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New volunteer Emmay Mah hosts the show today and leads our veteran commenters Stefan Hostetter and Kevin Farmer in an analysis of what happened in 2015 in the eco-space and what we can and should be looking forward to in 2016.

The landscape has changed with regards to climate change, global trade agreements and the amount of cooperation at the global level. Is it enough? Are the changes in place sufficient? Just how hopeful is it smart to be at this point? What is left to be done? Emmay et al discusses this on this weeks show.

*The show file has been updated and is now complete.

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We review a bunch of general top 2015 news items (not just environmental stories) and have a general discussion about conclusions we can draw about where the world is going.

This review show is a very relaxed conversation about our world in 2015 and what we should be looking for in 2016.

A really fun, relaxed show we enjoyed making and hope you enjoy listening!

This is a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/483-2015-in-review/

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Kevin and Stefan talk to Andrew Mitrovica, a journalist from iPolitics.ca as well as 23 years experience in the mainstream media in Canada including the CBC’s fifth estate, CTV’s W5, CTV National News — where he was the network’s chief investigative producer — the Walrus magazine and the Globe and Mail, where he was a member of the newspaper’s investigative unit. Andrew has won numerous national and international awards for his investigative work.

Kevin and Andrew discuss the disconnect between the relative threat and coverage in the mainstream media between 'terror' and climate change. More people are killed by sharks than by terrorists each year, and climate change threatens to end human civilization and yet the coverage in the media is almost perfectly reversed from the actual danger. Why? Kevin and Andrew explore...

Also, Stefan and Kevin discuss the idea and role of 'hope' in social movements, with specific reference to the COP21 agreement that was just signed into not-law.

This is a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/482-selling-fear-instead-of-facts/

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Kevin Caners from the Elephant Podcast joins us live from Paris at COP21 for the final few hours of negotiation.

The hosts do a revisit of the supposed 'controversy' of Canadian eco-groups 'selling out' to join forces with big oil.

This is a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/481-alberta-confidential/

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We start with David Berliner from CoPower.me talking about a new way to get involved in the renewable energy market space in January. CoPower groups and simplifies investments in renewable energy, and efficiency upgrades all over the world into simple and easy to understand investment portfolio options so you could be providing startup capital to a geothermal plant half way around the world!

We also talk more about COP21, and the 'secret deal' as it's been initially reported between Alberta's premier, several large environment groups, Pembina and the heads of a select group of oil executives.

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Sam Gill is the CEO of ETindex (Environment Tracker) which helps investors avoid carbon risks in their portfolios, based out of the UK. Sam talks to us about the overall market trends of carbon and carbon reporting, reductions strategies as well as his thoughts about the impact for people and markets from the upcoming COP21 meetings in Paris.

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Michael Lavergne is the author of 'Fixing Fashion' which dives into the history and current day reality of the global multinational apparel companies. Michael speaks from his wealth of personal experience in this industry peppered with references to historical context to tell the full story of what's wrong with where we buy our clothes and the high-cost of cheap stuff.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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