We love covering local stories on Earthgauge and this week, we’re getting just about as local as we possibly can, focusing on some compelling environmental research taking place at Carleton University in Ottawa. Earthgauge contributor Juanita Bawagan will be speaking with Glennys Egan who is a Masters student whose research is based on issues of urbanization in Kenya. She has spent a significant amount of time living and working in that country and she’ll join Juanita to talk about her work there with Street Kids International and the environmental and human impacts of urbanization.
In our second half hour, I’ll with Brendan Haley who is a PhD student at Carleton’s School of Public Policy and Administration. He co-authored a recent study that warns of the potential perils to the Canadian economy if we rely too much on oil exports from the Alberta tar sands. Called ‘The Bitumen . . . → Read More: Earthgauge Radio: Tomorrow on EG Radio: Budget 2013, urbanization in Kenya and the tar sands “staples trap”