Earthgauge Radio – July 24, 2018
A Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at www.ckcufm.com. Or join me here for the podcast.
On the show this week:
- A sustainable fashion innovator makes fiber from pineapple leaves
- An eco-friendly sneaker company reduces carbon output of shoes by 85 percent
- The Texas supreme court rules cities cannot ban plastic bags
- Starbucks becomes the largest food and beverage retailer to announce a plastic straw ban
- Typhoons floods and heatwaves batter Asia
- Trump administration announces sweeping proposal to weaken the Endangered Species Act
- Ottawa fails to secure new buyer for Trans Mountain pipeline by deadline
- Judge throws out New York climate lawsuit
- Glacier half the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland
- Ireland becomes world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels
- Global population passes 7.5 billion
- Almost every part of Canada’s largest national park is deteriorating, a federal study says
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