This week:

• If you’ve done any grocery shopping lately, or even just flipped through the ads in any glossy magazine, you’ll know that the green bandwagon is getting pretty crowded – everyone, it seems, is pushing some type of green product or service. But are they all legitimate? Often, we the consumers are being Greenwashed – sold an environmental bill of goods. Green Life correspondent and resident skeptic Peter Stock reports.
• We feature Pat Mooney, Director of ETC group to discuss the relationship between food, technology and fuel. Originally aired May 9, 2008.
• Listener Doug Telek points out, with respect to last week’s Tiny Township feature, that there is a discussion paper open for public consultation on waste diversion in Ontario: Toward a zero waste future:Review of Ontario’s Waste Diversion Act, 2002. Comments on the paper are welcomed until January 15, 2009 and should be addressed to Alena Grunwald.

Headlines in brief:

• The Canadian delegation has been accused of obstruction at the UN climate talks in Poznan, Poland.
• Statistics Canada found that, while Canadians are more environmentally conscious, household emissions have increased by 13%.
• A new report released this week shows that far higher than expected amounts of toxic sludge from Albertan tar sands tailing ponds are leaking into the local groundwater.
• A new 400 megawatt power plant is being built over citizen concerns in the York region of northern Ontario.
• International representative are continuing negotiations to present a post-Kyoto climate reduction framework this week.
• New research finds that chemicals are causing fewer men to be born.
• The UN estimates that the world’s consumption of oil will drop this year for the first time since 1983.

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