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Since 1971 Alternatives Journal has been Canada's informed voice of environmentalism to everyday readers. Our podcast complements AJ's bi-monthly peer-reviewed print issues. Segments will include contributor interviews, in depth discussions of feature articles, and an editorial overview of the current and upcoming issues.
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CleanIssue 38.2: Green buildings | Podcast for Alternatives Journal Green Buildings issue. Interviews with: Steve Carpenter of Enermodal Engineering on the booming green building industry in Canada (14:12) Andre Roy on the new, super-eco friendly ENV3 Environment Building at the University of Waterloo (10:30) Stephen Svenson on rebuilding New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward with 'green' houses (15:30) | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Issue 38.1: Inside forestry | Alternatives 'Inside Forestry' podcast on Parks Canada's 100th anniversary, the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement and Conservation International's 10 global forest hotspots | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVol. 37.6: Alternatives 40th anniversary issue | Special podcast celebrating 40 years of Alternatives Journal. Interviews with Bob Paehlke, Andrew Nikiforuk, Ken Ogilvie and Nicola Ross. | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Issue 37.5: The Power & The Glory | We discuss environmental education and energy with environmental activist Sandra Steingraber and hemp hero Greg Herriott. | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rocking the Environment (Issue 37.4) | The Alternatives Podcast returns with exclusive interviews with Sarah Harmer, Greg Brown, as well as the story of Greenpeace's Amchitka CD from producer John Timmins. We also welcome Mark Brooks as our new podcaster. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Resource exploitation in the Sacred Headwaters of northern B.C. | Wade Davis on the imminent threat from resource exploitation in the Sacred Headwaters of northern B.C. (dur: 38m 35s). | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Water, water everywhere (Water 37.1) | Intro: (22s-3m03s dur: 3m03s) Editorial Overview with Nicola Ross: (3m03s - 16m47s dur:13m45s) Wade Davis on the imminent threat from resource exploitation in the Sacred Headwaters of Northern B.C. (16m51s - 54m45s dur: 37m54s) A visit to Steam Whistle Brewery to understand how they are saving 5 million litres of water each year making their premium pilsner. (54m45s -1h17m56s dur: 23m16s) An enigmatic black and white photo from the 50s prompted Jamie Linton begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting to explore our disappearing public waterfronts and fountains. (1h18m17s - 1h42m28s dur 24m11s) Robert Gibson on "BullS^%t", the academic version. (1h42m28s - 1h49m12s dur: 6m34s) | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Entrepreneurs: A feature interview with author Andrew Heintzman | -- | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36:6 Biodiversity | Introduction (0-2m01s dur: 2m01s) Editorial Overview with Nicola Ross (2m06-28m24s dur: 26m18s) Biodiversity Primer: Everything you ever wanted to know about Biodiversity, sustainability and fighting the good fight from the inside, with Steve Hounsell of Ontario Power Generation (28m31s-1h10m16s dur: 41m45s) Book Review: Mark Brooks begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting on "Prosperity without Growth" by Tim Jackson (1h10m23s - 1h 30m57s dur: 20m34s) "What's the Big Idea" Commentary; Bob Gibson on Substitution (1h31m10s - 1h37m09s dur: 5m59s) | 11/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36:5 Education 2010 | The Annual Education issue Introduction (20s-1m24s dur 1m04s) Editorial Overview with Associate Editor Fraser Los (1m28s-8m59s dur: 7m30s) Kate Davies on Sustainable Literacy and the need to revamping our education system to move away from vocational training to environmental awareness (9m36s-31m50s dur: 22m44s) | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36:4 Out of this world 2010 | Intro Editorial Overview (1m11 - 13m06 dur: 11m54) "Where in the World is Don Gamble?" How a missing environmental consultant found himself. (13m00 - 33m41 dur. 20m40) "Mr. Gorgolewski, Tear down that wall (and reuse it)" When 35% of our waste stream is demolition waste, it's time to rethink our building practices. (33m58 - 52m23 dur 18m25) "Reading the tree leaves." The best weather forecasting in Kenya is not about bits and bytes and satellite imagery, but rather bugs, reptiles, plants and bubbles. (52m39 - 1h13m47 dur 21m08) | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special edition: A conversation with Janine Benyus author of BioMimicry | Best-selling natural sciences writer Janine Benyus is also an excellent and engaging speaker. We recorded her in conversation with Nicola Ross at the Sustainability Network in June 2010. | 6/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Margaret Atwood: A feature interview | Her face is smiling out from the cover of the Books 2010 issue of Alternatives Journal and between the covers Trent University environmental resource studies prof Stephan Bocking examines the power of story telling in Atwood's latest novel "The Year of the Flood" (along with Douglas Coupland's "Generation A") And so when Alternatives Journal was nominated for an Utne Reader environmental Journalism award and Nicola Ross found herself in Washington D.C. at the same time as Atwood, she was thrilled to be granted an interview. And, as you will hear, she made the most of it. