Full Professor
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Queen's National Scholar
Public Knowledge Mobilization
2023
Public Video:
Penser l'Anthropocène avec Myra Hird - Ecole Urbaine de Lyon EUL
https://youtu.be/Fwuf20SHTsA
2022
Radio:
CBC’s The Sunday Magazine
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Radio:
CFRC Radio Podcast
https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2023/01/the-scoop-jan-4/
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Television:
Global News Kingston/CKWS News
https://queensu.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2523f7cc-f28c-45d1-be74-af7301005284
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Public Talk:
Third Age Learning - York Region
Public Talk:
Eastern Ontario Natural-History Society/Société Paléontologique d’Ottawa (EONS/SPO)
2021
Public Video:
Archives of the Future, Open Space Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Public Talk:
AMS Society, Queen’s University Presentation
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Presentation
Longpoint Biosphere Podcast
Consultation Presentation and Interview:
Kingston City Council
Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) Presentation to the Government of Quèbec
https://www.bape.gouv.qc.ca/fr/dossiers/etat-lieux-et-gestion-residus-ultimes/webdiffusion/
Print:
National Observer
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/04/05/news/cutting-back-waste-possible-if-you-can-afford-it
National Observer
The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/06/24/Climate-Disaster-Hidden-BC-Forests/
The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/06/10/How-Uber-Rich-Transformed-Housing-Vancouver-World/
e-Flux
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/115/374863/cloudy-swords/
Frankfurter Rundschau
Rue 89Lyon
https://www.rue89lyon.fr/2021/06/22/podcast-repolitiser-la-gestion-des-dechets/
The Hill Times
Darpan
2020
Print:
Yahoo! Canada interview on landfills in Ontario
Ontario’s Big Cities Face Looming Landfill Shortage after change to approval process
Canadian Geographic interview on plastics waste (forthcoming)
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CBC News, Canada is asking for more time to enact a promised ban on shipping plastic waste
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/plastic-waste-basel-convention-canada-1.5495920
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CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-us-plastic-waste-basel-1.5827340
CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/landfill-ontario-garbage-environment-1.5772608
Global News
https://globalnews.ca/news/7387327/kingston-businesses-react-single-use-plastics-ban
Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/06/03/why-the-man-at-the-centre-of-last-years-canada-philippines-trash-crisis-says-ottawa-owes-him-an-apology.html?rf
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BBC News, London (UK), interview (forthcoming)
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Public Talk:
Gananoque Probus Club, Gananoque, Ontario
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Two Church Lunch and Learn Group, Kingston, Ontario
Radio:
« Regards sur nos déchets » Interview (in French) public broadcast, École Urbaine de Lyon
https://www.sondekla.com/user/event/10432
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Radio:
« L’amont et l’aval de nos déchets » Interview (in French) public broadcast, École Urbaine de Lyon
https://www.sondekla.com/user/event/10496
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Monocle Magazine interview
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Television:
Cityline CITYTV interview
Radio:
CFRC interview
https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2020/10/prof-myra-hird-discusses-government-ban-on-single-use-plastics-in-canada/
2019
Television:
CBC Marketplace
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/plastics-recycling-waste-overseas-marketplace-1.5292512
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CTV News
https://www.ctv.ca/Your-Morning/Video/How-Canada-might-be-failing-at-recycling-vid1704573
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Global News
https://globalnews.ca/news/5340770/canada-garbage-shipping-philippines/
https://globalnews.ca/news/5340770/canada-garbage-shipping-philippines/
MSNBC News
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/weather/dirty-little-secret-canadas-recycling-problem-revealed-in-trash-dispute/vp-AAC9PGt
Radio:
The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti
https://podcast-a.akamaihd.net/mp3/podcasts/current-EXjWrAqD-20190425.mp3
Print:
Basel Action Network (BAN)
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Canadian Horticultural Council magazine
https://www.hortcouncil.ca/en/resources/fresh-thinking-magazine/
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Canadian Geographic
https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/why-we-need-totally-rethink-plastic-waste
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Montréal Gazette
https://montrealgazette.com/news/stop-sending-our-trash-oversees-activists-plead
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CBC News
Canada partly to blame for trash fracas with Philippines
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Global News
Canada can expect more nations to send trash back
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Global News
https://globalnews.ca/news/5340770/canada-garbage-shipping-philippines/
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CTV National Network News
Malaysia cracks down on foreign waste from Canada
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CBC Online
How does my waste wind up in places like Malaysia and the Philippines?
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Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/canada-trash-problem/
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Chat News Today
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City News
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News95.7
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Royal Canadian Legion
http://rclbr50.ca/news/Item.asp?T=0&S=&pg=1&NID=1559214667
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The Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/05/31/experts-call-for-ban-on-waste-exports-after philippine-garbage-embarrassment.html?rf
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Suits and Boots
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Digital Journal
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Squamish Chief
https://www.squamishchief.com/opinion/opinion-recycle-win-or-fail-3350514
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The Hamilton Spectator
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Chat News Today
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Darpan Magazine
2018
Print:
Toronto Sun
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/chinas-ban-on-foreign-recyclables-will-cost-toronto-millions
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Art Installation: University of Toronto Mississauga
‘Canada’s Waste Flow’, The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK)
2017
Radio:
CBC interview on waste issues in Canada
2016
Magazine:
Canadian Geographic interview
https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/why-we-need-totally-rethink-plastic-waste
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Art Installation:
Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC)
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The Amoebic Workshop: A Submerged Exhibition, Toronto, Canada. ‘Microontologies of Waste’
https://www.criticaldistance.ca/program/the-amoebic-workshop/
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2014
Art Installation:
‘Waste Stratified, on the Road to Nowhere’. Art installation for Tomás Saraceno and Sasha Englemann’s ‘Monument to the Anthropocene”
http://www.sashaengelmann.com/blog/2014/10/14/a-monument-to-the-anthropocene
2013
Magazine:
(e)Affect Magazine (Queen’s University) interview
https://www.queensu.ca/vpr/canadas-waste-flow
2012
Radio:
CKUT Montreal interview
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Print:
Kingston Whig Standard
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2010
Public meeting:
Café Scientifique panel speaker
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2005
Television:
Channel Five (UK) and Discovery Health and Channel Four (International) interview
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2003
Television:
BBC Northern Ireland ‘100 Years of the Census’ documentary
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1997
Print:
New Zealand Herald ‘Do New Zealand Schools Have a “Culture of Violence”’
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1997
Radio:
Auckland public radio interview
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1991
Radio:
McGill University interview
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1991
Print:
Montreal Gazette interview
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