1. **** The Best of Sounds Like Canada November 22
When it comes to environmental footprints, many of us are like the ugly stepsisters in Cinderella – trying to pretend our feet are smaller than they really are. Find out how the eco-footprint concept can be applied in everyday life. Shelagh Rodgers talks to the man who invented the term “ecological footprint,” University of British Columbia professor William Rees.
mp3 audio runs: 22:29 (left-click to play, right-click to download for later listening)
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2. **** James Howard Kunstler at the Commonwealth Club of California
Outspoken author James Howard Kunstler, in his own inimitable way, relates his views on urban design, peak oil, and social values in general. Worth listening to!
Complete lecture runs: 1:05:25
See also: www.kunstler.com
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3. **** Quirks and Quarks: Our Future in a Changing Climate
Rapidly disappearing polar ice, melting permafrost, extreme weather events, raging forest fires, changing landscapes - the recent news on climate change has not been good. And some scientists say it will get much worse before it can get better. But what does it mean for Canada?
In this special full-edition report, Quirks & Quarks looks at Canada in the year 2050, and tries to imagine what effect climate change will have on our land, its people, its animals and plants, its biodiversity and its weather patterns.
Complete program runs: 54:27 (left-click to play, right-click to download for later listening)
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4. **** Interview with Nicholas Stern: Time to Pay for the Damage
Climate change is not only an environmental disaster but, according to leading economist Nicholas Stern, author of "The Economics of Climate Change", it's the "world's worst marketing failure."
Radio Netherlands interview
See also: Website article
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5. **** Dr. Jim Harding - Uranium: Anything but Clean and Green
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Dr. Jim Harding presented a talk entitled "Uranium: Anything but Clean and Green." The event was co-sponsored by the Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee and Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. Dr. Harding is the author of the recently published book Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan uranium and the Global Nuclear System and is on a speaking tour highlighting the threats to environmental and human health posed by the nuclear fuel cycle.
With Faye More (Chair, Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee; Katie Tucker, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper; Dr. Jim Harding)
Dr. Jim Harding Talk runs about 1:10

1. **** View Professor James Lovelock’s "Climate Change on the Living Earth" public lecture at the Royal Society on October 29th, 2007. Highly recommended!
RealPlayer version
Windows Media Player version
runs: approx 1 hour
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2. *** Climate Chaos: A video on YouTube to promote the December 8th Global Day of Action in Toronto and around the world.
Climate Chaos video runs 2:15
Also visit: http://climatechaos.ca
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3. *** In Praise of Slow
Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef contemplates how everything in life is a matter of choice. But all too often we give up too much in the name of efficiency. Efficiency demands that more be achieved in less time. However, Max-Neef believes we should try to rediscover the virtues of slower living. As an example he reminds us that Cologne’s cathedral took 500 years to build and still stands. In his view, it provides a fitting reminder as to what can be achieved at a leisurely, ‘inefficient’ pace.
Watch the video at Big-Picture.tv runs 3:49
See also: Big Picture TV (Ecology section), The Slow Movement, Slow Food, Slow Society
Note that the Slow Movement had its genesis with the original Slow Food movement of Italy, and has spawned other 'slow' initiatives, such as Slow Travel, etc.
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4. **** Michael Pollan: Taking a Plant's Perspective
In this TED talk, Michael Pollan looks at the world from a plant's point of view and explains how it is possible to get what we humans want while making nature better. The last part about the Polyface farm is particularly interesting.
Michael Pollan video Runs about 18 minutes
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5. **** International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)report video.
The report of the first international Agriculture Assessment, approved last week by 54 governments in Johannesburg, is a sobering account of the failure of industrial farming. It calls for a fundamental change in the way we do farming, to better address soaring food prices, hunger, social inequities and environmental disasters.
IAASTD Report Runs about 5:56

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6. **** Uranium: Neither Clean Nor Green.
Presented in Port Hope on March 29th, 2008, this talk by Dr. Jim Harding covers much of the material in his book, Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan uranium and the global nuclear system. He makes frequent references to the particular situation in Port Hope. Produced by the Port Hope Health Concerns Committee and Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.
Uranium: Neither Clean Nor Green Runs about 1:17