Webinar: Cows, Carbon and the Climate Beat With Mike Grunwald & Jenny Splitter

Get the science straight on food, land and climate.

Journalists covering food and agriculture face a barrage of complex metrics — carbon opportunity costs, feed‑conversion ratios and marginal land‑use change are just a few examples. These are challenging enough to learn as a reporter, let alone explain it clearly and succinctly to readers. But the issue couldn’t be more important. By 2050 the world has to figure out how to feed 9.7 billion people without destroying the planet. Yet most people still don’t know the fundamentals on this topic — a Washington Post poll found 74 percent of respondents answered that eating less meat would do little or nothing for climate change (in fact, the opposite is true). 

Join the Food and Farming Journalism Network and Sentient Editor‑in‑Chief Jenny Splitter in conversation with award‑winning author Mike Grunwald, New York Times columnist and author of the brand‑new book We Are Eating the Earth (Simon & Schuster, 2025) that dives deep on what drives agriculture’s one‑third share of global emissions and talks to the people working to solve the problem. 

Together they’ll explore why cows and land dominate the climate math, how to report on potential solutions like regenerative agriculture and cultivated meat and when to mention the tradeoffs, like the implications of switching from beef to pork and chicken. 

When: Aug 7, 2025 12:00 PM ET

Register here.