This week:

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  • We feature the second 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 Two features The Honourable David Anderson, the longest-serving federal Environment Minister as well as the minister who signed Canada’s name to the Kyoto Protocol.
  • TGM pundit Kevin Farmer and host Jordan Poppenk discuss Earth Hour: what it was, how it went, and whether it did any environmental good.

The headlines in brief:

  • Vancouver’s Cache Creek landfill will close by 2010, and metro Vancouver says the only alternative is to ship its refuse to the US;
  • The federal government has quietly given the green light to funding for a national old-vehicle-scrappage program;
  • Saskatchewan will convert a coal-fired plant into a carbon capture and storage facility;
  • Statscan show young workers are more likely to cycle, walk or take public transit, with numbers on a sharp increase;
  • A poll shows that Canadians overwhelmingly reject the federal plan for the tar sands;
  • Canada defeated a UN ‘water as basic human right’ resolution;
  • The Danish utility Dong Energy is partnering with a California-based start-up to build a nationwide system to recharge electric cars;
  • The government of Ecuador is taking Columbia to world court, in an effort to block anti-coca spraying that has allegedly harmed people and the environment;
  • Scientists from the UK say they have evidence that the “cosmic ray” theory of climate change is largely invalid.

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