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This episode of The Green Interview features Alberto Acosta, an Ecuadorian economist and the country's former minister of energy and mining. Acosta was also the driving force behind the groundbreaking Yasuní-ITT Initiative, an offer by Ecuador to fight climate change by forgoing oil exploration and production in a large tract of untouched rainforest. Acosta is also the ex-president of the Constituent Assembly charged with drawing up the now famous...

This episode of The Green Interview features Daniel Sallaberry, the lawyer behind the "Mendoza Case," a lawsuit filed in 2004 by the residents of an impoverished neighbourhood bordering the Riachuelo River in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more than 200 years the river has been horribly polluted, carrying the run-off from tanneries, oil refineries, chemical industries, shanty-towns and farmlands. The lawsuit was brought against the city, the province,...

This episode of The Green Interview features Pablo Solón, who as a Bolivian diplomat promoted his vision of a post-capitalist world but resigned in disillusionment with Evo Morales' perceived betrayal of his own professed ideals. Solón organized the World People's Conference on Climate Change in Bolivia, which gave voice to the global south and produced the Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. He discusses the ideas behind this document, and...

This episode of the Green Interview features Amy Larkin, an award-winning entrepreneur, environmental activist, and author who works with corporate executives to create more sustainable enterprises. Larkin was the founding director of Greenpeace Solutions. She now has the consulting firm Nature Means Business and she's the author of the 2013 book Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy in which she issues a clarion call for...

This episode of The Green Interview features Tzeporah Berman, who has been designing and winning environmental campaigns in Canada for two decades. She discusses these campaigns, including the 5-month-long protests of old-growth logging at Clayoquot Sound, the protection of the Great Bear Rain Forest, pressure on Victoria's Secret. She discusses her approach to working with industry once she has forced it to negotiate. She discusses her transition...

This episode of the Green Interview features Antonio Oposa Jr., one of Asia's pioneering activist lawyers in the arena of environmental law. Hailing from the Philippines, Oposa is best known for the David and Goliath battles he's waged against the Philippines government. With flawless legal maneuvering, he has effectively managed to protect forest and marine areas in his native country and is probably best known for establishing the principle of inter-generational...

This episode of The Green Interview features Femke Wijdekop, a Dutch lawyer, broadcaster and researcher with the Institute for Environmental Security, an organization whose aim is to "advance global environmental security by promoting the maintenance of the regenerative capacity of life-supporting ecosystems." In this exclusive Green Interview, Wijdekop discusses the concept of ecocide and the growing movement to have it brought within the jurisdiction...

This episode of The Green Interview features Anders Hayden, author of Sharing the Work Sparing the Planet and more recently, When Green Growth is Not Enough: Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency. A leading proponent of new work schedules, Hayden argues that working people have historically pushed for reduced hours since the start of the industrial revolution to create more jobs and to "live dignified and healthy lives," but that...

This episode of the Green Interview features Stephen Leahy, an independent environmental journalist and author. Leahy is the lead international science and environment correspondent at Inter Press News Service Agency (IPS), where he writes about climate change, energy, water, biodiversity, development, and native peoples. In his award-winning 2014 book Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts about How Much Water we Use to Make Everyday Products,...

This episode of The Green Interview features Osprey Orielle Lake, an artist, activist, and advocate for social and environmental justice. Lake is the founder and president of the Women's Earth and Climate Caucus, and co-chair of International Advocacy with the Global Alliance for The Rights of Nature. She is the author of Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture With Nature and the sculptor behind the International Cheemah Monument Project. In...