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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Silver Donald Cameron, Brandy Gallagher, Janine Bandcroft Jan. 23, 2012

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This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook
This week: Silver Donald Cameron is a Canadian educator, activist, playwright, journalist, long-time columnist for the Halifax Sunday Herald, and the author of scores of radio and television scripts. Among his 17 book titles are: 'A Million Futures,' 'Sailing Away from Winter,' 'Sniffing the Coast,' as well as 'The Living Beach,' and 'The Education of Everett Richardson,' both recognized as being among Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books. Silver Donald Cameron's latest venture is The Green Interview, an innovative web journalism site focusing on the environment, and he's currently on a Nova Scotia-wide lecture tour promoting energy efficiency and consumer best practices.

Silver Donald Cameron in the first half.
 
 
And; almost everyone can talk a good green game, but what happens when it comes to following up the palaver?
 
OUR Ecovillage is where the bicycle rubber meets the bike trail. A 25 acre sustainable living demonstration site and education centre, located in Shawnigan Lake, just up the road from Victoria, OUR Ecovillage has been living the green dream, while training countless others in the ways of living they can employ to lessen their load on the environment. From food security and alternative building models, to teaching people how to live and work cooperatively, the project emphasizes it is; "by community, for community, through community." It all sounds ideal; but, there's a problem in paradise.

Brandy Gallagher is co-founder and developer of OUR Ecovillage, and is a member of TOPIA, The Sustainable Learning Community Institute. Brandy Gallagher and saving a village to save US in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us from up in the beautiful Cowichan Valley environs at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of the stories from our city's streets and beyond occurring over the past week. But first, Silver Donald Cameron and the Green Interview; conversations with people, and encounters with ideas that are re-inventing the World.
 
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca.  He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

Welcome to GR, etc. Canada, a once globally respected voice for peace, reasoned international relations, and environmental responsibility, is today widely reviled by those dedicated to maintaining the principles the current ruling structure has abandoned. Canadians, as represented by Stephen Harper at last month's Durban Climate Conference, or COP17, received the dubious distinction of half a dozen "fossil of the day" awards, and the Climate Action Network's premier recognition, the "Colossal Fossil of the Year Award" for reneging on its Kyoto Protocols ratification, and its efforts to obstruct positive measures by smaller nations to address global climate change.
 
After receiving the "award" for Canada, Nunavut teen, Jason Konek advised Mr. Harper; "I think the important part of this is for the Canadian government to see that we have been given this award, and they should be embarrassed. We need to do something about climate change not only for aboriginal people, but for the whole country." Mr. Harper has responded by announcing a five-fold expansion of the Tar Sands, and support for a massive pipeline project to transport processed bitumen through the valleys and forests of British Columbia, to be loaded on tankers destined for China and California.  

Silver Donald Cameron is a Canadian educator, activist, playwright, journalist, long-time columnist for the Halifax Sunday Herald, and the author of scores of radio and television scripts. Among his 17 book titles are: 'A Million futures,' 'Sailing Away from Winter,' 'Sniffing the Coast,' 'The Living Beach,' and 'The Education of Everett Richardson,' both recognized as being among Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books.
 
Silver Donald Cameron's latest venture is The Green Interview, an innovative web journalism site focusing on the environment, and he's currently on a Nova Scotia-wide lecture tour promoting energy efficiency and consumer best practices.

Silver Donald Cameron in the first half.

And; almost everyone can talk a good green game, but what happens when it comes to following up the palaver?
 
Our Ecovillage is where the bicycle rubber meets the bike trail. A 25 acre sustainable living demonstration site and education centre, located in Shawnigan Lake, just up the road from Victoria, Our Ecovillage has been living the green dream, while training countless others in the ways of living they can employ to lessen their load on the environment. From food security and alternative building models, to teaching people how to live and work cooperatively, the project emphasizes it is; "by community, for community, through community." It all sounds ideal; but, there's a problem in paradise.

Brandy Gallagher is co-founder and developer of OUR Ecovillage, and is a member of TOPIA, The Sustainable Learning Community Institute. Brandy Gallagher and saving a village to save US in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us from up in the beautiful Cowichan Valley environs at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of the stories from our city's streets and beyond occurring over the past week. But first, Silver Donald Cameron and the Green Interview; conversations with people, and encounters with ideas that are re-inventing the World.

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Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Gilad Atzmon, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Mark and Rhoda Berenson, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai Briemberg, James J. Brittain, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Paul Cienfuegos, David Cromwell, Ezili Danto, Jon Elmer, Yves Engler, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie Fogal, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana Johnstone, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Brewster Kneen, Betty Krawczyk, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Stephen Marshall, Robert Massoud, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Ken O'Keefe, David Orchard, Riki Ott, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Lila Rajiva, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, David Rovics, Danny Schechter, David Schindler, Vandana Shiva, Tim Shorrock, Norman Solomon, Jean Saint-Vil, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Harvey Wasserman, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Andy Worthington, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.