Roundtable Discussion on Environmental Sustainability with Taras Grescoe, Holly Dressel, and William Marsden

Here’s a link to download my radio piece on environmental sustainability (fish, but also larger economic issues) with three Montreal authors: Taras Grescoe (“Bottomfeeder”), Holly Dressel (“More Good News”) and William Marsden (“Fools Rule”). The discussion took place at the Atwater Library and was moderated by Anne Lagacé-Dowson.  Though all the panelists are considered experts on some aspect of the sustainability, Holly Dressel has an interesting response to Grescoe’s interpretation of the “greenness” of hydro-electric power, which comes near the end of the audio.

Dressel did come back to the idea of improvement being foreseeable and Marsden, Grescoe, and Dressel all insisted on political involvement, though Grescoe gave the responsibility to citizens to push politicians through public action while Marsden gave responsibility to politicians. All in all, the audience left the discussion feeling optimistic, as though they’d heard, in Ms. Dressel’s words, some “good news for a change”.