100 great interviews and counting

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Last Name (A–Z)

Performance Celtic Mass for the Sea

Celtic Mass for the Sea

Date:January 2012

Location:Halifax

Topic:Art & Music Oceans Spirituality

Documentary Stars and Pop Cans

Stars and Pop Cans

Date:January 2010

Location:

Topic:

Alberto Acosta

Embedding Pachamama in the Constitution

Date:January 2014

Location:Ecuador

Topic:Green Rights

Marina Aizen

The Matanza-Riachuelo River and the Mendoza Case

Date:January 2014

Location:Argentina

Topic:Green Rights Water

Mark Anielski

Mark Anielski: An Economy of Love

Date:April 2020

Location:Canada North America

Topic:Ecological Economics Economics Environment Finance Genuine Progress Indicator Spirituality

Margaret Atwood

Telling Tales From the Future

Date:December 2019

Location:

Topic:Climate Change Dystopian Environment Extinction Literature Speculative Fiction Sustainability Totalitarianism

Maude Barlow

Defending Democracy and the Right to Water

Date:August 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Politics Water

Robert Bateman

The Wild World of Robert Bateman

Date:August 2010

Location:Canada

Topic:Art & Music

Diana Beresford-Kroeger

The True Life of the Forest

Date:October 2010

Location:Canada

Topic:Forests

Tzeporah Berman

Victoria’s Dirty Secret and Other Forest Tales

Date:October 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Climate Change Politics

Andrew Bichlbaum

Culture Jamming with The Yes Men

Date:April 2012

Location:United States

Topic:Economics Journalism Politics

John Bonine

Weaving a Web of Green Lawyers

Date:March 2017

Location:United States

Topic:Law & Lawyers

John Borrows

The Profound Lessons of Indigenous Law

Date:August 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Indigenous

Stella Bowles

Teenage Citizen Scientist Inspires Hope

Date:April 2019

Location:

Topic:Citizen Science Environmental Law Environmental Science Science Water Pollution Youth Activism

David Boyd

Your Right to a Healthy Environment

Date:November 2012

Location:Canada

Topic:Green Rights Law & Lawyers

Mark Boyle

Adventures with The Moneyless Man

Date:September 2012

Location:Ireland

Topic:Counting What Counts Leading by Example

Brian Brett

The Poet of Trauma Farm

Date:May 2012

Location:Canada

Topic:Art & Music Food

Maxine Burkett

Navigating Climate Justice

Date:March 2017

Location:United States

Topic:Climate Change Law & Lawyers

Gregory Cajete

An Indigenous Ecology

Date:December 2009

Location:United States

Topic:Education Indigenous

Yvon Chouinard

Patagonia: Growing the Sustainable Company

Date:August 2012

Location:United States

Topic:Economics Sustainable Business

Ronald Colman

The True Measures of Progress

Date:August 2009

Location:Bhutan

Topic:Counting What Counts Economics

Ronald Colman

Ronald Colman (2):Educating for Gross National Happiness

Date:January 2011

Location:Bhutan

Topic:Counting What Counts Education

Ronald Colman

Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness

Date:January 2011

Location:Bhutan

Topic:Counting What Counts Politics Spirituality

Roger Cox

The Dutch Climate Case: Suing the Government

Date:November 2015

Location:Netherlands

Topic:Climate Change Green Rights Law & Lawyers

Cormac Cullinan

The Philosopher of Wild Law

Date:January 2014

Location:South Africa

Topic:Green Rights Law & Lawyers

Sarika Cullis-Suzuki

A New Species of Ocean Scientist

Date:May 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Fish and Fisheries Oceans

