Spaces, Places and Faces

Geography and Environmental Studies Radio on CKCU-FM, Ottawa, Ontario

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It’s a nice day for a Green Wedding

August 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This week’s show is all about the wedding bells and how to limit your environmental footprint if you are getting married.  In our first segment Matt Street spoke with Amalia Ward the VP of Operations with  Talen Events about how brides and grooms can reduce the impact of their wedding on the environment.   In the [...]

 
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Tags: Alternative energy · Climate · Conservation · Sustainable living

June 25, 2009 – Growing up – Environment and Education

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments

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 from [...]

 
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Tags: Africa · Education · Nature

March 19, 2009 – Water

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments

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”…

 
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Tags: Conservation · Sustainable living · Water

March 12, 2009

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Check out the inaugural edition of the Green Routine – a 2-minute weekly segment on how to save the planet – one habit at a time.

 
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Tags: Sustainable living

January 8, 2009 – Environmental music

January 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Protest music has a long history of contributing to social change movements. Richard Wallace from Ursinus College in Pennsylvania recently compiled a list of songs about climate change and other human impacts on the environment. He spoke with Carol Hunsberger about the links between pop culture, politics and environmental consciousness. Click here to download his [...]

 
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Tags: Music

September 11, 2008 – Election 2008 & Tana River Delta

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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 trip [...]

 
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Tags: Africa · Conservation · Politics