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TGM #87: Lanes for bikes (May 30, 2008)
Friday, May 30th, 2008This week:
As CIBC reports that global trade networks are shifting on account of the surging cost of oil, we turn our microphone to a feast of initiatives running on people power. Host Jordan Poppenk speaks with Albert Koehl of the local advocacy group Bells on Bloor, as well as a joint discussion with Rick Conroy, [...]
TGM #86: Bee expert (May 23, 2008)
Friday, May 23rd, 2008This week:
Dr. Lawrence Packer, a Professor of Biology at York University and an expert on Canadian bees, speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about bee myths, the good things bees do for an ecosystem and the collapse in bee populations that was widely reported last year.
Jordan Poppenk interviews Senior Environment Canada Climatologist David Phillips about the [...]
To the East: Fredericton and St John join TGM
Friday, May 16th, 2008TGM is hitting the airwaves in Atlantic Canada thanks to Fredericton’s campus and community station, CHSR 97.9FM, and St. John’s campus campus and community station, CFMH 107.3FM.
CHSR is a community station in Fredericton, New Brunswick, with a radiated power of 250 watts. CHSR boasts the largest music library of a Canadian radio station east of [...]
TGM #85: Business and green regulation (May 16, 2008)
Friday, May 16th, 2008This week:
We feature a talk by Dr. Doug McDonald, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Environment and author of Business and Environmental Politics in Canada, a new book about how business reacts to environmental regulatory pressure.
Engineering correspondent Nicholas Wood discusses biodiesel production with Tim Haig, the CEO of BIOX corporation, which [...]
TGM #84: Food or fuel? (May 9, 2008)
Friday, May 9th, 2008This week:
Pat Roy Mooney, Director of the food issues think-tank ETC Group, speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about the dynamics between world food production, food technology, and fuel.
Correspondent Danny Leskiw talks to Rod DeBoice, the Provincial Bark Beetle Coordinator for British Columbia, about the current state of Western Canada’s mountain pine beetle epidemic.
The headlines in [...]
TGM #83: Slower trucks (May 2, 2008)
Friday, May 2nd, 2008This week:
Dr. Quentin Chiotti of Pollution Probe speaks with Political correspondent Danny Leskiw about new Ontario legislation that’s slowing down trucks on Ontario highways in the name of fuel conservation.
Environmental pundit Kevin farmer and host Jordan Poppenk discuss whether there is a link between peak oil and recent panic regarding a world food crisis.
Jordan Poppenk [...]
TGM #82: Earth Day Special & WGS 3 (April 25, 2008)
Friday, April 25th, 2008This Earth Day special:
We feature the final portion of a three-part series on the Massey College Walter Gordon Symposium, Harnessing the Green Wave: taking action in an era of eco-consciousness. The series features experts in business, government and international policy who speak about what it’s going to take to make environmental change happen. Part Three [...]
TGM 81: David Suzuki at Convocation Hall (April 18, 2008)
Friday, April 18th, 2008This week:
We dedicate the program to a lecture delivered by Dr. David Suzuki, Director of the David Suzuki Foundation and a figurehead of the Canadian environmental movement. The lecture was delivered at the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall and was organized by the University of Toronto Students Union and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
You [...]
TGM #80: Spring fundraiser (April 11, 2008)
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TGM #79: Walter Gordon Symposium Pt. 2 (April 4, 2008)
Friday, April 4th, 2008This week:
We feature the second section of a three-part series on the Massey College Walter Gordon Symposium, Harnessing the Green Wave: taking action in an era of eco-consciousness. The series features experts in business, government and international policy who speak about what it’s going to take to make environmental change happen. Part Two features The [...]
TGM #78: Walter Gordon Symposium Pt. 1 (March 28, 2008)
Friday, March 28th, 2008This week:
We feature the first section of a three-part series on the Massey College Walter Gordon Symposium, Harnessing the Green Wave: taking action in an era of eco-consciousness. The series features experts in business, government and international policy who speak about what it’s going to take to make environmental change happen. Part One features Dr. [...]