John Cumbler

Through the Lens of Environmental History

Date:March 2017

Location:United States

Topic:Green Rights History Human Rights

Gwynne Dyer

Climate Wars

Date:November 2009

Location:England

Topic:Climate Change Journalism Politics

Pablo Fajardo

Waiting for Justice in the Amazon Rain Forest

Date:January 2014

Location:Ecuador

Topic:Energy Green Rights Law & Lawyers Politics

Eugene Friesen

Cello Man: Playing with Birds and Whales

Date:March 2017

Location:United States

Topic:Art & Music

Jane Goodall

The Animals We Are

Date:April 2011

Location:England

Topic:Animals Education

Natalia Greene

Recognizing the Rights of Mother Nature

Date:January 2014

Location:Ecuador

Topic:Green Rights

Steven Guilbeault

Equiterre: Environment and Social Justice

Date:August 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Politics

Mohamed Hage

The World’s First Organic Rooftop Farm

Date:August 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Food Sustainable Business

James Hansen

Restoring the Earth’s Energy Balance

Date:March 2017

Location:United States

Topic:Climate Change Energy

Anders Hayden

A Good Life Redefined

Date:February 2016

Location:Canada

Topic:Climate Change Counting What Counts

Andrew Heintzman

Financing the Green Entrepreneurs

Date:November 2010

Location:Canada

Topic:Economics Sustainable Business

Søren Hermansen

Samsø’s Renewable Energy Magician

Date:October 2014

Location:Denmark

Topic:Energy Sustainable Business

Polly Higgins

Making Ecocide an International Crime

Date:November 2015

Location:England

Topic:Green Rights Law & Lawyers

Annie Hill

Living Lightly on the Sea

Date:July 2011

Location:Australia

Topic:Leading by Example Oceans

James Hoggan

The Climate Change Denial Industry

Date:October 2011

Location:Canada

Topic:Climate Change Politics

Rob Hopkins

Transition Towns: Finding the Future, Together

Date:November 2012

Location:England

Topic:Economics Leading by Example

John Hopkins

Bluefin: Filming the Tuna’s Crisis

Date:December 2017

Location:Canada

Topic:

David Hughes

The End of Easy Oil

Date:March 2019

Location:Canada

Topic:Climate Change Energy

Mumta Ito

Embedding Green Rights in the European Union

Date:January 2014

Location:Scotland

Topic:Green Rights Law & Lawyers

Franke James

The Art of Activism

Date:September 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Art & Music Climate Change Energy Leading by Example

Elin Kelsey

Communicating Hope in an Age of Despair

Date:June 2016

Location:Canada

Topic:Education

David Korten

Replacing the Suicide Economy

Date:October 2011

Location:United States

Topic:Economics Politics

Larry Kowalchuk

Human Rights, The Treaties and the Courts

Date:April 2015

Location:Canada

Topic:Energy Green Rights Indigenous Law & Lawyers

Betty Krawczyk

A Great Grandmother Goes to Jail

Date:October 2011

Location:Canada

Topic:Politics

Satish Kumar

Spirituality and Ecology

Date:December 2009

Location:India

Topic:Journalism Philosophy

Camille Labchuck

Speaking on Behalf of the Animals

Date:August 2016

Location:Canada

Topic:Animals

Todd Labrador

The Art and Spirit of the Bark Canoe

Date:June 2016

Location:Canada

Topic:Indigenous

Osprey Orielle Lake

Creating a New Cultural Narrative

Date:January 2014

Location:United States

Topic:Art & Music Climate Change

Amy Larkin

Environmental Debt and Corporate Responsibility

Date:August 2015

Location:United States

Topic:Counting What Counts Economics Sustainable Business

Stephen Leahy

Rebel Journalism and the Rights of Water

Date:May 2015

Location:Canada

Topic:Education Journalism Water

Ada Lockridge

A Landmark Lawsuit in ‘Chemical Valley’

Date:August 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Green Rights Indigenous Law & Lawyers

Stanley Love

There is no Planet B

Date:March 2017

Location:United States

Topic:Climate Change Science

James Lovelock

Discovering Gaia

Date:January 2010

Location:England

Topic:Climate Change Philosophy

Scott Macmillan

The Music of the Sea

Date:July 2012

Location:Canada

Topic:Art & Music

Michelle Maloney

Practising Wild Law in Australia

Date:January 2014

Location:Australia

Topic:Green Rights Law & Lawyers

Santiago Manuin

Surviving the Bagua Massacre

Date:February 2014

Location:Peru

Topic:Indigenous

Mari Margil

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

Date:October 2014

Location:United States

Topic:Green Rights Law & Lawyers

Albert Marshall

Learning to See with Both Eyes

Date:January 2019

Location:

