Live from the Climate Strikes (678)
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We document sounds, voices, concerns and victories from various climate actions and events, September 23-27.
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This Will Be the Tipping Point (677)
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The global climate strike looms, old naysayers naysay and paranoid politicians cling to conspiracy rhetoric. This is the late-game beginning of our transformation.
Read MorePondering the New Rebellion (676)
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We discuss the utility of despair and how we might imagine a new inclusivity. In the middle segment we interview environmental policy analyst Gideon Forman about how he frames the climate crisis in his talks with university students.
Read MoreThe Moral Imperative of Civil Disobedience (675)
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We talk the Global Climate Strike, Extinction Rebellion, Justin Trudeau, and coal.
Read MoreExcitement & Misinformation (674)
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This week we talk about the Amazon, Bolsonaro and the climate proposals of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang.
Read MoreCycling, Politics & Board Games (673)
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An interview with outgoing Executive Director of Cycle Toronto Jared Kolb. We discuss what he’s learned about activism in the nine years of leading and growing the organization, and how board games fit into it all.
Read MoreEcologists Can Be Fascists Too (672)
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We need to watch carefully how environmental rhetoric can turn authoritarian. This week we talk about climate change, eco-fascism, food security, environmental justice, the tar sands, and a whole bunch of energy utility stories.
Read MoreMobilizing Faith (671)
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We talk about government-incited violence, climate, and the plastics industry. In our final segment we speak with Reverend Dr. Cheri DiNovo about mobilizing interfaith communities to combat climate change.
Read MoreThe Voice of the Void (670)
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We’ve said it before but it’s still true: we all need to think about how to live differently. This week we talk climate despair, imagination, land rights, coal, renewables, investment, fuel efficiency, coal miners and “green” corporatism.
Read MoreWhy the Green Transition Is Feasible (669)
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We begin with the Mauna Kea protests in Hawaii and an oil spill off Newfoundland, then move into a two-segment rebuke of an article from Mark P. Mills arguing that the green energy transition is ‘magical thinking’.
Read MorePlutocracy's Anxious Clench (668)
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When it comes to climate change, the rich will profit off the very thing they protect themselves from. This week we discuss corporate security, protest surveillance, the Canadian state and climate refugees.
Read MoreAmara Possian on Canada's Path to a Green New Deal (667)
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We sit down with climate organizer Amara Possian of Our Time. Our Time is a national campaign led by young people and millennials who are championing a vision for a Green New Deal for Canada — an ambitious plan to tackle climate change and inequality together.
Read MoreFixing What Wasn't Meant to be Fixed (666)
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We talk about prison labour and agriculture, and then sit down with Sabrina Bowman, the executive director of GreenPac, a non-profit organization working to elect and support environmental leaders of all major parties running for office. Kimberly D’Oliveira joins us again in the third segment to discuss new developments toward a circular economy.
Read MoreMonetizing Tribalism: Privilege, Technology & Climate Change (665)
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We talk about the armed militia rallying in support of delinquent Republicans in Oregon, the role of social media in the political divide, schadenfreude, and harnessing the power of coding for social purposes.
Read MoreCanada's Orgy of Centrist Hypocrisy (664)
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Justin Trudeau has approved the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline a day after declaring a ‘climate emergency’. We look at various perspectives on TMX and the climate crisis and discuss Grassy Narrows, the dangers of environment reporting, and justice in the context of the Green New Deal.
Read MoreTrauma & Ambition (663)
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With Trudeau’s Trans Mountain decision looming, we look at Jason Kenney’s petroleum speech and the youth activists who penned letters to the Prime Minister. The Sustainable Economist Tim Nash joins us to discuss recent as well as long-developing trends in sustainable investment.
Read MoreLearning to Love II (662)
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We sit down again with Professor Stephen Scharper of the University of Toronto to discuss ‘visions of a good life’, methods for listening deeply to nature, and how we can transform our apocalyptic visions into prosperous ones. Also on the table is the ecstatic celebratory energy of the universe.
Read MoreRebelling Wherever You Can (661)
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This week we talk about tornadoes, flooding, heatwaves, wildfires, mercury poisoning, rebellious high schoolers, freedom gas, William Happer & political polarization.
Read MoreHot Wet Plastic (660)
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We discuss some fresh studies on global warming and a host of plastic and trash stories. In our second segment, we interview five members of Apathy is Boring, a non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy.
Read MoreOn Declaring a Climate Emergency (659)
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We discuss our growing predicament and the discrepancies between political and public sentiment, via stories about the atmosphere, the arctic, Extinction Rebellion, clean energy, coal, Canadian politics, air pollution, Uber, Trump and US politics.
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