What On EARTH Can We Do?

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This seasonal podcast, produced by the Alberta Emerald Foundation, shines a light on the people and organizations driving environmental change in Alberta. Each season focuses on a different topic, from food waste to low-carbon solutions, exploring the challenge, solutions, and inspiring stories behind them. Through conversational interviews and real-world examples, we share how Albertans are creating a brighter, more sustainable future for our province and beyond!

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  1. 1

    Composting: Where Food Waste Goes When It Can’t Go Anywhere Else

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    Nov 20, 2025·22m·1 clip
  2. 2

    How One Alberta Community Rescued Nearly a Million Pounds of Food

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    Echo Food Rescue takes in about 30,000 pounds of food a month in Lacombe, Alberta.

    Nov 13, 2025·18m·1 clip
  3. 3

    Feeding Families, Not Landfills

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    Flash Food's Esther Cohn says the company has diverted over 150 million pounds of food from landfill while saving shoppers about $330 million.

    Nov 6, 2025·19m·1 clip
  4. 4

    Meet the Albertans Turning Food Waste into Fuel

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    A Calgary care home cut its food-waste pickups from 14 bins a week to 4 bins a month.

    Oct 30, 2025·21m·1 clip
  5. 5

    Can Small Businesses Help Solve Alberta’s Food Waste Problem?

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    About 15 businesses diverted 80,000 to 90,000 kilograms of organic waste, equal to 3,000 tons of CO2e.

    Oct 23, 2025·19m·1 clip
  6. 6

    Why Solving Food Waste Matters

    Oct 16, 2025·19m
  7. 7

    The Truth About Food Waste

    Oct 9, 2025·18m
  8. 8

    Alberta's Recycling Legacy

    Nov 21, 2024·29m
  9. 9

    Listening to the Land: Indigenous Wisdom in Environmental Stewardship

    Nov 14, 2024·27m
  10. 10

    Transforming Alberta’s Orphan Wells

    Nov 7, 2024·24m
  11. 11

    Power from the People

    Oct 24, 2024·18m
  12. 12

    Coexisting with Coyotes

    Oct 17, 2024·34m
  13. 13

    Preserving the Past to Build a Greener Future

    Oct 10, 2024·19m
  14. 14

    Building Alberta's Low-Carbon Future

    Oct 3, 2024·21m
  15. 15

    Cultivating Change with Calgary's Biosolids

    Nov 30, 2023·24m
  16. 16

    Building Houses with Recycled Plastic Bottles

    Nov 23, 2023·21m
  17. 17

    Guardians of the Caribou

    Nov 16, 2023·22m
  18. 18

    Plastic waste or valuable resource?

    Nov 9, 2023·21m
  19. 19

    Crafting Change: Blindman Brewing's Carbon Capture Story

    Nov 2, 2023·20m
  20. 20

    Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Efforts Protecting Alberta's Lakes

    Oct 26, 2023·23m
  21. 21

    How tire recycling is paving the road to a sustainable future

    Oct 19, 2023·20m
  22. 22

    From fields to forests: The journey toward rewilding Canada

    Oct 12, 2023·23m
  23. 23

    Gardening 101: The benefits and how to get started

    Host Bree interviews Patti Milligan from Edmonton Urban Farm about starting a backyard garden and the farm's work in environmental education.

    Feb 2, 2023·36m
  24. 24

    How your recycled bottles can help build a circular economy

    Jan 19, 2023·21m
  25. 25

    A Century of Change: How land use has altered Alberta’s natural areas

    Jan 5, 2023·27m
  26. 26

    Textile Waste: The Global Problem and Solutions for a More Sustainable Future

    Dec 20, 2022·22m
  27. 27

    Getting started with solar: Residential Edition

    Host Brie Hewitt interviews the co-CEOs of Zeno Renewables about the growth of solar energy in Canada and their goal to install solar on 1 million homes by 2040.

    Dec 7, 2022·37m
  28. 28

    How conservation is shaping our future

    Nov 22, 2022·32m
  29. 29

    A beginners guide to winter cycling

    Host Bree Hewitt interviews winter cycling advocates Jen and Jeremy Tweddle about the benefits and how to start biking in winter.

    Nov 8, 2022·36m
  30. 30

    Coping with eco-anxiety

    This episode explores eco-anxiety, its impact on youth, and coping strategies with environmental leaders.

    Oct 27, 2022·32m
  31. 31

    Learning from the pros

    Jan 21, 2022·56m
  32. 32

    Using our voices to make a change

    Dec 16, 2021·33m
  33. 33

    Reducing our emissions, one step at a time!

    Dec 3, 2021·33m
  34. 34

    Where there is water, there is life

    Nov 18, 2021·23m
  35. 35

    Growing a connection to the land - literally!

    Nov 4, 2021·38m
  36. 36

    Plastic pollution: what can we do about it?

    Oct 21, 2021·36m
  37. 37

    Creating Greener Homes & Buildings

    Oct 7, 2021·1h 6m
  38. 38

    WOECWD LIVE! – Green Events

    Dec 16, 2020·48m
  39. 39

    Sustainabi"city"

    Dec 2, 2020·28m
  40. 40

    Youth (Part Two!)

    Nov 18, 2020·29m
  41. 41

    Community & Collaboration

    Nov 4, 2020·31m
  42. 42

    Trash to Cash

    Oct 21, 2020·40m
  43. 43

    Tree Huggers

    Oct 7, 2020·39m
  44. 44

    "What On Earth Did We Do?"

    Feb 14, 2020·19m
  45. 45

    Bee-lieve in the Youth

    Feb 7, 2020·27m
  46. 46

    Renewable Energy

    Jan 31, 2020·33m
  47. 47

    The Realities of Recycling

    Jan 24, 2020·34m
  48. 48

    Land Reclamation

    Jan 17, 2020·29m
  49. 49

    Food Waste

    Jan 10, 2020·28m