Green Majority Radio

We talk about the ‘green economy’ and the discrepancy between material goods and financial assets. We also sit down with documentarian Diana Dai to discuss her new film My Farmland being released March 15th through the CBC, exploring ‘how communities react to the influx of people from a different culture who hope for a better life by working the land’. In the final segment, we run through eight stories at a blistering pace.

We speak with none other than the Sustainable Economist himself, Mr. Tim Nash, regarding exciting new developments in ethical investment. We also discuss new surges in youth climate activism.

We discuss the ongoing Indigenous resistance to the LNG pipeline through Northern BC, the end of coal, and many other promising and/ or disturbing climate-related developments.

We sit down with seven climate innovators to discuss policy solutions and cultural change. Featured on the show are folks from Project Neutral, Climate Ventures, Point A, Feedback, The Spent Goods Company, Fresh Fashion Library, and Unwrapit.

Ian McAllister, executive director of Pacific Wild, joins us along with visual communications director Deirdre Leowinata to discuss Ian’s stunning new documentary, Great Bear Rainforest: Land of the Spirit Bear. We also talk about sustainable fishing initiatives in Canada and Indonesia and the difficulty of environmental regulation in a country whose resource industries hold so much power.

We discuss the ongoing Wet’suwet’en defence of their unceded lands in northern British Columbia, Canada’s dubious purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline, Canadian pensions at risk from the dissolution of the oil and gas sector, a groundbreaking ruling regarding abandoned well sites in Alberta, and a Colorado court decision against youth activists. We also interview Power Shift organizer and regular contributor Lauren Latour about the youth climate conference in Ottawa in February. Learn more at www.greenmajority.ca

Freelance reporter Nora Boydell joins us this week to interview climate journalist Pien Huang in Massachusetts about the ups and downs of climate reporting. We also look at Doug Ford’s climate ideas and government advertising in Alberta that is trying to win support for a pipeline by misleading Canadian citizens.

In the first segment, we discuss just how much heat the oceans have absorbed, and climate change’s impact on tropical ecosystems. Then we talk about parenting in the 21st century, huge clumps of fat and Trans Mountain. We end with a conversation about Carbon Engineering and its potential to save us all (or not).

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We spend the first segment looking at the Wet’suwet’en land defenders’ struggle against the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline which, if built, will dissect large areas of unceded Indigenous territory in British Columbia. We then speak with Tom Ranson on his Northern Lights documentary, and end with an interview with Tara Seucharan of the Council of Canadians regarding environmental justice movements worldwide and here in Canada.