Joanna MacDonald was turned away from a conservative campaign event and when she pressed party officials it seemed to be because a background check revealed she had environmental ties. Daryn speaks with Joanna to find out what happened.

Compost Campus is a project to increase organics diversion rates at the University of Toronto. Daryn speaks with Colleen McKeown and Tara Pearson, two students involved in the project. They are joined by Susan Antler Executive Director of the Compost Council of Canada to discuss composting in Canada.

Daryn speaks with Milan Nevajda, post-graduate geography student at the University of Toronto, about the Roundtable Discussions for Sustainability, a recent conference held at the University that Milan helped organize. They are joined by Liam O’Doherty, Community Partnerships Coordinator at TakingITGlobal for a broader discussion about youth participation in public discourse.

Bob Willard is the author of several books including The Sustainability Advantage and The Business Case for Sustainability. He spoke at the Roundtable Discussions for Sustainability about his transition from a long career at IBM into the world of environmental sustainability.

This week is CIUT’s semi-annual Fundraising drive and we are reposting episode 214, with Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. However, please support us! We need our listeners to show their support for The Green Majority and quality volunteer community radio by clicking over to CIUT.FM right now and become a CIUT member, your donation helps keep this free content flowing your way every week. Just remember to say that you are pledging on behalf of the Green Majority.

- Host – Daryn Caister

Richard Gilbert is the author of the book Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil. The book’s thesis is that the inevitable oil scarcity will force the massive global transport industry sooner or later to consider alternatives. Richard has some ideas about what those changes might look like.

Cirque du Soleil is a global institution of entertainment. Their eight key characteristics are acrobatic performance, acting, multi-culturalism, imaginary worlds, dance, daring dexterity and grace. However today Gil Favreau the social action and responsibility for Cirque adds a ninth, environmental sustainability. Gil joins us to talk about the York University Staging Sustainability conference and ecoconsciousness within the Cirque mentality.

Martin Provost is a man on a mission. He wants a new car but not just any car. He wants a Tesla Roadster, one of the sexiest cars an environmentalist/nerd can desire. But he is not a millionaire so he has set up a blog, Trading up to a Tesla, and he is going to trade his way there one item at a time. Daryn Caister finds out how and why.

We present a lecture by Richard Heinberg, the Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute and author of the new book ‘The End of Growth’. The Post Carbon Institute provides resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, environmental, and equity crises that define the 21st century.