This week: for our autumn fundraising episode, the show takes a look inward, with discussion about what the show brings to the Toronto community and why we need to be supported by listeners. Includes interviews with:

  • Ryan Wiseman, Out-of-Range correspondant and BeSustainable.com webhost, discusses his early collaboration with The Green Majority.
  • Dave, our show sponsor from Fertile Grounds Environmental Bookstore.
  • Rosemary Mosco introduces her research on the environmental radio programs in Canada and unveils our new show slogan!

The week’s headlines in brief:

  • International Climate Action Day is met with protests and creative action around the world;
  • Take the Tooker prepares for a rally on the day of Toronto’s municipal elections;
  • International action on Climate Action Day, November 4, was marked by organized protests in 47 countries around the world;
  • Aboriginal land claims from the Mississaugas have added new voices of protest to Toronto’s Island Airport;
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper canceled a late-November meeting with European leaders over fears of criticism about Canada’s stance on the Kyoto Protocol;
  • Bill Graham and Duceppe said they would send unofficial representatives to the international UN climate meeting next week to speak to other countries and reporters, hoping to counteract Environment Minister Rona Ambrose’s Kyoto-unfriendly position;
  • Canadian environmental groups are under fire themselves for launching a “sexist” critique of Environment Minister Rona Ambrose;
  • Elizabeth May claims Environment Commissioner Johanne Gelinas is being muzzled by the Conservative government as she has been told she can no longer file separate, independent reports;
  • A massive storm drenched Washington and Oregon for two days this week, leaving behind both chaos and new rainfall records;
  • Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, called on people around the world to plant 1 billion trees in the next year;
  • El Nino is expected to continue into winter, possibly resulting in warmer than normal temperatures over western and northern United States and western and central Canada.

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