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Healing the Earth

Healing the Earth

Environmental news and interviews with scientists, authors and activists. Matt Soltys explores the scientific, social, and spiritual issues behind western culture's relationship with the natural world, inspiring healthy action, healing, and change. Produced in relationship with CFRU at the University of Guelph. Visit Matt at www.resistanceisfertile.ca.
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

The Hanlon Creek 5: Land defence and SLAPP Suits in Guelph, Ontario

April 30, 2010
| After a community-led occupation shut down a contentious industrial park in Guelph, 5 people were named in a $5 million lawsuit by the City of Guelph and a private developer.

15:57 minutes (21.92 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

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)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

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)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

The struggle to protect Guelph's Old Growth Forest and thwart Guelph's newest and largest industrial development

July 19, 2009
| Guelph's Old Growth forest is under threat of being surrounded by a 675-acre corporate industrial development. Community efforts to protect this land continue, and time is running out.

39:46 minutes (54.63 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Root Force: Examining the Costs of Infrastructure and Industrial Culture

May 21, 2009
| In their own words, Root Force is a strategic campaign designed to exploit weak points in the global economy and hasten the system’s collapse. They also promote a deep critique of infrastructure.

35:56 minutes (32.9 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Ramona Africa on the 24th Anniversary of the Police Bombing of MOVE Headquarters

May 14, 2009
| On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police bombed the home of MOVE members and murdered 11 people. Ramona Africa is the sole adult survivor, and has been organizing on behalf of the dead and imprisoned.

36:40 minutes (50.35 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

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)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

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)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Developing Community Responses to Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence, part 2

February 23, 2009
| Galya and Erin talk about community responses to sexual assault, crisis support, harm reduction strategies, and supporting survivors in ways that are empowering and appropriate.

29:28 minutes (40.46 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Developing Community Responses to Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence, part 1

February 17, 2009
| Galya and Erin talk about community responses to sexual assault, crisis support, harm reduction strategies, and supporting survivors in ways that are empowering and appropriate.

26:41 minutes (36.64 MB)
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