This week:

• Lori Kufner and Kevin Brachen, fun guys and the brains behind Newmindspace.
• Candida Paltiel, Director of the Planet in Focus environmental film festival.
• Ryan Wiseman joins us with a guest segment on “ghost loads.”

The headlines in brief:

• Opposition parties have pledged to defeat the federal Clean Air Bill, which has been strongly criticized by environmentalists for setting no short-term goals on climate change, and the conservatives say they will not consider a failure of the bill a non-confidence vote.
• David Miller has announced his public transit platform, which will emphasize busses and streetcars and play down the role of subways;
• Ontario has received royal assent on its Clean Water Act;
• Porter airlines has begun its flights from the Toronto Island Airport amid protests;
• The world is in for more climate extremes according to a new study based on several of the world’s most advanced climate models
• Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets’ worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends according to the World Wildlife Fund’s 2006 Living Planet Report
• UN experts said the number of oxygen-starved “dead zones” in the world’s seas and oceans has risen more than a third in the past two years because of fertilizer, sewage, animal waste and fossil-fuel burning
• Iceland has announced it will be resuming commercial whaling in the face of a worldwide ban;
• A Haze polluting the Arctic has thickened in the past decade despite lower emissions by Russian factories, perhaps because of more forest fires or pollution from Asia;
• Environmentalist David Suzuki at age 70 has announced will be retiring shortly after publishing the second installment to his autobiography.

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