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Low Carbon Futures

Low Carbon Futures

Will global capitalism eventually wean itself off fossil fuels? Can wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable energy sources generate enough joules to drive permanent economic growth? Should carbon emissions be taxed?

Peace Through Basketball

Peace Through Basketball

A year-round program of bi-communal basketball games helps Greek and Turkish Cypriot teens shed stereotypes and make friends while modeling coexistence on a divided island.

Waterfront Renewal

Waterfront Renewal

It’s not a new or unique story. The factories in a blue-collar industrial town grow silent and the character of the city surrounding them is transformed.

Unifaith

Unifaith

When the early organizers of a union for United Church ministers approached the Canadian Autoworkers in 2004, they had no idea that they were creating a whole new way for workers to organize.

Change

Change

Things constantly change. Everyone knows it. Steady, sometimes sudden change provides contour to individual human lives. Now, it seems humans have changed planet Earth like it’s never been changed before.

Fast Forward

Fast Forward

Welcome to Fast Forward: Stories of Challenge & Change — a brand new series of the Green Planet Monitor’s about life on Earth. Join us over the next four months. Listen, Read, Watch.

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Fundy Baykeepers

Fundy Baykeepers

The Bay of Fundy, on the north shore of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, is one of Earth’s great wonders. Listen to Matt Abbott, a Fundy Baykeeper.

Watershed Sentinel

Watershed Sentinel

In need of a hard-hitting enviro news fix? BC-based publication The Watershed Sentinel is your go-to source for cutting edge green news and trenchant analysis — from British Columbia and beyond.

Nashwaak River

Nashwaak River

Follow a group of naturalists up New Brunswick’s Nashwaak River, from its mouth, across from the provincial legislature in Saint John, to its headwaters a hundred and fifty kilometers north, near a proposed tungsten-molybdenum mine.

Fracking

Fracking

In the summer of 2014, several hundred people gathered at a fracking “Day of Protest” in Kent County, between Moncton and Miramichi — Elsipogtog First Nations territory.

Twentieth Transmission

Twentieth Transmission

For all the damage they’ve inflicted on their one and only home, many human beings reflect on where they’ve gone wrong, and the major changes they’ll have to embrace in order to survive. Here are a few voices we’ve managed to capture.

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Naming Crimes

Naming Crimes

Israel-USA’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its 21st month. The most influential Western states wring their hands and mouth empty words about peace, while continuing to sell weapons to Israel. And they refuse to name Israel’s crimes. British legal scholar Penny Green talks about this, and about an innovative Israel combat aim: creating a population of disabled people.

Crippling Those Who Survive

Crippling Those Who Survive

Israel-USA’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its 21st month. The most influential Western states wring their hands, mouth empty words about peace, and continue to sell weapons to Israel. At a People’s Tribunal, late last month, a pair of doctors described what they witnessed at Gaza’s hospitals — all but destroyed by US, German and British bombs, missiles, and tank rounds — and a British legal scholar shines a light on an innovative Israel combat aim: creating a population of disabling people.

Sex Is Complex

Sex Is Complex

Transgender rights versus  women’s rights, and last week’s landmark British Supreme Court ruling on what the words “woman” and “sex” mean. The GPM speaks with Canadian human rights lawyer Robert Wintemute, author of a soon-to-be-released book entitled “Transgender Rights vs. Women’s Rights: From Conflicts to Coexistence.”