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.

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"

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, […]

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)

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Introduction 00 – 03m01s (dur: 3m01s) Editorial Overview: 02m54s – 08m12s (dur: 05m17s) "Mending Our Fuelish Ways" A Radio Play in Five Acts: 08m21s – 20m02s (dur: 11m41s) A Word From Our (we wish) Sponsor, Frog Pond Farm Winery: 20m11 – 24m41s (dur: 05m03s) Mark Winfield on Why Renewables Now […]

Intro: 00m00 – 03m04 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. (03m05 – 24m06, dur, 21m) Universal social income, guaranteed annual income, basic income guarantee, citizen's income – […]

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 […]