This week:

• Joanna Dafoe, a spokesperson for the Sierra Youth Coalition, speaks with correspondent Naomi Jehlicka about the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, an initiative targeting climate neutrality for North American Universities. Some Canadidan Universities have signed on to this initiative, and others – including the University of Toronto – are currently deciding whether they, too, should be involved with the agreement.
• Green Life correspondent Peter Stock browses the supermarket isles with Tegen Renner, a student at the University of Waterloo, while discussing her thesis project about organic labeling, consumer choices, and what it means to be “organic”.

The headlines in brief:

• British Colombia has joined California in a court challenge against the US Environmental Protection Agency over the dismissal of vehicle emission standards.
• The City of Toronto will be charging consumers five cents for every plastic bag used in grocery purchases; it will also be banning biodegradable bags.
• The province of Alberta is planning to clear cut large sections of forest outside of Banff park to combat the pine beetle epidemic.
• New studies released by a coalition of international researchers have revealed that global nature conservation standards as drastically inadequate.
• Approximately one third of China’s Yellow River has been declared as too polluted for industrial, agricultural, or domestic use.
• Global warming is predicted to cause a malaria epidemic in Australia and Pacific Islands.
• New studies show oceans are becoming increasingly acidic at a rate much faster than expected.

You can download the show here (right click, save as…), or listen in the player ** Note: player will close if you surf away from the page**

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.