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Happy Earth Day! Alternatives' new eco books
Alternatives: Environmental Ideas + Action
(Alternatives,
2010;
$6.00)
Published since 1971, Alternatives is Canada's oldest environmental magazine. The current issue of the magazine celebrates the best in environmental reading. This week the book lounge is highlighting the Alternatives podcast which released their second annual books edition to complement the print issue.
Listen for interviews with contributors to the magazine about the latest trends in environmental books and recommended reads plus four of the leading voices advocating for Canada's transition to a green economy -- Alexander Wood, Keith Neuman, Marlo Raynolds, Tzeporah Berman -- invite Stephen Harper to read their environmental choices.
2010 Olympics: Gold medal for activism
Show Notes:
In this podcast: Why protest the Olympics, Aboriginal activists speak out, talking diversity of tactics, and all about Vancouver's Red Tent campaign for housing.
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(2:38 - 6:29) The Olympic torch was intended to sail through the city on a sea of goodwill.
(6:55 - 9:11) Thousands of protesters also convened at the Vancouver Art Gallery just before the start of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, kicking off a march through Vancouver's downtown.
(9:37 - 10:10) Not everyone was in favor of protesting the Olympics.
Celebration with a centenarian
In our 100th podcast, we're talking a hundred! A centenarian shares advice, cancelling highway plans, and remembering the birth of the aged rabble radio. You could also win an ipod nano!
(1:35 - 3:47) Highlights from the first 100 episodes.
(3:57-4:48) Wayne remembers the first meeting of what has become the rabble podcast network.
(5:10 -6:10) Introducing our new comment line. First caller wins an ipod nano. 1-360-566-2214
(6:10 -15:51) Stephen Rees on why a new highway plan should be scrapped to make way for farmland. It's all thanks to the global recession.
Rightonomics
Filthy Lucre: Economics for people who hate capitalism
(Harper Collins,
2009;
$29.95)
Is the left out of touch with economics? Is capitalism only for the self-interested? Are markets doomed to fail? The rabble podcast network's Cathi Bond interviews Joseph Heath on a new book that sells capitalism to closet capitalists and left wing skeptics.
Cathi Bond is a writer/broadcaster and a regular contributor to rabble.ca. She is currently working on a trilogy of novels that take place on the mean streets of Toronto during the late 1970s.
Getting back to nature
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
(Algonquin Books,
2008;
$19.95)
Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, speaks at a conference held by Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C.
Louv discusses how the lack of nature in the lives of our youngest generations has long-lasting psychological, physical and emotional effects.
This two-part podcast was recorded by Allendria Brunjes, a regular contributor to radio book lounge.