• Green Life reporter Peter Stock speaks with author Chris Turner, the man behind a book called The Geography of Hope: a tour of the world we need. The text focuses on the small good news environmental stories throughout the globe. It is available online and at good bookstores everywhere.
• Jordan Poppenk interviews Senior Environment Canada Climatologist David Phillips about his perspectives on global warming, the function of weather trivia, and the financial hardships endured at Environment Canada. The interview was collected at the 2007 ESRI conference at The Toronto Congress Centre following a keynote lecture by Phillips (available in this episode).

The headlines in brief:

• Canada’s Auditor General Sheila Fraser and Comissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development tabled a report in Parliament indicating that the federal government has failed to green its policies and programs;
• The Nature Conservancy of Canada unveiled the what it called the first comprehensive analysis of biodiversity in the Maritimes;
• More than 1,300 hectares of undeveloped land within the Halifax area was designated a protected wilderness area by the Nova Scotia government;
• Alberta Environment has fined Tiger Industries Ltd., a Calgary company, more than a quarter of a million dollars for a chemical incident in 2005;
• The Organizing Committee for Vancouver’s upcoming 2010 Olympic Games signed an agreement with the United Nations Environment Program, thereby committing to greening the upcoming event;
• B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell visited Portugal to sign the International Carbon Action Partnership even though the Federal Government would not sign the document, which aims to create a global carbon credit market;
• A new study indicates that ground-level ozone pollution will likely cause major crop loss in the future;
• Monkeys in Kenya are travelling to new habitats as the climate becomes drier;
• An Australian man has been killed in a fight over the way he watered his lawn, as tensions rise during the six year drought.

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