The entire show this week is dedicated to our second annual review of the past year. News correspondents Chris Berube and Daryn Caister join host Tyler Irving and producer Jordan Poppenk to recall their favourite environmental headlines of the past year. Highlights include:

• The UNFCCC Conference in Copenhagen
• Canadian political turmoil, including Michael Ignatieff’s endorsement of the Tar Sands and the collapse of the Green Party of Alberta
• The victory in Tiny Township over the prosed dump known as Site 41
• Ontario’s Green Energy Act and Pesticide Ban

And much more!

Producer Peter Stock speaks with food economist, columnist, and author Wayne Roberts about his seemingly audacious plan to solve unemployment by encouraging Canadians to buy local food.

We break from our regular format to present the unabridged delivery of the internationally respected environmental columnist, George Monbiot. A writer at the United Kingdom-based newspaper, The Guardian, Monbiot is well known internationally for his strong and well researched positions on global warming. On account of the sky-high carbon footprint of jet travel, Monbiot has written that flying is, in his own words, “as unethical, in terms of its impact on human well-being, as child abuse.” It therefore raised eyebrows when he arrived from a transatlantic flight last month in part to give the speech we will present here today, an address to the fellows of Massey College. The exceptional need, as he described it, was to impart upon Canadians the gravity of our federal government’s efforts to derail climate negotiations on the international stage, and the changing view of Canada in the eyes of the world. On today’s show, we present the lecture he presented at Massey College as well as ensuing discussion with the Fellows of Massey College.