Social critic and veteran educator Henry Giroux connects the history and ideology of neoliberal policies to the education of young people and the prospects for building a real democracy which he believes has suffered a major hit. Listen to the by Giroux, which begins approximately 5 minute into the recording, from the kpfa 94.1 website. [...]
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Aquaculture- The Future of Farming the Water
The following podcast discusses the growing phenomenon of aquaculture. The program details how we have begun using the sea as we do the land for agriculture, showcasing the shift from hunting and gathering fish to monitoring and growing fish for our own consumption. This podcast provides an in depth look into the benefits and concerns [...]
Nature’s Past: Episode 13
This is an interview from the NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment) website on the collapse of the cod fishery in Newfoundland. The interview between Sean Kheraj and Dean Bavington disucsses Dean’s book titled, Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse as well as the history of fisheries in Newfoundland. He [...]
Mother Earth
This is a Listeners choice podcast from CBC Radio from February 26th, 2010 and it expresses ideas about Mother Earth; where this spirit and creation of this being came from. This podcast takes a critical look at mother earth and how this image, which has become a household name in North American culture, has distorted [...]
Against the Grain
This is a discussion between feminist critic Nancy Fraser and Sasha Lilley about how feminism may have fueled the the free market form of capitalism also known as neoliberalism. Listen to this discussion from KPFA 94.1 below: Against the Grain – January 27, 2010 at 12:00pmClick to listen (or download)
Simplicity vs. Complexity
This is a conversation between film maker Michael Moore and Nation Columnist Naomi Klein about the release of his newest film, Capitalism: A Love Story, and the effect that this film had on the public. The two touch some very prominent and controversial societal issues taking place today. There is a written script of their [...]
2009 Massey Lectures: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World – Part 1
This is a fascinating Podcast from the CBC radio Massey Lectures. Below is a brief explanation of the Podcast and Lecturer Wade Davis and a link leading to the lecture. Recently, many of us have been alarmed to learn of accelerating rates of extinction among plants and animals on our planet. But how many of [...]
Pressure at Work
Are you suffering from the “threat rigidity effect” at work? We will help you diagnose this serious consequence of unemployment. And how middle managers get squeezed by recession. Their bosses want more, while their underlings get grouchy. Jenny Chatman of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley advises about pressures [...]
CBC Radio Ideas Interview
Industrial fishing developed in tandem with fisheries science. It was scientists who defined the stock and set the allowable catches. And yet Canada’s cod fishery collapsed, never yet to recover, in 1992. Environmental philosopher Dean Bavington asks, what happened? Check out the series, “How to Think About Science” here: CBC IDEAS program with Dean Bavington, [...]
