The Environmental Urbanist

A podcast by Jason Allen

Categories:

Society & Culture

79 Episodes

  1. Miyawaki Forests and Falcon Watch

    Published: 4/4/2023

  2. Birder Brain

    Published: 3/28/2023

  3. Yorklands Green Hub and a Federal Transit Strategy

    Published: 3/21/2023

  4. Fundraising Episdoe -Environmental Defense and Environment Hamilton

    Published: 3/7/2023

  5. Gardening Month: Traditional Foods of the Haudenosaunee

    Published: 2/21/2023

  6. Gardening Month - What to Plant to get Butterflies, Birds, and Happiness

    Published: 2/14/2023

  7. Gardening Month - Can a Garden Help with Food Inflation?

    Published: 2/7/2023

  8. Gardening Month - Rainwater Capture

    Published: 1/31/2023

  9. Revery, A Year of Bees

    Published: 1/28/2023

  10. The Beavers Who Live Downtown

    Published: 1/17/2023

  11. Fashion - From Fast to Circular

    Published: 1/10/2023

  12. A Conspiracy of Chickens

    Published: 12/20/2022

  13. Grieving What is to Come

    Published: 12/14/2022

  14. The Highway that Nobody Wanted

    Published: 12/14/2022

  15. Sprituality and the Environment

    Published: 12/13/2022

  16. A Cougar in our Midst

    Published: 12/6/2022

  17. Craig Cassar and the Hamilton Naturalist Club

    Published: 11/29/2022

  18. Bill 23 Emergency Podcast

    Published: 11/25/2022

  19. The Climate Baby Dilemma

    Published: 11/22/2022

  20. Chedoke Creek Interactive Map

    Published: 11/15/2022

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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.