This week:

• Rosemary Mosco pays a visit to the Newmindspace / World Wildlife Fund ‘black balloon’ exhibit, an event run as part of the SaveOurClimate campaign.

• Jordan Poppenk speaks to the people of Toronto about climate change and Toronto’s garbage;
• We introduce a new listener feedback line for listeners to leave comments and feedback that we may broadcast on the show: (718) 514-9785.

The week’s headlines in brief:

• Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses in the US and Canada lost electricity after a storm system blasted the region with winds gusting to more than 80 kilometres per hour, knocking down power lines;
• A new poll suggests that one fifth of Canadians think health care is the most important issue facing Canada today;
• Environmentalists threatened to sue Canada to force cuts to greenhouse gas emissions agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol;
• The Clean Air Act to a committee before its second reading, paving the way for opposition parties to amend the act;
• For the first time in the 14-year history of the United Nations treaty on climate change, the Canadian government is excluding environmental and industry groups from its official delegation for international negotiations;
• Municipalities in Ontario and Quebec introduced legal action aimed at getting the U.S. government to require reduced emissions in places where air pollution is flowing into Canada;
• A major British report released on Monday says that if left unchecked, global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression;
• Deforestation in the Amazon rain forest has declined to its lowest levels since 1991.

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