This week:

• Science Correspondant Sapna Sharma recounts her experiences at the University of Toronto symposium and Al Gore lecture, Moving Canada towards sustainability.
• Jordan Poppenk speaks with Michael Lewis Johnson from Streets are for People about their new campaign, I’ll quit smoking if you quit smogging.
• Webhost Ryan Wiseman joins us in studio to speak about green web resources.

The headlines in brief:

• A group of chemicals widely used as flame retardants are so harmful Environment Canada has added them to the country’s list of toxic chemicals and wants manufacturers banned from making them;
• 1500 people and a large side-show of activists, rush-ticket seekers and scalpers came to hear Al Gore speak on Wednesday;
• The University of Toronto is the new site for the Canadian branch of the Jane Goodall Institute;
• Legislation to stop Great Lakes water from being shipped out of the region is being finalized;
• Environmental activists gathered in Montreal this week to denounce federal government inaction on climate change;
  Nicholas Stern, an economist known around the world for sounding the fiscal alarm on climate change, visited Canada to speak with Environment Minister John Baird;
• Canadian researchers have co-authored a biodiversity study on DNA bar-coding;
  The national media are waking up to environmental issues, with major new reporting efforts by the Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail;
• Nine American states sued the US Government over toxic emissions from cement plants;
• Hundreds of protesters in Poland expressed their concerns about a new highway construction that would cross a rare peat bog;
• The government of Australia has announced that it plans to phase out incandescent lightbulbs within the next three years, and Ontario may follow suit;
• Garbage carried by ocean currents is becoming a new source of friction between China and Taiwan;
• A 15-year-old British student has built a biodiesel processing system in his family’s barn;
• A new solar balloon technology might cut the cost of solar energy by 90% in the next few years.

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