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36:3c Wade Davis on The Wayfinder | Wade Davis is a noted anthropologist and was the 2009 Massey Lecturer. From that series of lectures was born his latest book "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World" | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36:3 "Green" Books 2010 | Introduction (0m22s - 2m44s dur. 2m22s) Editorial Overview and "Slow Death by Rubber Duck" (2m50s - 13m36s dur. 10m46) "What Should Harper Read" (13m45s - 23m06s dur. 9m20s) Stephen Bocking on Environmental Fiction (23m18s - 39m15s dur. 15m56s) Trends in environmental books and recommended reads (39m21s - 51m07s dur. 11m45s) | 4/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36:3b "the War in the Country" | Thomas Pawlick's new book "the War in the Country: How the Fight to save Rural Life will shape our Future" is a rip snorting, page turner filled with intrigue, violence, deception, and greed. (And you thought environmental non-fiction was dry and boring. ) In it Pawlick recounts, with evident dismay, the deterioration of rural life, of the difficulties facing small land owners, of the dangers of industrial agriculture and the unfairness of heavy handed government bureaucracy. | 4/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean36:2 Building Resilience: Extra Bits (28m11s) | Andrew McMurry, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo writes in "the Rhetoric of Resilience" that "In a world that runs on persuasion, the green movement would be wise to re-examine its use of language". (1m05s - 21m06s dur: 20m05s) And in his second "What's the Big Idea" commentary, Alternatives Editorial Board member Robert Gibson takes aim at Simplicity. (21m14s - 27m29s, dur: 6m14s) | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Debate Special: "Will Ecology Dominate The 21st Century?" | In the 2009 New Ecology issue of Alternatives Journal, Thomas Homer Dixon, professor of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo, wrote that Ecology would replace Physics as the master science of the 21st Century. In that same issue Stephen Bocking of Trent University argued that Politics, not Ecology, was the real master science. To sort things out Alternatives Journal asked them to square off mano-a-mano in a panel discussion format. To provide balance, they invited former Alternatives editor, current Alternatives editorial board member and UW Environment and Resource Studies faculty member Robert Gibson to join the fray. They all came together on January 12, 2010 before a sold out house at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo. | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean36:2 Building Resilience: an Exclusive Feature Interview with Buzz Holling 44m20s) | Executive Editor Nicola Ross in conversation with the father of Resilience in Ecological thinking, Buzz Holling. | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special: "Mending Our Fuelish Ways" -- A radio play in five acts | University of Waterloo PhD student Kyrke Gaudreau interviewed five of Canada's leading environmental experts on the future of energy in Canada. The participants were these well known names: William Rees, Marc Jaccard, Robert Page, Ian Rowlands and Roydon Fraser. Conveniently he pieced together the hours of responses into a play format, titled "Mending Our Fuelish Ways". In December 2009, the staff at the Alternatives Journal offices gathered around two microphones to make the print piece come to life. | 1/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36:1 New Energy | Introduction 00 - 03m01s (dur: 3m01s) Editorial Overview: 02m54s - 09m00s (dur: 06m06s) "Mending Our Fuelish Ways" A Radio Play in Five Acts: 09m09s - 20m51s (dur: 11m41s) A Word From Our (Not-Really) Sponsor, Frog Pond Farm Winery: 20m51 - 25m55s (dur: 05m03s) Mark Winfield on Why Renewables Now (and not Nuclear): 25m25s - 59m56s (dur: 34m30s) Stephen Hill on getting the Public onside of your renewable energy project: 1h09 -- 1h15m35s (dur: 15m26s) Robert Gibson "What's the Big Idea -- Balance": 1h15m18s - 1h20m46s (dur: 05m28s) | 1/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special: An energy conservation panel discussion | Do you wonder why everyone doesn't use CF light bulbs? Does green energy's slow progress dumbfound you? Are