The Climate Lens

Calgary Climate Hub
The Climate Lens

The Climate Lens is a podcast produced by the Calgary Climate Hub. We put the big stories of our time under the climate lens as they happen, so you know how they fit into the biggest story of our lifetimes: the climate emergency. We take it all back to local-level climate action, where you have the best shot at achieving real impact. You will have a front-row seat for what we are doing here in Calgary, right now! Support us on Patreon!

  1. Ranching Against the Machine: Fighting Alberta's Zombie Coal Project

    1月22日

    Ranching Against the Machine: Fighting Alberta's Zombie Coal Project

    As Alberta Energy Regulator holds hearings on the Grassy Mountain coal project, rancher Laura Laing calls out the broken promises that brought this mining project back from the dead. Please note that this episode was recorded before Alberta's Ministry of Energy announced the reversal of the moratorium on open-pit coal mining on the Eastern Slopes on Monday January 20th, 2025. ***** Sources used in this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hru0UQr6F0FifxXhrDgIBV5JoUwUuPMF6s-qoyRFYkE/ Transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l46J5FYcInCERj35Hyz6hc9_kKK_q-ShjLImSkLE_IQ/ ***** Save the Mountains - Website: https://www.savethemountains.ca/ Save the Mountains - Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/savethemountainrange ***** If you appreciate what we're doing here at the Climate Lens one way you could help out is become a member of our Patreon for just 5 bucks a month at https://www.patreon.com/TheClimateLens or make a one time donation via the Calgary Climate Hub website at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/92219 **** Calgary Climate Hub Website: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/climatehubyyc.bsky.social Mastodon: https://campaign.openworlds.info/@ClimateHubYYC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calgaryclimatehub/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calgaryclimatehub/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@calgaryclimatehub Volunteer! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/volunteer Become a Member! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/membership Donate! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/donate Support us on Patreon!

    30 分钟
  2. The Big Why: Activist Origin Stories

    2024/12/18

    The Big Why: Activist Origin Stories

    Climate advocacy has taken a beating in 2024, from a disastrous American election to a disappointing COP29. It’s at times like these that we need our community more than ever, and boy, did they show up. Today the Climate Lens brings together Albertans working in environmental non-profits to share how they took their first steps to become the changemakers they are today. Our guests today: Heather Addy, co-chair of the Calgary Climate Hub Lex van der Raadt, executive director of Green Calgary Colin Smith, member of the Land Lovers Network Celia Lee, executive director of Sustainable Calgary Philip Meintzer, conservation specialist at the Alberta Wilderness Association Katie Morrison, executive director of the Southern Alberta Chapter of CPAWS Nathaniel Schmidt, board member of Nature Calgary We would also like to thank the Arusha Centre for funding this episode and supporting connections between our organizations. ***** Transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x-UYo1qkHZOa8yuudUY6JFORKcRdtoEAuYtmEpp7Xv0/ ***** CALLS TO ACTION! Current campaigns: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/campaigns ***** If you appreciate what we're doing here at the Climate Lens one way you could help out is become a member of our Patreon for just 5 bucks a month at https://www.patreon.com/TheClimateLens or make a one time donation via the Calgary Climate Hub website at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/92219 **** Calgary Climate Hub Website: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/climatehubyyc.bsky.social Mastodon: https://campaign.openworlds.info/@ClimateHubYYC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calgaryclimatehub/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calgaryclimatehub/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@calgaryclimatehub Volunteer! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/volunteer Become a Member! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/membership Donate! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/donate Support us on Patreon!

    30 分钟
  3. Debunk The Junk: Alberta's 7 Million Dollar Disinformation Campaign

    2024/11/20

    Debunk The Junk: Alberta's 7 Million Dollar Disinformation Campaign

    All too often, Alberta shows itself to be Canada's capital of climate denialism, disinformation, and outright non-science foolishness. Somehow, in fall of 2024, it got worse than ever with government threats of further crippling actions against our formerly best-in-country renewable energy industry. The launching of yet another multimillion dollar nationwide disinformation campaign against federal climate policy, this one called Scrap the Cap and funding brand new lows at the AGM for our province's governing party, where members voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that would scrap Alberta's decarbonization goals, remove the designation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and recognize prime climate change culprit CO2 as a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth. To help us cut through Alberta's latest state sponsored dump truck load of disinformation, denialism, and just flat out lies, I'm happy to have on as this month's guest, Alberta journalist and author Jeremy Appel from The Orchard on Substack, for which you can and indeed should subscribe. ***** Sources used in this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i5LvsRrtB1yXupWNTg9znr84bTMJGWfogd9oT0S1JyA/ Transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HkDIfUZ_TR23-eNZCPH96Y8bCjxIkv9byIsjtCsQPKI/ ***** CALLS TO ACTION! Fundraising drive: https://give.crowdfunding.alberta.ca/calgaryclimatehub2024?ref=ab_7aHCDwOyHlW7aHCDwOyHlW Current campaigns: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/campaigns 2024 Youth Climate Bursary recipients: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/congratulations_to_our_2024_youth_climate_bursary_recipients ***** Jeremy Appel: https://x.com/JeremyAppel1025 The Orchard: https://www.readtheorchard.org/ ***** If you appreciate what we're doing here at the Climate Lens one way you could help out is become a member of our Patreon for just 5 bucks a month at https://www.patreon.com/TheClimateLens or make a one time donation via the Calgary Climate Hub website at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/92219 **** Calgary Climate Hub Website: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/climatehubyyc.bsky.social Mastodon: https://campaign.openworlds.info/@ClimateHubYYC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calgaryclimatehub/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calgaryclimatehub/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@calgaryclimatehub Volunteer! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/volunteer Become a Member! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/membership Donate! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/donate Support us on Patreon!

