We discuss the mistaken platitudes of certain environmental commentators, the UN emissions gap report, the impacts of displacement, Doug Ford, protests, the divestment movement and Iron + Earth.
Read MoreWe talk about fossil fuel divestment, carbon pricing, Canada’s new environment minister, offshore wind, renewable energy, pipelines and coal.
Read MoreWe discuss a hopeful vision of a community-centred eco-transformation, talk with Erika Reyes of WiseBird and briefly think about Jeremy Corbyn’s environment plan.
Read MoreWe talk about worldwide unrest, COP25 and CBC Kids News. Kim D’Oliveira joins us in the second segment to discuss various attempts towards a circular economy.
Read MoreTim Nash joins us to talk about elections, youth protests, climate lawsuits and the Exxon trial.
Read MoreWe talk about the Canadian election outcome, environmental justice, the biggest polluters and Californian utilities. We end by interviewing documentary writer-director Roberto Verdecchia on his new film about fear.
Read MoreWe talk about the worldwide Extinction Rebellion protests and their impact on media, politics and public perception. We then discuss Sandy Garossino’s exacting analysis of the claims behind Jason Kenney’s conspiracist rhetoric around environmentalists and the oil sands.
Read MoreWe end with the relationship between integrity and pragmatism in the environmental movement, beginning with a discussion about a new fossil discovery with evolutionary biologist Maydianne Andrade and film director Andrew Gregg, moving into a look at the precautionary blackouts in California and the Canadian federal leaders’ debate.
Read MoreWe outline and discuss the climate plans of Canada’s four major parties, as well as Toronto’s climate emergency victory, CAPP’s data collection intentions and the 100 climate debates that recently took place across the country. Lauren Latour is in-studio this week along with Fatima Syed and Emma McIntosh of the National Observer.
Read MoreWe document sounds, voices, concerns and victories from various climate actions and events, September 23-27.
Read MoreThe global climate strike looms, old naysayers naysay and paranoid politicians cling to conspiracy rhetoric. This is the late-game beginning of our transformation.
Read MoreWe 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 MoreWe talk the Global Climate Strike, Extinction Rebellion, Justin Trudeau, and coal.
Read MoreThis week we talk about the Amazon, Bolsonaro and the climate proposals of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang.
Read MoreAn 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 MoreWe 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 MoreWe 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 MoreWe’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 MoreWe 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 MoreWhen 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 MoreA Canadian perspective on science and environmental policy nationally and abroad, with a hint of satire.
