039: Public Policy and Environmental Podcasting with Earth Matters Host Lawson Hunter
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Lawson Hunter is the former president of the Green Party in Canada and has given his time to countless organizations, committees, and boards that focus on environmental issues. Lawson is now a blogger at NewsandComment.com and hosts the environmental podcast EarthMatters where he interviews folks in and around Ontario Canada that are creating local solutions for global problems.
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| 0:00.0 | This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 39. |
| 0:03.7 | Hey there, Sustainable Minds. |
| 0:05.2 | Have you subscribed to ASM yet? |
| 0:07.3 | Or perhaps you subscribed, but you just haven't left a rating and review. |
| 0:11.3 | Subscriptions, ratings, and reviews go a long way towards getting this show in front of even more earth-conscious individuals just like you. |
| 0:19.1 | So, wherever you listen, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or IHeartRadio, take a moment to give us some love. |
| 0:26.5 | Everybody that I've talked to, when they have a child, they think more about the future and what kind of a world we're leaving for the future generations. |
| 0:43.0 | Music what kind of a world we're leaving for the future generations. Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful |
| 0:48.6 | environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental change makers of tomorrow. I'm your host, |
| 0:58.0 | Marjorie Alexander. Lawson Hunter is the former president of the Green Party in Canada and has given |
| 1:03.8 | his time to countless organizations, committees, and boards, all focusing on environmental |
| 1:09.0 | issues and climate change. He is now a blogger at |
| 1:12.5 | news and comment.com and has an environmental podcast of his own called Earth Matters, |
| 1:17.2 | where he interviews folks in and around Ontario, Canada, that are creating local solutions for |
| 1:22.2 | global problems. So today we're going to be trying something a little bit different, since Lawson and I are both podcasters, he thought it might be a fun idea for us to interview each other on the same episode. |
| 1:33.8 | So there's going to be a little bit more shot talk this week than normal, but you'll also get to know a tad more about me and my story. |
| 1:41.5 | So I hope you'll enjoy it. |
| 1:43.8 | I'm talking to Marjorie Alexander, host and producer of a sustainable mind podcast. |
| 1:50.0 | It's been going on since 2015, correct me if I'm wrong. |
| 1:54.0 | And it's one of the few podcasts that I have found that talks about the environment, environmental issues, |
| 2:00.0 | and it's sort of similar to what my radio program is about is trying to encourage others, the listeners, to get involved in a big way or a small way. Am I correct, Marjorie? |
| 2:12.2 | You are absolutely correct Lawson, yes. |
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