you curious about why it's so difficult to get Canadians to adopt energy efficiency measures? To find out why, Alternatives Journal invited energy experts from government, academia, industry and science to join a panel discussion. Joining Alternatives Executive Editor Nicola Ross at the Sustainability Network in Toronto were: Peter Love, Ontario's first Chief Energy Conservation Officer, recently formed a consultancy firm to foster culture change as part of his commitment to advancing sustainability. Leonard Diplock, graduate of University of Oxford and University of Toronto, is currently the Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Direct Energy, Centrica North America. Stephen Hill teaches Environmental & Resource Studies at Trent University where he focuses on understanding policies and actions for preventing climate change. Sarah Thorne is a founding partner of Decision Partners and President of the company's Canadian entity, Thorne Butte, part of an international team of management professionals and scientists. | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35:6 Work - Part 1: Wayne Roberts | Wayne Roberts' article in this issue of Alternatives is titled "Eat this Recession" and in it he describes an inventive plan for pulling ourselves up by our own economic bootstraps. He says that if three million Canadians shifted $100 from buying imported food to buying local food, the economic impetus of all that local money sloshing around our economy would inevitably create the jobs we are so lacking. There are some wiggles -- like the 10% credit he's asking the government to kick in to cover the extra cost of local food. I visited Roberts hoping to find some weaknesses in his scheme. I came away instead having received a lesson in the true cost of imported foods, the potential for home and roof-top gardening, why winters in Canada not necessarily be written off for agriculture. | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35:6 Work - Part 2: Stephen Hazell, Sally Lerner and Mark Anielski | Sierra Club of Canada Executive Director Stephen Hazell says that despite government inaction, Canada's environmental job market is growing 60 per cent faster than employment in the overall economy. Universal social income, guaranteed annual income, basic income guarantee, citizen's income – call it what you will, Sally Lerner says that a no-stigma, no-strings-attached, baby-bonus-style guaranteed salary for all would revolutionize how we work. Ecological economist Mark Anielski asks, "If all the money in the world won't buy happiness, then why are we working so hard?" | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35:5 Your Town: Sustainable by Design | Editorial Overview Nina Bailey Dick on zoning and her Local Foods Buying Club Jennifer Taylor on Masdar City Ray Tomalty on SCP - Sustainable Community Planning | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Edition: The Bob Wiseman SoundFM Interview | Well-known musician Bob Wiseman entertained at Alternatives' celebratory launch of The New Ecology issue at the Princess Café on June 16/09. James Walker (The Road Dog Show) interviewed Wiseman at the SoundFM studio afterward. The engaging interview covers a lot of ground -- the music industry then, now, seeing "then" in the future. Bob tells why he's doing a vinyl relaunch of In Her Dream on the 25th anniversary of his first solo album (from back in the Blue Rodeo days). | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35:4 The New Ecology | Alternatives Journal issue 35:4 is entitled The New Ecology, and in this five-part podcast, we go deep with two contributors, short with one other, and have fun with the title term "Ecology" in another. | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35:3 Books from the Deep Green | In this podcast we speak with some of the book reviewers from the print edition. As Executive Editor Nicola Ross points out in her Editorial Overview, since the reviewers are often as interesting as the writers of the featured books, these interviews go way beyond a simple review. | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35:2 Biofuelling the Future - Part 4: Beyond Food vs. Fuel | Energy policy analyst and Alternatives Journal editorial board member Susan Holtz explains why, when it comes to Biofuels policy, Food versus Fuel is not as important a question as everyone seems to think. She also explains why we need a balance of biofuel solutions, even if ethanol is relatively inefficient. And she wraps up by explaining why policy analysts, the people who seem to have all the answers, are not frustrated when politicians often ignore them. | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35:2 Biofuelling the Future - Part 3: Better Biofuels | Imagine you have to buy gas for your car. At one station down the street, the sign offers "1.3 liters per $1". Another though is offering "5 liters per $1" Which would you choose? | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
