The Environmental Urbanist

A podcast by Jason Allen

Categories:

Society & Culture

79 Episodes

  1. The Grief of Trees

    Published: 10/25/2022

  2. Coverup on Ontario Street Part 2

    Published: 10/11/2022

  3. Coverup on Ontario Street, Part 1

    Published: 10/4/2022

  4. A Summer Well Spent

    Published: 9/28/2022

  5. Urban Bees, with Humble Bee

    Published: 9/20/2022

  6. Zero Waste through Smarter Shopping

    Published: 9/13/2022

  7. Escarpment Blues with Sarah Harmer

    Published: 9/12/2022

  8. Clinton Global Initiative

    Published: 9/6/2022

  9. What You Won't do for Love with David Suzuki and Tara Cullis

    Published: 6/6/2022

  10. The Success of Randle Reef

    Published: 5/31/2022

  11. Save our Streams!

    Published: 5/26/2022

  12. The Day the World Stops Shopping with J.B. McKinnon

    Published: 5/17/2022

  13. Urban Wildlife Encounters

    Published: 5/10/2022

  14. Sudbury Food Forest

    Published: 4/26/2022

  15. Disaster Planning and Earth Day in Hamilton

    Published: 4/19/2022

  16. A Garden for the Rusty Patch Bumblebee

    Published: 4/12/2022

  17. Still Hopeful with Maude Barlow

    Published: 3/29/2022

  18. A Just Transition

    Published: 3/28/2022

  19. The Trouble with Gravel

    Published: 3/28/2022

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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.