The Climate Lens is a podcast produced by the Calgary Climate Hub. We put the big stories of our time under the climate lens as they happen, so you know how they fit into the biggest story of our lifetimes: the climate emergency. We take it all back to local-level climate action, where you have the best shot at achieving real impact. You will have a front-row seat for what we are doing here in Calgary, right now!
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Brent Toderian & the Common Sense of Climate Smart Cities
Saison 1 · Épisode 36
mercredi 20 août 2025 • Durée 31:56
On this month's Climate Lens, we welcome one of the world's top urbanists, Canadian Brent Toderian. He has been shaping conversations around smart, sustainable cities for decades, including right here in Calgary. Most recently, he co-curated the "From Paris to Belém" exhibition, an international effort celebrating urban climate policy, and connecting it to global climate goals ahead of this year’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil. With Alberta’s municipal elections fast approaching, who better to have on and tell us what types of climate solutions we can apply at the local level for a safe and prosperous climate-smart future, and what types of policies must we avoid at all costs?
Geoff Dembicki's Petroleum Papers & Canada's Carbon Capture Con
Saison 1 · Épisode 35
mercredi 23 juillet 2025 • Durée 30:08
Investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki of Desmog joins us to talk about the 'Petroleum Papers' his bombshell expose of Big Oil's dirty history on climate change, what they really think about Carbon Capture and what it all means for Canada’s so-called Clean Energy future.
New Pipelines for Canada: Nation Building or Nation Burning?
Saison 1 · Épisode 34
mercredi 18 juin 2025 • Durée 31:17
As wildfires ravage northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, the oil and gas lobby in Canada is pushing for fewer rules and restrictions on resource development. Calgary Climate Hub’s own Dr. Joe Vipond is here to remind us that this is no time for the climate movement to give up. As a medical doctor and longtime environmental activist, Vipond delivers a timely reminder to get out of the petrostate news bubble and take charge of the narrative.
National Climate League: Canada’s Cities Go Head-to-Head
Saison 1 · Épisode 33
mercredi 21 mai 2025 • Durée 30:39
In this episode of The Climate Lens, we feature Hannah Muhajarine from Climate Reality Canada about the National Climate League, a volunteer-driven report that tracks and compares how Canadian cities are tackling the climate crisis.
From innovative policies in Nanaimo and Halifax, to Calgary’s strengths and weaknesses, the NCL provides a clear, data-backed snapshot of municipal climate progress. Learn how local action stacks up across Canada, why cities are critical to climate solutions, and how you can use this report to spark real change in your community.
The Well-Being Economy: Voting For Climate, Not Billionaires
Saison 1 · Épisode 32
mercredi 16 avril 2025 • Durée 30:11
It's always easy to shrug things off by saying "well that's just how things have always been" except, when it comes to our entirely human constructed global economic system it's categorically untrue. It has NOT always been like this. Our current model which is increasingly shrinking the world's middle class, making the poor poorer, the rich richer and the world increasingly on fire is just ONE now demonstrably failing human made system. Others economic systems systems have existed before and will exist on this planet again. In 2025 it's way past time we started exploring them. This month's guest is Lindsay McLaren, Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and member of the Advisory Board of the Parkland Institute.
Oil and gas bosses have known exactly what climate change is, its relationship to their product and exactly how dire it would all get for going on 50 years now, at a minimum. Also well established and irrefutable during this time was their collective organized response, which was to first deny climate change itself, create doubt around the science (just like tobacco companies did with lung cancer & cigarettes), slow walk the solutions and create doubt around them as well, shift the blame to the individual and pretend to be partners in working to fix climate change while making everything even worse and raking in record profits while they do it. It's bad enough they did it to the rest of us for so long but a new report entitled "Polluting Education - the Influence of Fossil Fuels on Children;s education in Canada" reveals that oil and gas companies have been applying these very same tactics to school children across Canada who may not yet have the tools to critically assess them for what they are, many of whom would have never even heard of let alone understood words like indoctrination, disinformation and propaganda. With us today is report co-author, independent researcher and climate activist in Toronto Anne Keary, Retired Alberta science teacher Tylene Appel and For Our Kids activist (which is a parent-led climate change advocacy organization) and longtime Hub friend Claire Kraatz.
Veteran climate activist Tzeporah Berman shares lessons from 30 years of advocacy, including her role on Alberta’s Oil Sands Advisory Group. We discuss the energy transition, the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, and how lessons from policy-making in Alberta can shape the world.
Ranching Against the Machine: Fighting Alberta's Zombie Coal Project
Saison 1 · Épisode 29
mercredi 22 janvier 2025 • Durée 30:10
As Alberta Energy Regulator holds hearings on the Grassy Mountain coal project, rancher Laura Laing calls out the broken promises that brought this mining project back from the dead. Please note that this episode was recorded before Alberta's Ministry of Energy announced the reversal of the moratorium on open-pit coal mining on the Eastern Slopes on Monday January 20th, 2025.
Climate advocacy has taken a beating in 2024, from a disastrous American election to a disappointing COP29. It’s at times like these that we need our community more than ever, and boy, did they show up. Today the Climate Lens brings together Albertans working in environmental non-profits to share how they took their first steps to become the changemakers they are today. Our guests today:
We would also like to thank the Arusha Centre for funding this episode and supporting connections between our organizations.
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Debunk The Junk: Alberta's 7 Million Dollar Disinformation Campaign
Saison 1 · Épisode 27
mercredi 20 novembre 2024 • Durée 30:22
All too often, Alberta shows itself to be Canada's capital of climate denialism, disinformation, and outright non-science foolishness. Somehow, in fall of 2024, it got worse than ever with government threats of further crippling actions against our formerly best-in-country renewable energy industry. The launching of yet another multimillion dollar nationwide disinformation campaign against federal climate policy, this one called Scrap the Cap and funding brand new lows at the AGM for our province's governing party, where members voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that would scrap Alberta's decarbonization goals, remove the designation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and recognize prime climate change culprit CO2 as a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth. To help us cut through Alberta's latest state sponsored dump truck load of disinformation, denialism, and just flat out lies, I'm happy to have on as this month's guest, Alberta journalist and author Jeremy Appel from The Orchard on Substack, for which you can and indeed should subscribe.