    30 分钟
  4. America's Election, Alberta's Impact

    2024/10/16

    America's Election, Alberta's Impact

    As it relates to climate change and indeed a great many other things the difference between America's latest candidates for world's most powerful person is most regularly described as STARK. VP Kamala Harris' climate plan is largely seen to be a continuance of sitting President Joe Biden's climate policies, the flagship for which is his strategically named Inflation Reduction Act which has been described as the single most substantial piece of climate legislation in US history, providing $370 billion of investment in clean energy infrastructure and putting the world on notice that America was done sleeping on Climate Change.The other choice is former president Donald Trump whose positions on climate change have ranged from outright denial to jokes (are they jokes?) about having a little more beachfront property due to sea level rise. He's denied his involvement with the Project 2025 thinktank but he's also said Project 2025 “lays the groundwork and detailed plans for exactly what our movement will do” which would include repealing Biden's climate work as well as politicizing, scaling down or outright eliminating much of America's early disaster warning systems for being, I suppose too climatey even as climate-Jacked Hurricanes like Helene and now today Milton ravage Florida once again. To help us parse out what this election and a President Harris or President Trump means for our country and for specifically this province I'm very happy to have as a guest for this month's show Lisa Young, professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary and writer of the "What Now?!?" Alberta Politics newsletter on Substack. ***** Sources used in this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uJi3obKYwH_ogLB2nIGos3m6GWTmKJmq2gwXOEscTvk/ Transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vwLdybyFAp895CwEOt_V1tRXFmRgTxOW_bbFy59qr_s/ ***** CALLS TO ACTION! Advocacy Campaign Organizer Workshop: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/advocacy_campaign_organizer_workshop_2025 ***** Lisa Young: https://x.com/JLisaYoung "What Now?!?" Alberta Politics newsletter: https://lisayoung.substack.com/ ***** If you appreciate what we're doing here at the Climate Lens one way you could help out is become a member of our Patreon for just 5 bucks a month at https://www.patreon.com/TheClimateLens or make a one time donation via the Calgary Climate Hub website at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/92219 **** Calgary Climate Hub Website: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/climatehubyyc.bsky.social Mastodon: https://campaign.openworlds.info/@ClimateHubYYC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calgaryclimatehub/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calgaryclimatehub/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@calgaryclimatehub Volunteer! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/volunteer Become a Member! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/membership Donate! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/donate Support us on Patreon!

    30 分钟
  5. Some Heroes DO Wear C.A.P.E.s: Canada's Greenwash Win and What Comes Next

    2024/09/17

    Some Heroes DO Wear C.A.P.E.s: Canada's Greenwash Win and What Comes Next

    After lying about the dangers of climate change to Canadians for at least 40 years (and some would say a lot longer), Canada's oil and gas industry's ongoing dangerously dishonest practises were dealt a blow earlier this year with the passage of Bill C59, anti-greenwashing legislation that would see corporate perpetrators facing fines of up to 1 million dollars per day if the false representation continues to be published, handing climate organizations and humankind generally an important if not yet entirely sufficient win. Bill C59 compelled, amongst others, the Pathways Alliance - a coalition of six oil sands companies in Canada, to wipe clean their websites and social networks and Alberta's infamous petroleum propaganda house, aka the Alberta War Room, to close its private corporation facade and get folded into provincial government protection. To tell us how this all came about, where were at and what comes next this month's guests are Dr Leah Temper, the Economic and Health Policy Program Director for CAPE - the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and our good friend Dr Joe Vipond, CAPE's former president, one of Calgary Climate Hub's founding members, former co-chair and current board member at large. ***** Sources used in this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AKtHCrHHBsOS0KfWRtbBvb-rvZEPwy_52KHrfGARQZo/ Transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NWFzMdu_cpc1rthDPKJAVqQrxM2SsAS5H7fF30Xipwg/ ***** CALLS TO ACTION! Seniors Day 2024 - Day of Action: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/seniors_day_2024_day_of_action ***** Leah Temper: https://twitter.com/latemper Joe Vipond: https://twitter.com/JVipondmd Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment: https://cape.ca/ Bill C59: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-59/royal-assent ***** If you appreciate what we're doing here at the Climate Lens one way you could help out is become a member of our Patreon for just 5 bucks a month at https://www.patreon.com/TheClimateLens or make a one time donation via the Calgary Climate Hub website at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/92219 **** Calgary Climate Hub Website: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/climatehubyyc.bsky.social Mastodon: https://campaign.openworlds.info/@ClimateHubYYC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calgaryclimatehub/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calgaryclimatehub/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@calgaryclimatehub Volunteer! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/volunteer Become a Member! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/membership Donate! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/donate Support us on Patreon!

