Global Maritimes: Cape Breton journalist returns from South America
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Fifteen New Interviews in Production!
The Green Interview has recorded more than a dozen marvellous conversations in recent weeks, and we’ll be releasing them over the coming months as they’re edited and completed. Some of these people are famous – David Suzuki, Atossa Soltani, Tzeporah Berman, Alberto Acosta.
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South American Stories (3): Quito: Trials and Tribunals
QUITO, ECUADOR
The odd thing is that you can go to jail for smoking the wrong kind of cigarette or swiping a sweater from a store – but you can get away scot-free after demolishing a forest, destroying a mountain or poisoning the water that thousands of people (and other creatures) rely on for their very lives.
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Ron Plain and Ada Lockridge: A Landmark Lawsuit in Sarnia
A landmark lawsuit launched by two members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation aims to establish that Canadians do have constitutional rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. That’s the topic of a new Green Interview, just released.
“We are not asking for money.
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South American Stories (2): Reclaiming the Riachuelo
The basin of the Riachuelo river in Buenos Aires is home to nearly five million people, and it has been polluted for 500 years, ever since the Spanish first erected tanneries on its banks. Until 2004, nobody expected any change in that situation.
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South American Stories (1): Ecuador – Chevron/Tóxico
Awakening in Lima, Peru, listening to the robust hoots of the doves and the squawks of the parrots, I find myself reflecting on a three-week whirl through South America that has included three countries, yielded 11 Green Interviews, and provided the material for three of the main building blocks of our feature-length GreenRights documentary.
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