American author of Aquaponic Gardening Sylvia Bernstein on union of fish and veggies. Publisher of Mother Earth News Bryan Welch's optimism of doing. Canada's oil capital shut down.
All interviews by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock
Clip from CBC Canada of Robert Sandford on "The Current" June 21, 2013
Song clip: "Something to Live For" by Barney Bentall and The Legendary Hearts.
We start with my interview with one of the North American pioneers of a brand new method of clean food production, aquaponics. It has just arrived in North America.
I predict within ten years you will be buying organic local produce and fresh fish from neighborhood fish and veggie operations. Or maybe you'll grow it all yourself in your own back yard.
Sylvia Bernstein, author of "Aquaponic Gardening", and national grower organizer, tells us how.
Then we talk with the driving force behind the world's largest outlet for sustainable living: Bryan Welch. He's the CEO of Ogden Publications, publisher of The Mother Earth News, the Utne Reader, and Grit.
Bryan explains his optimism in dark times, and why we need non-partisan, broad-based action to change the world into the lives we want.
I briefly report on Calgary - the oil and Tar Sands capital of Canada - being shut down by flooding from an extreme rainfall event, and a stalled Jet Stream.
Who could have guessed an over-heated atmosphere could hold so much rain? Why would fossil fuel burning hit the oil patch?
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