Podcast Episodes featuring Jonathan Safran Foer

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Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells

Climate One - December 13, 2019 16:22 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratings
A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David-Wallace Wells allows fear — along with a storyteller’s appreciation for the human drama involved — to move him out of climate complacency. In We Are the ...

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Jonathan Safran Foer - can you eat your way to saving the planet?

Saturday Morning - November 29, 2019 20:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
How much power does the individual have in preventing climate change when just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70 percent of emissions? More than we think, American author Jonathan Safran Foer says.

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Jonathan Safran Foer - can you eat your way to saving the planet

Saturday Morning - November 29, 2019 20:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
How much power does the individual have in preventing climate change when just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70 percent of emissions? More than we think, American author Jonathan Safran Foer says.

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Jonathan Safran Foer - can you eat your way to saving the planet?

Saturday Morning - November 29, 2019 20:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
How much power does the individual have in preventing climate change when just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70 percent of emissions? More than we think, American author Jonathan Safran Foer says.

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Jonathan Safran Foer - can you eat your way to saving the planet

Saturday Morning - November 29, 2019 20:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
How much power does the individual have in preventing climate change when just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70 percent of emissions? More than we think, American author Jonathan Safran Foer says.

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Jonathan Safran Foer

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard - November 14, 2019 08:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 64.9K ratings
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. Jonathan sits down with the armchair expert to discuss his struggle to eat vegetari...

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Jonathan Safran Foer

Experts on Expert with Dax Shepard - November 14, 2019 08:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratings
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. Jonathan sits down with the armchair expert to discuss his struggle to eat vegetaria...

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Jonathan Safran Foer - How to Save the Planet

How To Academy Podcast - November 04, 2019 16:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 26 ratings
The climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out - but do we truly believe it? Caught between the seemingly unimaginable and the apparently unthinkable, how can we take the first step towards action, to ar...

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Jonathan Safran Foer, bestselling author, with Libby Casey

Sixth & I LIVE - October 28, 2019 16:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer, the bestselling author of Eating Animals, asserts that saving the planet from climate change will involve a reckoning with humans’ reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. In conversation with Libby Casey, the on-air repor...

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26. Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast with Jonathan Safran Foer

Outrage + Optimism - October 18, 2019 03:34 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 253 ratings
With a little too much going on in the world of climate change, we try something new this week with Christiana, Paul, and Tom each bringing something they are outraged by or optimistic for. Later, we hear from American novelist, Jonathan Safran Foer. His latest and greatest work, "We Are The Wea...

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Jonathan Safran Foer with Steve Scher: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Town Hall Seattle Science Series - October 14, 2019 19:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of climate change and those who said they accepted the science but didn’t act? And for those who do accept the reality of human-caused climate change, what does immediate action look like? Author Jonathan Safran ...

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Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast - October 14, 2019 17:42 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 273 ratings
Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer writes that stopping climate change begins with a close look at what we eat — and don’t eat — at home for breakfast. At the office, industry leaders like...

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Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather

Climate One - October 08, 2019 15:41 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratings
Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer writes that stopping climate change begins with a close look at what we eat — and don’t eat — at home for breakfast. At the office, industry leaders like...

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Amanpour: Jonathan Safran Foer, Marianne Williamson and Julian Fellowes

Amanpour - September 20, 2019 17:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Jonathan Safran Foer, the author of "We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast" joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss why he's turned his attention to the climate crisis. Our Michel Martin talks to Marianne Williamson, the U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate, about her campaign....

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Jonathan Safran Foer | We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Free Library Podcast - September 18, 2019 13:22 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Renowned for placing ''his reader's hand on the heart of human experience'' (Philadelphia Inquirer), Jonathan Safran Foer is the bestselling author of the frenetically irreverent, emotionally urgent novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here I Am. Also the non...

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Episode 159: Judaism Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Judaism Unbound - March 01, 2019 06:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 387 ratings
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Here I Am, and the non-fiction Eating Animals, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about the creative process. This episode is the fourth in a series of episodes on art, creativity, preserva...

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154. Jonathan Safran Foer (writer) – One Thing We Can All Agree Upon

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - June 30, 2018 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
What is food? It’s nourishment. It’s comfort. It’s culture. It’s art. For millions of people, it’s not something you waste much time thinking about. You eat what you’ve always eaten. What everyone around you eats. What you can afford. For others, every bite is a careful, conscious choice motivate...

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80: Jonathan Safran Foer & Christopher Quinn on “Eating Animals”

Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film - June 28, 2018 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 211 ratings
Relax, “Eating Animals” isn’t proselytizing for vegetarianism. But author Jonathan Safran Foer and filmmaker Christopher Quinn are asking you to think more seriously about factory farming. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviews Foer and Quinn touching upon how factory farmed meat affects ou...

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Episode 470 — Jonathan Safran Foer

Otherppl with Brad Listi - June 14, 2017 08:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 448 ratings
Jonathan Safran Foer is the guest. His latest novel, Here I Am, is available now in trade paperback from Picador. It is the official June selection of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. In today's monologue, I read more listener mail and discuss the role of political dialogue on the show.   Learn m...

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Jonathan Safran Foer (Here I Am) and Rabih Alameddine (The Angel of History)

92NY Talks - December 22, 2016 21:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 211 ratings
Jonathan Safran Foer and Rabih Alameddine read from, and discuss, their new works: Here I Am and The Angel of History, respectively. They are introduced by Rich Cohen and Jonathan Lee. It was recorded on Oct 20, 2016 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.

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"Here We Are" with Chris Hayes, Jonathan Safran Foer, Michelle Buteau, and Kadhja Bonet

Live Wire with Luke Burbank - November 01, 2016 02:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 295 ratings
MSNBC's Chris Hayes' parents compete to see who knows the most about his career, comedian Michelle Buteau recounts the challenges of communicating with her Dutch in-laws, author Jonathan Safran Foer discusses negotiating the distance between who we are and who we want to be, and Kadhja ...

Books written by Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer

9 Episodes - 326 pages - ★★★★ - 325K ratings

Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer

6 Episodes - 276 pages - ★★★★ - 1.75K ratings