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Is AI a Climate Solution?

Amidst a record-breaking heatwave last month, Alison and I boarded an early morning Amtrak train due south. The destination? Washington, D.C. for the 2024 Climate Crossroads Summit at the National Academy of Sciences.

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My advice for aspiring agricultural entrepreneurs

One could say the food system is ripe with opportunity. 

While climate change is – or should be – at the forefront of our minds, it’s easy to think that the food system is complex, full of challenges, and rife with social inequities. Sometimes overwhelmingly so. But those of us who work in it are also presented with opportunities for positive transformation every day. 

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So you want to be mompreneur (or dadpreneuer)?: My thoughts on parenthood and professional life this Mother’s Day

Every few weeks, I receive a request via email or LinkedIn, or sometimes a referral that could broadly be classified as, “Help! How do you balance professional work and parenting work at the same time?” I typically use gender neutral language intentionally when discussing parenting, but truth be told, 100% of these requests have come from women.

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Why growing a consulting business made sense for me

“How did you get to where you are today?”

I’m often asked this question, though the asker isn’t always ready for the long and winding road that brought me to opening my own firm. Sometimes, it’s a pleasant question that opens up a conversation. And sometimes, the asker is a young person who dreams of starting their own niche business, or a woman in science who is searching for a roadmap that might resemble the one she’s charting.

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Farm and food workers’ labor and human rights are poorly protected and even more poorly enforced. Violations are on the rise. How can that change?

Just four states have heat rules that protect farm workers. Though the Department of Labor is working towards creating some, an effort to create some regs for farm and construction workers in Miami-Dade county made some noise and fizzled out because commissioners worried the rules could “potentially kill industry.”

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Why so much soy?

If you, like me, enjoyed some tofu with rice noodles from time to time, I’ll go ahead and spoil things for you: You and all the tofu eaters out there were not the culprit. Neither were all the preschoolers eating their Dora the Explorer-branded edamame snack packs.

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