Tag Archives: environment

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 — Defending the Northumberland Strait and the communities that depend on it

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Scott

Jill Graham-Scanlan is a lifelong resident of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, a lawyer, and the president of the Friends of the Northumberland Strait. Scott Neigh interviews her about the group’s work to oppose a plan that would see effluent from … Continue reading →

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Radio — Building the skills of social movement organizers

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Scott

Peter Gibbs is a co-director of the social movement capacity-building organization Organize BC. Scott Neigh talks with him about Organize BC’s use of training, coaching, and community-building to build the skills of organizers working for social and environmental justice in … Continue reading →

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Radio — Organizing in small-town Nova Scotia to stop offshore drilling

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Scott

Marilyn Keddy is a social worker and a long-time activist who lives in an active lobster fishing cove near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Peter Puxley is also a long-time activist, and has worked as an economist and a journalist. Scott Neigh … Continue reading →

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Radio — Building community resilience in the face of climate change

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Scott

Sheila Murray, Beatrice Ekoko, Lidia Ferreira, and Michelle Sullivan all work in some capacity with an initiative called the Lighthouse Project, a pilot that aims to develop new approaches for building resilience in a number of Ontario communities in the … Continue reading →

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Radio — Mi’kmaq water protectors blocking fossil fuel infrastructure in Nova Scotia

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Scott

Dorene Bernard is a Mi’kmaq woman of the Otter Clan from Sipekne’katik and a residential school survivor, and she describes herself as a grassroots grandmother, a water walker, and a water protector. Rebecca Moore is a Mi’kmaq woman from Pictou … Continue reading →

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Radio — Environmental justice and the law in Canada

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Scott

Nathalie Chalifour and Angela Lee are scholars in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa whose work focuses on exploring how the law can be used to advance the cause of environmental justice in the Canadian context. Scott … Continue reading →

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