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Riding into the Future (Season 2, Ep. 8)

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Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond

A podcast from Sierra Club BC

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We’re entering a brave new world with the transition to clean energy—one of challenge and opportunity. Few places is this more visible than in the world of transportation. While some people see the future as being primarily about electric vehicles, others are questioning our whole approach to getting around. 

In this episode, we explore what transportation could look like in the future.

We’ll revisit the 2010 Olympics with Vancouver’s Transportation Planning Manager Dale Bracewell to hear how this temporary experiment in a mass shift of people out of cars showed what’s possible when we collectively point toward a common goal. We take a leap with Gordon Price, professor of transportation planning at Simon Fraser University, into a possible future where commerce, transportation, technology and the service economy could come together into a single transportation service provider.

Listen to Episode 9 next or find all of our previous episodes here.

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Sue Elrington with Vancouver’s Transportation Planning Manager Dale Bracewell.

Mentioned in this episode:

City of Vancouver Transportation 2040 Plan

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Douglas Magazine: Yes, We’re Still Smart

What’s It Like Living in a City Without Uber or Lyft? Ask Vancouver.

This Is the Year Electric Car Racing Gets Real

The rise of mobility as a service: Reshaping how urbanites get around (2017)

Dalhousie University Connect Smart – What is Mobility as a Service (MaaS)?

Transportation Transformation: Building complete communities and a zero-emission transportation system in BC

Rethinking Land (Season 2, Ep. 7)

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Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond

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When colonizers first set foot on this land, their goal was to claim as much of it as possible for themselves. They paid no attention to the fact that Indigenous peoples here had their own governing structures and laws already in place. To the early settlers and explorers, land equaled money and power. To this day, some of us still view the value of land simply in terms of the money it can generate, whether that’s from logging the trees, mining for gold, digging up oil and gas or developing real estate.

But now we’re confronting the harsh impacts this approach has had for climate change and for Indigenous peoples. So what can we do differently? How can we avoid repeating the mistakes of the past?

This episode invites us to rethink our approach, and explore what we can learn from Indigenous law about being more respectful of the land as we transition to clean energy.

We talk with Dene activist Caleb Behn about how renewable energy projects must not be approached in the same ways oil and gas projects have. Molly Wickham of the Wet’suwet’en Nation talks about the impact of disregarding Indigenous knowledge about the land. Northern BC farmers Jim and Pat Strasky describe how fracking has affected their way of life. Finally, Inupiat/Inuvialuit legal scholar Dr. Gordon Christie offers insights on Indigenous law.

Listen to Episode 8 next or find all of our previous episodes here.

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L-R: Dr. Gordon Christie, Inupiat/Inuvialuit legal scholar; Caleb Behn, Dene activist; and Molly Wickham, spokesperson for the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation

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Stand with the Wet’suwet’en

Study of Indigenous Law: University of Victoria and University of British Columbia

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Tackling Inequality with Land Ownership Laws

On Fracking and Farming in Northern BC

Video: Indigenous Law Event at UVic with John Burrows and Val Napolean

Follow the Money (Season 2, Ep. 6)

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Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond

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If there’s one thing we can all agree on about oil and gas, it’s that there’s big money in it. Governments invest big money, corporations make big money—and they stand to lose big money as solar and wind rise rapidly. And they spend big money to control the narrative about Canada’s energy and economic future.

Mission Transition breaks down where your tax dollars are being invested, who owns energy, who profits, and who’s at risk of being left out in the cold.

We speak with Bill Carroll, the co-director of the Corporate Mapping Project, about the influence of oil and gas money on the transition.

Listen to Episode 7 next or find all of our previous episodes here.

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Sue Elrington with Bill Carroll

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Bill Carroll, Corporate Mapping Project

Postmedia hires former Kenney staffer to lobby Alberta government on involvement in ‘energy war room’

Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies 

Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report

Industry Responsible for 80-percent of Senate Lobbying Linked to Bill C-69

Hey millennials, don’t fall for Shell’s pop star PR

Bearing the Burden (Season 2, Ep. 5)

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Over the past few decades, oil and gas companies have fueled and financed the pumping of billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. They’ve cashed in, but who bears the cost now? Who’s responsible when thousands lose their homes to climate change fueled fires and floods? Who pays when crops fail in droughts? Who’s on the hook when house values plummet in hurricane zones? We’re being told it’s up to us as individuals to be responsible for the shift to a climate-friendly world, but is this really fair?

In this episode, we explore who bears the burden of responsibility for this transition. 

To find out, we speak with Catherine Gauthier of ENvironnement JEUnesse about their class action lawsuit against Canada over climate inaction. We hear from the Mayor of Victoria, Lisa Helps, about the burden on municipalities. And we talk to Anjali Appadurai formerly of West Coast Environmental Law about who’s really responsible, and how personal guilt is not going to help move us forward.

Listen to Episode 6 next or find all of our previous episodes here.

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Podcast Episode 5 interviewees

L-R: Anjali Appadurai with Sue Elrington, Lisa Helps and Catherine Gauthier.

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ENvironnement JEUnesse lawsuit against the Canadian government on behalf of young people and a safe climate

Oregon and California crabbers sue fossil fuel companies

More on lawsuits against oil and gas companies from West Coast Environmental Law

Accountability letter a ‘fair’ way to share cost of climate impacts, Victoria mayor asserts

Kim Kardashian’s private firefighters expose America’s fault lines

Wealthy’s use of private firefighters ignites debate in wildfire country

How federal disaster money favors the rich

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps

VIDEO – Anjali Appadurai on feeling guilty About climate change, from West Coast Environmental Law

EVENT: Green New Deal Town Hall – Lekwungen Territories/Victoria

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Thursday May 23

6:30pm – 9:00pm

Fernwood Community Centre Gym (1240 Gladstone Avenue)

Lekwungen Territory (Victoria)

Join us for a town hall on the Green New Deal at the Fernwood Community Centre gym.

The Green New Deal is a bold vision for tackling climate change and inequality at the same time. That means totally re-organizing our economy to run on 100% renewable energy, creating millions of jobs, respecting the rights, title, and sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples, and enshrining dignity, justice, and equity for all.

The week of May 20 there will be town halls across the country to crowdsource ideas for what a Canadian Green New Deal could actually look like. We have the opportunity to define what it means for our community here in Victoria. We can lobby for massive government investment but we can also start changing the economy ourselves.

We invite people from all walks of life and all movements — Indigenous communities, anti-racist activists, the labour movement, faith groups, anti-povery activists, environmentalists, and everyday people — to come to the town hall and shape this vision. Bring your friends and neighbours.

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Co-hosted by: Rise and Resist, Social Environmental Alliance – SEA, and Sierra Club BC

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