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
Radio:
CFRC Radio Podcast
https://podcast.cfrc.ca/2023/01/the-scoop-jan-4/
Television:
Global News Kingston/CKWS News
https://queensu.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2523f7cc-f28c-45d1-be74-af7301005284
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)
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
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
BBC News, London (UK), interview (forthcoming)
Public Talk:
Gananoque Probus Club, Gananoque, Ontario
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
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
Monocle Magazine interview
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
CTV News
https://www.ctv.ca/Your-Morning/Video/How-Canada-might-be-failing-at-recycling-vid1704573
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)
Canadian Horticultural Council magazine
https://www.hortcouncil.ca/en/resources/fresh-thinking-magazine/
Canadian Geographic
https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/why-we-need-totally-rethink-plastic-waste
Montréal Gazette
https://montrealgazette.com/news/stop-sending-our-trash-oversees-activists-plead
CBC News
Canada partly to blame for trash fracas with Philippines
Global News
Canada can expect more nations to send trash back
Global News
https://globalnews.ca/news/5340770/canada-garbage-shipping-philippines/
CTV National Network News
Malaysia cracks down on foreign waste from Canada
CBC Online
How does my waste wind up in places like Malaysia and the Philippines?
Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/canada-trash-problem/
Chat News Today
City News
News95.7
Royal Canadian Legion
http://rclbr50.ca/news/Item.asp?T=0&S=&pg=1&NID=1559214667
The Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/05/31/experts-call-for-ban-on-waste-exports-after philippine-garbage-embarrassment.html?rf
Suits and Boots
Digital Journal
Squamish Chief
https://www.squamishchief.com/opinion/opinion-recycle-win-or-fail-3350514
The Hamilton Spectator
Chat News Today
Darpan Magazine
2018
Print:
Toronto Sun
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/chinas-ban-on-foreign-recyclables-will-cost-toronto-millions
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
Art Installation:
Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC)
The Amoebic Workshop: A Submerged Exhibition, Toronto, Canada. ‘Microontologies of Waste’
https://www.criticaldistance.ca/program/the-amoebic-workshop/
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
Print:
Kingston Whig Standard
2010
Public meeting:
Café Scientifique panel speaker
2005
Television:
Channel Five (UK) and Discovery Health and Channel Four (International) interview
2003
Television:
BBC Northern Ireland ‘100 Years of the Census’ documentary
1997
Print:
New Zealand Herald ‘Do New Zealand Schools Have a “Culture of Violence”’
1997
Radio:
Auckland public radio interview
1991
Radio:
McGill University interview
1991
Print:
Montreal Gazette interview