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Jordan researches the brain basis of human memory as a PhD student in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. Having arrived in Toronto to find no local environmental programming, he negotiated with CIUT to establish TGM, which he currently programs and hosts each week. Prior to TGM, he hosted the environmental talk show GreenWorld on CHRW in London, Ontario, where he worked with EnviroWestern. He also interned at the Ministry of the Environment. He loves the lindy hop.
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Kevin Farmer, Pundit

Kevin Farmer is a Software Engineering student at the University of Toronto. In the 2006 federal election he was the Green Party candidate in the high profile Toronto riding of St. Paul’s. Kevin has been an advocate for environmental issues for several years and frequently shows up in the Toronto Star’s letters page. As well as contributing to TGM, Kevin also provides technical production for Acoustic Workshop, which airs every Monday at 7:00 on CIUT 89.5FM.
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Ryan Wiseman

Ryan Wiseman, Webhost

Sustainability nut, educator, tech geek, audio geek… Ryan has recently “retired” from a career teaching senior geography/environmental studies at a Toronto private high school to move his family to Owen Sound, ON where they are trying to live a carbon neutral lifesyle. In addition to his web work bringing environmental ideas and thinking to an audience at www.besustainable.com, Ryan runs a creative services company that specializes in web and new media strategy.
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Peter Stock, Green life correspondant

Peter comes to journalism somewhat late, but with a wealth of life experience to draw on. School and work has taken him to Philadelphia, New York City and Europe. He spent the 90s mostly in France running his own travel company. Now back in his home town, Toronto, he’s also pursuing freelance non-fiction writing. A dedicated spoken word radio listener, Peter looks forward to contributing to that side of CIUT’s programming. Beyond his role at TGM, Peter is a regular contributor to Take 5, which airs every weekday from 8:30 to 10 am.
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Danny Leskiw, Politics and health correspondent

Will the real Danny Leskiw stand up. In addition to his role at TGM, Danny Leskiw is a political and features reporter and man on the street reporter for Take 5, which airs before TGM from 8:30 to 10 am each weekday morning. In a previous CIUT reincarnation, he was an Environment and Health news reporter, and is now very pleased to join the cast of TGM.
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Simon Watson

Simon Watson, Theological correspondent

Simon Watson is a doctoral student in theology at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the theodicy question in light of evolution; that is, how does one understand a loving and all-powerful God in the face of a natural system that seems cruel, wasteful, and arbitrary? He has written and/or worked for Toronto Life, the Queen’s Quarterly, CMAJ, and Random House of Canada. He completed an M.A. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.
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Chris Berube

Chris Berube, News Director

Chris Berube is a student at the University of Toronto studying Political Science and Economics. Aside from being News Director at TGM, Chris also hosts his own music program on CIUT (Electric Boogaloo, airing each Friday afternoon from noon to 2pm), and is an editor at The Varsity student newspaper.
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Arleigh Crawford

Arleigh Crawford, Web Developer

Arleigh crawford has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of New Mexico and he now finds himself working as a web developer in Toronto. He has worked on Internet projects for OttaWalk, AutoShare, the Green Party of Canada and majoritycoalition.ca. He is interested in walking globally and eating locally.
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Joanna Dafoe

Joanna Dafoe, Environmental Justice Correspondent

Joanna Dafoe is taking Peace and Conflict studies and Environmental Policy at U of T. Her studies focus on the UN climate change negotiation process and the opportunities available for more effective environmental governance. Joanna is active in the Sierra Youth Coalition, the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, and 350.org. She was a member of the Canadian Government Delegation to the 16th and 17th UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Whenever Joanna’s not with the books, she likes to get outdoors and read the poems of Loren Eiseley. She is the environmental justice correspondent for the Green Majority.
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Daryn Caister, News Correspondent

Daryn Caister is entering the second year of Environmental Policy and Economics program at the University of Toronto. He is passionate about global environmental issues and doing his part to create a sustainable and equitable global society. Daryn is proudly a part of the weekly environmental news broadcast “The Green Majority” and will also be joining the executive committee of U-Tern at the University of Toronto for the 2009-10 School Year as the Public Relations Officer. He currently also the Executive Community Outreach Chair for Greenpower Canada UofT.

“I believe it is possible to reform the world for the benefit and with a celebration for all living things, on the other hand… I’m not holding my breath.”

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Tyler Irving

Tyler Irving, International Affairs

Tyler researches biofuels from microalgae as an M.A.Sc. candidate in the department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Previously, he worked as a high school teacher in Canada and the UK. He has long been interested in current affairs, environmental issues, and campus radio, so helping out at TGM was a natural fit. When not researching, teaching, or reporting, Tyler plays the Great Highland Bagpipe for parades, competitions, funerals, weddings, and Bar Mitzvahs.
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Dylan Jervis

Dylan Jervis, Science Correspondent

Dylan Jervis is a PhD student in Physics at the University of Toronto who studies what happens to atoms when they get very cold. He has worked at a hostel in New York City, driven a 1979 Volkswagon Beetle through Central America, and builds decks and repairs leaky pipes for a few weeks each year in the B.C. Rockies. Dylan did his undergraduate degree at McGill University.

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