Adria Vasil, author of the book Ecoholic and environmental news columnist for NOW magazine, speaks with Shak Haq, Jordan Poppenk and Kevin Farmer about her column and new book in a special two-part interview.
Jordan Poppenk speaks with Rymal Smith, Manager of the Hydrogen Village Program, about the ecology of hydrogen as an energy storage medium for powering our vehicles.
The headlines in brief:
Energy Alberta Corp., a private company working with Atomic Energy of Canada, has proposed a new nuclear power plant for service in the Alberta oil sands;
Environment Canada will not pursue a full environmental assessment on a large proposed oil refinery expansion in Saint John, N.B;
Environment Minister John Baird’s office has suffered another embarrassing leak;
Senior Environment Canada Climatologist David Phillips has predicted a summer of warmer, drier, smoggier and more violent weather for most of Canada;
A coalition of more than 90 U.S. environmental organizations known as Healing Our Waters is calling for a ban of ocean-going tankers from entering the Great Lakes;
A study published in the journal Science warns that the ocean around Antarctica may not be able to absorb much more carbon.
Cancer has become the number one cause of death in China, and the country’s ministry of health says that pollution is to blame.
A new study suggests that warm sea surface temperatures were not the main cause of intense hurricane seasons in the past.
A former administrator from the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History claims that the Institution toned down an exhibit about climate change for fear of angering the Bush administration.
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Jode Himann, CEO of Nemalux LED Lighting Solutions, speaks with Jordan Poppenk about how LEDs (light emitting diodes)stack up against CFLs (compact florescent lightbulbs) with respect to their energy use and environmental impact.
Scott Hansen speaks with University of Toronto graduate student Kate Galloway about environmental opera.
Kevin Farmer compares the relative use of mercury involved in running incandescent lights and CFL lights on the grid.
The headlines in brief:
Toronto is one of 16 cities around the world getting financing to retrofit buildings with green technology under arrangements made by the Clinton foundation;
Toronto mayor David Miller announced a new social networking website, Zerofootprint Toronto, that will allow residents to measure their impact on the environment and reduce it;
Ontario gave $300k to six municipalities, including Windsor, Hamilton, Peel Region, London, Quinte and Toronto to pilot recycling programs for apartments, townhouses and condos;
New endangered species legislation in Ontario is being hailed by environmentalists as the toughest of its kind in North America;
Endangered spotted owls in British Columbia have fallen to critical levels and BC has been advised to capture all the remaining birds;
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s environmental adviser has joined the choir of voices suggesting that the Canadian government’s climate-change plan is inadequate;
A group of scientists from 50 countries around the world have sent an open letter to Canada urging that its enormous Boreal forest must be protected, for the sake of the planet;
The World Wildlife Fund expressed alarm as a Chinese delegation met with Indian officials to talk about removing a ban on trading tiger parts;
Indian fishermen are threatening to kill hundreds of endangered whale sharks unless the government gives them fuel subsidies that it promised three years ago;
Tension between Western and Chinese businessmen surrounding intellectual property may be hampering efforts to cut China’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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We present a lecture by Green Toronto Award winner David Bell about strategies for reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Simon Watson and Sapna Sharma interview University of Toronto particle physics student Brian Beare about whether the “God Particle” is an environmental threat on the scale of the Big Bang.
Engineering correspondant Scott Hansen fills in as guest host for Jordan Poppenk.
The headlines in brief:
Several important new supporters have joined the U.S. Climate Change Partnership, a group pushing for the
US to institute mandatory national cap and trade legislation;
Bottom-trawling, a highly destructive fishing practice will now be monitored and limited in a quarter of the world’s oceans;
An unexpected bird hunt in Cyprus had environmentalists up in arms;
Officials are planning to bring tigers back to the Sariska reserve in India.
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Ontario MPP and NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns speaks with Jordan Poppenk about his Community Right to Know legislation, which would identify known carcinogens in products, as well as the Ontario Climate Change Act.
First-time correspondant Shak Haq speaks with leaders from the group ProtestBarrick about the environmental impact of gold mining and some controvercial actions taken by Barrick Gold around the world.
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The headlines in brief:
Environment Minister John Baird has said that Canadian companies will be able to buy and sell carbon credits on a domestic and international exchange;
The Harper government’s new environmental plan has been condemned by opposition parties, the European community and prominent environmentalists David Suzuki and Al Gore;
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is being criticized by Conservatives for commenting that their environmental plan was a “grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis”;
Premiers and territorial leaders frustrated with federal inaction on Kyoto targets joined at a working meeting on climate change on Tuesday, but emerged only with a commitment to keep talking;
Gas prices are spiking as high as $1.28 across Canada;
Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than computer models predict and could disappear completely before the middle of the century.
The Mexican city of Tehuacan is suffering from toxic pollution produced by blue jeans factories.
According to a new UN report, developing nations that are quickly industrializing have reduced their emissions growth by more than the total cuts demanded of rich nations by the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol.
Scientists are concerned about how carbon is handled in a part of the ocean called the ‘twilight zone’, which blocks carbon absorption and seems to vary by location.
Genetic scientists are looking for relatives of a Galapagos tortoise named ‘Lonesome George’, long thought to be the sole survivor of his species. They have discovered a hybrid that had a parent of George’s species;
Delegates at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have reached an agreement on the best ways to combat climate change.
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