Articles tagged with: environment
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Journalist and author James Glave discusses his book, Almost Green: How I Built an Eco-Shed, Ditched My SUV, Alienated the In-Laws, and Changed My Life Forever (Greystone, 2008) with Joseph Planta.
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Bestselling author and former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo! Tim Sanders talks about his new book Saving the World At Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making A Profit to Making A Difference (Doubleday, 2008) with Joseph Planta.
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Bestselling author and popular media personality Dr. Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill’s Office for Science and Society, discusses his new book, Brain Fuel: 199 Mind-Expanding Inquiries into the Science of Everyday Life (Doubleday, 2008) where he provides a better understanding of the science around us, why there aren’t as many toxins around us as we’re led to believe, how chocolate can be good for us, or how best to cook broccoli.
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Dr. Andrew Weaver, a professor at the University of Victoria and lead author on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the organisation that received, with Al Gore the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize) talks about his new book, Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World (Viking, 2008) with Joseph Planta.
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Broadcaster and author Gillian Deacon talks to Joseph Planta about her recent book, Green for Life: 200 Simple Eco-Ideas for Every Day (Penguin, 2008), a useful book containing ideas on how to live more green.
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Writer Chris Turner, author of the bestselling Planet Simpson, looks for a more sustainable world in his new hopeful book, The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (Random House, 2007).
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Internationally-renowned thinker and bestselling author (The Ingenuity Gap), Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Trudeau Centre for the Study of Peace and Conflict at the University of Toronto, talked to Joseph Planta about his timely and highly readable new book, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Knopf, 2006).
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Author Hugo Bonjean talked with Joseph Planta about his book, In the Eyes of Anahita (Eagle Vision, 2004), a thought-provoking book looking at the condition of the developing world in South America, and how North Americans and others are part of the problems there. The book is fictionalised novel, but it’s a very thoughtful book about the condition of the world today.
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Adriane Carr, the leader of the BC Green Party and their candidate in Powell River-Sunshine Coast talked with Joseph Planta about how the campaign was shaping up across the province and in her riding; as well, why British Columbians should consider voting Green on May 17th.