Green Majority Radio

This episode features Eric Beynon: President of Sustainable Growth Co. and one of the principal architects of the recently launch $20M Carbon XPRIZE competition. The Carbon XPRIZE is an attempt to engage innovators, designers and engineers of all types from all over the world to close the loop on carbon by creating technology and then hopefully a market for carbon (removed from the atmosphere or distilled out of fuel sources) to be used in physical objects and products. Examples might include things like concrete to both create a market for carbon as an input as well as incentivize carbon removal technologies by providing a profitable use for the results of the process. A game changer? Who knows just yet, but the possibilities are worth considering and something it would be foolish to ignore in a world drowning in carbon it doesn't want (in the air anyways). This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/477-the-so

First up, Kevin Caners host of The Elephant podcast based out of the UK joins us by phone to talk about his show and the evolving roles of alternative VS mainstream media. Next up, Jay Wall joins us to discuss the new Canadian Cabinet, particularly both the inclusion of a new Climate minister and the exclusion of former Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair. Finally, Stefan and Emmay help us discuss the new release of the full text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the massive fires raging still in Indonesia, that could be the not only the greatest indication of climate change effects being here already but potentially the worst ecological disaster of the century. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/476-down-goes-keystone-xl/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Caitlin Colson wants everyone to take part in shaping their city, and there's a great chance to do that tomorrow at the YIMBY (yes in my backyard) festival in Toronto. Shape My City is a Toronto based (for now) organization that runs and facilitates on online platform and off-line events to help promote citizen engagement in their city. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/475-yes-in-my-backyard/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

It Takes Guts is a new documentary from CBC Doc channel following the unfolding story of gut microbes, particularly their role in obesity. Our diet does play a huge role in our health, but the way in which diet affects health isn't quite what we thought. Our first guests, Leora Eisen director for the It Takes Guts doc joins us live in studio to talk about the film. For the rest of the show, Stefan and (just back) Kevin discuss the hollow feeling victory of the red wave. It's not as bad as it could have been under the conservatives, but did we win? We will see... This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/474-this-takes-guts/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Amara Possian from leadNOW joins us to talk about votetogether.ca and their election campaigning. Sylvie Letourneau and Rob Shirkey from Our Horizon join host Daryn Caister on a roundtable about the most urgent #elxn42 developments. Don't miss this one! We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/473-vote-vote-vote/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Mark Bourrie, author of "Killing the Messenger: Harper's War On Your Right To Know" joins us for the first segment to talk about the way this government has attempted to shut out independent investigation and review of it's actions, it's war on science and information as well as it's attempt to control the media. Up next is Dr. Matthew Rimmer, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Dr Rimmer gives us a very important review of what we do, and do not know about the supposedly already done "trade" deal called the TPP. There's a lot of scary rumours out there about this secret deal, and Dr. Rimmer sets us straight. *MUST HEAR INTERVIEW* We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc v

Tony Turner is still unable to talk to the media, but Chris White gives us an update on the Harperman story (including that Tony has just retired) and a brief talk about the importance of the song, and the issues it raises in this election. In the second half of the show, long-time economics and green/ethical investment correspondent Tim Nash joins us today to talk about the election, Tesla/Tony Stark (Elon Musk) and the importance of battery technology to the renewable revolution. We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/471-ironman-vs-harperman/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Suhail Barot from TTC Riders joins us to talk about public transit both as an concept as well as specifically the TTC (Toronto Transit Comission) with reference to the upcoming election. In the second half, Alex Speers-Roesch from Greenpeace also joins the panel to discuss a wide variety of this weeks top news. As we approach the federal Canadian election the rhetoric is heating up. What's nonsense and whose saying it now? We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/470-transit-riders-for-life/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Stefan and Daryn discuss the LEAP Initiative started by Naomi Klein and others, partially to show our support for it but also to criticize the dismissive way in which it is being covered by the mainstream media. We also talk a bit about the "slow" movement, slow food, slow money slow everything? How do we slow down, and more importantly can we? In the final section of the show, we get super philosophical and talk about the meaning of life. No really :) We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/469-the-trapdoor/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Francis Scherer, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Policy for Blanclink joins us today to talk about the Blancride app and the sharing economy in general. In the middle section we talk about "The Epiphany" concept for movements when the ideology takes on a life of it's own and starts transforming culture and society of it's own weight, in other words the 'snowball' effect. We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/468-the-epiphany/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

