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Liz Marshall and Maude Barlow at the screening of Water On The Table at the Mayfair. A couple of weeks ago, The Mayfair put on a special screening of Water on the Table, a film about the worldwide fight for recognizing water as an essential human right, and not a commodity to be bought . . . → Read More: July 1, 2010: Maude Barlow Q&A at the Mayfair This week on the show we heard from our friends at Ontario Waterkeeper, and an episode from their podcast series entitled ‘Living at the Barricades’. This episode was called Environmental Prosecutions, and looked at the cases against Syncrude in the Alberta Oil Sands in their contamination of local wildlife and waterways. Our thanks to . . . → Read More: June 3, 2010: The Waterkeeper Special: Environmental Prosecutions Today on the show Carol Hunsberger spoke with Ilaria Giglioli about water vulnerability. Ilaria recently finished a Master’s degree in Geography at the University of Toronto, where she studied the different political approaches and priorities that have influenced water management in the West Bank. Carol had a chance to catch up with her while . . . → Read More: March 11, 2010: Water in the West Bank & Green Buildings This morning Henry talked with Edward Lai, Professor of Analytical Chemistry here at Carleton University. Along with Banu Ormeci, he has been working on a technology to purify water of estrogenic compounds, otherwise known as female sex hormones. These compounds are found in water supplies, and are not filtered out in the traditional processes. . . . → Read More: February 25, 2010: Water Purification and Michael Runtz In our first interview, we heard from Jeremy Schmidt at the University of Western Ontario. He’s co-edited a book called “Water Ethics”, which examines and critiques a series of moral frameworks that different cultures and societies have used to approach water and address water issues. Carol Hunsberger spoke with him earlier this week about . . . → Read More: February 11, 2010: Water This week we connected with our friends at the Ontario Waterkeeper to share their ‘Living at the Barricades’ podcast called “Big Pipe, Big Headaches”. A half billion dollar sewage pipeline is underway that will deposit 95% of York Region’s waste in Durham Region. What could possibly go wrong with a plan like that? Quite . . . → Read More: January 14, 2010: Waterkeeper Special – The Big Pipe This week Matt speaks with George Yap of the Sanitation and Water Action Network about an unusual “toilet seat protest” on Parliament Hill. Brittany Boychuk brings us an exciting and water saving tip in the Green Routine called “Shower with Love”… Matt Street continues his look into alternative agriculture in Ontario in an interview with John Vanden Heuvel from World Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming (WWOOF) Canada and a discussion of opportunities for interns who want to learn about organic agriculture by working on organic farms. John Wall brings us an interview with Abner Lico . . . → Read More: February 26, 2009: Farming in Ontario Part 2 and Project Blue “Only tap water delivers.” What does this mean? Matt Street went inside the annual conference of the Ontario Water Works Association to find out. He prepared this report on how the OWWA and several other organizations are working together to deliver safe, clean drinking water in Ontario. With the international media now focused on Zimbabwe and its elections, we don’t hear much about Kenya anymore. But only a few months ago, disputed election outcomes triggered a major crisis in Kenya from which the country is now trying to emerge. Carol Hunsberger asked David John Bwakali, a Nairobi journalist, for his thoughts . . . → Read More: April 3, 2008: Waves Of Change |
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