This week:

• Green pundit Kevin Farmer, news director Chris Berube and host Jordan Poppenk discuss the prospect for a green economic stimulus package in Canada.
• Steve Ogden of the Stop Site 41 project speaks to Jordan on the steps of Ontario’s parliament regarding a rally to protect the drinking water in Tiny Township from a landfill that is under construction. Ogden speaks following a five day walk to the provincial capital. The site upon which the  dump would be constructed contains the cleanest aquifer ever discovered, with water so pure it equates to Arctic ice core samples taken from snows deposited 10,000 years ago.
• We feature a talk by Dr. Doug McDonald, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Environment and author of Business and Environmental Politics in Canada, a book about how business reacts to environmental regulatory pressure. This lecture was originally aired on May 16, 2008.

The headlines in brief:

• A commercial ship has passed through the Northwest Passage for the first time in history after a total recession of ice in the passage.
• New Toronto bylaws passed this week include a five cent plastic bag fee for retailers.
• A new report finds that salmon stocks in BC are on the brink of collapse after federal mismanagement.
• The Pembina Institute predicts that further tar sands development could imperil nearly 160 million birds through habitat destruction in the next fifty years.
• Brazil aims to reduce deforestation of the Amazon by 70% over the next twenty years.
• New studies find that climate change could seriously impact food supplies on the Pacific Islands.
• Mexico plans to reduce carbon emissions through new carbon trading plans for industry.

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