Thanks to Mili of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and Angela of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance for the interview just now about the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign, a broad-based campaign in Ontario pushing for action on the climate crisis. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in August!
Thank-you to Sean Holman for the interview just now about the Climate Disaster Project and its work with climate disaster survivors to share their stories, build community, and create change. Listen for it in a couple of weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
A wide ranging work of nonfiction drawing out the connections between the climate crisis and colonialism. Though I had not previously heard of him, the author is a well-known novelist and essayist, and while this book is intellectually substantive enough to be a work of scholarship, it has very clearly been written by a *writer* …
Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson are teachers in British Columbia. As such, they are both members of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), and they have recently been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. Scott Neigh interview them about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their success in …
Thanks to British Columbia teachers Kim and Jillian of BCTF Divest Now for the interview just now about the campaign to push the BC Teachers Federation pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries! Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks.
Jesse Cardinal is a Métis woman who lives in Treaty 6 territory and is the executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous organization with a mission of protecting the water in the Arctic drainage basin. Scott Neigh interviews her about the threat posed by the Alberta tar sands and other resource extraction, and …
Robert Janes has worked in and around museums for more than 45 years, including as a chief curator and museum director, and he is the founder of the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. Scott Neigh interviews him about the climate crisis, about the role he envisions museums playing in responding to it, and about …
Thank-you to Robert Janes of Museums for Climate Justice for the interview just now. We talked about the organization’s work to get museums in Canada to take up their responsibilities when it comes to responding to the climate crisis. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Luisa Da Silva is a geoscientist who has worked in the fossil fuel industry in Alberta and in mining. She is currently the executive director of an organization called Iron and Earth, which according to their website is “a worker-led not-for-profit with a mission to empower fossil fuel industry and Indigenous workers to build and …
Second interview of the day! Tonight I talked with Luisa and Stephen of Iron & Earth about organizing fossil fuel workers in support of renewable energy and about their new *Prosperous Transition Plan*. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!