This week:

• Andrew Bridge, coordinator of the Virgin Music Festival, speaks to Jordan Poppenk about Virgin’s efforts to green its Toronto Island festival this weekend, as well as the international company’s efforts to clean up its music business.
• Jordan talks greenwashing and environmental politics with Green Party Leader Elizabeth May at the University of Toronto’s Sustainable Energy Fair (originally aired April 6, 2007).

The headlines in brief:

• The European Green Crab, an invasive crab species, has been spotted in the waters off southern Newfoundland;
• Local farm and food advocates in the Kinston area are concentrating on new local food initiatives;
• A new power plant came online in Sudbury on Thursday powered by methane gas captured from a municipal landfill;
• A new report suggests that gaps in regulation and enforcement of hazardous waste are contributing to threats to human health, the environment, and the economy;
• Opposition parties are levying demands on the Alberta government for full disclosure of the environmental and financial risks of a proposed nuclear power plant;
• The federal government has indicated it will decide soon whether to participate in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership;
• Australia is still suffering through a crippling drought, and the latest victim is the wheat supply;
• A new survey suggests that Hong Kong’s air pollution is making it more difficult for companies to attract foreign staff to the territory;
• Scientists are warning that local livestock breeds are being displaced by breeds from richer countries that are more productive in the short term but less suited for the environment.

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