The Environmental Urbanist

A podcast by Jason Allen

Categories:

Society & Culture

79 Episodes

  1. Fall Clean Up with Candi and Lennox, and Giving Tuesday

    Published: 11/28/2023

  2. Jordyn Boyer, Environmentalist of the Year Award of Merit, and Black Friday

    Published: 11/21/2023

  3. Hamilton Bike Share and Stormwater Management

    Published: 11/14/2023

  4. Don't Feed the Deer (or the Coyotes)

    Published: 10/31/2023

  5. The History of the RBG - WIth Dr David Galbraith

    Published: 10/24/2023

  6. Freshwater Mussels and Fresh Air Trees

    Published: 10/17/2023

  7. Bruce Trail Day!

    Published: 9/26/2023

  8. Changing the Colour of Outdoors

    Published: 9/19/2023

  9. What's Doing at Dundurn

    Published: 9/12/2023

  10. The Stop Sprawl Saga Continues

    Published: 9/6/2023

  11. It's Ann Calling

    Published: 8/1/2023

  12. Bottles and Tetras and Cans, Oh My!

    Published: 6/27/2023

  13. Hamilton's Biodiversity Plan

    Published: 6/20/2023

  14. Stopping Sprawl on Campus

    Published: 6/13/2023

  15. Out of the Lymelight

    Published: 6/6/2023

  16. Controlled Burns and Falcon Banding - a Field Recording Show

    Published: 5/23/2023

  17. LIttle Creatures on the Hemlock, and Walking down King St

    Published: 5/2/2023

  18. Lynda Lukasik takes City Hall, and The Global Water Crisis in Cities

    Published: 4/25/2023

  19. Diana Beresford-Kroeger and the Wisdom of Trees Pt. 2

    Published: 4/18/2023

  20. Diana Beresford-Kroeger and the Wisdom of Trees

    Published: 4/11/2023

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Cities have both a unique responsibility and a unique opportunity to address climate change.A unique responsiblity because almost everything we do in a city is carbon intensive. From paving roads and driving to urban planning that puts tract housing far away from work and school, to incentives and disincentives that drive people away from or towards acitve transportation. Every choice we make living in a city is magnified when it comes to preventing a climate disaster.At the same time, it is far easier to affect change at a municipal level than it is as a provincial or federal level. Communities can band together aided by proximity, and influence the relatively small number of councillors needed to make change. Cities are also where the battle for climate change will be fought, and where policies will be decided.Every week we explore another piece of the cities and climate change puzzle, and work towards a solutions that keep us, and our planet, healthy and thriving.