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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry about Americans who are making extraordinary differences to lessen or eliminate our impact on the environment.

Rob McMonagle, senior energy consultant to the City of Toronto and former executive director of the Canadian Solar Industries Association is interviewed on this Clean Break podcast. Rob chats about Toronto's new climate plan and highlights some of the more interesting initiatives that are in the works.

Edie Lau, energy reporter at the Sacramento Bee, and Noah Horowitz, senior scientist from the Natural Resources Defense Council, join host Andrew Fanara to continue the discussion of increasing consumer electronics use in the home. Part 2 looks more closely at the impact of these devices on home energy bills and our environment.

Mark Sharp from the Panasonic Corporation of North America, and Noah Horowitz, senior scientist from the Natural Resources Defense Council. They discuss practical ways that consumers and businesses can reduce the increasing energy used by consumer electronics products.

In this podcast, Andrew Fanara from EPA's ENERGY STAR program talks with business analysts, technology reporters, electronics manufacturers and environmental experts about how energy use effects our environment and what solutions exist for consumers and businesses.

Yesterday we took a trip into Toronto to attend Strawberries and Asparagus, a green community gathering on the edge of Cedervale Park. The event was organized by Chris Chopik and Marc Paillé of EvolutionGreen.com

I had the opportunity to have a short discussion about the event, alternative power and conservation with Chris and Michael Bryant, the MPP for St Paul’s.

This is the second interview recorded at the the Green Living Show a couple of weeks back. In this interview I speak with Gideon Forman, C.A.P.E’s Executive Director about their work and how it relates to the pesticide debate currently underway in a number of municipalities across Canada.

This is the first of many interviews collected last week at the Green Living Show in Toronto.

In this interview I had an opportunity to discuss the carbon offset market with Bryce Conacher, the President of Clean Air Pass.

A lecture by NOW Magazine columnist Adria Vasil, who presents her views on the ins and outs of getting by in good health and good ecological conscience in this age of dodgy consumer products. A compilation of her weekly column is available in her recently published book, Ecoholic.

Political correspondent Danny Leskiw speaks with Gerry Sklavounos, parliamentary assistant to Québec Environment Minister Line Beauchamp, as well as John Bennett, Executive Director of ClimateForChange.ca. They discuss the stringent auto emissions standards proposed by Quebec and the challenges that stand in the way of their implementation.

Andrew Nisker, director of Garbage! The revolution starts at home, speaks with Host Jordan Poppenk about his film, family consumption habits and a new eco-friendly and community-friendly film distribution model.

Environmental pundit Kevin Farmer and host Jordan Poppenk declare 2007 to be “The Year of Buy-In” and discuss the ten most important environmental news stories of 2007:

We bring you the story of Donna Dillman, an activist with The Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium, who went 68 days without food to protest against a proposed mine uranium mine site on Shalbot Lake in Ontario prior to terminating her hunger strike yesterday. She has called for a stop to the proposal and is demanding an explanation from Dalton McGuinty about why the mine is necessary when most of the country’s uranium is exported.

Take 5 reporter and first-time correspondent for TGM Danny Leskiw speaks with Dr. Monica Campbell, Manager of the Environmental Protection Office of Toronto Public Health, about the health risks associated with smog.

Jordan Poppenk speaks with Wayne Grady, popular science writer and author of The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region, about trends in the great lakes.

Our guest backpack gourmet gives us an introduction to baking a cake with a homemade solar oven. Without fuel or fire, she bakes a delicious gingerbread cake. Find out how you can make these kind of fun foods yourself on your backcountry trips. She offers to tell us about a more packable solar oven in a future program.

Ms. Yaffe mentions the non-profit organization, Solar Cookers International, which she recommends as a source for appropriate cook pots and pans. Follow the supplemental information link below to get the complete recipe and pictures of her cooker and the cake.

Steve returns to visit the kitchen of backcountry cooking author Linda Frederick Yaffe. Ms. Yaffe is the author of the books Backpack Gourmet, Solar Cooking for Home and Camp, High Trail Cookery, and The Well Organized Camper.

Environmental author Bill McKibben spoke Saturday morning as part of the "Corporate Green" panel at the Society of Environmental Journalists Conference in Burington, Vermont.

Though he was flooded with people wanting to meet him afterwards, I managed to be on hand when Bill Blakemore, senior correspondent for ABC News, introduced himself and asked McKibben a few questions about climate change and where we're headed politically.

Listen to their 6-minute conversation here. One of my favorite quotes from McKibben, wondering about what has gone wrong with the media coverage of the issue: "It's not a complicated story at all. There's never been a simpler scientific story - burn gas, emit carbon dioxide, heat the atmosphere. That's it. It's not like you need to be a PhD to understand it. And in fact, 80% of Americans believe it's real and think it's happening and believe we should do something about it, and it's been that way for a long time."

DeSmogBlog's Richard Littlemore did this 7-minute interview with Rick Piltz, Founder and Director of Climate Science Watch, after the session "Global Warming: Reporting on What's Going to Be Changing in Your Backyard".

Podcasts from the Society of Environmental Journalists Conference

Global warming is not the first global environmental threat that humanity is facing. The thinning of the protective ozone layer caused by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) was the first global environmental threat. It led to a concerted global action to ban CFCs by the 1990s to correct the problem. This edition of the podcast considers what lessons can be learned from this environmental problem for dealing with global warming. It suggests that not applying the cautionary principle to the ozone thinning in the 1970s led to the emergence of the so called hole in the ozone layer.

In the second half of the podcast Dr Liza Piper of the University of Alberta explores how the settler societies in Arctic Canada are to a large extent influenced and determined by the climatic conditions during the last stages of the Little Ice Age.

Danny Leskiw speaks with Ontario Environment Commissioner Gord Miller about a report on his annual audit, released Tuesday.

Global warming tipping point, China’s pollution problem, Toyota Prius sales and Alan Greenspan comments.

Conversation about the energy requirements of the food we eat with Nigel Winter from the Vegan Society (UK).

Conversation about nuclear power with Dr. Paul Howarth from the Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester.

Dr. Ulf Bossel, organizer of the Lucerne Fuel Cell Forum, talks about the future of the hydrogen economy and the more efficient electron economy. Transcript available below.

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Meet Scott Sing, a radical bike commuter, who regularly pedals 60 miles a day to and from work. Then join Daniel Hinerfeld on his wimpy 3-mile bike commute, which is all downhill to work.

Meet Scott Sing, a radical bike commuter, who regularly pedals 60 miles a day to and from work. Then join Daniel Hinerfeld on his wimpy 3-mile bike commute, which is all downhill to work.

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Podcast of the AutoScoop radio program, broadcast every Saturday morning on selected CBS Radio stations. AutoScoop empowers people with the knowledge they need to make good car-buying decisions.

The FastLane blog is where you can come to read the latest, greatest musings of GM leaders on topics relevant to the company, the industry and the global economy

"Driving Green, The Highways of the Future.” Investors and consumers can follow host Dawn Van Zant, in the new environmental podcast that examines new technology, fuels and trends in the green transportation shift. Topics will cover public and private companies with alternative technology and fuels, research and trends, industry experts, as well as the information resources available to make educated decisions.

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