Canada's Environmental Voice
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 […]
Introduction (20.82s – 02m01.54 / dur 1m40.72) Editorial Overview (02m07 – 20m36,882 / dur: 18m29.37) Nina Bailey Dick on how outdated (in her opinion) zoning rules almost shut down her Local Foods Buying Club (20m50s – 46m16s / dur. 25m26s) Jennifer Taylor on Masdar City, a planned model city of […]
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" […]
We don’t often compare a city with a beehive. According to Marilyn Hamilton, however, perhaps we should. In her book Integral City, Hamilton presents a radical new framework that can be used to design and regenerate the spaces in which we live. Her approach involves a view of city planning […]
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.
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. Intro 0m21 […]
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. […]
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? Well, with Bill C-33 it appears the Government of Canada has opted for the former, the Less […]
