The Green Planet Monitor is created by Earth Chronicle Productions, a Winnipeg-based production company specializing in global environment and development issues. Past radio/audio series include The Peace and Conflict Radio Project, The Earth Chronicles, More Than Just a Dozen, Children of th Earth, ClimateWatch and Partners in Action.
ECP founder Dave Kattenburg has been creating documentaries since 1986. He has reported for CBC Radio and Radio Netherlands from the Marshall Islands, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. He spent four months in Rwanda, as a Knight International Press Fellow.
This is a picture of Dave’s favourite audio recording device — a circa 1967 Nagra III.
Green Planet Monitor contributing producers:
Michelle Betz, a native of Calgary, taught broadcast journalism at the University of Central Florida and launched/advised the award-winning student-run radio station WNSC (now WGKN). In 2002, Betz was awarded the Excellence in Journalism Education Fellowship by RTNDF and in 2003 was awarded a Knight International Press Fellowship, spending four months working in Rwanda. Betz was awarded a second Knight International Press Fellowship and spent 5 months in 2005 training journalists in both Morocco and Algeria. Michelle specializes in the role of the media in international conflict and conflict resolution. She is currently based in Cairo.
Victoria Fenner is a radio producer and environmental sound artist currently living in Hamilton, Ontario. She has over twenty years experience as a producer, journalist, documentarian, and technician and has worked for the CBC, community radio stations in Canada and the US, and as a lecturer and mentor. She has also produced a number of syndicated radio series, including several in partnership with Earth Chronicle Productions. In addition to her work in programming, Victoria organizes and teaches training workshops in radio skills and sound art.
Janna Graham is an independent radio producer based in Montreal, PQ. She has covered stories in Central America and Rwanda for The Green Planet Monitor. Her documentaries have also appeared on CBC Radio Maritime Magazine, Outfront and NPR Marketplace.
Jen Moore is a Quito-based radio producer. Her sizeable portfolio includes stories for CBC Radio’s Dispatches program.
The Green Planet Monitor website has been created by Sean Yeomans and Brian Hydesmith. Yeomans specializes in providing CMS driven website with the goal of using best-practice web standards at heart. Hydesmith is a graphic designer with a background in photography and editorial work. Hydesmith Communications does a wide range of work from web sites to book design to print to signage and likes to work with clients who do good work on worthwhile projects, like Earth Chronicle Productions.
The Green Planet Monitor — Smart Solutions for a Developing World — wishes to thank its sponsors: the Mass Media Initiative of the Canadian International Development Agency and the Social Justice Fund of the Canadian Autoworkers Union.
