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Interview with Robert Bateman, one of the world's leading painters of wildlife and of nature generally. Bateman is also a globally respected spokesman for ecological and environmental causes, and has contributed artworks that have raised millions of dollars for these causes. Bateman traces his profound connection to the natural world back to his childhood and his encounters in the ravines of his native Toronto and he believes passionately in the importance...

Interview with David Hughes, a geologist specializing in hydrocarbons"”oil, gas, coal"”and for 32 years he laboured for the Geological Survey of Canada. He developed Canada's national coal inventory, and he's an internationally recognized expert on energy supplies. In recent years, he's become totally preoccupied with what he calls the energy sustainability dilemma. His message is that most estimates of the energy still readily available to power...

Interview with David Boyd, a Canadian ecological lawyer and leading environmental expert who is a forceful advocate for the entrenchment of environmental rights in national legal systems. Boyd is the author of five books and his two most recent books demonstrate how Canada and other nations can use constitutional and environmental law to help the environment and improve people's lives. For example, court decisions and environmental laws in Argentina,...

Interview with Chris Turner, a journalist who set out on a tour of the world to bring us hope. Turner saw that the messages of environmentalism had proven to be completely inadequate as a myth of renewal. Environmentalism has become, he says, a sort of mythology of death: passionate, lyrical, righteous, and hopeless. What the environmental movement needs, Turner argues, is a language of hope, rituals of rebirth, a sense that the battles are worth...

Interview with Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a unique blend of rigorous scientist, reverential philosopher, and Irish bard. She understands profoundly the intertwined life of the forest, from the root fungi that swap carbon among the trees to the sophisticated sexual dance of birds and insects and flowers. Her writing bursts with information, but also with pain and joy and reverence. Beresford-Kroeger, raised in Ireland, now lives with her husband on a...

Interview with Alastair McIntosh, a renowned author, speaker, BBC broadcaster, academic and theologian. As an activist, McIntosh 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 written extensively about these campaigns and the reflective thinking behind then in four books,...

This episode of the Green Interview features Cormac Cullinan, a practicing environmental lawyer based in Cape Town, South Africa, the director of a leading environmental law firm and the author of the pioneering book Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice published in 2002. The book calls for what Cullinan describes as earth jurisprudence, which places human legal systems within the context of the laws of nature, changing our relationship with the...

Interview with James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia hypothesis. Lovelock's eclecticism and scientific independence for nearly five decades allowed him to follow the logic of his own thinking no matter how original and unorthodox its conclusions. In 1979 he published Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth in 1979, which rattled the scientific world and electrified the rest of us by arguing that the earth behaves like a single living organism that creates...

Interview with Andrew Bichlbaum, one of "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 and his partner Mike Bonnano are brilliant pranksters who impersonate entities whose practices they're trying to expose, produce fake media releases and create and maintain fake websites for the organizations or corporations...

Interview with George Monbiot, acclaimed British journalist and climate-change expert. As a regular, long-time columnist with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Monbiot has established a reputation as a provocative and free-thinking journalist whose work is grounded in research and thoughtful analysis. The Independent on Sunday named him among 40 intellectual prophets of the 21st century. Monbiot is the author of eight books including the best-seller Heat:...