This week:

• Simon Watson speaks with Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University and one of the world’s leading experts on Islamic science and spirituality. In the interview, Dr. Nasr contemplates the environmental ethic of Islam.
• Take5 reporter Peter Stock presents a special feature on the Green Toronto Festival.
• The G8 report: a post-summit wrap-up with commentary by Kevin Farmer and Jordan Poppenk.

The headlines in brief:

• A controversial proposed transmission line through east-end Toronto neighbourhoods may not be needed after all if conservation and small-scale energy production are pursued;
• The premier of Saskatchewan and possibly the premiers of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador will file legal action against the federal government over offshore oil revenues;
• The federal government has approved the idea of burying nuclear waste from its power plants deep in the ground at a single location;
• Roy Romanow released a new 18-month inquiry into medicare indicating that the environment and health care are interrelated issues;
• The corporate services committee of Tiny Township voted to recommend the installation of proposed dump site 41 on top of its acquifer, which has been found to contain the cleanest water in the world;
• On Tuesday, the Bush administration proposed cutting one and a half acres from Northwest forests considered key to the survival of the northern spotted owl.
• A massive population of wildlife in southern Sudan thought to have been destroyed by decades of civil war has been discovered alive and thriving.
• A new report published in American Scientist suggests that the shrinking of the snowpack on Mount Kilimanjaro is not due to climate change.
• African countries will be permitted a one-off sale of legally acquired elephant ivory from stockpiles, with proceeds going for conservation.
• Wildlife campaigners have developed a new detection device aimed at combating the practice of farming bears for their bile.

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