This week on Earthgauge Radio: we’re talking about the U.N. International Year of Cooperatives and featuring highlights from last week’s online 24 Hours of Climate Reality international media event. To kick off today’s program, I speak with Donna Balkin. She’s the Communications Manager for the Canadian Co-operative Association and, as 2012 was designated by the United Nations as the […]
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Earthgauge Radio: Earthgauge Radio 2012-11-22 15:28:29
Click the audio player above to hear my interview with Donna Balkin who is the Communications Manager for the Canadian Co-operative Association in Ottawa. Right click here to download the file (14:30). Did you know that 2012 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Co-operatives? This was done to highlight the contribution of […]
Earthgauge Radio: RealityDrop.org – fighting the climate change denial industry
Check out this great initiative from RealityDrop.org. They’ve figured out a way to track the climate denial industry (which is largely funded by fossil fuel companies). Reality Drop search engines scour the web for climate news then enable people to fight phony climate denier arguments online in real time by providing the correct scientific arguments […]
Earthgauge Radio: Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: 24 hours of Climate Reality and the International Year of Cooperatives
On Earthgauge Radio this week, we speak with Donna Balkin of the Canadian Co-operative Association about the U.N. International Year of Co-operatives and why the co-op model places environmental values at the core of its business. We’ll also be talking about last week’s 24 hours of Climate Reality, in which millions of people tuned in […]
Earthgauge Radio: IEA: Idea that we have reached “Peak Oil” incorrect
A new International Energy Agency report states that the idea of “peak oil” (that the world is essentially running out of oi supplies) is false. The IEA claims that, there are in fact plenty of fossil fuels reserves remaining in the Earth but that only one-third of them can be burned if we are to […]
Earthgauge Radio: Earthgauge Radio November 15, 2012: U.S. Green Party leader Jill Stein and the Ottawa Centre EcoDistrict
On Earthgauge Radio this week, we’re talking about presidential politics and livable cities. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jill Stein this week. She’s the leader of the U.S. Green Party and was their presidential candidate in the recently concluded U.S. election. She joins me for an Earthgauge Radio exclusive […]
Earthgauge Radio: Interview with James McNeil of the Ottawa Centre EcoDistrict
I know, I know. We do hear our share of gloomy stories and reports on this show. It unfortunately is the nature of the beast on an environment program when many of the world’s environmental trends are pointing downwards. However, there are many inspiring people and organizations doing great work to try to turn things […]
Earthgauge Radio: Earthgauge Radio feature interview with U.S. Green Party leader Jill Stein
It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jill Stein this morning who was the Green Party candidate for President of the United States in the recently concluded presidential election. Dr. Stein is a mother, physician, longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate. She is the co-author of two […]
Earthgauge Radio: Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: U.S. Green Party leader Jill Stein and the Ottawa Centre EcoDistrict
On Earthgauge Radio this week, we will have the pleasure of hearing from the Green Party candidate for president of the United States, Dr. Jill Stein. Dr. Stein of course recently wrapped up her presidential campaign so we will hear from her about how the campaign went, the Green New Deal, her two arrests while […]
earthgauge: Earthgauge Radio November 9, 2012: Elizabeth May, Obama re-election and Hurricane Sandy
On Earthgauge Radio this week, we take a look back at the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, consider the environmental implications of President Obama’s re-election in the U.S. and catch up with the leader of the Green Party of Canada, Elizabeth May. Click the audio player above or right click here to download. We’ve been trying […]
earthgauge: Arctic “death spiral” leaves climate scientists shocked and worried
A truly disturbing article (yet again!) this morning from the Vancouver Observer. Here are some of the words climate scientists have been using recently to describe the recent, unprecedented decline in Arctic sea ice witnessed this past summer: “unprecedented”, “amazing”, “extreme”, “hard to exaggerate”, “incredibly fast”, “death spiral” and “heading
Continue readingearthgauge: Earthgauge Radio November 1, 2012: PowerShift 2012 featuring Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben
Download: earthgauge-podcast-nov-1-2012.mp3 On Earthgauge Radio this week, we’ll be featuring a wrap-up of the recent PowerShift 2012 conference, which took place over the past weekend in Ottawa and Gatineau. I have two special features on today’s show from PowerShift 2012: Bill McKibben‘s keynote address Media panel Q&A with Naomi Klein Click
Continue readingearthgauge: Cohen Commission final report into B.C. salmon decline released
In his much-anticipated report on the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon in B.C., former B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen took aim at the federal government Wednesday. He said he was “troubled” by recent amendments to the environmental process and the Fisheries Act by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative
Continue readingearthgauge: Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: PowerShift 2012! Featuring Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben
Happy Halloween! On Earthgauge Radio this week, a huge youth conference climate conference took place in Ottawa and Gatineau this past weekend called PowerShift 2012. This was an historic gathering of over 1500 young people from across the country intended to strengthen the movement for climate and environmental justice. PowerShift
Continue readingearthgauge: Hurricane Sandy Speaks: Don’t Curse Me, I Have Been Pumped Full of Fossil-fuel Steroids
Sea water floods Ground Zero, Monday in New York Great article by Stephen Leahy written from the perspective of Hurricane Sandy, which is currently wreaking havoc across the northeast coast of North America. Here’s an excerpt: “There are estimates that I might cause $20 billion in damages in the US
Continue readingearthgauge: Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: Green Party leader Elizabeth May and the CKCU Funding Drive!
It’s our CKCU Funding Drive special on Earthgauge Radio this week. CKCU is a listener supported campus-community radio station. One third of our lean operating budget depends on the generosity of listeners like you so please donate and indicate Earthgauge (Thursday Special Blend) as the show you want to support.
Continue readingearthgauge: Earthgauge Radio October 18 2012: James Kunstler (part 2) and The Climate Reality Project
Download: earthgauge-podcast-oct-18-2012.mp3 On Earthgauge Radio this week, we continue our discussion on the limitations of technology in solving environmental problems and we learn about Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. I have two interviews on the program today: Novelist and critic James Howard Kunstler talks about his latest book ‘Too Much
Continue readingearthgauge: Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: James Kunstler (part 2) and The Climate Reality Project
On Earthgauge Radio this week, part 2 of our Earthgauge exclusive interview with James Kunstler, acclaimed and influential author of The Long Emergency and, his latest, Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. To air at around 7:08 AM. I’m also excited to be holding
Continue readingearthgauge: Arctic Methane Leak Possibly Accelerating Climate Change
We hear an awful lot these days about how burning fossil fuels is emitting massive quantities of carbon dioxide and consequently warming our planet. But CO2 isn’t the only greenhouse gas: methane traps heat too, and it’s a lot more powerful, molecule for molecule, than carbon dioxide. Well, it turns
Continue readingearthgauge: Costa Rica passes ban on shark finning
Continuing Earthgauge’s past coverage of the campaign to ban shark finning, Reuters is reporting that Costa Rica is the latest country to ban the practice, which involves catching sharks, slicing off their fins and throwing them back in the ocean to die. As always with such bans, it remains to
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