Hugo Spowers—engineer, entrepreneur and former racing car driver—uses his love of auto design to tackle one of the most intractable environmental questions: how to neutralize our passionate addiction to the automobile. So he has reimagined not just the automobile, but the entire auto industry. The result? A car that looks and runs like no other vehicle on the road, made by a company that runs like no other in the business world.
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Having reinvented himself three times, you could say Tim Smit has finally found his calling as a highly innovative and successful businessman, restoring ruined and discarded landscapes and creating two of the most popular, and arguably most imaginative, botanical gardens in the world—models “for how people can live with the grain of nature.” More.. |
Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition movement, an experiment that began in 2008, and since then has gone viral with more than 400 Transition Towns worldwide, from Italian villages and Brazilian favelas to universities and London neighbourhoods. In contrast to the ever-worsening stream of information about climate change, the economy and resource depletion, the Transition movement focuses on solutions, on community-scale responses, on meeting new people and having fun. It’s been called “the biggest urban brainwave of the century,” a visionary, practical blueprint that took root in a town and is circling the globe. More.. |
David R. Boyd is a Canadian ecological lawyer and leading environmental expert who is a forceful advocate for the entrenchment of environmental rights in national legal systems. Citing examples from 95 nations, Boyd argues that enshrining the right to a healthy environment in national constitutions can dramatically transform countries’ environmental laws and policies and improve their practices of protecting the environment. Yet a handful of nations, including Canada and the U.S., have no such constitutional protections. Boyd aims to change that. More.. |
Yvon Chouinard is remarkable blend of passionate environmentalist and reluctant businessman whose passion for rock climbing led him to create a number of products and techniques that are today standard practice in the sport. Chouinard, 74, is the founder of Patagonia—a sporting gear and clothing company committed to environmentally responsible business practices. Despite his success, Chouinard is a trenchant critic of capitalism who has at times rejected profits and “business sense” in favour of environmentally sound choices. More.. |
As an activist, Alastair McIntosh has saved two critical land masses and sparked radical national land reform via the Scottish Land Reform Act of 2003, with 200 community groups taking control of millions of acres – fully two percent of Scotland’s landmass. He has since become a renowned author, speaker, BBC broadcaster, academic and theologian. More.. |
Mark Boyle set out to live for a year in what most of us would consider extreme poverty. Feeling that money distorts our relationship with the natural world and with one another, he set out to live for a full year without making any use of money at all. Mark is a young Irishman from County Donegal -- and he's not a dewy-eyed unsophisticated idealist; he has a degree in business and economics from the National University of Ireland. More.. |
Brian Brett is a passionate and diverse award-winning Canadian novelist, critic, and poet. His latest book, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, is a lyrical, honest, and often amusing portrayal of rural life interspersed with thought-provoking reflections about the modern world, and rooted throughout by a profound knowledge of biology and botany. More.. |
Scott Macmillan & Jennyfer Brickenden Scott Macmillan is among Canada's most versatile and esteemed musical figures, equally comfortable as performer, arranger, composer, conductor and teacher. Jennyfer Brickenden is his partner, business manager, organizer, librettist and wife. Behind the scenes, she plays an integral part in Scott's creative process. Together Scott and Jennyfer are a formidable team. More.. |
Composed in 1988, premiered in 1991, The Celtic Mass for the Sea has become a contemporary choral classic. Combining a chamber string orchestra and choir with a Celtic ensemble of harp, pipes, mandolin, fiddle and guitars, the Mass is an exuberant celebration of the teeming life in the waters covering our planet – and a warning of the dangers of abusing it. The libretto is based on ancient Celtic incantation and prayers that express startlingly-modern environmental concerns. More.. |
Andrew Bichlbaum and his partner Mike Bonnano are "The Yes Men," a culture-jamming duo that use pranks, humour and their lethal imaginations as powerful weapons in the battle against social injustice and environmental degradation. Bichlbaum is not only a brilliant prankster, he’s also known as Jacques Servin, who in another incarnation is a professor at the New School for Design in New York City. More.. |
At the age many people collect their first pension cheque, Betty Krawcyk was arrested for the first time, and has since dedicated her remaining years to “actively illuminating the Earth’s environmental crisis.” She does so through her activism, writing and, most recently, video blogging. More.. |
Jim Hoggan is the author of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, an expose of how the false debate on climate change was manufactured by oil and gas companies and their PR firms. Hoggan holds this manufactured debate up as bad PR practices by traditional energy companies trying to convince the public of untruths about their environmental impacts, rather than doing the right thing and greening their operations. More..
