Jordan Poppenk, Founding Producer

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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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 community radio, so helping to produce The Green Majority is 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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Daryn Caister is pursuing a double major in Environmental Policy and Urban Studies program with a minor in GIS 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 is also on the executive board of U-Tern at the University of Toronto as the Public Relations Officer.

�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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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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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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Naomi Jehlicka is pursuing a double major in Criminology and Political Science at U of T and is currently in her fourth year of study. Her studies focus on environmental criminology from political, legal, and economic standpoints. In addition to being the Green Majority’s Environmental Law and Policy Correspondent, Naomi is the former president of the Trinity Environment Club and has been involved with many environmental endeavors across campus and the GTA. In her spare time, Naomi enjoys hiking, reading, and cooking up a storm.
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After finishing a BSc in Biology at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Bryant moved to Toronto where he is working on a PhD in Immunology at the University of Toronto. Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, he loves the outdoors and the lonely wilderness, enjoying canoeing, camping, and biking. Environmentally, he believes in letting sound science do the talking and is passionately opposed to political interference in scientific research.

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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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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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Alex Nursall is an English/Visual Arts student at the University of Toronto. Though not an on-air personality on TGM, she provides technical production for the show each week. Before moving to Toronto, she worked at CKLU in Sudbury as a host on the show Unintentional Mohawk, and as an animal care technician at a local science center. When she’s not on the boards for TGM, Alex works as a technician/contributor for the CIUT shows Take 5, Innovations, and her own show The Beaver Lodge.
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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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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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