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
Interview with Julia Szwarc of Free Transit Ottawa
What do you think of Ottawa’s bus system OC Transpo? Is it too expensive? Not convenient or reliable enough? Should it be free?
Julia Szwarc, a member of Free Transit Ottawa, wrote an article in the Leveller Spring 2019 issue called ‘Rethinking Ottawa’s Transit System: a bold proposal for free transit in a city designed for cars’. In my interview with her for Earthgauge Radio, we talk about what’s wrong with our transit system and how to fix it in a way that is better for people and the planet.
Free transit for all! Other cities are doing it, why can’t Ottawa?
Download the interview here.
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
Earthgauge News – January 22, 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:
- U.S. Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 Even as Coal Plants Closed
- World’s Oceans Warming 40% Faster Than Previously Thought
- Greenland Melting 4x Faster Than in 2013, and From an Unexpected Source
- Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’
- Latest assessment shows continuing recovery of the ozone layer
Earthgauge News – December 11, 2018
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:
- NEWFOUNDLAND REGULATOR SHUTS DOWN OFFSHORE DRILLING AFTER REGION’S WORST-EVER OIL SPILL
- Pakistan hits billion trees goal ahead of schedule
- International community approaching nature refuge goals
- Nations Must Triple Action to Avoid Disastrous Climate Change
- 2018 Emissions on Pace to Hit ‘Record High’
- Greenland Melting Is ‘Off the Charts’
- Brazil Backs Out of Hosting 2019 Climate Change Meeting
- Quebec youth group sues federal government over climate change
- Surge in marine refuges brings world close to protected areas goal
- Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Hits Highest Rate in 10 Years
- ONTARIO OPTS FOR HIGHER CARBON EMISSIONS, OFFERS ‘SCANT DETAILS’ ON NEW CLIMATE PLAN
- Australia Cuts 80% of Plastic Bag Use in 3 Short Months
- In World First, Luxembourg to Make All Public Transportation Free
Earthgauge News – November 13, 2018
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:
- Habitat loss and overexploitation are driving a loss of 60% of wildlife
- Victorious midterm ballot measure could improve the lives of farm animals
- UK activists kick off an extinction rebellion
- Oceans have absorbed more heat than previously thought
- Quebec cancels 200 MW wind farm
- EasyJet is promising electric flights by 2030
- Solar and wind power shift from “mainstream” to preferred
Earthgauge News – October 29, 2018
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:
- Canadian government introduces plans for a national carbon tax
- 14-YEAR GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL ABOUT TO BECOME WORST IN U.S. HISTORY, WITH NO END IN SIGHT
- New York Sues Exxon for Deceiving Investors on Climate Change
- ‘CLARION CALL’ STUDY POINTS TO ‘HYPER-ALARMING’ DECLINE IN INSECT POPULATIONS
- Documents Show BP Quietly Paid Just $25 Million to Mexico After The Worst Oil Spill Of The Century
- CAP AND TRADE ROLLBACK WILL COST ONTARIO $3 BILLION
