, at The Berry Center. If you aren't familiar, The Berry Center was founded by Mary Berry, the daughter of Wendell Berry, one of America's greatest writers - living or dead - and a huge source of inspiration for this season of the podcast. Wendell's deeply insightful writing about farming and food in America has had a huge impact on many environmental thinkers, not to mention farmers and food producers. The Berry Center's...

In this episode, we talk with James Beard award winning Chef Dan Barber. You've probably seen Dan's episode of Chef's Table on Netflix featuring his two amazing restaurants - Blue Hill in New York City, which has a Michelin Star, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, which has two Michelin Stars and a Michelin Green Star, as well as his family farm Blue Hill. You might have also seen his multiple TED talks or talk at the MAD symposium about wheat. And hopefully you've read his New York Times best...

In this episode, we talk with Edd Lees, co-founder of Wildfarmed. Wildfarmed is a UK based business that works with farmers embracing regenerative agricultural practices to create a field to plate, fully traceable network that also allows the public to participate in the restoration of the soil and biodiversity. If you’re in the UK, you’ve probably seen Wildfarmed flour in dishes and baked goods as some of the best spots in your area. Most recently the company launched a range of bread...

In this episode, we talk with John Finger, Founding Partner and CEO of Hog Island Oyster Company based on Tomales Bay, California. We cover a wide range of topics from reviving the native Olympia oyster and the benefits of oysters on ocean health to the impact of man-made CO2 emissions on growing oysters in a changing ocean chemistry. If you love eating oysters, are interested in ocean ecology, or just generally interested in the impacts of our food system on the world around us, this...

We're back and we're talking about food. This season of the You Can't Eat Money podcast is exploring the relationship between food production and nature with guests ranging from oyster framers to Michelin Star chefs. Subscribe today to make sure to get the first episode with John Finger, the founder and President of Hog Island Oyster Company when it drops in early January.

The latest episode of the You Can't Eat Money Podcast is with David Bronner, the Cosmic Engagement Officer at Dr. Bronner's, the soap company founded by his grandfather. In this episode we discuss a wide variety of topics from regenerative agriculture and farming in nature's image to animal and drug reform advocacy. David is a truly progressive business leader who is in tune with the natural world. Thanks for listening.

The latest episode of You Can't Eat Money is with Breene Murphy, VP of Strategy and Marketing at Carbon Collective, an online investment advisor focused on solving climate change. In this episode we talk about investing with the planet in mind - from the limitations of ESG, if divestment is the right approach, and how we can actually shift investment from fossil fuels to climate solutions. This episode is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice or a product or service...

This episode of You Can't Eat Money really gets at the core of the idea for this podcast - the relationship between business and nature. And more broadly how business fits in the ecosystem of the natural world that business and the humans that create, manage and execute them are all a part of. Our guest is Thomas Klaffke, the author of the Creative Destruction newsletter. We talk about a variety of topics from degrowth and low tech climate solutions, to how our frame shapes how we can see a...

The latest episode of You Can't Eat Money is with Jenna Evans, Global Sustainability Manager at Ben & Jerry's. In her role, Jenna is responsible for Ben & Jerry's climate strategy and sustainable packaging initiatives. In this episode, we talk about a variety of topics from soil health and climate resilience for dairy farms to cow burps and environmental justice. To find our more about Ben & Jerry's Caring Dairy program that Jenna mentions, visit: https://www.benjerry.com/caringdairy

This episode is a great chat with co-founder of Scout Canning, Adam Bent. Scout is a tinned seafood company that sources 100% of its seafood directly from responsibly managed fisheries in regional fishing communities across Canada and the United States in support of its mission to become the most trusted seafood brand in North America. We talk to Adam about a number of topics from environmental responsibility and sustainability, the process around becoming a B Corp and what all of those...

In the first episode of You Can't Eat Money, we talk with Mauricio Diaz, Co-Founder and CEO of Aire Libre, a company that helps people discover the world through running. In this episode, Mauricio talks about how Aire Libre started, how it operates with intentionality from its focus on organic growth to working with indigenous communities in trip destinations, and how he thinks about the role of business in driving change. For more about Aire Libre visit airelibre.run.

A short introduction to the genesis of You Can't Eat Money and what you can expect in forthcoming episodes.