From the Ground Up

Amid the heat wave of June 2023, this is a repeat from the time of the weird weather of summer 2021. Tracey and Mark talk about the emotional reactions elicited by the climate emergency, and some ways to handle those emotions positively, learn from them and seek health for all of us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Religion and culture professor Chris Hrynkow talks with Dave about some of the themes of creation care and sustainability in the Hebrew scriptures and the Christian New Testament. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Published at the beginning of 2023, The End of this World presents a strong, clear and well-exampled case for "a coordinated movement" of Indigenous peoples, settler environmentalists, organised labour and many others as "the one thing that could bring us back from our current slide into climate collapse, colonial genocide and extreme inequality, and towards a better world where we live in balance...

Published at the beginning of 2023, The End of this World presents a strong, clear and well-exampled case for "a coordinated movement" of Indigenous peoples, settler environmentalists, organised labour and many others as "the one thing that could bring us back from our current slide into climate collapse, colonial genocide and extreme inequality, and towards a better world where we live in balance...

Julia Kyplain is based in Île à la Crosse, in the northeast of Saskatchewan. In this episode she talks with Mark about the wildfires directly and indirectly impacting communities in the north of the province, including her own. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 5th April 2023, the Royal Bank of Canada held its AGM in Saskatoon. On the agenda were a number of motions calling for an end to the bank's heavy financing of fossil fuel expansion; Indigenous leaders including We'tsue'ten chief Na'moks arrived with proxy votes to speak to and support those motions. In the event, however, the chair of the meeting shunted proxy voters into a side room connected...

Dave continues his conversation with local veteran environmental activist, Lynn Oliphant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave in conversation with local veteran (and veterinarian) environmental activist, Lynn Oliphant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some recent news, and then a repeat of our interview with Stephen Thomas of the David Suzuki Foundation on how a reliable nationwide Canadian renewables-only electricity grid would function. Stephen's report is available here (summary) and here (access to full report) Its partner report, giving Indigenous insights, is here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave, Gayvin and Mark discuss how humanism addresses our relationship with the environment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The role of Canada's big banks in driving the climate crisis through their investment and financing policies is becoming more apparent. In this episode, we look at a new report into fossil financing, and we repeat last week's interview with Evelyn Austin. Events mentioned: https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com/events/rbc-agm23-panel https://rbcrevealed.com/agm-2023/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

A quick report on the latest IPCC summary report and on the determination of Pacific states to address the climate crisis seriously. Then an interview with Evelyn Austin, executive director of Banking on a Better Future,on the hypocrisy of the big banks in talking sustainability but funding fossil expansion. The Royal Bank of Canada is holding its AGM in Saskatoon on April 5th. For details of an I...

Fearful of (and hostile to) the plans of the Canadian federal government for incremental improvements to climate and environmental performance, Scott Moe's provincial government in Saskatchewan has introduced legislation which proclaims the province's "exclusive" jurisdiction in certain areas of policy. In conversation with Mark, environmental and Indigenous rights lawyer Kaitlyn Harvey identifies...

Sandy Plett recently took on the new post of Climate Action Coordinator in Mennonite Church Canada. In conversation with Mark, she talks in this episode about her vision for the job and the role of the church in addressing the climate emergency. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we go back to the basics. Mark runs through some of the current scientific understanding of the climate crisis, to demonstrate why we should see it as an emergency that requires immediate action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.