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Tuesday Dec 22, 2015
Tuesday Dec 22, 2015
Episode 64
Steve Burton
Is it safe to eat?
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Steve Burton who following a terrifying bout of food poisoning changed in purpose in life and now he’s working with food producers to help them ensure the food you eat is safe.
Burton points out, “you go to the grocery store, you pick a product off the shelf, you can see if it's gluten-free, non-GMO, organic. But there's actually nothing that tells you on the product whether or not the product is manufactured by a company that takes food safety seriously.”
Burton goe on to say, it’s up to you to ask your retailer about its food safety protocols.
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Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Episode 63
Darryl Condon
The City of the Future
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Darryl Condon a civic design specialist who says no matter the arguments for or against climate, the design of cities has to change and it’s a change that includes fewer cars, better transit, greater density and liveable spaces that make city living fun and affordable.
Condon says going from now till the city of the future will be an evolutionary and complicated process, “ the city is an organism, it consists of a whole number of elements that operate by their own principles and their own dynamics. At times we applied overly simplistic ways of understanding and influencing those things and not recognized the interrelationships. Moving forward involves planning decisions, funding, which government and how many levels of government will have a voice and a role. At the other end of the spectrum is the community’s role in shaping those decisions and how are they going to feel connected to those decisions.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Tuesday Dec 01, 2015
Tuesday Dec 01, 2015
Episode 62
Gianni Kovacevic
Realistic Environmentalism
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Gianni Kovacevic who says we need to keep our climate goals in perspective. He points out that about half of the world’s population is either just entering or about to enter the consumer class.
According to Kovacevic the products they want will require energy to build, he says, “there is no government, no army and no spiritual force that will stop them from seeking the quality of life of developed nations” He says the demand for electricity will grow from 5,600 gigawatts today to more than 14,000 gigawatts in the next 25 years that’s close to a 300 per cent increase in power generation globally.
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Episode 61
Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Functional Medicine
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dr. Jeffrey Bland the father of functional medicine who says, “we’re in a time of revolution, this transition into the 21st century with biomedicine and our understanding of the origin of health and disease is truly epicly changing.”
According to Dr. Bland functional medicine reflects the coming together of western, complementary and alternative therapies. He says, “In the late '80s and early '90s we had integrated, complementary, alternative, holistic, Chinese and ayurvedic medicines and therapies. All of these were techniques or historical ways of treating patients but they lacked a kind of a coherency to link them to Western medicine, they lacked a mechanistic framework. Functional medicine is a systems biology approach to taking Western thinking and applying it to all these other disciplines.”
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Friday Nov 20, 2015
Friday Nov 20, 2015
Episode 60
Ken Peacock
Report Card on BC’s Economy
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Ken Peacock, the Chief Economist at the Business Council of British Columbia in this episode he gives us his report card on BC’s economy.
“We're in pretty good shape, we probably will see fast economic growth this year and perhaps next year as well, close to Ontario, so we'll be right near the top of the heap of the provincial growth rankings.” Peacock sites our relatively diverse and resilient economy are at the core of our economic well being.
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Friday Nov 13, 2015
Friday Nov 13, 2015
Episode 59
Charles Gauthier
ReImagining Downtown
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Charles Gauthier of the Downtown Vancouver BIA on the results of an on-line survey that asked participants to envision the downtown of 2040. That vision is a city with fewer cars, better transit, more useable public spaces, affordable housing and a stronger sense of community.
Of the 1,100 people who participated, Gauthier says the majority were under 35, “these are the people who will be in charge 25 years from now.”
Gauthier says human to human interaction was a consistent theme, “They want a more connected city, better connections with their neighbors. They talked about making it a lot easier for people to get around. There was a focus on public squares, a more vibrant arts and culture community, being more liberal in terms of how we celebrate in the city and part of that was more liberal liquor laws and being able to go out and celebrate in the streets.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Friday Nov 06, 2015
Friday Nov 06, 2015
Episode 58
Professor Tim Flannery
Atmosphere of Hope
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Professor Tim Flannery, the former Australian Climate Commission on changes in behavior and the advances in alternative energy production that have him believing in the possible.
Flannery says, “a couple of years ago I started to realize there was an extra tool in the tool kit. One that was gonna be quite important to our future, and I had to invent a name for this extra tool. I called it the third way. And really the third way is about technologies and methods and approaches that allow us to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere at a scale that makes a difference to the climate. And in a way that strengthens the earth system or ability to self regulate. And that concept is a really, really important one. “
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Friday Nov 06, 2015
Friday Nov 06, 2015
Episode 57
Dr. Steven Aung
TCM - Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Master
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dr. Steven Aung who in 1973 from his new home in Edmonton, introduced Canada to Traditional Chinese Medicine.
At the time of his arrival in Canada, Dr. Aung was an accredited Medical Doctor and a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. Dr. Aung believed then as he does now both forms of treatment are needed and valuable tools in healing and in living well. He says, “ Western medicine is exceptionally good at treatment and Chinese medicine offers compassion and loving kindness. Without kindness there is no healing. Where there’s no healing, there’s no medicine. So I believe fully that integrated, compassionate medicine is our next century medicine.
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Friday Nov 06, 2015
Friday Nov 06, 2015
Episode 55
Adam Fair - Prosper Canada
The high cost of low living
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Adam Fair of Prosper Canada an organization that is addressing poverty. Fair says, “In a country that is so wealthy and prosperous, how is it that we cannot find a way to share that wealth and well-being and that opportunity for all Canadians?”
He goes on to point out the cost of poverty is extremely high in health care, crime, education and in the lost opportunity cost to individuals and the country as a whole. Fair says, “our economy is built on all individuals across the country doing well. It’s not just a matter of a select few that have been able to build wealth and well-being. And so, I think, it matters to the strength of our economy, to our democracy, that everyone is participating, and contributing.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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Saturday Oct 24, 2015
Saturday Oct 24, 2015
Episode 56
Adrian Corless
Carbon Eaters
This week’s Conversation That Matters features Adrian Corless of Carbon Engineering, a company that is literally capturing carbon from the air and mixing it with hydrogen and turning it into fuel.
Corless says, “ultimately we're producing synthetic fuels using atmospheric carbon as a feedstock. We also need a source of energy, and for us that’s renewable hydrogen.” In doing so, Corless and his team are displacing buried carbon and replacing it with spent carbon which equals fuel without a carbon increase.
“I think this is really the game-changer” adds Corless, “I really truly hope that the technology ultimately helps solve the carbon challenge.”
Conversations That Matter is a partner program with the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for these important and engaging Conversations shaping our future.
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