Green Majority Radio

We talk about COP25, a Canadian Green New Deal, India, climate litigation, greenwashing and Christmas.

We discuss Canada’s climate commitments both federal and provincial, the piles of cash ripe for investment in the Green New Deal, and the consumerist ideology that paralyses public power. We’re joined by the National Observer’s Emma McIntosh and The Logic’s Famita Sayed .

We outline the contemporary role of citizens’ assemblies in widening democracy and their potential for addressing the climate crisis. We then look at Jane McAlevey’s ideas about organizing, a scientific warning about tipping points and two new developments in green tech.

We discuss the mistaken platitudes of certain environmental commentators, the UN emissions gap report, the impacts of displacement, Doug Ford, protests, the divestment movement and Iron + Earth.

We talk about fossil fuel divestment, carbon pricing, Canada’s new environment minister, offshore wind, renewable energy, pipelines and coal.

We discuss a hopeful vision of a community-centred eco-transformation, talk with Erika Reyes of WiseBird and briefly think about Jeremy Corbyn’s environmental plan.

We talk about worldwide unrest, COP25 and CBC Kids News. Kim D’Oliveira joins us in the second segment to discuss various attempts towards a circular economy.

Tim Nash joins us to talk about elections, youth protests, climate lawsuits and the Exxon trial.

We talk about the Canadian election outcome, environmental justice, the biggest polluters and Californian utilities. We end by interviewing documentary writer-director Roberto Verdecchia on his new film about fear.

We talk about the worldwide Extinction Rebellion protests and their impact on media, politics and public perception. We then discuss Sandy Garossino’s exacting analysis of the claims behind Jason Kenney’s conspiracist rhetoric around environmentalists and the oil sands.

We end with the relationship between integrity and pragmatism in the modern environmental movement, beginning with a discussion about a new fossil discovery with evolutionary biologist Maydianne Andrade and film director Andrew Gregg, moving into a look at the precautionary blackouts in California and the Canadian federal leaders’ debate.

We outline and discuss the climate plans of Canada’s four major parties, as well as Toronto’s climate emergency victory, CAPP’s data collection intentions and the 100 climate debates that recently took place across the country. Lauren Latour is in-studio this week along with Fatima Syed and Emma McIntosh of the National Observer.

We document sounds, voices, concerns and victories from various climate actions and events, September 23-27.

The global climate strike looms, old naysayers naysay and paranoid politicians cling to conspiracy rhetoric. This is the late-game beginning of our transformation.

We discuss the utility of despair and how we might imagine a new inclusivity. In the middle segment we interview environmental policy analyst Gideon Forman about how he frames the climate crisis in his talks with university students.

We talk the Global Climate Strike, Extinction Rebellion, Justin Trudeau, and coal.

This week we talk about the Amazon, Bolsonaro and the climate proposals of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang.

An interview with outgoing Executive Director of Cycle Toronto Jared Kolb. We discuss what he’s learned about activism in the nine years of leading and growing the organization, and how board games fit into it all. Learn more at www.greenmajority.ca

We need to watch carefully how environmental rhetoric can turn authoritarian. This week we talk about climate change, eco-fascism, food security, environmental justice, the tar sands, and a whole bunch of energy utility stories. Learn more at www.greenmajority.ca

We talk about government-incited violence, climate, and the plastics industry. In our final segment we speak with Reverend Dr. Cheri DiNovo about mobilizing interfaith communities to combat climate change.