Topic:

Elizabeth May

What can One MP Do? Plenty

Date:November 2011

Location:Canada

Topic:Politics

Elizabeth May

The Politics of Green

Date:November 2011

Location:Canada

Topic:Politics

Alastair McIntosh

Spirit and Sufficiency, Not Surplus

Date:July 2012

Location:Scotland

Topic:Counting What Counts Philosophy

Edmund Metatawabin

A Sustainable Way of Living Evolved Over Millennia

Date:February 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Indigenous Leading by Example

Marjan Minnesma

The Dutch Climate Case: Inspiring the World

Date:November 2015

Location:Netherlands

Topic:Climate Change Green Rights Law & Lawyers Sustainable Business

Alanna Mitchell

The Ocean in Peril

Date:October 2011

Location:Canada

Topic:Climate Change Fish and Fisheries

George Monbiot

Chinks of Light in a Darkening World

Date:September 2012

Location:England

Topic:Climate Change Journalism Philosophy Politics

David Montgomery

Treating Earth like Dirt

Date:October 2011

Location:United States

Topic:Fish and Fisheries Food Oceans Soil

Alexandra Morton

Why Salmon are Sacred

Date:October 2011

Location:Canada

Topic:Fish and Fisheries Food

Farley Mowat

Slaughter by Sea and Land

Date:August 2009

Location:Canada

Topic:Art & Music Philosophy

Catherine O'Brien

Educating for Sustainable Happiness

Date:May 2019

Location:

Topic:

Antonio Oposa

The Rights of Future Generations

Date:October 2014

Location:Philippines

Topic:Green Rights Law & Lawyers

David Orton

Prophet of Deep Ecology

Date:April 2011

Location:Canada

Topic:Leading by Example Philosophy

Rachel Parent

GM Foods and a Kid’s Right to Know

Date:September 2015

Location:Canada

Topic:Food Genetic Engineering Leading by Example

Daniel Pauly

How Many Fish in the Sea?

Date:October 2011

Location:Canada

Topic:Fish and Fisheries Food

Robert Pyle

Butterflies, Poems and Ruined Lands

Date:March 2017

Location:United States

Topic:Art & Music

William Rees

Measuring Our Ecological Footprint

Date:August 2010

Location:Canada

Topic:Counting What Counts

Bunker Roy

The Sage of Barefoot College

Date:December 2009

Location:India

Topic:Education

Jeff Rubin

The Soaring Cost of Oil

Date:November 2009

Location:Canada

Topic:Energy

Daniel Sallaberry

The Mendoza Case and the Rights of the Poor

Date:January 2014

Location:Argentina

Topic:Green Rights Law & Lawyers Water

Kartikeya Sarabhai

Education for a Green Future

Date:February 2011

Location:India

Topic:Education

Gary Saunders

The Meaning of Place

Date:September 2016

Location:Canada

Topic:Art & Music

Vandana Shiva

Against Genetically-Modified Foods

Date:December 2009

Location:India

Topic:Food Genetic Engineering Philosophy

Tim Smit

Back to Eden: The Transformative Power of Plants

Date:September 2012

Location:England

Topic:Economics Sustainable Business

Joel Solomon

The Clean Money Revolution

Date:March 2017

Location:Canada

Topic:Economics

Pablo Solon

Buen Vivir, The Economy and the Rights of Nature

Date:January 2014

Location:Bolivia

Topic:Green Rights

Atossa Soltani

Amazon Watch, Oil and the Rights of Nature

Date:January 2014

Location:Brazil Ecuador Peru United States

Topic:Green Rights Politics

Hugo Spowers

Inventing a Truly Sustainable Auto Industry

Date:September 2012

Location:England

Topic:Economics Energy Sustainable Business

Bridget Stutchbury

Silence of the Songbirds

Date:May 2010

Location:Canada

Topic:Birds

David Suzuki

On Being Part of Nature

Date:October 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Green Rights Journalism Leading by Example Philosophy

