Climate Change Centre | Podcasting

Podcast #3 | "Human remains were starting to wash down the bank"

tmacdonald@clean.ns.ca (Tom MacDonald) — 4 Jan 2011 16:37:44 GMT

In this episode of the Climate Stories Podcast, I interview Annie Johnson from the Unama'ki Institute for Natural Resources in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

There is a big problem of coastal erosion in the Mi'kmaw community of Malagawatch, where an ancient cemetery and sacred shrine are on the verge of falling into Bras D'Or lake. I find out what is happening to the cemetery, and what steps the community is taking to try to address this urgent situation.

Podcast #2 | "It's not going to be pretty"

tmacdonald@clean.ns.ca (Tom MacDonald) — 4 Jan 2011 16:37:44 GMT

In this episode of the Climate Stories Podcast, I interview veteran freelance journalist Ralph Surette about how climate change is impacting southwest Nova Scotia, and delve into the relationship between the weather and people's attitudes to climate change.

Ralph Surette is a freelance journalist living in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Ralph has written extensively on environmental and climate change issues in the province, and regularly gets published in the Chronicle Herald and on Rabble.ca

Podcast #1 | "People are extremely concerned"

tmacdonald@clean.ns.ca (Tom MacDonald) — 6 Dec 2010 16:37:44 GMT

I recently had the opportunity to interview Jen Graham about the impacts that climate change is having on Image courtesy of SAGTNova Scotia's coastline. Jen is the coastal coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre, and has been working for years to help Nova Scotians better understand their relationship with the coast and to advocate policies that would better protect the natural areas along our 7,579 kilometers of coastline.

Jen has been working on an interesting new project on the Northumberland Strait where she is talking to landowners along the coast to find out what is being done to deal with the increasingly severe levels of erosion that many communities are facing in the area. The Northumberland Strait is experiencing some of the most alarming rates of coastal erosion in Nova Scotia.