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Earthgauge Radio – Sept. 17, 2019
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 download the podcast here.
- CLIMATE, PIPELINE PROTESTS GREET TRUDEAU’S KICK-OFF RALLY AS ELECTION 2019 GETS UNDER WAY
- First Crowdfunded Park in BC Saves 2K Acres From Loggers
- Climate change a top federal election priority for First Nations, says Bellegarde
- REPORT SHOWS CONSTRUCTION DELAYS, SAFETY ISSUES DELAYING TRANS MOUNTAIN, MAKING PIPELINE A FINANCIAL LOSER
- Feds to study using electricity to ‘reduce or eliminate’ fossil fuels
- Trump Moves to Open 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Refuge for Oil Drilling By End of the Year
- Alarming Level of Plastic in Children’s Bodies, German Study Shows
- Japan May Dump Radioactive Fukushima Water Into the Pacific in ‘Only Option’ of Disposal
Earthgauge Radio – Sept. 3, 2019
On the show this week, an interview with the journalist and author Tatiana Schlossberg (begins at 27:50).
Tatiana is a journalist and former NY Times Science writer who also happens to be the granddaughter of former US President John F. Kennedy. She’s just written a book called ‘Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impacts You Don’t Know You Have’.
As students return to school this week and many are buying things to stock up for the new year, Tatiana’s book takes a fascinating and entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimately involved in our everyday life – in everything we use, buy, eat, wear, and how we get around – and have consequences that extend far beyond our lives. Earthgauge spoke with Tatiana about the startling information she uncovered in her book, and how we can reduce the environmental and climate impact of the everyday things we purchase.
Tatiana Schlossberg is a journalist and author. She was a climate reporter for the NY Times and has written for the Atlantic, Bloomberg View and The Record.
Download the podcast here.
Also on the show this week, Earthgauge News (starts at 8:30):
- 5 Dead as Hurricane Dorian Pummels Bahamas
- NEW FEDERAL ASSESSMENT RULES EXEMPT CEMENT PLANTS, FRACKING, IN-SITU TAR SANDS/OIL SANDS
- NEWFOUNDLAND REGULATOR TAKES NOTICE AS LATEST OFFSHORE OIL SPILL POINTS TO CONTINUING RISK
- Australia Downgrades Great Barrier Reef Outlook to ‘Very Poor’
- KFC Is Going ‘Beyond Meat’ — but Is It Healthy?
- Leaked Documents Show Brazil’s Bolsonaro Has Grave Plans for Amazon Rainforest
- Paris rooftop to host world’s largest urban farm
Earthgauge News – August 19, 2019
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 download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warn
- Norway Freezes $33.2M Transfer to Brazil’s Amazon Fund Amid Deforestation ‘Surge’
- Royal Bank of Scotland Phases Out Funding for Tar Sands/Oil Sands, Arctic and Antarctic Refuge Drilling
- Koch Brothers Abandon Alberta Tar Sands/Oil Sands
- Alberta Loses 14,300 Jobs in July Despite Corporate Tax Cut, Profitable Fossils
- Climate Deniers Step Up Attacks as Thunberg Sails for North America
- World’s Forest Animal Population Drops 53% Since 1970: WWF Report
- ‘Alarming’ Report Uses NASA Satellite Data to Reveal World’s Toxic Air Pollution Hotspots
Earthgauge News – July 23, 2019
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 download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- The aviation industry hears clamour for electric planes
- Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion trees
- Internal Exxon Documents Show Climate Awareness in 1982, Denial by 1988
- United Nations Says 80 Countries May Ramp Up Climate Pledges
- Big Pharma Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than the Automotive Industry
- Nearly 30,000 Species Face Extinction Because of Human Activity
- ‘Social Breakdown and Outright Chaos’: Civilization Headed for Collapse by 2050, New Climate Report Warns
- The Philippines has put forward a bill that requires all students from elementary school to college to plant trees as a prerequisite to graduate.
