Tag Archives: climate justice

Radio — BIPOC youth stories about the climate crisis

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Scott

Areej Riaz is one of the key organizers behind Our Climate, Our Stories, a new book that collects essays, stories, and poems related to the climate crisis written by Black, Indigenous, and racialized youth from across Canada. Faith Edem and … Continue reading →

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Radio — Climate justice organizing within the labour movement

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Scott

Tara Ehrcke is a teacher in Victoria, BC, and throughout her career she has been active in her union, the British Columbia Teachers Federation. Since 2018, her energies have been largely focused on the climate crisis, and she is part … Continue reading →

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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 — Grassroots Indigenous resistance to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Scott

Will George is a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Their territory, located in and around what is now called “Vancouver,” will be directly impacted by the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. Scott Neigh interviews George about the project and about … 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 — Inspiring community action on climate change through film

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Scott

Kai Reimer-Watts is a filmmaker and a community activist based in Waterloo, Ontario. His first feature-length documentary is Beyond Crisis, “a meditative call to action that explores what it means to be living in this new era of climate change, … Continue reading →

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