Welcome to Silver Donald Cameron’s blog! Dr Cameron is the author of 19 books and of many plays, films, magazine articles, radio and TV scripts. He is currently the host and executive producer of TheGreeninterview.com and of its feature documentary, Green Rights: The Human Right to a Healthy World. In 2019, he was appointed the first Farley Mowat Chair in Environment at Cape Breton University, where he earlier served as professor, dean and writer-in-residence. He currently teaches an on-campus/online course called Green Rights.
We’re back in business! Fast and diligent work over the Christmas holidays recovered all the audio and video files, and got them back up on the site. Everything is now back to normal — and we’re incredibly grateful to Robert, Neil and Chris for their tireless (and successful) efforts.
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I’m delighted to report that the Chris Turner and Ron Colman video interviews are now back up on the site, and that the MP3 audio files are available once again for Colman, Vandana Shiva, Paul Watson, Farley Mowat and James Lovelock.
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As a Christmas present, one of our suppliers gave us a big problem – and we’re putting on a big push to get it resolved.
Here’s the story. We don’t keep our audio and video files on our own computers; they’re kept on servers owned by a “video hosting” service called SesameVault.
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It was 1970, and Michel Blanchard was gleefully describing new opportunities in the oncoming Age of Information. Information, he cried, would be accessible to everyone, everywhere, all the time! The isolation of the Acadian villages would end! Acadians would be able to link up by means of small transmitters, broadcasting de l’église a l’église a l’église – from steeple to steeple to steeple, all across the region!
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The Green Interview is on the air! Segments of the interviews are being broadcast over the educational services of Mount St. Vincent University. That’s Channel 333 on Eastlink Cable anywhere in the four Atlantic Provinces of Canada, and over the air on ASN (the Atlantic Satellite Network).
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The Green Interview is featured in the current issue of Bullfrog Buzz — the newsletter of Bullfrog Power, the green power company which now serves Canadians from coast to coast. It’s a fine piece, and it gives an excellent insight into The Green Interview — who we are, why we’re doing what we do.
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What I want for Christmas is a forest.
I don’t want just any forest. I want a 313-acre tract of woodland near Scotsburn, Pictou County. Until this month it belonged to Wagner Forest Nova Scotia Ltd, an American forest products corporation.
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I am standing atop a narrow ten-storey building in downtown Trois Rivières, Québec., gazing out across the immensity of the St. Lawrence. My companions include Rémi Tremblay, a senior administrator at the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, and Jeanne Charbonneau, who heads a social enterprise known as Vire-Vert.
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And now for some good news. David Cameron – not my brother, the guy in No. 10 Downing Street – has been musing aloud that maybe the Gross Domestic Product, a narrow financial measure developed during the economic maelstrom of the 1930s, doesn’t adequately describe human life in the globalized 21st century.
In these musings, Cameron echoes French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who in 2008 commissioned a panel of eminent economists to seek a better measurement than GDP.
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Dr. Ronald Colman is executive director of GPI Atlantic, a non-profit organization that set out, a decade ago, to create a Genuine Progress Index for Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia is an ideal test-bed for such a project, with fewer than a million people living on a peninsula – but with a full suite of sophisticated institutions, including numerous universities and its own provincial government.
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