Green Justice

Making change meaningful: Honey Mathew and the KPU Sustainability Club

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 01:23:38 GMT

In this episode, Mark speaks with the dynamic Honey Mathew who initiated KPU's Sustainability Club in 2024 while she was a student in KPU's graduate program in Green Business Management and Sustainability.

Check out the video that the Sustainability Club made here https://youtu.be/gl4n93RmS9c?feature=shared

And here is the info for the movie 2018, which Honey mentions, and that is based on the 2018 floods in Kerala https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9006564/

For more info on the Sustainability Club, check out their Instagram site https://www.instagram.com/sustainability_club_kpu or email kpusustainabilityclub@gmail.com.

S2 E9 Robert Jago on Environmental Racism, Green Colonialism, and Indigenous Belonging

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:20:52 GMT

Robert Jago, citizen of Kwantlen First Nation and Indigenous Journalist and Writer in Residence at KPU for Spring 2025, speaks with Mark about environmental and Indigenous justice. We cover a wide range of topics, including environmental racism, green colonialism, and Indigenous belonging to land. Check out the links below for the articles that we talk about, and listen in for Robert's wisdom and wit!

The Warrior Society rises: how a mercury spill in Canada inspired a movement

Canada’s National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes

The Hungry People

Organic, local and fresh: A KPU student's view on Green Criminology

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:51:34 GMT

Paula and Mark chat with Aramayis, a KPU Criminology Major who took CRIM 3911: Green Criminology with Paula, about eco-philosophies, action projects, touching trees, the joys of leading kid's nature camps, and the heavy weight of capitalism. In addition to hearing about Aramayis's experience with green criminology, we also get insight from Paula about how she teaches green crim!

Holding Fossil Fuel Giants to Account: Andrew Gage on the Campaign to Sue Big Oil

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:45:52 GMT

Greg talks with Andrew Gage, staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, on the Sue Big Oil campaign and the grassroots effort to hold fossil fuel companies to account for the costs of climate change.

Sign the declaration and get involved here: https://suebigoil.ca

Charting a Green Course: Alexandra Taylor and Alicia Gowan on Fostering Sustainability at KPU (Part 2)

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:00:12 GMT

Mark and Paula continue their conversation with Alexandra Taylor and Alicia Gowan on KPU's "Sustainability Hub" and work underway to nurture sustainability at the institution and beyond.

https://www.instagram.com/sustainablekpu

Charting a Green Course: Alexandra Taylor and Alicia Gowan on Fostering Sustainability at KPU (Part 1)

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:18:25 GMT

Part 1 of a conversation with Alexandra Taylor and Alicia Gowan on KPU's "Sustainability Hub" and work underway to nurture sustainability at the institution and beyond.

https://www.instagram.com/sustainablekpu

Leading the Climate Strategy Effort at KPU: A conversation with Brett Favaro, KPU Climate Strategy Lead

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:59:16 GMT

Dr. Brett Favaro, Climate Strategy Lead at KPU, discusses his unique role aimed at driving concerted, pro-active and solutions-focused climate action within the university.

https://wordpress.kpu.ca/climatestrategy/about-the-climate-strategy/

Dissecting Transborder Mobilities: Conrad King on Transcending Borders in a Globalized World

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:38:16 GMT

Mark and Greg are joined by Dr. Conrad King, a faculty member in Political Science at KPU. King, an expert in issues of transborder mobilities, delves into the complexities of governance in a globalized world, particularly in regard to climate change and sustainability. He speaks on the implications of international public policies and their influence on various "mobilities" -- people, goods, capital, and even ideas -- across national borders.

Polyphonic Voices: Translating Climate Change and Sustainable Development (Part 2)

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:37:32 GMT

Green Justice's second part of Polyphonic Voices continues to explore the personal views of KPU students on nature, climate change, and sustainable development from a linguistic perspective -- as part of the Climate+ Challenge and Teaching and Learning Commons UN SDG Champions initiative.

A huge thanks again to all everyone who took the time to share their thoughts!

Polyphonic Voices: Translating Climate Change and Sustainable Development (Part 1)

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:35:56 GMT

This episode of Green Justice features discussions with KPU students as part of the Climate+ Challenge and Teaching and Learning Commons UN SDG Champions initiative. Students offered unique insights on discussing climate change and sustainable development in languages other than English. They reveal both similarities and differences in framing human relationship to nature in their home languages, demonstrating insights into sustainable practices and more relational, rather than hierarchical, ways of viewing nature. Discussion also ranges to linguistic differences in regard to humanizing nature and its presence as a refuge.

A huge thanks to all everyone who took the time to share their thoughts!

