Food Tour of the Future

About this episode

This episode explores how climate change is impacting food availability and how tech entrepreneurs are addressing these challenges in Northern California.

Climate change is changing what we eat. As the planet heats up, foods like salmon, chocolate and coffee might be harder to come by and more expensive to buy. In this episode, the “How We Survive” team goes on a food tour around Northern California to find out how tech entrepreneurs are finding new ways to make all sorts of foods that are under threat from the impacts of the climate crisis.

Topics covered

• climate change
• food production
• technology
• sustainability
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• climate change
• food security
• technology
• Northern California
• sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Products: salmon, chocolate, coffee

Places: Northern California

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