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Salmon Wars: Wild Fish, Aquaculture and the Future of Communities is a wide-ranging exploration of net cage salmon aquaculture and its social, economic and environmental impact on the communities where it operates. |
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Elizabeth May is Leader of the Green Party of Canada. An environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer, Elizabeth has been a leader in the environmental movement since she was a teenager, when she was part of a successful campaign to stop aerial insecticide spraying near her home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. More.. |
David Korten is an economist, author, activist, and prominent critic of corporate globalization. He is perhaps best known for his bestselling 1995 book, When Corporations Rule the World – an examination of market libertarians’ twisting of famed economist Adam Smith’s teachings and a vision of an alternative sustainable economy based on small-scale, localized cooperative enterprises. He was named an Utne Reader visionary in 2011. His publications are required reading in university courses around the world. More..
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Daniel Pauly is arguably the world's most prolific and widely-cited living fisheries scientist. He has been described as iconoclastic, irreverent, and a global thinker. He is an outspoken and often controversial critic of modern fishing practices and the fishing industry, which he says “has acted like a terrible tenant who trashes their rental.” More.. |
Alanna Mitchell is an award-winning Canadian author and journalist and an engaging speaker on environmental science, conservation and sustainability. In her latest book, Sea Sick: The Hidden Crisis in the Global Ocean, Mitchell convinces us that if we kill the ocean, we kill the planet. More..
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While our radar screens are focused on global warming, peak oil, and biodiversity loss, David Montgomery says we may be missing what he calls the "most basic environmental change sweeping the planet"—soil loss. Conventional agriculture is eroding and degrading the earth's most productive soils at a rate that will ultimately "undermine civilization," he says, unless society rethinks the way it treats this absolutely fundamental resource. More..
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David was a highly-regarded proponent of "deep ecology," a perspective that sees all life forms – man, moose or microbe – as having an equal right to survive and flourish. But he was not only an ecological philosopher and a bold thinker; he was also a deeply principled man who made a remarkable effort to live in accordance with his beliefs, minimizing his ecological footprint by subsisting on a small hill farm in Nova Scotia which he and his wife, Helga Hoffmann-Orton, deliberately allowed to return to forest. More.. |
Alexandra Morton may live far from the public eye, tucked away in Echo Bay, the tiny community of docks and float homes on Gilford Island, British Columbia, but her passion and life work has often brought her into the spotlight. For more than 3 decades, Morton has followed her calling to "understand the intelligence in a non-human mind, to know what another species is thinking," and today she is an outspoken advocate for conserving and protecting marine species on Canada's west coast. More.. |
Annie Hill and Trevor Robertson Annie Hill first crossed an ocean under sail when she was 20. With her new young husband, Pete Hill, she set off from England in an absurdly small twin-hulled catamaran, bound for the West Indies. The voyage made them realize that they loved the sailing and the lifestyle, but not the boat. Before long they were building their own vessel, which became their permanent home. Trevor Robertson was born in Africa, raised in Western Australia, and trained as a geologist with specialized skills pertaining to offshore oil rigs. Having arrived independently at the same lifestyle decisions as the Hills, he built a 35-foot steel cutter in Maryborough, Queensland, and moved aboard. More..
