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b'In this week\\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Jennifer Eaglin, an associate professor of history and faculty member in the Sustainability Institute at the Ohio State University. Eaglin discusses the evolution of sugar-based ethanol as a fuel source for transportation and the lessons that governments can draw from that evolution for their own development of alternative energy sources. Eaglin and Raimi also talk about how the ethanol industry came to prominence in Brazil and how its use improved air quality while damaging water quality, ecosystems, and certain Brazilian communities.\\n\\nReferences and recommendations:\\n\\n\\u201cSweet Fuel\\u201d by Jennifer Eaglin; https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sweet-fuel-9780197510681 (offer code \\u201cAAFLYG6\\u201d provides a discount)\\n\\n\\u201cThe Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River\\u201d by Richard White; https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780809015832/theorganicmachine\\n\\n\\u201cCadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water\\u201d by Mark Reisner; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323685/cadillac-desert-by-marc-reisner/\\n\\n\\u201cBefore the Flood: Destruction, Community, and Survival in the Drowned Towns of the Quabbin\\u201d by Elisabeth C. Rosenberg; https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Before-the-Flood/Elisabeth-C-Rosenberg/9781643136448\\n\\n\\u201cDammed Indians\\u201d by Michael L. Lawson; https://www.sdhspress.com/books/dammed-indians-revisited-the-continuing-history-of-the-pick-sloan-plan-and-the-missouri-river-sioux'