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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Saskatchewan’s Prairie School for Union Women has been building personal and leadership skills, and solidarity among women workers, for sixteen years.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.”
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The rule of law, the end of law, lawyering, and Dimitri Lascaris. Another conversation with Dimitri Lascaris.
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Self-amplifying cascades on planet Earth – some negative, some positive. A conversation with complexity theorist Thomas Homer-Dixon. And, Earth systems can tip, cascading off in dangerous directions. Some already are. A conversation with one of the authors of an international report on Earth tipping points.
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Gender-based Israeli violence, extermination and genocide in Gaza. A new report from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. A conversation about Israel’s war on Gaza with Middle East affairs commentator Mouin Rabbani. And, human rights abuse and corporate takeover in the United States. A conversation with one of the authors of another UN report.
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Montreal-based author and guerilla-style political provocateur Yves Engler talks about his recent arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Montreal’s Bordeaux Prison (something police originally tried to block him from doing), and what he’d rather talk about than his five days and four nights of forcible confinement. And, another Canadian’s account of the funeral of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, brutally assassinated by apartheid Israel. Another conversation with Dimitri Lascaris
For an eyewitness account of the February 23 funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, Israel’s low-altitude flyovers (more than one), and the situation currently facing fellow Canadian activist Yves Engler, the GPM turned to Dimitri Lascaris. Lascaris is a Canadian lawyer, social justice advocate, and journalist.
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