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.
Great interview yesterday with Hugo Spowers, the moving spirit behind Riversimple — a tiny company that plans to bring the world's first hydrogen-powered car to market in 2014. The company is a little group of valiant and enormously experienced entrepreneurs and engineers based in Ludlow, Shropshire, a gorgeous mediaeval market town in a forgotten corner of England near the Welsh border.
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We're in Oxford, having had a very good flight and a day to decompress in a little apartment that we've rented here for a few days. Tomorrow we're off to Ludlow, Shropshire, to do an interview with the leader of a fascinating, really innovative project.
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The Green Interview is going to England! We leave tonight — Silver Donald Cameron and his wife, Marjorie Simmins, and our producer/director, Chris Beckett. As always, we try to amortize our carbon footprint by accomplishing several tasks at the same time whenever we travel, and so it is on this occasion.
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Andrew Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano are "The Yes Men," the Merry Pranksters of the environmental movement, a culture-jamming duo who fight social injustice and crimes against nature using pranks, humour and their lethal imaginations.They're the audacious jokers who pretend to be spokesmen for Dow Chemical and go on TV to announce that Dow will (belatedly) take responsibility for the worst industrial accident in history, the Bhopal pesticide catastrophe.
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What works in rural Nova Scotia — or anywhere else in North America? And who works? And at what?
It seems clear from various conversations people have had with the Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture that the provincial government is traumatized by the issue of rural decline, and is looking for big employers to take up the slack left by industrial-era enterprises like the pulp mills, fish plants, mines etc.
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