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Andrew Heintzman is president and co-founder of Investeco, the first Canadian investment company to focus exclusively on investing in environmental sectors. More.. |
Historian, novelist, and essayist Ronald Wright is the award-winning author of nine books of nonfiction and fiction published in 16 languages and more than 40 countries. Much of his work explores the relationships between past and present, peoples and power, other cultures and our own. More.. |
Jane Goodall is a primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and environmental advocate whose studies with chimpanzees in Tanzania have changed not only our understanding of chimpanzees but also our understanding of the nature of human beings. Today she devotes virtually all of her time to advocacy on behalf of chimpanzees and the environment, travelling nearly 300 days a year. More... |
Karabhai is the founder and director of India's Centre for Environment Education, headquartered in Ahmedabad. With 400 professional staff in 40 offices across the country, CEE reaches into every school system in India, in every Indian language and advising every state government on greening the curriculum. CEE is also active in Australia and Sri Lanka. More... |
One of the world's most celebrated wildlife artists, Robert Bateman was born in Toronto in 1930 and spent much of his youth observing and admiring the wildlife of the Toronto ravines. More.. |
Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness Special Presentation: Where on earth is Bhutan? What on earth is Gross National Happiness? Find out the answers in this 25-minute video, a Green Interview original production. |
Silver Donald Cameron speaks about Bhutan at TEDx Halifax At a recent TEDx event in Halifax, Silver Donald Cameron presented an illustrated talk about Bhutan and its pursuit of Gross National Happiness, based on his visit to Bhutan in 2009 to observe a workshop on Education for Gross National Happiness. This video is free! |
The Honourable Jigme Yoser Thinley The first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Bhutan, a country dedicated to improving its Gross National Happiness as opposed to its Gross National Product. His government's priorities include a fierce commitment to environmental conservation. More.. |
Dr. Ronald Colman is founder and executive director of GPI Atlantic, a non-profit research group that has constructed an index of wellbeing and sustainable development called the Genuine Progress Index, using Nova Scotia as its test-bed. The GPI is a response to narrow measures like Gross Domestic Product, which record ecological destruction as economically positive. More.. |
Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a scientist, gardener, writer and broadcaster who combines medical training with a love of botany. More.. |
A Native American educator and an eloquent expositor of the aboriginal understanding of the “nature of nature." His work embodies a deep understanding of the science, the thought processes and the spirituality of indigenous peoples. More.. |
Social activist and educator, the founder of Barefoot College, which marries traditional knowledge with new sustainable technology. The school’s graduates have covered the countryside of several of the world’s poorest countries with solar power and clean drinking water. More.. |
Author of The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, a scathing overview of the project which has made Canada one of the world's worst polluters, and an environmental pariah in the international community. More.. |
Dr. William Rees has been a professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) since 1969. He founded SCARP’s ‘Environment and Resource Planning’ concentration and from 1994 to 1999 served as director of the School. More.. |
Author of The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need, a book designed to counter the hopelessness and despair that too often characterize the environmental movement by telling the stories of innovations and activists around the world who are showing the way forward. More.. |
She is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology at York University, Toronto, and she is affiliated with more than a dozen organizations that seek to preserve bird habitats. More.. |
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Dr. Ronald Colman is founder and executive director of GPI Atlantic, a non-profit research group that has constructed an index of wellbeing and sustainable development called the Genuine Progress Index, using Nova Scotia as its test-bed. The GPI is a response to narrow measures like Gross Domestic Product, which record ecological destruction as economically positive. More.. |
Perhaps the world's best-known and most distinguished expert on war – whose recent book Climate Wars, reveals that the world's military planners are already preparing for the possibility of wars, even nuclear wars, resulting from the international stresses caused by climate change. More.. |
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Elizabeth May is Leader of the Green Party of Canada. An environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer, Elizabeth has been a leader in the environmental movement since she was a teenager, when she was part of a successful campaign to stop aerial insecticide spraying near her home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. More.. |
Jeff Rubin is a Canadian economist and author. During a stellar career with CIBC World Markets he made a name for himself with prescient predictions. He has a knack for generating controversy, being mocked by peers only to be proven correct as history unfolds. More.. |
Environmentalist, philosopher, peace activist, editor and educator, currently living in England. He has been a Jain monk and a nuclear disarmament advocate. A leader of the UK’s spirituality and ecology movements for more than three decades, he is the editor of Resurgence magazine, which has been called ‘the flagship of the green movement.’ More.. |
A retired government geologist who has closely studied the world's oil supply, and who makes a convincing case that we have almost run out of inexpensive, easily recoverable oil. The result, he predicts, will be increasing oil shortages and widespread economic disruption. More.. |
Farley Mowat has sold more books than any other Canadian author. His more than 40 books have been translated into over 20 languages, selling 18 million copies in 60 countries. He is also a renowned conservationist. More.. |
Paul Watson is an animal rights and environmental activist committed to direct action and marine life conservation. He is founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which intervenes with illegal fishing and whaling activity. More..
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James Lovelock is that rarest of rarities in the scientific world, a freelance scientist. Most scientists spend their careers inside institutions – universities, governments, research centres, corporate laboratories. James Lovelock has spent plenty of time inside institutions too – but as a migrant worker, not a settler. More.. |
Scientist, philosopher, feminist, author, environmentalist, activist, Dr. Vandana Shiva is a one-woman movement for peace, sustainability and social justice. More.. |
