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December 1st is World AIDS Day and in this show we discussed issues and initiatives related to HIV/AIDS both far and near. Our first interview was with May Chazan, a Carleton PhD student and researcher with the Health Economic and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. May talked about . . . → Read More: November 26, 2009: World AIDS Day In honour of fathers day John Wall started the show off with a discussion on how he and his partner work together to integrate the environmental concepts into raising a child. John spoke of a number of useful tool and resources available to young fathers (and mothers) and gave a few words of wisdom . . . → Read More: June 25, 2009: Growing Up – Environment and Education This week we went back to the future to look at the idea of fuel from garbage. Carol Hunsberger gives an interview from Kenya, where biogas offers the possibility of sustainable energy. Brittany Boychuk takes another look at gardening in this week’s Green Routine. This week’s show focused on health in Africa, including an interview by Carol Hunsberger in Nairobi with Fredrick Ouko, the executive director of the Kenya Disabled Action Network. You can hear his thoughts on the successes and challenges of trying to change people’s views in a country where the stigma against disability is still . . . → Read More: April 2, 2009: Health In Africa In this week’s show Matt Street brings us an interview with CRAFT, a network of Ontario farmers which facilitates internships for young people interested in learning and doing organic agriculture. Carol Hunsberger reports from Nairobi on a United Nations Environment Programme summit looking at how economic stimulus packages around the world could be used . . . → Read More: February 19, 2009: Farming In Ontario And Green Stimulus The first of our funding drive shows brought in $320 in pledges. Thanks to everyone who donated to keep CKCU running for another year! Matt Street reported on another fundraising effort: a pumpkin carving contest in Ottawa that raised money for low-income Kenyan children to attend secondary school through the Canada Mathare Education Trust. . . . → Read More: October 30, 2008 – Funding Drive I In June 2007, the Ontario provincial government pledged to accept all 32 recommendations made by a special working group on environmental education. New SPF contributor Bryan Grimwood discussed the implementation of the Bondar report on environmental education with Grant Linney, past president of the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario. Then, Digory McGinn and . . . → Read More: October 9, 2008 – Action-based education Election fever has come to Canada and Professor Jonathan Malloy of Carleton University’s Department of Political Science joined us to examine some of the issues facing Canada’s political parties and voters in the early days of Election 2008. In the second half of the show Carol Hunsberger shared some results of her recent research . . . → Read More: September 11, 2008 – Election 2008 & Tana River Delta On this show we went for a walk in the woods – but instead of deer and porcupines, we came across monkeys and parrots. Carol Hunsberger sent a report from the Kakamega Forest in western Kenya, where a group of youth volunteers is coming up with all kinds of creative ways to protect the . . . → Read More: August 21, 2008: Kakamega Forest On August 7, 1998, the US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were bombed in a coordinated attack by Al-Qaeda. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands injured, most of them Africans. Looking back 10 years later, some see these bombings as a warning of terrorist acts to come – a warning that . . . → Read More: August 7, 2008: Bomb Blast Memorial |
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