054 • Buying in Bulk
A mainstay of zero waste living, bulk shopping is popular, but is it really zero waste? Does it matter? How much garbage are we avoiding by shopping in bulk and what does it look like when it comes to...
27 Okt 201940min
053 • Waste Reduction Week 2019
Reducing waste from coast to coast to coast, welcome to Waste Reduction Week Canada, October 21-27! Today I talk with Dominique Murray of the working group for single use plastic reduction Peterboroug...
20 Okt 201944min
052 • The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste
Food waste is avoidable in SO MANY WAYS but it's not just up to the individual. Second Harvest, Canada's Largest food rescue charity is hard at work to connect farmers and distributers who have a surp...
13 Okt 201938min
051 • Extinction Rebellion
"Our world is in crisis. Life itself is under threat. Yet every crisis contains the possibility of transformation." Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that is using non-violent civil di...
6 Okt 201944min
050 • Global Climate Strike
In the wake of the week of the global climate strikes I caught up with Nico Ossa, a grade 12 student helping to lead the Fridays for Future strikes in Peterborough Canada. Nico talks about the longevi...
29 Sep 201945min
049 • Electric Vehicles
The age of fossil fuels will come to an end sooner or later. Either we adapt to new (old) options before we run out or we run out and have to adapt. Electric vehicles are becoming more high-tech, more...
22 Sep 201948min
048 • Dilemmas and Eco-Anxiety
What to do, what to do? The clock feels like it's ticking and I'm stuck between buying a product in plastic or driving across town to buy it in glass? Then I'm stuck and a wave of eco-anxiety freezes ...
15 Sep 201937min
047 • Compost Me When I Die
Forgo the casket or the fire and instead, naturally decompose back into soil? Today's conversation with Katrina Spade of Recompose, an alternative to conventional burial or cremation, has the answers....
8 Sep 201934min
