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Podcasting, on a weekly basis, is a commitment. I was really beginning to wonder if it was worth all the work. I then I saw the movie “Children of Men.” While the movie doesn’t explain why woman can’t have babies anymore, it reminded me of something Rosalie Bertell said to me 18 years ago. And then I realized the power of words… To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website. audio link

Our entire culture is based on the buy now pay later idea. Why put off having anything that you want or desire when you don’t have to pay a cent until 2008? As a result, we live in a constant state of indebtedness. Nowhere is that more evident than in how we treat our environment. To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website at http:// www.yourearth.ca<

When we talk about creating a safe environment for our children, the things that immediately come to mind are clean air, safe drinking water, and chemical-free places to grow, learn and play. But as the terrible shootings at Dawson College, Platte Canyon High School and the Amish schoolhouse so tragically demonstrated earlier this fall, we must learn to re-define what it means to create a truly safe environment for our children. To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website at http://www.yourearth.ca<

With Ontario’s municipal elections only a week away, garbage has once again become a burning issue – literally. According to survey conducted by Decima Research, 91 percent of Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents favour garbage incineration. To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website at http://www.yourearth.ca<

There is a direct connection between Canada’s CANDU nuclear reactors and Korea’s nuclear weapons test.. In North Korea’s case, the plutonium (and the nuclear technology needed to build the bomb) came from Pakistan. Pakistan in turn got its plutonium and nuclear know-how from Canada.To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website. audio link

After almost two decades of terrorizing its neighbours, perhaps it’s time somebody pointed out that Canada’s largest city, Toronto, might want to start looking for a better solution to its garbage problem.

The fact that my father’s birthday, September 23rd, fell on the autumn equinox this year is a bittersweet coincidence that is not lost on me. His death this summer is a reminder that to everything there is a season.To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website located at http://www.yourearth.ca<

Last week, GM announced that the Camaro, its newly redesigned muscle car, will hit the streets in 2009, just about the time that experts predict that global oil production will start to decline.Since the Camaro isn’t designed to meet everyone’s driving needs, GM is currently aggressively marketing the H2, the smaller and more user-friendly cousin of the monster H1 Hummer, as an alternative to the family van. To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website at www.yourearth.ca<

With all this talk about energy conservation, we decided to see if we could further reduce our electricity bill. Given all the improvements we’d already made, the question became, “Can we do better?” To read more, please visit the Your Earth Website. (www.yourearth.ca) )

The summer of 2006 saw the beginning of a new movie phenomenon – the environmental epic. Topping the list is Al Gore’s much touted An Inconvenient Truth, a film about the global warming crisis. I have to admit, I had high hopes for this movie.To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website audio link

As energy costs continue to escalate, energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important. While we all want to spend less on home utilities, most of us don't know where to begin.The answer is clear. In the average home, heating and cooling costs account for at least 60% of your energy bill. An estimated 25% of all heat loss literally flies out the window.To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website. ( www.yourearth.ca )

The internal, infernal, combustion engine, and the family car that it powers, has impacted our lives more than any other single invention. It’s ubiquitous. It’s also destroying the planet. It’s high time we made a stand and said, “I won’t drive a car that isn’t as smart, or as environmentally aware, or as creative as I am.” To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website. ( www.yourearth.ca )

This week marks the 10th anniversary of GM’s innovative electric car, the EV1. Sadly, there will be no victory parades. In 2003, GM ordered all of popular cars recalled and destroyed. To read more, please go to the Your Earth Website ( www.yourearth.ca )

The environment has found a new champion. Justin Trudeau, famed firstborn son of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, has added his voice and name to the fight to save the planet. To read more, go to http://www.yourearth.ca<

And so it begins. With a final clanging of the bell, school is over for another year. And while every child will soon be singing the songs of summer, somewhere their parents are wondering, "How on Earth am I going to keep these kids busy for two months?"

There comes a point, in every society, when it is time to either, lead, follow, or get the heck out of the way. For Ontario, Canada’s most populous and powerful province, that time is now. At issue – how to power a province that will lose 80% of its generating capacity within the next 15 to 20 years.

June 5 marks the 24th anniversary of World Environment Day. Given that 40% of the planet’s surface is already covered in drylands, this year’s theme, Deserts and Desertification, is particular timely. audio link

Canada’s recent announcement that it won’t be honoring its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol has taken the country from leading the world and making a difference to misleading the world and making excuses.

The fast food and soft drink industries spend billions of dollars every year on advertising and promotion, and yet nobody seems to make connection between their carefully crafted images and what happens to it when it ends up squashed in a ditch or smeared all over the road.

Incineration, once the bane of the waste industry, is rising like a phoenix from the toxic ash as a perceived win-win solution for two of the major environmental issues that we currently face: What do we do with our garbage and how do we meet our growing demand for electricity.

With the official opening of gardening season looming on the horizon, and municipalities passing by-laws to restrict the cosmetic use of pesticides, the beleaguered lawn care industry has gone on the offensive. Thanks to the innovative ideas of one Canada's greenest entrepreneur, it's possible to have a weed-free, healthy lawn, without having to resort to cancer-causing pesticides.

20 years after the worst nuclear accident in history we are on the verge of a global nuclear revival. The reason? The nuclear industry's carefully crafted misinformation campaign that has positioned nuclear as the environmentally responsible alternative to the burning of fossil fuels.

The paradox of Easter, of spring, is that we can predictably count on the return of new life each year, and yet we cannot explain the unfathomable miracle of the new life that we celebrate.

Celebrating Earth Day once a year begs the question, "What are we doing the rest of the time?"