We offer four segments in this second Alternatives podcast:

1, Alternatives Executive editor Nicola Ross gives us a brief editorial overview of the issue and some of the highlights. (1m40s – 6m05s)

2. Robert Gibson, chair of the magazine's editorial board, says we're failing the global sustainability test, that we are extracting, disturbing and discharging at a rate beyond what the planet can sustain. (6m42s -28m20s)

3. Chris McLaughlin is a McMaster University doctoral candidate and executive director of the Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment. Nicola Ross speaks with Chris about a new way of thinking in order to better protect fragile ecosystems. (29m01s – 44m47s)

4. Robert Gibson sits down again to speak for his “Application Denied” co-author Alberto Fonseca on the new higher environmental review standards mining projects are facing. He tells us of two projects that were rejected outright. (45m17s - 1h07m28s)

This podcast was produced by freelance producer Peter Stock

Music for this show was composed and performed by Maine guitarist Chuck Muldoon.