Green Life reporter Peter Stock speaks with blogger, writer and now documentary film subject Colin Beavan about his “No Impact Man” experiment. For a year, Beavan and his family eliminated virtually all negative environmental impact from their Manhattan lives. That meant no disposable diapers, packaged or long-distance food, elevators, taxis, and eventually even electricity.

As Canada’s population and cities grow, so too do our networks of roads and highways. The proliferation of roads across the continent has had a major impact on wildlife, both by fragmenting habitat as well as through mortality due to collisions with vehicles. This week, we speak Dr. Lenore Fahrig of Carleton University. Dr. Fahrig studies Landscape and Road Ecology and will tell us about how roads affect wildlife as well as the solutions available to minimize the harm done to wildlife and ecosystems.

Stephen Hazell is the executive director of the Sierra Club Canada Foundation. His recent article in the Alternatives Journal “Work” issue is titled “Green Collar Revolution”. In it Hazell advocates green jobs as the way forward as we shake off this recession. And yet he chastises the federal government for being old-fashioned, for trying to revive brown jobs instead.

Green Life producer Peter Stock spoke with Stephen Hazell about his article.

Everything you wanted to know about solar panels and power but were afraid to ask. Dylan Jervis speaks with Nic Morgan of Morgan Solar.

Velcrow Ripper is an award-winning filmmaker with dozens of films and videos under his belt, including Bones of the Forest and Scared Sacred; the latter was named one of Canada’s Top 10 movies of 2004, and won the 2005 Genie. His other movies include Open Season and In The Company of Fear. Ripper’s newest movie, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action, was shown during the most recent Hot Docs! documentary film festival, is particularly focused on the links between activism and different forms of spirituality. Ripper’s films and ideas takes us around the world as he talks to philosophers, politicians, human-rights activists and environmentalists. The film’s message of hope and change is delivered via magnificent visuals. To learn more about Velcrow or his latest form, go to: http://www.fiercelight.org/

In just over three weeks, members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen to decide on what steps to take after the Kyoto Protocol runs out in 2012. The University of Toronto will be sending its own delegation to the conference, consisting largely of students. News correspondent Tyler Irving speaks with members of that delegation about what they will be doing and how to get involved.

TGM team members Naomi Jehlicka, LeeAnne MacGregor, Daryn Caister, Dylan Jervis, Tyler Irving, Chris Berube, Kevin Farmer and Jordan Poppenk join host Peter Stock to discuss the program and why it’s worth supporting. We are also joined by Alternatives Journal Executive Editor Nicola Ross and Wayne Roberts, NOW Magazine columnist and manager of the Toronto Food Policy Council.