The Outlaw Ocean  The high seas are beyond the reach of international law – and beyond the beat of most reporters. But Pulitzer-Prize-winner and former New York Times journalist, Ian Urbina, has sailed into uncharted territories. Urbina sets out on a years-long quest to investigate murder at sea, modern slave labour, environmental crimes and quixotic adventurers. Part travelog, part true-crime thriller, this 7-part series takes listeners to places where the laws of the land no longer exist. The Outlaw Ocean is brought to you by CBC Podcasts and the LA Times and produced by The Outlaw Ocean Project.  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1068-the-outlaw-ocean

Environmental Podcasts from the National Observer........In an era where all debate seems to be increasingly polarized, one man tries to have a reasonable conversation. Sometimes it works. Maxed Out is hosted by Canada’s National Observer’s lead columnist Max Fawcett. If you read his columns or follow him on Twitter, you’ll know Max has a take-no-prisoner approach when it comes to errors, lies and disinformation. But like so many people, Max is frustrated by the relentless partisanship and refusal to discuss things in good faith. In other words, he is maxed out. You probably are, too. In this podcast, Max invites a new guest each week to debate — even contradict — him. This isn’t about picking fights. It’s about escaping our silos and re-learning the art of disagreeing, without being disagreeable. Maybe we’ll all find some new common ground we didn’t know was there. This bimonthly podcast is part of Podcast Tuesdays at Canada’s National Observer.....up to May 2, 2023 there are twelve podcasts for listening......

Check out the video .......  New data shows: Oil and gas companies are on a massive expansion course – 655 out of 685 upstream companies on GOGEL (96%) have expansion plans.          https://youtu.be/XO6uw_z7gVk      

Stop Fixing the Old.....“These are profoundly disorienting times for humanity as political earthquakes rumble, inequalities deepen and our environment crumbles'” is the opening statement of the Rethinking Humanity video. These are other statements gleaned from the video:.....We fumble desperately for band-aid solutions but the bitter truth is that our industrial civilization has reached its end game......Collapse is inevitable, as it has been for every civilization hardwired to breach its limits........The road ahead is not an extension of the past..........Instead of projecting yesterday’s solutions onto the problems of tomorrow we need to leave behind our old mindsets.As we stand on the brink of existential transformation, we’re blind to the deeper processes of change. To recognize the mind-blowing possibility space of the next decade, as well as its catastrophic risks, we must grasp the patterns of history to understand how they can illuminate today.The following video is based on the book authored by James Arbib and Tony Seba (co-founders of RethinkX, available for free download from      http://www.rethinkx.com.              Video   https://youtu.be/r71yNnfY6ss

The Tipping Point | Climate Change: The Facts | BBC Earth   A tipping point is where even a slight amount of warming can move the climate into an irreversible state     https://youtu.be/febBRv2Vftk

What Is the Most Sustainable City in the World?......We visited the world's most sustainable cities to find out what is the most sustainable city in the world. In these green cities, we found architecture & sustainable developments which are saving our future. From Copenhagen to Singapore to Songdo, you will see a range of eco-friendly cities in this video before the most sustainable city in the world is revealed! https://youtu.be/fsWr0LfM_uQ

A lot has happened since Donald Trump took office. Here’s one presidential term, as told through climate change. https://youtu.be/zQN-EUr8FV0

Take These Video Tours to Unpack Four Vancouver Neighbourhoods.   Council for Canadian Urbanism has taken its Vancouver conference virtual this year. Because no urbanism conference is complete without a sampling of city streets, the tours are virtual too.  CanU offered four video tours this year, two of the city’s oldest areas and two of its newest. You can watch them all here.....1.Downtown South was led by Larry Beasley, the planning co-chief who helped reshape the old Yaletown rail yard into an urban community for everyone from kids to seals. Vancouver had been called an “unspectacular city in a spectacular setting” until the city builders of Beasley’s era got to work. Beasley would go on to write Vancouverism, a book on the urban design principles that professionals from around the world look to the city for.         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtzLiWdIWvU&feature=emb_rel_end            2, Olympic Village was led by Scot Hein, who was Vancouver’s senior urban designer before going on to teach at UBC. The city wanted the new neighbourhood to be a model of sustainability and was in a race against time to complete it for the 2010 winter games.      https://youtu.be/rtzLiWdIWvU                    3. Mount Pleasant was led by Alicia Medina, an architect who opened a brewery in the neighbourhood called Faculty. Mount Pleasant is a mishmash of houses from the turn of the 20th century, buildings from post-war industry and the latest wave of breweries and tech offices. An eclectic mix, with pressure as new comes to head with the old.               https://youtu.be/1RqO9zZ1jcc                  4. Chinatown- Tyee urban affairs reporter Chris Cheung, it’s easy to get lost in the aesthetics of the area, from the old buildings to the red lampposts, much of which is tourist-facing chinoiserie, what geographers call an “imagined western version of Chinese difference.” You could do a tour just on this. But what I believe visitors miss is the view of Chinatown as an actual neighbourhood, not just a museum. In its early decades over a century ago, it was a welcoming place for immigrants looking for work and community amid exclusion. Anyone who lives in a city with a Chinatown will know this.               https://youtu.be/R0SWuukyzhY

The Last Time the Globe Warmed.......Always thought that this planet as a living entity. It continues through its cycle regardless of what animal was living on it. Now it's our turn to experience it's present change.        https://youtu.be/ldLBoErAhz4