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Henry Hawkins, Carol Hunsberger, John Wall, Robyn Penney, and Chris Mineau, some of the contributors to SPF over the past 4 years. It’s been four years already, and this morning we looked back on the past four years of memories, over 300 features, and all the people who have put in their hard work . . . → Read More: March 3, 2011: The 4th Anniversary Special This March SPFer Robyn Penney competed in the Eco-logical Green building competition held in Carleton’s Architecture Building. She was put on a team and competed with students from Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. Within two days the teams had to fully redesign the Science and Technology Museum and adapt it to a different location, just . . . → Read More: Robyn Penney’s CBC Radio One Interview This week we covered two western Canadian stories with environmental and social twists. Carol Hunsberger interviewed Greg Powell of ‘Alberta Acts on Climate Change’, a joint initiative of the University of Calgary and the Pembina Institute, on environmental citizenship and action on climate change in a province that often gets sneers on climate and . . . → Read More: November 12, 2009: Alberta Acts on Climate and the Future of the Spirit Bear In the news we often hear some debate over the use of public airwaves in Canada. But the situation is very different in some other countries. On this show John Wall interviewed Victoria Henderson, a PhD student from Queen’s University who is studying the fully privatized airwaves of Guatemala. Victoria’s research shows the downsides . . . → Read More: January 15, 2009: Airwaves And Brainwaves Is publicly funded research available to the public? On this show Dr. Harald Bauder from Ryerson University discussed the academic publishing industry with Carol Hunsberger. They talked about the challenges that come with a system where the distribution of knowledge is controlled by a few publishing companies, as well as some opportunities to make . . . → Read More: November 27, 2008: Academic Publishing 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 Matt Street brings us an interview about CKMS, a campus community radio station in Waterloo, Ontario that is facing an uncertain future. Students at the University of Waterloo voted to stop funding the station as of August 31st. Heather Majaury, the station manager, explains. Paul Martin interviews environmental author and lecturer Mike Nickerson about . . . → Read More: April 17, 2008: Earth Week |
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