We had our last show of the semester today. To kick off the show we interviewed Daniel, a Laurier student who started a petition as part of a project to get a weekly environmental radio show on the Kitchener Waterloo CBC. Daniel and some other Laurier students in the Psychology, Action and the Environment class partnered with Sustainable Societies Consulting Group to lobby the … [Read more...] about Noise Pollution Fall Finale
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Forget Living Green – We Need a Revolution
This week we had some #COP21 Paris Climate Summit updates for you, and we took a look at some of the climate marches happening around the world. There was a successful climate march right here in Waterloo and internationally despite the ban, people in Paris left thousands of pairs of shoes to stand in for them in the demonstrations. Forget Living Green - We Need a Revolution … [Read more...] about Forget Living Green – We Need a Revolution
Climate Change Week, News and More
This week Laurier ended up being very environmentally involved. The Enactus food waste awareness events, Laurier Environmental Week by the Ecological citizenship class and the Ecohawks Swap Sale all landed on the same week. They've all got event pages up on Facebook so if you didn't already know about it all go to the concourse over the next few days and check it out. We … [Read more...] about Climate Change Week, News and More
Canada’s New Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
This week we took a look at what's on Catherine Mckenna's agenda as she steps into the role of Trudeau's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change. You can check out the National Observer article, it outlines many of the tasks Mckenna has to take on over the next 4 years. We also took a look at the Paris attacks and what that will mean for the COP21 Climate Summit. The … [Read more...] about Canada’s New Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
#COP21Paris
In today's show we covered a local news story about a study on how climate change will affect the region of Waterloo done by the University of Waterloo's Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change. According to the report Waterloo could be looking at some dramatic changes such as 40% more freezing rain and 32 days a year of extreme heat by the year 2050 (currently we experience … [Read more...] about #COP21Paris