Tag Archives: climate crisis

Radio — Bringing questions of justice to the heart of struggles for climate action

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Scott

Laura Hamilton is a climate activist who lives in Waterloo, Ontario. She began working on climate issues as a co-founder of Divest Waterloo, a group with an initial focus on encouraging divestment from fossil fuel industries. But as their understanding … Continue reading →

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Radio — Farmers fighting climate change

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Scott

Brent Preston is an organic vegetable farmer near the village of Creemore, Ontario. He is the president of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, which is one of the member organizations of Farmers for Climate Solutions, a new Canada-wide coalition that is pushing … Continue reading →

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Radio — What can climate justice organizers learn from the “energy humanities”?

Posted on February 18, 2020 by Scott

Sheena Wilson is a professor of media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Alberta. One of her many roles is leading an initiative called Just Powers, described on its website as “an interdisciplinary and community-engaged network of research … Continue reading →

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Radio — Unions, the climate crisis, and the latest UN climate conference

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Scott

Dave Bleakney is the second national vice-president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). In that role, he attended the COP 25 United Nations climate change conference in Madrid in December. Scott Neigh interviews him about how his union … Continue reading →

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Radio — Standing up for workers, communities, and the climate

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Scott

Rebecca Keetch has been an autoworker at the General Motors (GM) assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario since 2006. GM has said they will close the plant by the end of the year. Tiffany Balducci is the president of the Durham … Continue reading →

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Radio — Canadian Catholics mobilizing in response to the climate crisis

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Scott

Marisa Vertrees is the organizing director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), a network of almost 900 Catholic religious orders, dioceses, universities, lay organizations, and other insitutions in more than 90 countries. Agnes Richard is the co-ordinator of the … Continue reading →

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Radio — The youth climate strike movement in Canada

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Scott

Emma Lim is 18 years old and is a high school student in London, Ontario. Rebecca Hamilton is 17 years old and also a high school student, and she lives in Vancouver, BC. They are organizers with Climate Strike Canada … Continue reading →

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