Jonathan Safran Foer on Climate and Food; Naomi Klein on the Green New Deal; The #PlasticChallenge; A Just and Resilient Climate; Is It Recyclable?

• Jonathan Safran Foer, author of We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), argues saving the planet will require changing how we eat.
• Naomi Klein, senior correspondent for The Intercept and the author of Shock Doctrine, No Logo and On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (Simon & Schuster, 2019), explains why she thinks the behemoth proposal is a crucial and urgent necessity.
• Judith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics, visiting professor at Bennington College and former EPA Region 2 administrator, helps us understand more about plastics after a week of the #PlasticChallenge.
• Nicole Scott-Harris, organizer of New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, and Eddie Bautista, executive director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance discuss justice and resiliency efforts to protect low-income communities.
• Christiné Datz-Romero, executive director of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, and Sean Carlson, WNYC News Host, will play a Brian Lehrer game show in which we figure out what's recyclable... and what is not.

These interviews originally aired earlier this year. Links to the unedited audio are here:

• Jonathan Safran Foer on Food (September 16, 2019)
• Naomi Klein on the Green New Deal (September 17, 2019)
• #PlasticChallenge Wrap-Up (September 20, 2019)
• A Just and Resilient Climate (September 19, 2019)
• Is It Recyclable? (September 19, 2019)