Chris Turner

The Geography of Hope

Date:April 2009

Location:Canada

Topic:Economics Journalism

Jan van de Venis

Van de Venis: Funding Your Lawsuit: The Crowd Versus

Date:January 2019

Location:

Topic:

Orri Vigfusson

Saviour of North Atlantic Wild Salmon

Date:November 2012

Location:Iceland

Topic:Fish and Fisheries Oceans

Paul Watson

The Journey of the Sea Shepherd

Date:July 2009

Location:Canada

Topic:Fish and Fisheries Leading by Example

Andrew Weaver

The World of Politics and the World of Science

Date:October 2013

Location:Canada

Topic:Climate Change Education Politics

Femke Wijdekop

Defending the Environmental Defenders

Date:November 2015

Location:Netherlands

Topic:Politics

Mary Christina Wood

The Power of the Public Trust Doctrine

Date:March 2017

Location:United States

Topic:Climate Change Fossil Fuels Green Rights Law & Lawyers

Boris Worm

Ocean Literacy and What It Means to Live on a Blue Planet

Date:September 2019

Location:

Topic:Biodiversity Climate Change Ecology Education Endangered Species Fisheries Management Fisheries Science Marine Biology Marine Ecology Oceans

Ronald Wright

Seeing the Future in the Ruins of the Past

Date:August 2010

Location:Canada

Topic:Philosophy

Jigme Yoser Thinley

Governing for Gross National Happiness

Date:December 2009

Location:Bhutan

Topic:Counting What Counts

Mark Anielski

Tim Smit

Yvon Chouinard

James Hansen

David Suzuki

David Boyd

Roger Cox

Annie Hill

Robert Pyle

Atossa Soltani

Alanna Mitchell

James Hoggan

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What is the Green Interview, and why does it matter?

100 great interviews and counting

Last Name (A–Z)

Performance Celtic Mass for the Sea

Celtic Mass for the Sea

Documentary Stars and Pop Cans

Stars and Pop Cans

Alberto Acosta

Embedding Pachamama in the Constitution

Marina Aizen

The Matanza-Riachuelo River and the Mendoza Case

Mark Anielski

Mark Anielski: An Economy of Love

Margaret Atwood

Telling Tales From the Future

Maude Barlow

Defending Democracy and the Right to Water

Robert Bateman

The Wild World of Robert Bateman

Diana Beresford-Kroeger

The True Life of the Forest

Tzeporah Berman

Victoria’s Dirty Secret and Other Forest Tales

Andrew Bichlbaum

Culture Jamming with The Yes Men

John Bonine

Weaving a Web of Green Lawyers

John Borrows

The Profound Lessons of Indigenous Law

Stella Bowles

Teenage Citizen Scientist Inspires Hope

David Boyd

Your Right to a Healthy Environment

Mark Boyle

Adventures with The Moneyless Man

Brian Brett

The Poet of Trauma Farm

Maxine Burkett

Navigating Climate Justice

Gregory Cajete

An Indigenous Ecology

Yvon Chouinard

Patagonia: Growing the Sustainable Company

Ronald Colman

The True Measures of Progress

Ronald Colman

Ronald Colman (2):Educating for Gross National Happiness

Ronald Colman

Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness

Roger Cox

The Dutch Climate Case: Suing the Government

Cormac Cullinan

The Philosopher of Wild Law

Sarika Cullis-Suzuki

A New Species of Ocean Scientist

John Cumbler

Through the Lens of Environmental History

Gwynne Dyer

Climate Wars

Pablo Fajardo

Waiting for Justice in the Amazon Rain Forest

Eugene Friesen

Cello Man: Playing with Birds and Whales

Jane Goodall

The Animals We Are

Natalia Greene

Recognizing the Rights of Mother Nature