Albert Marshall
Learning to See with Both Eyes
...of “two-eyed seeing,” using the insights of western science in combination with the traditional wisdom of his culture and language to obtain a depth of understanding that neither could achieve...
Stanley Love
There is no Planet B
...Earth does all this for us for free. When we go into space we have to do all that ourselves and it’s complicated.” Love explains that out in space all...
Robert Pyle
Butterflies, Poems and Ruined Lands
...closely observed on the ground: the ground pines coming over, the healing bandages of the mosses and the lichens and the liverworts coming back from the sides and the patches....
Maude Barlow
Defending Democracy and the Right to Water
...American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1980s. And for over a decade, she has focussed her boundless energy on a crisis of global proportions: the looming world-wide water shortage,...
Robert Bateman
The Wild World of Robert Bateman
...ravines. He was inspired by the Group of Seven to create abstract paintings of nature, but he did not immediately pursue art as a career. Instead, he took a degree...
Catherine O'Brien
Educating for Sustainable Happiness
...well-being and contributing to their community.” How can it be taught? O’Brien says that in her classes she shows students their choices can contribute to sustainable happiness. “I’ve come to...
Rachel Parent
GM Foods and a Kid's Right to Know
...salmon are engineered with a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon and genetic material from ocean pout (an eel-like creature). The company AquaBounty—now owned by Intrexon—claims the salmon grow to...
Mari Margil
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil watched state environmental laws fail communities so many times they knew they had to master a new line of defence. In this exclusive Green Interview,...
Larry Kowalchuk
Human Rights, The Treaties and the Courts
...solidified the communities affected by unconventional oil and gas development. The anti-fracking lawsuits The New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance argues that the development of unconventional shale gas and oil deposits...
James Hansen
Restoring the Earth's Energy Balance
...has not been allowed to compete.” The U.S. should develop fast reactors that consume nuclear waste and thorium reactors to prevent the creation of new long-lived nuclear waste, he says....
George Monbiot
Chinks of Light in a Darkening World
...long-time columnist with Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Monbiot has established a reputation as a provocative and free-thinking journalist whose work is grounded in research and thoughtful analysis. The Independent on Sunday...
Marjan Minnesma
The Dutch Climate Case: Inspiring the World
...an extended payment deadline. Urgenda also advocates a circular economy, using only renewable energies to get there and believes that The Netherlands can be fossil fuel free by 2030. Dutch...
Boris Worm
Ocean Literacy and What It Means to Live on a Blue Planet
...this exclusive Green Interview, Worm speaks with Silver Donald Cameron about some of his most influential research on fisheries and oceans. Worm is also a public educator, a regular commentator...
Documentary Stars and Pop Cans
Stars and Pop Cans
Stars and Pop Cans Stars and Pop Cans is a film commissioned from The Green Interview team by the Nova Scotia Community College to highlight the College’s award-winning achievements in...
Gregory Cajete
An Indigenous Ecology
...New Mexico Highlands University, with a minor in secondary education. After completing his Masters of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico he aspired to continue his studies there....
John Bonine
Weaving a Web of Green Lawyers
...three pillars of environmental democracy along with “the right to public participation” and “the right to justice [or] the right to go to courts.” Bonine says that these pillars were...
Mary Christina Wood
The Power of the Public Trust Doctrine
...their constitutional rights by promoting the production of greenhouse gases through the use of fossil fuels. Wood also discusses her book Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age,...
Camille Labchuck
Speaking on Behalf of the Animals
...new leader of the Green Party of Canada. Labchuk’s long held passion for animals led her to pursue a law degree and in 2014 she started her own solo animal...
Performance Celtic Mass for the Sea
Celtic Mass for the Sea
Celtic Mass for the Sea Composed in 1988, premiered in 1991, The Celtic Mass for the Sea has become a contemporary choral classic. Combining a chamber string orchestra and choir...
William Rees
Measuring Our Ecological Footprint
Dr. William Rees has been a professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) since 1969. He founded SCARP’s ‘Environment and Resource Planning’ concentration...
Annie Hill
Living Lightly on the Sea
Annie Hill first crossed an ocean under sail when she was 20. With her new young husband, Pete Hill, she set off from England in an absurdly small twin-hulled catamaran,...
Betty Krawczyk
A Great Grandmother Goes to Jail
...environmental crisis.” She does so through her activism, writing and, most recently, video blogging. She has since taken civil disobedience to new heights, garnering international attention for having been arrested...
Rob Hopkins
Transition Towns: Finding the Future, Together
...solutions, on community-scale responses, on meeting new people and having fun. It’s been called “the biggest urban brainwave of the century,” a visionary, practical blueprint that took root in a...
Chris Turner
The Geography of Hope
Chris Turner is a journalist, best-selling author, and a sought after public speaker. His determination to find tangible solutions to climate change has injected new hope into the environmental movement....
SΓΈren Hermansen
Samsø's Renewable Energy Magician
...Hermansen was the project’s first staffer. Power of Community Engagement Over a ten-year period, as a result of skillful community engagement, realistic analysis, and deep understanding of local sensitivities, Hermansen...
Polly Higgins
Making Ecocide an International Crime
...new UN recognized crime against peace just like crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. Ecocide is damage, destruction or loss of ecosystems such that peaceful enjoyment of a territory...
Elin Kelsey
Communicating Hope in an Age of Despair
...from the University of British Columbia. She received her doctoral degree at King’s College, London (2001), where she pursued a multi-disciplinary research program in science communication and international environmental policy....
John Cumbler
Through the Lens of Environmental History
...Beautiful Yet Vulnerable New England Region, Cumbler describes how the three “regimes of resource utilization” led to the current situation on Cape Cod. The first regime, the “light” use by...
Margaret Atwood
Telling Tales From the Future
...says that speculative fiction is “a way of dealing with possibilities that are inherent in our society now, but which have not yet been fully enacted.” Books like Brave New...
Marina Aizen
The Matanza-Riachuelo River and the Mendoza Case
Marina Aizen, an award-winning Argentinian journalist who has written a comprehensive history of the Riachuelo decision and its consequences. She was formerly the New York correspondent for the leading Buenos...
Bunker Roy
The Sage of Barefoot College
Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy was born in Burnpur Bengal, present-day West Bengal in 1945. His nickname “Bunker” comes from the Bengali habit of rhyming siblings’ names; his brother’s name was “Shanker.”...
Andrew Heintzman
Financing the Green Entrepreneurs
Andrew Heintzman, co-founder of Investeco, the first Canadian investment company dedicated to the sector, and author of The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future....
David Korten
Replacing the Suicide Economy
...examination of market libertarians’ twisting of famed economist Adam Smith’s teachings and a vision of an alternative sustainable economy based on small-scale, localized cooperative enterprises. He was named an Utne...
Sarika Cullis-Suzuki
A New Species of Ocean Scientist
Sarika Cullis-Suzuki is a marine biologist who studies high-seas fisheries, marine wildlife sanctuaries, and the effects of human development on sea life, especially in the inter-tidal zones of the Pacific...
Franke James
The Art of Activism
Franke James, the author and artist whose European tour was surreptitiously cancelled by an annoyed Stephen Harper – and who fought back with more images, more posters and a new...
Ada Lockridge
A Landmark Lawsuit in 'Chemical Valley'
...than the entire provinces of Manitoba or Saskatchewan or New Brunswick. They are also the plaintiffs in a Charter of Rights and Freedoms case that could transform Canadian Environmental Law....
Osprey Orielle Lake
Creating a New Cultural Narrative
Osprey Orielle Lake is an artist, activist and advocate of social and environmental justice. She is the founder and president of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, co-chair of the...