Earthgauge News – May 28, 2019
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 download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science
- India Set to Exceed Paris Target, Install 80 GW of New Renewables in Five Years
- More Countries Put Up Barriers as Migrants Flee Climate Chaos
- Clean Energy Jobs Growing 60% Faster than National Average, Study Shows
- Sea levels could rise by up to 2 metres by 2100, new study finds
- Postmedia hires former Kenney staffer to lobby Alberta government on involvement in ‘energy war room’
- 16 year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg Becomes Target for German Far Right
- Canada tops the charts for worst vehicle fuel economy
- Big oil is set to spend $5 trillion on fossil fuels we can’t afford to burn
Earthgauge News – May 14, 2019
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 on demand at www.ckcufm.com. Or download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- Biodiversity crisis is about to put humanity at risk, UN scientists to warn
- Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
- Green candidate Paul Manly wins Nanaimo-Ladysmith by-election
- CO2 Levels Top 415 PPM for First Time in Human History
- Ireland Becomes Second Country to Declare Climate Emergency
- Just One-Third of the World’s Longest Rivers Remain Free-Flowing
- TROVE OF DOCUMENTS SHOWS FOSSIL MANIPULATION OF UN CLIMATE PROCESS FROM 1989 TO 2002
- Global plastic waste pact garners international support
Earthgauge News – April 30, 2019
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 download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- With communities under water, Ottawa had little choice but to declare a ‘climate emergency’
- Climate Change Blamed as Flooding Forces Thousands to Evacuate in Canada
- Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests
- New York’: City Council Passes Visionary Climate Bill
- Winning Party in Spain’s Election Campaigned on a Green New Deal
- Jeremy Corbyn launches bid to declare a national climate emergency
- CONSERVATIVES, FOSSILS PLOT ‘GROWING COLLABORATION’ TO DEFEAT LIBERALS IN FEDERAL ELECTION
- CANADA ON TRACK TO HIT PARIS TARGET 200 YEARS LATE AS NEB ENDORSES CARBON TAX
Earthgauge News – April 16, 2019
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 download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- ALBERTA OFFICIALS TOOK 12 HOURS TO NOTIFY FIRST NATION OF POTENTIALLY TOXIC HYDROGEN SULPHIDE LEAK
- Researchers Warn Arctic Has Entered ‘Unprecedented State’ That Threatens Global Climate Stability
- CANADA FALLS SHORT ON EFFORTS TO CUT EMISSIONS, PHASE OUT FOSSIL SUBSIDIES, ENVIRONMENT COMMISSIONER REPORTS
- Norway Is Walking Away From Billions of Barrels of Oil
- CO2 Levels Are Now at a 3 Million-Year High
- NINE MILLION CANADIANS CITE CLIMATE AS VOTE-DETERMINING ISSUE
- IDAHO SIGNS SOLAR CONTRACT AT RECORD-LOW 2.175¢/KWH, SETS 2045 TARGET FOR 100% CLEAN POWER
- SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS GROW 34% OVER TWO YEARS, WITH CLIMATE AS PRIME MOTIVATOR
- Shell to leave leading U.S. refining lobby over climate disagreement
Earthgauge News – April 2, 2019
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 download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds
- Judge Says Trump’s Plan to Allow Drilling in Arctic Ocean Is ‘Unlawful and Invalid
- FOSSIL ANALYSTS BLAME GLOBAL TRANSITION, NOT FEDERAL POLICIES, FOR CANADIAN INDUSTRY’S WOES
- CO2 EMISSIONS RISE 1.7% IN 2018 AS ENERGY DEMAND SETS RECORD, COAL CONSUMPTION GROWS
- BP SAYS IT HAS ‘DRAMATICALLY’ CUT EXPLORATION, WILL LEAVE SOME OIL AND GAS IN THE GROUND
- Melting Ice Is Exposing More and More Bodies as Mount Everest Warms
- ‘BirthStrike’ Movement Encourages People to Stop Having Children in the Face of Climate Change
- RUSSIAN CLIMATE LEGISLATION HAS ’80-90% CHANCE’ OF PASSING DESPITE PUSHBACK FROM FOSSILS, OLIGARCHS
- New York Becomes Second State to Ban Plastic Bags
- West Papua becomes Indonesia’s first conservation province
- Retail giant to sell clothes made from food scraps
Earthgauge News – March 4, 2019
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 download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- Costa Rica launches unprecedented plan to fully decarbonize by 2050
- Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Crisis Has Now Reached ‘Gold Standard’-Level Certainty, Scientists Say
- Cost of EVs to Match Internal Combustion Engine Cars by 2022
- INSECT COLLAPSE OVER NEXT CENTURY COULD TRIGGER ‘CATASTROPHIC ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE’
- A Dutch man has driven from Amsterdam to Adelaide in an effort to prove he viability of electric vehicles.
- ‘SILENT MAJORITY’ OF CANADIANS WANTS FASTER CLIMATE ACTION
