Healing the Earth

For a Soft Landing: Transition Towns, Peak Oil, and Climate Change

December 22, 2008
| Sally Ludwig is involved in the Transition Guelph project, an effort to transition off dependence on fossil fuels and other unsustainable and exploitative aspects of the modern era.

24:02 minutes (33 MB)
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Tyendinaga: The Struggle for Drinking Water and the Health of the Land Continues

December 27, 2008
| I spoke with Dan Doreen, from the Mohawk community of Tyendinaga. Despite a boil water advisory, stolen land, and internal corruption, the gov't wants to bring in a $2 million police station.

13:15 minutes (18.19 MB)
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Since the Last Ice Age: Original People In and Around Guelph, and the Proposed Hanlon Creek Business Park

February 2, 2009
| Dana Poulton is an archaeologist who surveyed a proposed industrial center in Guelph, and found that humans used the land as long as 11,000 years ago.

34:45 minutes (47.73 MB)
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Air quality and pollution in Southwestern Ontario

March 2, 2009
| Quentin Chiotti of Pollution Probe talks about air pollution, its health effects, its sources, and things we need to do about it. Important for those in the GTA especially, but applicable anywhere.

40:53 minutes (56.15 MB)
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Swimming With Dolphins: Freedom, Captivity, and Our Many Interconnections

March 16, 2009
| Leah Lemieux is the author of Rekindling the Waters: The Truth About Swimming wtih Dolphins. She explains the dark side of dolphin captivity, and the amazing side of our connections with this species.

42:01 minutes (57.72 MB)
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Interview with Dave Schultz, Manager of Communications with the Grand River Conservation Authority

September 2, 2009
| Dave Schultz is the Manager of Communications for the GRCA, and this interview is about the culvert construction for the Hanlon Creek Business Park, and the City's bid to extend the deadline.

10:46 minutes (7.4 MB)
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Defenders of the land: Indigenous survival and liberation in times of collapse

March 28, 2010
| Waziytawin is a Dakota writer, scholar, and activist, who urges Indigenous People as well as non-Indigenous to think seriously about the threats of collapse and the need for land defence.

49:25 minutes (67.87 MB)