This week: Joanna Dafoe, a spokesperson for the Sierra Youth Coalition, speaks with correspondent Naomi Jehlicka about the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, an initiative targeting climate neutrality for North American Universities. Some Canadidan Universities have signed on to this initiative, and others - including the University of Toronto - are currently deciding whether [...]

This week: Commuters have had something to smile about at the pumps in recent weeks, with gas prices slashed to nearly half of their pre-crash levels, but what does this mean for Canada’s alternative energy producers? We speak with Andreas Marouhos, Director of the University of Toronto’s Blue Sky Solar Racing team, about the coming fortunes of [...]

This week: Theological correspondent, Simon Watson, speaks with Rabbi Daniel Fink concerning Jewish perspectives on the environmental crisis. Bruce Rosensweet speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about how his group, Artscape, is reshaping a decommissioned TTC repair yard into an eco-paradise. Click here for details on the grand opening in Toronto this comingtgm Thursday, November 20th. The headlines in [...]

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This week: We feature a lecture by Canadian academic Thomas Homer-Dixon, who presents what he describes as an update to Al Gore’s famous slideshow, An Inconvenient Truth, and brings together the scientific and geopolitical aspects of climate change. Thomas Homer-Dixon speaks at the Isabel Bader Theatre at the University of Toronto’s Victoria College. The headlines in brief: The [...]

This week: Green Life reporter Peter Stock speaks with Mairon Giovani Bastos Lima, whose home town is a mid-sized city in Brazil. On arriving in Canada to do graduate studies, Mairon was surprised by how different our food culture is. In Brazil, he says, street vendors are everywhere, selling both fresh fruit and vegetables and prepared [...]

This week: We deliver a post-mortem roundtable on the federal election and its implications for environmental policy in the coming years. Featured are all of the Green Majority political experts, including Kevin Farmer, Chris Berube and Danny Leskiw. First-time correspondent Naomi Jehlicka speaks with Kristopher Stevens, executive director of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, about Ontario’s Green [...]

This week: In the wake of an editorial in the international science journal Nature describing current Canadian federal policy as “war on science”, 120 climate scientists signed an unprecedented political letter urging Canadians to vote strategically against the federal Conservative Party. A lead author on that letter, University of Victoria climatologist Dr. Andrew Weaver, speaks with [...]

This week, we probe the nuances of environmental thinking in Canadian politics by speaking to two experts about how faith and money are affecting the environmental vote: Simon Watson speaks with Dr. Stephen Bede Scharper, Professor of religion and ecology at the University of Toronto, about “political theology” and the interaction between faith and the environment [...]

This week: As part two in a special series on the Canadian federal elections, green pundit Kevin Farmer and host Jordan Poppenk review the environmental platforms of the major political parties. This week, we speak in depth about the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party of Canada. We feature a discussion with environmentalist David Suzuki from earlier this [...]