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RiverFest 2017 and Bioremediation
This week on Terra Informa, we delve into the recent EPCOR RiverFest, chat with a man who trekked the entire River Valley, and look back on an archive piece about bior...
Bat Issues and Sustainability Classes
This week on Terra Informa we bring you two stories. First we discuss the challenges facing bats today and then bring you to a new school pilot project centered around...
Icebergs: The Truth About the Melt
This week on Terra Informa, we discuss the 5800 square kilometre iceberg that broke off this summer in the Antarctica.
Cooking Up Better Food Policy in Canada
This week on Terra Informa, we discuss the ongoing consultations about Canada's food policy with master food strategists Juanita Gnanapragasam and Kathryn Lennon.
Paths for People… and Bikes?
This week on Terra Informa, we discuss multi-use trails with Paths for People, a citizen's advocacy group here in Edmonton. In June 2017, Paths for People released som...
People’s Social Forum and Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
This week on Terra Informa, we have two gems from our archives for you. First, we look back on the 2014 Peoples’ Social Forum and how that event brought diverse groups...
Right Whales: The “Canary in the Coal Mine”
Terra Informer Amanda Rooney spoke with Sean Brilliant, the Canadian Wildlife Federation's senior conservation biologist, about right whales and what can be done to he...
Beers and Icebergs
Icy beers and icebergs, this week on Terra Informa we’re sharing two archive pieces. First, Terra Informer Nicole Wiart, a self-proclaimed beer-lover, talks to Neil He...
Finding Meaning in Nature
This week on Terra Informa, we bring from the archives a piece on positive psychology. Last year, Terra Informer Dylan Hall spoke with PhD student Holli-Anne Passmore ...
Forest Fires and Science Faction on Spider Silk
This week, we have an archive show that delves into the science of forest fires and forest rejuvenation, and how climate change disrupts that cycle. Then on Science Fa...
Your Fracking Answers
This week on Terra Informa, we re-air an award winning episode answering questions about fracking.
Gems from our Archives: Tale of the Evan’s Cherry
This week on Terra Informa we re-air a piece from 2014 that we almost lost track of! It’s the tale of the Evan’s Cherry, a prolific fruit in the Edmonton region. This ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
This week we have an interview about how municipalities are taking leadership in climate mitigation while also making strides for adaptation. Amanda Rooney and Charly ...
Riding the Trans Canada Trail
After spending the last two years on the Trans Canada Trail, Sarah Jackson is set to become the first woman on record to complete the 11,500 km hike. This week, we h...
Reflecting on the Fort McMurray Wildfire
This month marks one year since the disastrous Fort McMurray wildfire. In this week’s episode we air an archive about the fire. CJSR volunteers gathered first-hand acc...
Alberta Rural Development Network
This week Terra Informer Shelley Jodoin interviewed Joshua Bénard, a sustainable housing project manager with the Alberta Rural Development Network (ARDN). They discus...
There is no Planet B
This week we explore the origins of Earth Day with an ecobabble that spans the decades from 1970 to the March for Science of 2017. Next, we're revisiting an interview ...
Do It Yourself! A Tool Library Adventure.
Have a DIY project you've been itching to do but just don't have the supplies? Striving to reduce consumerism? The Edmonton Tool Library has got you covered. We dive i...
The Re-Re-Re-Return of Misinforma
This week Terra Misinforma is back again, again! We discuss PM Justin Trudeau's follow-up plans for the removal of the transit tax credit, the reintroduction of an ext...
Farmtastic Food and Amazing Animals
This week on Terra Informa, we discuss what makes an animal a pet and what makes them food, what makes a free range egg, and opportunities abroad beyond simply propaga...
The NEB & the Future of Energy in Canada
This week on Terra Informa, Terra Informer Amanda Rooney chats with Hélène Lauzon, the co-chair on an expert panel set up by the federal government to work on investig...
Urban Week at the University of Alberta
The Growroom, released by Space10 This week on Terra Informa, we hear from organizer Hayley Wasylycia about Urban week, and the environmental and planning fun that the...
A Little Grain and a Lot of Birds
This week is a special episode that was especially fun to make. Sometimes, when we have an extra cool story that the whole Terra Informa team is invested in, we all go...
Just Sustainability: Social Justice and Nature’s Rights
This week we are bringing sustainability-related pieces from the archives. First, we hear from Dr. Kelly Swing about how Ecuador has enshrined the rights of nature in ...
Words, Words, Words
We discuss great environmental writing that captures our attention. First off, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, the author of The Spawning Grounds, tells us how she writes about...
Crime, Bugs and the Physics of Fire Ants
We all know bugs are important in the function of ecosystems but did you know about their importance in the world of forensics, or in the study of physics? This week o...
Photos, Fires, Iron and Earth
They say photos speak louder than words, but what words have the people taking the photos? This week, we’ll listen to the thoughts of photographers Edward Burtynsky an...
A Tour of Edmonton’s Waste Management Centre
This week on Terra Informa, we bring you along on our field trip of Edmonton's Waste Management Centre, one of the leading waste management facilities in the world.
Flora of the Rare, Indigenous, or Arctic Kind
Download this episode now. How Arctic Plants Adapt Terra Informer Julianne Hayes explains how arctic plants adapt to a warming tundra. Maintaining the Biodiversity of ...
Speciesism + Science Faction
This week’s theme is speciesism! Speciesism refers to the belief that the human species is superior to all other species. Mark Devries is the filmmaker behind “Speci...
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