Beyond Green Podcast – Green Society Campaign

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This episodes run time is 42:49.

Wind farms are evil! There is a chorus of opposition against wind farms across North America. Daryn and Stefan discuss this group of activists and the merits of opposing renewable energy installations. We also discuss where the line exists between protecting the rights of municipalities and fighting for much needed energy infrastructure changes. We would also like to post a minor warning that both of us were in a bit of a tired mood, so we may have been a bit more bitter than usual in this episode.

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The music for this episode comes from Bob Dylan and his track Blowin in the Wind.

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This episodes run time is 48:37.

This episode is all about food waste. David, Daryn and Stefan explore their thoughts on the Hot Docs documentary Just Eat It, which explores just how much food is wasted in our society and the reasons for it. We jump around from the importance of localism, who not to blame, and a few ideas of just what can be done about this overlooked problem within our society.

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The music for this episode comes from Modest Mouse and their track Trailer Trash.

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This episodes run time is 48:40.

In this episode Daryn interviews James from Extra Creditz about video games and having a sense of agency in the world. The second portion of the show has a guest appearance by friend of the show Corey, as we discuss the importance of feeling like you can have an impact on the world around you and how best this can be achieved.

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This episodes run time is 38:24.

Stefan and David discuss the ideas of deep ecology and the ethical implications that accepting such a philosophy would have on the world. From this jump off point, we cover the possibility of a secular environmental viewpoint, and whether all such concerns must be anthropocentric in nature. As promised in the podcast, here is the link to the New Yorker article on Plant Intelligence and more information on the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal can be found here.

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The music for this episode comes from The Devil Makes Three and their track All Hail.

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This episodes run time is 56:14.

We cover a variety of topics this episode including responding to a comment we received on one of our previous podcasts. Unfortunately due to our ongoing technical difficulties (which will hopefully be solved within the next week) the comment is not visible under the other posts and therefore can be found at the bottom of this post. This episode mimics a format formally seen on ‘Over the Green Line’. We tackle three questions:

1) Should we be concerned about the effects of aging on activism?

2) What is the importance of how we frame environmentalism as an issue?

3) How do we speak about the changes required to our food system to those who see cheap abundant food as a right?

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The music in this episode comes from the Diplo remix of Grizzly Bear’s song Will Calls.

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Comment:

I listened to a CBC program a few years ago and it amazed me. Listening to your conversations now, I am reminded of it; particularly of how things change but also stay the same. It’s with Charlie Allen, Grace Slick and Jim Morrison. I would start with Jim, at the 21/22 min mark, and if you’re interested then listen to the others... Or not

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/discover/programs/s/something-to-say/something-to-say-hard-rock-musicians.html

On a side note, I would say that the world is getting better, and worse. The continuum of technologies that has helped us in the First World achieve beyond-comfortable/necessary living standards, and that are helping millions of impoverished people achieve better living standards, are the very technologies that are killing the planet. That is, unless the technologies can be developed/used in such a way as to swing the earth back into balance. It appears that the technologies are out there but the (financial) incentives are not. Which brings us to the question of balance. Over time the earth has shifted its climate and everything that lives on earth (nature) has had to adapt and balance itself accordingly. At some point, humans (being part of nature) slowly began to lose that balance and began to dominate nature itself; with the very advent of tools/technology. Can we really, then, call technology a part of nature?.. It’s more like a mutation of nature; and our millions/billions of overuses of those mutations have now come full circle and set the earth itself out of balance. Which brings us to consciousness... Our technical abilities and abilities to mutate nature itself have evolved and our use of them has gone way out of control; but our consciousness/mind itself has not evolved (literally, for thousands of years) and is now being suppressed (and ‘mutated’ itself – parts of our brain are changed/used less when we rely too much on technology) by the very things it has created; generally speaking. So the question of environmental messaging is not just of the environment, but of messaging and consciousness itself... And who controls the consciousness?.. Right now it is big money and big business (even more so than in the past); but it is also the over-consumption and undiscerning use of technology that keeps us unconscious (and, paradoxically, lowers the standard of living in the First World by our failing to make structural changes to government/society). The very advances in communications technology have to be used to harness the power of getting people to pay attention and act. And it’s already being done, somewhat scattered. I also think that the more that different groups can come together, periodically, to strive towards common and specific goals, the better. Things are so differentiated right now that it’s hard to grab the collective consciousness. So, keep it up! And great cow video!! <...