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Alternatives Podcast

How Green is your ... Product?

October 6, 2008
| Greenwashing is the fluffing up of a product or service with claims of bogus or exagerated environmental benefits.

22:58 minutes (21.03 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

34:6 Ideas Worth Stealing

December 1, 2008
| Environmental Lessons from around the world

57:26 minutes (52.63 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:1 Size Matters - Part 1: Editorial Overview

January 5, 2009
| Is Small really still beautiful? All the time? This Size Matters issue of Alternatives tries to find out.

11:26 minutes (10.52 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:1 Size Matters - Part 2: Growing Right

January 5, 2009
| Peter Andre explains why small scale farming is an answer, but not the solution.

19:39 minutes (18.04 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:1 Size Matters - Part 3: Doomed Island

January 7, 2009
| An environmental horror story set on the Island of Nauru.

23:11 minutes (21.28 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:2 Biofuelling the Future - Part 1: Editorial Overview

February 27, 2009
| Conversation with Nicola Ross, Executive Editor of Alternatives Journal on the Biofuels issue.

18:05 minutes (16.61 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:2 Biofuelling the Future - Part 2: Real Life Adventures in Biofuels

March 2, 2009
| Calgary maverick Blake O'Brien talks about what it's really like running your car on used frying oil.

19:13 minutes (19 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:2 Biofuelling the Future - Part 3: Better Biofuels

March 3, 2009
| A discussion with REAP rep Stephanie Bailey about how to comparison shop the many biofuels alternatives.

16:42 minutes (15.34 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:2 Biofuelling the Future - Part 4: Beyond Food vs. Fuel

March 23, 2009
| A conversation with energy policy analyst Susan Holtz on all things biofuels.

31:56 minutes (29.28 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:3 Books from the Deep Green

May 2, 2009
| The Ultimate Guide to Environmental Books - over 75 Titles.

105:18 minutes (96.46 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:4 The New Ecology

June 18, 2009
| Eco-footprint developer William Rees, Right Whale researcher Moira Brown, Jessica Wong and just what does the term "Ecology" mean anyway?

112:07 minutes (102.7 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:5 Your Town: Sustainable by Design

August 28, 2009
| Featuring Nina Bailey Dick, Jennifer Taylor and Ray Tomalty.

105:43 minutes (96.84 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:6 Work - Part 2: Stephen Hazell, Sally Lerner and Mark Anielski

November 4, 2009
| Featuring Sally Lerner, Mark Anielski and Stephen Hazell.

66:10 minutes (60.63 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

35:6 Work - Part 1: Wayne Roberts

November 4, 2009
| A full interview with Wayne Roberts on Local Food and the economy.

49:06 minutes (45.01 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

Special: An energy conservation panel discussion

January 12, 2010
| A gathering of energy experts from several disciplines discuss why energy conservation is slow to take hold.

94:47 minutes (86.79 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:1 New Energy

January 5, 2010
| 36:1 New Energy

80:09 minutes (73.39 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

Special: "Mending Our Fuelish Ways" -- A radio play in five acts

January 26, 2010
| A radio dramatization on Canada's energy future.

13:26 minutes (12.3 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:2 Building Resilience: an Exclusive Feature Interview with Buzz Holling 44m20s)

February 17, 2010
| The guy who invented ecological Resilience thinking discusses... Resilience.

44:13 minutes (40.49 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

A Debate Special: "Will Ecology Dominate The 21st Century?"

February 17, 2010
| Environmetnal heavyweights Thomas Homer Dixon and Stephen Bocking square off while Robert Gibson referees and maintains civility.

113:14 minutes (103.67 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:2 Building Resilience: Extra Bits (28m11s)

March 23, 2010
| Andrew McMurry on Rhetoric and Robert Gibson on Simplicity

28:08 minutes (25.75 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:3b "the War in the Country"

April 15, 2010
| Alternatives interviews Thomas Pawlick about his new book "the War in the Country: How the Fight to save Rural Life will shape our Future."

47:51 minutes (43.82 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:3 "Green" Books 2010

April 15, 2010
| An overview of the best environmental titles of the year.

51:50 minutes (71.18 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:3c Wade Davis on The Wayfinder

April 23, 2010
| 2009 Massey Lecturer Wade Davis in conversation with Nicola Ross

33:44 minutes (30.89 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

Margaret Atwood: A feature interview

June 1, 2010
| Alternatives Editor in Chief Nicola Ross talks literature and the environment with Margaret Atwood.

45:59 minutes (42.1 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

Special edition: A conversation with Janine Benyus author of BioMimicry

June 11, 2010
| Janine Benyus, best selling author of "Biomimicry" at the Sustainability Network.

66:20 minutes (60.73 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:4 Out of this world 2010

June 21, 2010
| The mystery of the missing environmentalist, old-school weather forecasting in Kenya and reusing building materials.

75:38 minutes (69.24 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:5 Education 2010

October 6, 2010
| The Alternatives Magazine features Kate Davies on sustainable literacy in their annual education issue. Listen in to their podcast about the issue.

32:15 minutes (29.53 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

36:6 Biodiversity

November 24, 2010
| 36:6 Biodiversity, Prosperity without Growth and Substitution

98:09 minutes (89.86 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

The New Entrepreneurs: A feature interview with author Andrew Heintzman

December 23, 2010
| A feature interview with eco-venture capitalist Andrew Heintzman about his recent book The New Entrepreneurs.

51:44 minutes (47.37 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

Water, water everywhere (Water 37.1)

January 13, 2011
| Protecting our Sacred Headwaters, making water-smart beer, public water and "Bulls%&t!"

108:59 minutes (99.79 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

Resource exploitation in the Sacred Headwaters of northern B.C.

January 24, 2011
| Wade Davis on the imminent threat from resource exploitation in the Sacred Headwaters of northern British Columbia.

38:30 minutes (35.25 MB)