Ecolibrium covers a wide array of environmental and social justice topics with a focus on featuring in-depth interviews with environmental activists, thinkers, innovators, authors, and researchers, many of whom are traditionally under-represented in the mainstream media.The host is Ryan Young who has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University and who teaches radio production at John Abbott College. Ryan is also a city councillor in his hometown of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
Episodes
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
In this episode we feature a recent interview with Captain Paul Watson from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. We discuss the state of the world's oceans, the upcoming netflix documentary Seaspiracy, and Sea Shepherd's fleet of 14 ships (the largest non-governmental navy in the world) and what campaigns they're working on.
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Plant biologist Shireef Darwish did his B.Sc. in botany at the Macdonald Campus of McGill University. An interest in how plants interact with and respond to their environment led him to study plant-insect interactions at McGill, and in 2007 he earned his M.Sc. for work on changes in gene expression in plants as a defense against caterpillar herbivores. However the reason we interview him for the Ecolibrium Podcast is because he is an insufferable mycophile (a passionate lover of fungi), and has dedicated himself to learning about this breathtaking kingdom of underappreciated organisms since high school.