This week:

  • Theological correspondant Simon Watson speaks with celebrated ecofeminist and touring professor Rosemary Radford Ruether.
  • Jordan Poppenk speaks with Laura Telford, Executive Director of Canadian Organic Growers.
  • Jordan uncovers a hidden cache of listener mail.

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The headlines in brief:

  • The House of Commons passed a bill on Wednesday designed to force the minority Conservative government to achieve the steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions required by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change;
  • The city is being accused of turning its back on its own environmental goals after the cycling committee had its funding target for bike lanes cut in half;
  • Oakville council voted overwhelmingly to pass a bylaw banning the cosmetic use of pesticides;
  • A lethal fungus has colonized Canada’s temperate West Coast, which scientists indicate may have resulted from global warming;
  • Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore has rebuked Conservatives for suggesting he endorsed their performance on climate change;
  • The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy released its report on Capital Markets and Sustainability, calling for a set of recommendations for overcoming barriers related to fiduciary duty, materiality, and short-termism (get the report);
  • Canada has refused to support a legally binding global pact to cut highly toxic mercury pollution;
  • A Dutch-based oil trading company has agreed to pay $197 million to settle claims that it dumped toxic waste in the Ivory Coast city of Abijan;
  • New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark has said that the country will aim to become carbon neutral;
    Researchers have discovered that atmospheric carbon dioxide is being pushed deeper into the oceans than was previously thought;
  • Scientists are uncovering the strange world of lakes and rivers beneath the ice of Antarctica. Current climate models fail to take this vigorous water flow into account.

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