This week:

• We feature the first section of a three-part series on the Massey College Walter Gordon Symposium, Harnessing the Green Wave: taking action in an era of eco-consciousness. The series features experts in business, government and international policy who speak about what it’s going to take to make environmental change happen. Part One features Dr. André Potworowski, an expert on technology transfer and a contributor to the 1977 Conserver Society study.
• TGM pundit Kevin Farmer and host Jordan Poppenk discuss recent statistics regarding compliance with household hazardous waste disposal procedures.

The headlines in brief:

• Ontario did pledge to spend a billion dollars on public transit;A major gasoline spill leaked out of Ultramar Limited’s plant near Quebec City on Sunday, spilling 175,000 litres of gasoline;
• Canada has recently become home to another invasive species, with findings of the “bloody red shrimp” in three of Canada’s great lakes;
• Statistics Canada reported Thursday that most Canadians still aren’t properly disposing of household special waste;
• British Columbia plans to invest more than $1 million to support water and fisheries resources;
• New Brunswick forestry giant J.D. Irving Ltd, has challenged Canada’s laws protecting migratory birds;
• The latest Ontario budget invests in green technology and transportation but critics say it comes up short on climate change mitigation;
• The Ontario government say it will spend $56 million clean up an industrial site in London;
• Scientists are closely watching a chunk of ice shelf on the Southwest Antarctic Peninsula that has started to collapse;
• During a brief period of high winds last weekend, wind power in Spain accounted for an all-time high of more than forty per cent of all the electricity consumed in the country.

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