This week Liam O'Doherty from Taking It Global joins the full program, we discuss a number of global and UN innitiatives preparing for worldwide collaboration on a number of social and environmental issues. It seems the worlds youth are done waiting for the politicians to work it out and are doing their best to improve the system and go around them when necessary. We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! http://www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/467-all-together-now/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Paul Dore and Pj Kwong, co-hosts and producers of the Open Kwong Dore Podcast join us this week for a break from our regular programming. Today we talked for the whole show about the role of storytelling and ethics in social movements. Paul and Pj help Daryn discuss an article about the failure of the occupy/protest movement, and much more about how stories and narrative shape our minds and by extension our world. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/466-walking-into-a-dore/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Andrew Davies is the Executive Director of the No. 9 Contemporary Art & the Environment which provides inspiration, leadership and logistics for environmental art projects, for both students and public installations around Toronto. Andrew joins us today to talk about No. 9, specifically their just finished Waters Edge instillation for the Pan-American Photography Exhibition, and the very successful Imagining My Sustainable City program for grade 7 and 8 kids in partnership with the Toronto District School Board. For the rest of the show, Stefan and Daryn discuss a variety of recent news stories, the ongoing election and start preparing for our upcoming interviews and stories on the critical, and potentially last chance for global action on climate change: COP 21 in Paris. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/465-eco-love-potion-no-9/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded:

Nicole Risse, Executive Director of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association starts the show with us to talk about Green Energy Doors Open. For the rest of the show, Stefan and Daryn discuss a range of top news stories including Obama's new Clean Energy Plan and the implications for Canada. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/464-green-energy-open-house/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Tom Manimanakis is the Managing Director of Ethos Assets, joining us this week to talk about the mind-boggling amount of lost opportunities that tend to get overlooked by large companies to recycle, donate and otherwise ethically deal with literally tons of waste. In the second half, we welcome Katie Krelove from Toronto 350 to help us dissect last nights #macdebate, potentially the only leaders debate will all four federal leaders. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/463-politics-of-waste-macdebate-edition/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Sonia Faruqi is the author of a new book Project Animal Farm about her journey into the world of food production. In the second half, we hear from green renovation experts Chris Phillips and Steven Gray from Greening Homes about how to save money and the environment with a green retrofit. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/462-project-animal-farm/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Our guest this week is Dr. Gordon Edwards, founder and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. Gordon has been on the program several times before to provide his expertise on this or that current nuclear issue in Canada, but we decided it was time to hear from him why he does what he does. So be more specific, we asked him how he came to be an anti-nuclear activist? This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/461-nuclear-ambitions/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

GreenPAC founder and president Aaron Freeman was kind enough to spend the entire show with us today talking about their efforts in helping to support candidates who are taking environmental concerns seriously. After the break, we plan an interview with a longtime environmental champion, and local politician NDP MPP Peter Tabuns from the Toronto-Danforth riding. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/460-water-and-oily-politics-dont-mix/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Josh Schlossberg is the editor of the Biomass Monitor, a page that follows the less understood news around Biomass Energy. Biomass Energy has largely been given a pass as "green" by environmentalists, but should it? Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry, Environmental Studies and the Department of Religious Studies. Mary Evelyn joins us to dig deeper into the contents and impact of Pope Francis' Encyclical. Finally Stefan read us a short piece he wrote inspired by the recent "Jobs, Justice Climate" rally that saw 10,000+ people flood downtown Toronto last weekend called "An Ode To Climate Trolls". This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/459-an-ode-to-climate-trolls/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Jonathan Silver wasn't content to just keep all the wonderful living architecture in Toronto to himself, so he's made a free map called "The Living Architecture Tour" so that others can enjoy this wonderful trend in building too. In the second half, Stefan and Daryn discuss some of the environmental platform announcement by Canadian political parties as the country gears up for what promises to be an exciting (and probably messy) federal election in Oct. This is a brief! For full listings and more info about this episode with links etc visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/458-living-architecture/ Please consider supporting us! - We are 100% Patreon member funded: www.patreon.com/greenmajority