Alternatives Podcast

June 2008 - “Saving the Land that Feeds Us”

| July 7, 2008

Show Notes:

We offer four segments in this episode.

-- Alternatives' editor Nicola Ross gives us the inside scoop on Canada's longest living and fastest growing environmental magazine. (01m47s - 12m37s)

-- Contributor Maureen Carter-Whitney shares greenbelt wisdom from across the continent and over the pond to help Calgary protect its near-urban lands. (12m43s - 36m52s)

-- Brazilian transplant Mairon Bastos-Lima pines for the street food of his home town and reminds us of how street food vendors could nourish our local economy and support farmers. (37m06s - 54m26s)

-- Tegan Renner offers hands-on lessons for packaging and labelling organic consumer foods. (54m39s - 1h10m37s)


This podcast is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Metcalf Foundation. www.metcalffoundation.com
It was produced and hosted by freelance producer Peter Stock.