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Judith Schwartz

Judith Schwartz

Award-winning Vermont-based freelance journalist and author of Cows Save the Planet, Water in Plain Sight, and The Reindeer Chronicles, writing on nature-based solutions to environmental challenges.

Sep 3, 2026

34:20
She, well, you tell us what she did as a just look at this horror, just acknowledge this horror.
34:28
Yeah.
34:28
So when I was in Norway, there was a case going on of a young reindeer herder named Jopset.
34:40
Now I'm remembering.
34:41
Now I'm forgetting.
34:42
Ante Sara.
34:44
He was only about 23 at the time.

8 MINS LATER

42:53
So what would be the best possible outcome? Is that something that you keep in your heart there?
2:32
Why did you decide to write this book?
2:34
Yeah, so basically two reasons.
2:37
So I had just written a book about soil, Cows Save the Planet and Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth.
2:46
And a couple of things struck me.
2:50
One is the way that we talk about water is that water is a thing that it either comes down from the sky or it doesn't.
3:00
And What I came to understand is that we really can't talk about water, meaning our water challenges, water availability, too much water, as in floods that we're seeing all over the place, without also talking about land.
3:15
Because if you have a drought and...

5 MINS LATER

8:39
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