Green Majority Radio

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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.

We look forward to the promises of 2019 and speak with Electric Vehicle expert Matthew Klippenstein and Samia Sayid of Fresh Rents Fashion Library.

This week we speak with Tim Nash the Sustainable Economist about the Green New Deal and Sarah Bradley of Cycle T.O. about a new system for identifying stolen bicycles. Learn more at www.greenmajority.ca

We sit down with Brian Waller of Ripple Farms and Emily Charles-Donelson of the Toronto Tool Library to discuss their current endeavors as well as their Big Ideas for 2019 and beyond. Learn more @ www.greenmajority.ca

We spend the first twenty minutes discussing COP24 in Katowice, Poland, where countries have debated how to tackle climate change for two weeks straight. Our second segment is an interview with filmmaker Leora Eisen on her new documentary Food for Thought. We end with a discussion of a landmark Quebec lawsuit and the new BC climate plan.

Artist and Composer Frank Horvat takes over the show again today as guest host for our quarterly Eco-artist round-table. Today Frank hosts Mark Adair, Nina Munteanu and Kevin Matthew Wong. Learn more @ www.greenmajority.ca

We take a long look at the new National Climate Assessment put out by the US. We then turn to a live protest in Ottawa, talk about Ontario’s new ‘climate plan’ and end with an in-depth article reviewing the economics of Canada’s tarsands industry.

We start with a new Paris Agreement study that seeks to measure the impacts of different countries’ approaches to climate change. We then look at a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the fossil fuel industry, the madness of arctic drilling, insect sperm and deadly seaweed. We end with a discussion of Iran and the jailing and murdering of activists worldwide.

Environmental justice will be the defining issue of the century if climate change is not halted in its tracks. All of our stories this week have a justice aspect, as we explore raging wildfires, the Green New Deal, climate change, Chemical Valley, air pollution, mass migration and deforestation. It is also the fundraising drive for our local community radio station, CIUT.