    30 分钟
  6. Kananaskis clearcuts: outdated laws, new threats

    2024/08/21

    Kananaskis clearcuts: outdated laws, new threats

    Under a Forest Management Agreement set up all the way back in 2001 by Alberta's provincial government of the day, a logging company called Spray Lake Sawmills acquired the rights to chop down the equivalent of 2,000 football fields of Kananaskis Country’s Upper Highwood area forests, including a stretch right beside the Highwood River. Since 2001, K-Country has become a beloved natural recreation destination and tourist attraction for cycling, hiking and just connecting with our natural world. Of course we've all become aware of climate change since 2001, making the concept of logging old growth forests that do some of nature's best work at sequestering climate-worsening CO2 as well as storing water to mitigate against both floods and droughts feels like a really wrong-headed and dangerous anachronism. A number of activist organizations, some of which you'll be hearing from today, sprung into action and triggered a logging slowdown which also saw logging company 'Spray Lake Sawmills' change their name to 'West Fraser Cochrane', as well as some 'listening campaigns', the results of which are debatable to say the least. With us for this months show is my co-host Jenny Jeremy, who is amongst a great many other things the co-lead of the Calgary Climate Hub's Kananskis Logging Slowdown Campaign as well as Conservation Science and Program Manager Joshua Killeen of the Southern Alberta chapter of CPAWS (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society). ***** Sources used in this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LG4YznFiiEnNgGOD3Pio_RjViwr-Ep193kePrwyrkRw/ Transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kaRHD6jTyZFmpG-qc6XkJ1BQSG_FxF9Onj9yGkYdpAI/ ***** CALLS TO ACTION! All-Electric Hub and Spokes: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/all_electric_hub_and_spokes ***** Jenny Yeremiy: https://x.com/JennyYeremiy Joshua Killeen: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/joshkilleen CPAWS - Southern Alberta chapter: https://cpaws-southernalberta.org/ / https://www.instagram.com/cpawssab/ Understanding the clearcuts: https://cpaws-southernalberta.org/conservation/sustainable-forestry/defend-alberta-forests/upper-highwood/ Support us on Patreon!

    31 分钟
  7. Building the Future: Climate-Smart Construction

    2024/07/17

    Building the Future: Climate-Smart Construction

    How we humans get around and where we are going to and from make up the number 1 and 2 sources of climate-change causing emissions. Addressing where we live, work and play is becoming critical path. We invited Matt Grace to discuss about what the future of housing and construction will look like in Alberta in the context of climate change. Matt has been a Sustainable Buildings and Communities consultant in both the UK and Canada for going on 30 years now, he was the Canada Green Building Council's Green Building Pioneer Award recipient of 2018, he is a past Hub board member and co-chair and is now a current board member of Alberta Ecotrust and Green economy Calgary. ***** Sources used in this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BZQ78y5rRpzZ68As2RB0EY8KephuePev2UnKs-1EFxY/ Transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13cva7mjYYEmUHTzg7idTyjIsZJAn1ffsrB0F4ryQxsg/ ***** CALLS TO ACTION! Hub and Spokes 2024: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hub_and_spokes_2024 ***** Matt Grace: https://www.mattgrace.ca/ ***** If you appreciate what we're doing here at the Climate Lens one way you could help out is become a member of our Patreon for just 5 bucks a month at https://www.patreon.com/TheClimateLens or make a one time donation via the Calgary Climate Hub website at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/92219 **** Calgary Climate Hub Website: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/climatehubyyc.bsky.social Mastodon: https://campaign.openworlds.info/@ClimateHubYYC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calgaryclimatehub/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calgaryclimatehub/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@calgaryclimatehub Volunteer! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/volunteer Become a Member! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/membership Donate! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/donate Support us on Patreon!

    32 分钟

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The Climate Lens is a podcast produced by the Calgary Climate Hub. We put the big stories of our time under the climate lens as they happen, so you know how they fit into the biggest story of our lifetimes: the climate emergency. We take it all back to local-level climate action, where you have the best shot at achieving real impact. You will have a front-row seat for what we are doing here in Calgary, right now! Support us on Patreon!

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