From the Ground Up

Following statements from federal Natural Resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson indicating that a Just Transition Act is on its way, we dig into the archive and offer a genuinely from-the-ground-up approach that centres workers and communities. Our guest in the clips from March 2022 is Ana Guerra Marin, from Iron and Earth. And to those who open the podcast as soon as it arrives, Dydd gŵyl Dewi Sa...

Following on from last week's episode, Dave and Mark talk a bit about the signs of incipient fascism, then address corporate power in the light of a recent scientific paper showing that Exxon scientists knew very well the impacts of fossil fuel consumption on the climate - at a time when the corporation's senior management was publicly spreading doubt about climate science. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

At the time of the 80th anniversary of the execution of Mildred Harnack and other German opponents of nazism, Dave and Gayvin look at some ways in which analysis of what went wrong in 1930s Germany fed new philosophical and activist thought that in turn fed into the modern environmental movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the time of broadcast there is much talk - and significant offers of government finance - for CCUS (carbon capture use and storage) and hydrogen production. In conversation with Mark, Julia Levin of Environmental Defence identifies the few areas in which those technologies can be appropriate and explains why the current hype - and finance - presents a major threat to the prospect of an effectiv...

Following last week's interview about Ontario with Angela Bischoff, Mark turns to the plans for Saskatchewan - going in a similar gas+nuclear direction. He points to the inadequacy of nuclear as a climate policy, and argues instead for a renewables-based grid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every year the Saskatchewan Environmental Society and the Saskatoon public libraries collaborate to host a series of talks on environmental and climate concerns. This is the schedule for January to May of 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In conversation with Dave, Angela Bischoff, from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, about the history and present situation of the nuclear industry in Ontario. Increasingly, the nuclear industry seeks to present itself as a climate solution, Angela puts the opposing case: nuclear power not only presents significant dangers, but it is incapable of helping meet 2030 emissions reduction targets, it is t...

Jenalene Anthony runs a design studio in rural Saskatchewan, working with science-based organisations to achieve positive change. Following a painful experience at work, she discovered serious gaps in provincial occupational health and safety legislation, and worked tirelessly to fill them when the legislation came up for review. As a result, contract workers now have the same protection as employ...

Some things to watch for in 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every year the Saskatchewan Environmental Society and the Saskatoon public libraries collaborate to host a series of talks on environmental and climate concerns. This is the schedule for January to May of 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin Fisher has been one of the team of hosts on From the Ground Up since its beginnings in 2016. As he moves on to other things - in particular his PhD research on the history of energy policy in Saskatchewan - we learn about some of the things he is finding out about the debate in the 1970s, and talk about similarities, differences and possible lessons for today. Breaking with our previous tra...

To mark the winter solstice, Dave reads a selection of his sonnets celebrating the earth and visions of a better, fairer world. With commentary from Gayvin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following our before-the-event conversations in episodes 253 to 255 anticipating issues at COP27, and the comments of international delegates in episode 258, Mark asks Yusra about her experience of the annual UN climate conference. Getting better on diversity, some progress on loss and damage, not so good on recognising the role of fossil fuels in the crisis, nor on actual progress towards keeping...

Kairos Canada enabled several delegates from global-south countries to attend the recent COP27 climate conference in Sharm-al-Sheikh. Here we hear some of their experiences and their thoughts. A fuller set of interviews with Kairos delegates is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_-Tt-qsuos or at https://www. kairoscanada.org/what-we-do/ecological-justice/kairos-for-the-love-of-creation-...

Steep Hill cooperative has been selling ethical and environmentally responsible foods and household products for over 40 years in Saskatoon. Dave talks to Karen and Adam about the vision and the practice of running the store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin looks through the archives documenting vital advances in low-energy building design in the 1970s in Saskatchewan - which had a major influence on some of the best thinking in the field internationally today. And then, as COP27 continues in Egypt, some reflection from last year's COP26. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In advance of Yusra's attendance as a youth delegate with For the Love of Creation at the COP27 climate conference, Yusra and Mark discuss some of the conference agenda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yusra and Mark talk about the emotions aroused by the climate emergency, and some of the signs of hope that can keep us positive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yusra talks with Mark about her deep concern to build environmental justice worldwide, and her forthcoming attendance at the COP27 UN climate conference in Egypt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prof Chris Hrynkow talks to Dave about the ecological theology and practice of 12th century mystic and community organiser St Francis of Assisi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin chats a bit about being nearly 50 years out from the 1970s Energy Crisis and then shares a conversation with Laura Stewart about her father Don's work on alternative energy technologies in that era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For our 250th episode, we look at some of the things that have changed and the things we have talked about over the last six years; and we look forward with recently-arrived CJS organisers Mackenzie and Jory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin chats with Sarah Mohammed, an organizer with Food Not Bombs Saskatoon, about the group's work, the mutual aid model, and building community in the city around solidarity. This follows a conversation between Justin and Sarah about The Stand Community Organizing Centre and supporting grassroots organizing in Saskatoon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin chats with Sarah Mohammed, Solidarity Coordinator at the Stand Community Organizing Centre, about The Stand's work and supporting grassroots organizing in Saskatoon. Justin and Sarah pick up this conversation in the next episode to focus on the work of Food Not Bombs Saskatoon, a local grassroots group that Sarah organizes with, to get a sense of what that type of organizing can look like o...

Mark Stanley is in conversation with Dave about Quakerism and the call within this nearly 400-year-old nonviolent spiritual movement to care for the earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.