We talk to Andrew Weaver, a prominent member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about what's at stake at the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen, talks meant to develop a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
A conversation with the Vice President of The Maldives, a country that is a collection of 26 coral Islands in the Indian Ocean with an average elevation of two metres above sea level and the first country to commit to a zero carbon footprint.
What to do about the damage that's already been done. Even if Copenhagen is a stunning success, it won't undo what we've done to the planet over the last couple of centuries. But the Royal Society of Science has some controversial ideas about what might help.
Weighing the ethics, economics and etiquette of staying home sick during the H1N1 flu pandemic. Employees are caught between staying home and leaving their colleagues to pick up the slack or going to work and infecting them.
The CBC's Linden MacIntyre on the value of trust and why it's such a recurring theme in his journalistic work and his latest novel, The Bishop's Man, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize this week.
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I got rid of Sirius radio just before the show went off air. Having finally gotten a portable device, I went to download a podcast, but lo and behold... the show I had commuted to was gone.
As a librarian, I felt the show was an excellent information resource. Similar to the relation between information and design in print, style and format does wonders for information on the air waves.
The first rule of librarianship is "ask someone who knows." BPP did that without pretense. Unfortunately, most information resources ask "someone who has a stance" or "someone who's an academic, " in which case it's just more yada yada yada.
The combination with asynchronous computer mediated communication was nice too.
And the talent and wit.
It's a shame. Hopefully the sun also rises.