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TGM #97: Bigger highways in Banff National Park (August 8, 2008)
Friday, August 8th, 2008This week:
Conservation specialist Nigel Douglas speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about a planned highway expansion in Banff National Park and the competing priorities that are bringing wildlife preservation and economic development into conflict.
Following up on last week’s episode about problems with municipal sewer overflow into rivers waterways, Riversides spokesperson JP Warren speaks with Jordan about [...]
TGM #96: Sewage overflow (August 1, 2008)
Friday, August 1st, 2008This week:
Frank Zechner, Executive Director of the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association, speaks to host Jordan Poppenk about how the City of Ottawa’s sewer system came to spill into the Ottawa River for 15 consecutive days.
Political correspondent Danny Leskiw speaks with Ontario Natural Resource Minister Donna Cansfield about the future of wind power in [...]
TGM #95: Green Shift (July 25, 2008)
Friday, July 25th, 2008This week:
MP Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale) speaks with political corespondent Danny Leskiw about the Liberal Green Shift Carbon Tax Proposal.
Engineering correspondent Nicholas Wood interviews Professor David Keith, Director of the ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group at the University of Calgary, who speaks about the frightening last-resort measures scientists are cooking up “just in case” [...]
TGM #94: Religion, environment & public policy (July 18, 2008)
Friday, July 18th, 2008Environmental practice is widely considered a moral act; pollution, in contrast, is considered in many religions to be a sin, with Catholicism the most recent among them. In spite of this moral dimension to environmental life, the recent upsurge in all things green has brought scant media attention to the spiritual dimension of sustainability and [...]
TGM #93: Elizabeth May keynote (July 11, 2008)
Friday, July 11th, 2008We dedicate this week’s program to a keynote lecture by Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada. May previously served as the Director of the Sierra Club of Canada and has been praised by many for her pragmatic approach to environmental change, straying beyond party lines when doing so promises what she believes [...]
Sackville, N.B. tunes into TGM
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Students at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick will soon be able to tune into TGM. Sackville’s campus and community radio station, CHMA 106.9FM, will broadcast the program on Wednesdays at 3PM, AST.
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CHMA is a community station in Sackville, N.B. with a radiated power of 50 watts. CHMA has been broadcasting as far back [...]
TGM #92: Can music save the environment? (July 4, 2008)
Friday, July 4th, 2008This week:
We feature the 2008 Hart House Stages Panel held at the University of Toronto on the music industry and its environmental practices, hopefully titled, “Can music save the environment?” The panel was organized by Mitchell Wong, Julia Lo and Brett Winestock. This coming together of minds on music and environmental issues involved a unique [...]
TGM #91: The gardening episode (June 27, 2008)
Friday, June 27th, 2008.
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 [...]
TGM #90: Road trip (June 20, 2008)
Friday, June 20th, 2008This week:
Green Life correspondent Peter Stock delivers a tour of the book, “Drive: our complicated affair with the automobile”. The author, Tim Falconer, joins Peter to recount a 2-month road trip across the United States and examines the past, present and future of what he considers our collective automobile obsessed society.
We present a recent lecture [...]
TGM #89: Who killed the Grand Banks? (June 13, 2008)
Friday, June 13th, 2008This week:
Alex Rose, author of Who Killed the Grand Banks, speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about the collapse of the cod fishery off of Newfoundland and some historical lessons that may apply to resource use today.
Jordan speaks with Leif Harmsen, artist and spokesperson for the Toronto chapter of the World Naked Bike Ride, which is [...]
TGM #88: Deep Ecology (June 6, 2008)
Friday, June 6th, 2008This week:
Dr. Alan Drengson, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, speaks with Correspondent Simon Watson about the Deep Ecology movement and its founder, Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss.
Host Jordan Poppenk speaks to Bruce Benett, CEO of the US-based CD Recycling Center, about how to recycle CDs and the economical and industrial considerations that [...]