Seeking to empower and educate about our diverse forms of interaction with the natural environment, and propose viable solutions focusing on local individuals and collective initiatives.

Ecolibrium covers a wide array of both local and international environmental topics and has brought many distinguished environmental activists and writers to air including David Suzuki, Farley Mowat, Paul Watson, Bill McKibben, Wangari Maathai, Maude Barlow, Dr. Roger Payne, and Elizabeth May.

The show’s primary host is Ryan Young who has a Masters in Environmental Studies and who teaches radio production at John Abbott College.

The show endeavours to cover a wide variety of environmental topics from a critical and cross-cultural perspective, and gives air time to environmental activists, thinkers, innovators, and researchers that are traditionally under-represented in the mainstream media.

On the air since 2003

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May 20, 2025: How Climate Change is Shaping Mining in Greenland: Rare earth and sand mining in a changing Arctic

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FOR FURTHER READING:

Websites/articles:

- miningwatch.ca

- news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-indigenous-population-favours-extracting-sand-from-melting-ice-sheet/

- www.bbc.com/future/article/20250121-the-enormous-challenge-of-mining-greenland

- grist.org/energy/greenland-rare-earths-mining-geopolitics-china-us/

- grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/trump-wants-greenland-but-what-does-greenland-want/

Books/articles:

- The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

- www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00922-8

- Bendixen et al: Promises and perils of sand exploitation in Greenland

- Bendixen et al: Delta progradation in Greenland driven by increasing glacial mass loss

- Nienhulus et al: Global-scale human impact on delta morphology has led to net land area gain

- Tuhin Gosh: Adaptation for changing deltas

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