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TGM #91: The gardening episode (June 27, 2008)
By canpod@gmail.com (Your (optional) podcast author name) | June 27, 2008
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This week:
- Gardening expert and Globe and Mail columnist Marjorie Harris shares eco-gardening tips with host Jordan Poppenk and discusses changing attitudes towards gardening;
- Green Life correspondent Peter Stock presents a special feature on lawn care and explores several new departures from the 1950’s-era green oasis.
The headlines in brief:
- The federal government has unveiled new ‘green labelling’ plan for food products, although many critics lament the plan as ‘too lax’
- Oil prices hit a new record high of $140 this week, just as visible signs of strain emerge in various sectors of the economy;
- American mayors meeting in Florida passed a resolution that urges major American cities to ban the use of fuel derived from the Alberta tarsands in municipal vehicles;
- US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has criticized Alberta’s tar sands industry;
- Alberta and Canadian tar sands company are launching a PR offensive to counter their negative environmental image;
- A new report released this week commisioned by Greenpeace indicates that major flaws exist in the way that the risks of accidents and terrorism at nuclear power stations is assessed;
- Criticism rained on the federal government from international delegates at the World Wind Energy Conference for failing to send its own delegate to the event, which was held only two hours from government offices;
- The largest sugarcane producer in America, United States Sugar, has agreed to sell all of its assets and land to the state of Florida in a bid to restore Florida’s shrinking Everglades;
- The US Supreme Court has overturned the 2.5 billion dollars US in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corporation had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska;
- Kazakstan’s Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest lake, is now almost entirely desert.
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