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The Green Interview fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

2000-2020.

Reference:

R16853-0-7-E

Type of material:

Sound recordings, Textual material, Moving images, Photographs

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Item ID number:

5811850

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The Green Interview fonds
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Fonds includes:

4 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

2000-2020.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

Argentina, Australia, Bhutan, Bolivia, Denmark, Ecuador, Iceland, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

Extent:

3067 textual documents (.doc, .docx, .eml, .jpg, .odb,.ods, .odt, .pdf, .png, .ppt, .pptm, .pptx, .rtf, .txt, .xls, .xlsx.)
642 photographs (.bmp, .jpg, .png).
248 video files (.mov, .mp4).
122 audio files (.mp3).
98 closed captioning files (.VTT, .SRT).
30 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English
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The Green Interview fonds [textual record (electronic), sound recording (electronic), moving images (electronic)]

The Green Interview fonds [textual record]

The Green Interview fonds [multiple media (electronic)]
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The fonds documents The Green Interview, a series of 100 long-form interviews on environmental issues. Topics included climate change, ecology, Indigenous perspectives, human health, pollution, fisheries, and sustainable development. The interviews were conducted by journalist and interviewer "Silver" Donald Cameron and videographer Chris Beckett from 2009 to 2020.

The fonds includes recordings of interviews and office files that document the administration and finances of The Green Interview. The office files also document Silver Donald Cameron's writing, research, book and lecture tours, teaching at Cape Breton University and other activities.

Records include audio and video recordings of the interviews, transcripts, closed captioning files, financial documents, articles, presentation texts and photographs.

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The Green Interview
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Cameron, Silver Donald, 1937-2020

Beckett, Chris
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The Green Interview : The Green Interview is a series of 100 long-form interviews conducted and recorded between 2009 and 2020 by Silver Donald Cameron and Chris Beckett.

The interviews addressed environmental issues. Topics included climate change, ecology, Indigenous perspectives, water, pollution, fisheries, wild animals, sustainable development, sustainable harvesting, human health, finance, investing, business, social justice, governments.

Interviewees included environmentalists, scientists, Indigenous elders and leaders, activists, researchers, ecologists, business people, professors, writers, musicians, lawyers and journalists.

Notable interviewees include Margaret Atwood, Robert Bateman, Sarika Callis-Suzuki, Jane Goodall, Steven Guilbeault, James Lovelock, Albert Marshall, Elizabeth May, Edmund Metatawabin, George Monbiot, Farley Mowat, Daniel Pauly, David Suzuki and Paul Watson.

Approximately half of the interviews were conducted in Canada; the others were conducted in England, Scotland, Netherlands, Argentina, India, United States and other countries.

The Green Interview also created six documentaries: "Bhutan: The pursuit of Gross National Happiness," "The Celtic mass for the sea" (musical performance), "Defenders of the dawn: green rights in the Maritimes," "Green rights: the human right to a healthy world," "Salmon wars: salmon farms, wild fish and the future of communities" and "Stars and pop cans: the green goals of a college."

The Green Interview continued until Silver Donald Cameron's death in 2020.

Cameron, Silver Donald, 1937-2020 : "Silver" Donald Cameron (1937-2020), journalist, interviewer, writer, professor, was born in 1937 in Toronto, Ontario. As a child, he moved with his parents to British Columbia. He earned a bachelor degree from the University of British Columbia and later taught there. He earned a PhD in English literature and in 1968 became a professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. He was an editor of "The mysterious East," a magazine about Atlantic Canada.

He wrote, produced and narrated documentaries and drama for television and radio. He wrote a number of books including "The education of Everett Richardson: the Nova Scotia fishermen's strike 1970-71," about the struggle of fishermen looking for better pay and working conditions, and "Wind, whales and whisky: a Cape Breton voyage" about sailing a schooner through the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

Starting in 2009, he and videographer Chris Beckett worked on The Green Interview, a series of long-form interviews that focused on environmental issues.

He was married to Lulu Terrio-Cameron from 1980 until her death in 1996. In 1998, he married writer Marjorie Simmins. He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2020.

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Multiple media (electronic) (Electronic) MSS2736 (90: Open)

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General note:

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From the opening scenes from the short film called "Business as (un)usual": "Our most important problems are not out there. We can stop global warming, we can pull carbon back out of the air, we can stop destroying forests and birds and animals, we can purify the water. We know how to do all that. Our worst problems are here, between our ears. And that's why it is important to know people who full of practical knowledge and soaring imagination and unquenchable hope: people who study and protect wildlife, people who build non-polluting cars, protect seeds and build organic rooftop farms. Indigenous wisdom-keepers and artisans and scholars. Scientists who understand climate change and coral reefs and fish populations. Authors and journalists and artists and musicians. Lawyers in sombre courtrooms defending the living world. Teenagers fighting for food they can trust and rivers they can swim in. Business owners and investors shaping a healthy economy. Political leaders with ecology in their hearts and their policies. These are the people you will meet at The Green Interview. [...]." (For the film, see Mikan 5858807.)

Source of title:

Title based on content of the fonds.

Arrangement note:

The fonds is arranged in four series: Interviews; Office files - The Green Interview; Office files - Green Rights; and Office files - general.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Related material:

For material related to Silver Donald Cameron, see: Colbert Agency fonds (R2841, Mikan no. 107129), especially the series "Client files"; Réshard Gool fonds (Mikan no. 181064, R5811), especially the series "Correspondence"; Marigold Charlesworth and Jean Roberts fonds (R5752, Mikan no. 181061), including the file "Radio Drama Script. Silver Donald Cameron. 'Zwicker'" (Mikan no. 4724211).

For other material related to the environment, see: James P. Bruce fonds (R16552, Mikan catalogue no. 5665879) and James MacNeill fonds (R16567, Mikan catalogue no. 5673182).

Subject heading:

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Environment - archival fonds

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2022-00289-X
2022-00290-3
2022-00291-1
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Sound recordings : electronic

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Textual records: electronic

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Moving images (video): electronic

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Graphic(photo): electronic

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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

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