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Track twenty-nine, unit thirteen, roll up your sleeves

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Reduce, reuse and recycle.

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Well, everybody knows about Greenpeace. Not so many people know about the story of Pollution Probe.

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An interview with Ryan O'Connor about Pollution Probe and the history of environmental activism in Ontario. I'm Sean Kheraj and you're listening to episode forty-seven of Nature's Past, a podcast of the network in Canadian history and environment. Environmental activism has a long history in Canada. Like others around the world, in the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies, Canadians became involved in a number of environmental non-governmental organizations or ENGOs. Picking up on a prevailing spirit of protest during the era, several environmental problems surfaced as popular political issues: air pollution, water pollution, solid waste disposal, among many others. Out of this came one of the first ENGOs in Canadian history, Pollution Probe. Born at the University of Toronto in nineteen
sixty-nine, the nascent group focused its efforts on new concerns regarding air pollution in Canada. It would go on to become one of the most influential environmental groups in Ontario and even shape a national environmental movement across the country. [...]