Sustainability and Engagement: Conversations at the KPU Research Showcase

Fri, 31 May 2024 23:11:45 GMT

Our final episode of the season features “streeters” – a series of short spontaneous interviews we conducted with six KPU staff and students, and one VP, at a KPU-wide Research Showcase that focused on sustainability. Interviewees were all asked the question, "What does sustainability mean to you?" Greg, Paula and Mark listen back, and use the responses as jumping off points for discussions on the intersections between social and environmental justice – with only the occasional, ever so slight, tangent.

Thank you to the kind and brilliant interviewees who gave us their thoughts!

Cover Art by Dan Lett

Theme music composed and performed by Greg Simmons

Ecological Richness and Devastation: Philip Aghoghovwia on the Paradox of the Niger Delta

Tue, 14 May 2024 12:00:01 GMT

Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia, faculty in the KPU English Department, joins Green Justice to discuss his work on literary depictions of place and life in the context of resource extraction, with a particular focus on oil, violence, and resistance the Niger Delta. This region, once ecologically rich, has suffered extreme degradation and social deprivation due to the "resource curse". Dr. Aghoghovwia explores the violence of oil production, along with the – ultimately counterproductive – forms of violence that arise in response, imbuing all life with the inescapable violence that is the very condition of accessing sustenance in a political-economy built on the exploitation of oil. He examines the role of poetry, photography, and other media in representing and understanding the environmental and social issues in the Niger Delta. The conversation delves into the parallels and differences between the Niger Delta and Canada's tar sands, highlighting the impact on local communities and the struggles for Indigenous rights. Despite the challenges, Dr. Aghoghovwia emphasizes the hope for a post-oil world that acknowledges the scars of the past and rebuilds with a keen awareness of the environment.

www.kpu.ca/arts/english/faculty/philip-aghoghovwia

Theme music written and performed by Greg Simmons

Cover art by Dan Lett

Unpacking Climate (In)justice: David Sadoway on the meaning of climate justice and engaging students on the climate crisis

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:18:30 GMT

We talk with David Sadoway, faculty member and teacher in Kwantlen's Geography and Environment Department, on the manifold nature of climate (in)justice and using narrative with students to work through the “double exposures” of social, economic and ecological risk and find mobility, food and housing solutions. Topics range widely from the imaginaries of automobility, the scales of climate justice, the inequities of risk and the fog of climate war, lived impacts from Pacific Island nations to the Arctic, the BC heat dome and floods, and the lead of Indigenous communities in finding solutions to the climate crisis and embarking on a just transition.

David | Kwantlen Polytechnic University (kpu.ca)

Climate+ Challenge – Taking Action, Fostering Hope (kpu.ca)

Surrey CityLab | KPU.ca - Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Cover Art courtesy of Dan Lett

Theme music composed and performed by Greg Simmons

Nature as Co-teacher: Richard Pierre on Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Education

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 03:34:57 GMT

Richard Pierre, Sdemokeltel, Indigenous Knowledge Keeper in Residence at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), talks with Green Justice about his personal journey, passion for sharing Indigenous ecological knowledge and commitment to Indigenous-led environmental stewardship.

Research: Aramayis Harandi

Cover Art courtesy of Dan Lett

Theme music composed and performed by Greg Simmons

Unleashing the Imagination: Dale Tracy on the Climate+ Challenge

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:49:00 GMT

Dale Tracy of KPU's English Department on her work as a coordinator of the Climate+ Challenge, a "KPU-wide initiative that engages students, staff and faculty in learning about climate change, through an empathetic and solutions-oriented lens."

https://wordpress.kpu.ca/climatepluschallenge/

Production assistance and editing: Kiana Holland.

Research: Aramayis Harandi .

Cover Art courtesy of Dan Lett.

Theme music composed and performed by Greg Simmons.

Exploring Wild Spaces: An Interview with Lee Beavington

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:20:00 GMT

Lee Beavington on KPU Wild Spaces, an interdisciplinary teaching and learning hub that focuses on ecological place-based education.

https://wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces/

Production assistance and editing: Kiana Holland.

Research: Aramayis Harandi.

Cover Art courtesy of Dan Lett.

Theme music composed and performed by Greg Simmons.

Green Justice Sprouts: Mark Vardy on Science and Technology Studies, Climate Change and the IPCC (and Punk Intros)

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:02:56 GMT

Green Justice goes full nepo right out of the gate, interviewing our very own Mark Vardy on his ethnographic work behind the scenes at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Climate, Science and Society: A Primer, to which Mark is both a co-editor and contributor, is available now from Routledge: www.routledge.com/Climate-Science-and-Society-A-Primer/Baker-Law-Vardy-Zehr/p/book/9781032530178

Production assistance and editing: Kiana Holland.

Cover Art courtesy of Dan Lett.

Theme music composed and performed by Greg Simmons.