Green Majority Radio

Mass climate movements are growing quickly around the world and are gaining pluck as they grow in volume. We begin with a look at the Biosphere, North America’s one and only environment and climate change museum, and its potential as an international hub for climate innovation. We then talk about the urgency of three major new movements: Extinction Rebellion, Sunrise and the Fridays For Future school strikes, and finish with an interview with Stuart Basden, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.

White nationalism and white supremacy are on the rise worldwide. We look at the link between the alt-right and their chosen spokespeople, anti-environmentalism, the climate denial machine and international and Canadian politics.

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Starting again with the continuing disaster of Cyclone Idai and its implicate global justice issues, we analyze the environmental movement from a social justice lens, then turning to the oil industry and our increasingly monopolized food systems. We end with an interview with Aube Giroux, the documentarian behind the new film, Modified.

Climate refugees are many, and are only increasing in number. We talk about Cyclone Idai, Trump, underwater wildfires, microplastics, oil spills and miraculous birds.

We begin with a lengthy presentation of the ideological and historical thrust behind the Green New Deal, moving into a discussion of the importance of the surprising new momentum in youth climate activism, carbon taxes and renewable electricity in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta. We end with a very revealing clip from a Wells Fargo executive explaining why they invested in a bad pipeline, and Saryn’s idea for an app that helps us reduce food waste.

We talk about the ‘green economy’ and the discrepancy between material goods and financial assets. We also sit down with documentarian Diana Dai to discuss her new film My Farmland being released March 15th through the CBC, exploring ‘how communities react to the influx of people from a different culture who hope for a better life by working the land’. In the final segment, we run through eight stories at a blistering pace.

We speak with none other than the Sustainable Economist himself, Mr. Tim Nash, regarding exciting new developments in ethical investment. We also discuss new surges in youth climate activism.

We discuss the ongoing Indigenous resistance to the LNG pipeline through Northern BC, the end of coal, and many other promising and/ or disturbing climate-related developments.

We sit down with seven climate innovators to discuss policy solutions and cultural change. Featured on the show are folks from Project Neutral, Climate Ventures, Point A, Feedback, The Spent Goods Company, Fresh Fashion Library, and Unwrapit.

Ian McAllister, executive director of Pacific Wild, joins us along with visual communications director Deirdre Leowinata to discuss Ian’s stunning new documentary, Great Bear Rainforest: Land of the Spirit Bear. We also talk about sustainable fishing initiatives in Canada and Indonesia and the difficulty of environmental regulation in a country whose resource industries hold so much power.