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Is It Too Late for Environmentalism? http://bit.ly/K0hULK Peak oil, the energy crisis and the "climate hurricane" with expert Robert Rapier. Then green law professor Michael M'Gonigle explains "Exit Environmentalism" - leaving the old campaigns, and maybe society, behind. Radio Ecoshock 120509 1 hour. Give up hope and exit out of environmentalism? In the UK, deep greener Paul Kingsnorth says he's leaving the climate movement, which is lost anyway. Who else is on the way out the door? This week we'll hear a challenging interv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IT'S WRONG TO WRECK THE WORLD http://bit.ly/JT8ingFrom Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore delivers an artful talk about our attack on Nature, and hope of reviving love instead. Recorded in Vancouver. With readings from her work & original songs by Libby Roderick and Tempting Eve.I record a lot of speeches, and listen to many more. This talk by Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore of Oregon State University is one of the best speeches of 2012.The title was "It's Wrong to Wreck the World: Climate Change and the Moral Obl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Beginning of The End http://bit.ly/IEik8w Economic collapse will come before peak oil or climate disruption, says investment guru Chris Martenson, author of "Crash Course". Matthew Stein, author of "When Technology Fails" explains how a solar flare could cripple society and set off 400 Chernobyls - and how we could fix it. Alex rants against 2012 mythology. Radio Ecoshock 120425 1 hour. Sorry, it's a long blog this week. Blame it on our guests - they had too many good things to say! If you want to quickly down ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fire! In A Crowded World http://bit.ly/JfocDr Wild fires from climate change cause still more warming. Three experts from American Academy for the Advancment of Science meeting February 19th recorded in Vancouver by Alex Smith. Michael Flannigan, U of Alberta on fire and climate. From UBC medical unit, Dr. Michael Brauer on health impacts and personal protection during smoke events. Tasmania's Fay Johnston' estimation of global annual deaths from landscape fire smoke. Radio Ecoshock 120418 1 hour.I've been working ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Worst Problems In The World http://bit.ly/HqmRdo Could the collapse of the fuel pool at Fukushima Reactor #4 endanger the Northern Hemisphere? Nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen explains. Then a top Canadian scientist exposes a scandalous government cover-up of poisons moving from the Tar Sands to dying aboriginal people. David Schindler speech excerpts. Plus a climate rant by comedian Lee Camp. -----------------------The nuclear accident at Fukushima Japan is far from over. Thre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Relapse and Recovery http://bit.ly/HsX2ac A fresh update on Japan after the tsunami and nuclear accident with Warren Karlenzig. Is it a chance to build new green cities, or a vision of what we all face as the oil runs out? Then a quick interview with anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott, and Marsha Coleman-Adebayo at the Occupy the EPA protest in Washington. We conclude with an invitation by Susanne Moser to "get real" about our difficult future as we destabilize the climate.BACK FROM POST NUCLEAR JAPAN ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Summer in March http://bit.ly/GRGbPD Summer in March? I ask the experts, Joe Romm of Climate Progress, and Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground. Then we visit with Professor Raymond De Young.When we get exciting weather, it's hard to beat the Dr. Jeff Masters blog at the Weather Underground. Jeff has taught meteorology, he's been a Hurricane Hunter for NOAA, and still watches storms and all forms of strange weather.A BUNCHA HOT MARCH LINKS FOR YOUHere is a link to Jeff's key blog post on "Summer in Ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Go Green Media http://bit.ly/GJPcvJ How can we be optimistic? Publisher of The Mother Earth News, Bryan Welch. From D.C. Environmental Film Festival, Harry Lynch, Director of "Switch", Alexandra Cousteau, and Robert Cole.This week on Radio Ecoshock, we go green media. You'll hear an interview with Bryan Welch, publisher of the Mother Earth News and the Utne Reader. Then off to the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, to talk with directors and producers of the energy film "Switch" and previews of the Blue ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fukushima Disaster - One Year Later http://bit.ly/wS7C5M From "Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - One Year After" nuke expert Arnold Gundersen & 2 Japanese activists from Fukushima. Radio Ecoshock 120314 Music bed credit: drums by VastmandanaOn the anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan, I am taking you with me to a heart-breaking conference organized by physicians, to assess the on-going damage.You will hear the latest from nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen, just back from Japan. He'll tell us about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Private Spies: WikiLeaks Outs Stratfor http://bit.ly/Avg7gI Julian Assange of Wikileaks reveals private intel company Stratfor spying on NGO's, helping big corporations and banks with government secrets. Ecoshock 120307Today on Radio Ecoshock you will hear about the brave new world of privatization of intelligence services, global corruption, and abuse of media services for propaganda, big corporations, and private gain. This whole program lets you hear what mainstream media fails to deliver. You will hear critical excerpts fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Free the Climate Scientists! http://bit.ly/Ad7hzA Dr. John Mashey investigates right-wing billionaires & corporations who pay alleged "charities", bloggers, & old weathermen to deny climate science. Canadian journalist Margaret Munro on government muzzling scientists, plus update by UCS Francesca Grifo on science freedom in U.S.----------The fossil fuel industry have teamed up with very wealthy idealogues to make you doubt global warming is happening, or that we are forcing big changes in the climate.For years, we gue ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hot Earth: Science & Anti-Science http://bit.ly/w1bCQY Listen to presentations by NASA climate scientist James Hansen, and best-selling author and science writer Cris Mooney at 2012 AAAS.Just back from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science annual conference 2012, this is Alex Smith. I've recorded two of the best speechs of the weekend gathering of thousands of scientists, held this year in Vancouver, Canada.Download/listen to James Hansen (29 min) CD Quality or Lo-FiDownload/listen to Chris Mooney (29 min) CD ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ARCTIC EMERGENCY Global Threat http://bit.ly/A2aJno Maybe we need a big burst of methane to get real climate action. Recent Russian expeditions to the Eastern Siberian coast find plumes of methane into the atmosphere. Is it worse than our own oil and coal pollution? I ask three top climate scientists: oceanographer Carlos Duarte, ice expert Peter Wadhams, and carbon-meister David Archer.------------Are you feeling lucky, Pilgrim? There is a growing wave of unease, even panic. Our fossil fuel civilization may be acce ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fracking - The Rest of the Story http://bit.ly/yVj7Jt Gasland director Josh Fox arrested at U.S. Congress Hearing on Fracking Feb 1, 2012. Speakers Rep Harris (R-MD), Rep Miller (D-NC), Kathleen Sgamma (Industry), John Fenton (well poisoned, Pavillion Wyoming), Theo Colborne (on air pollution health impacts of fracking, for Great Lakes United NGO). Then interview with EPA whistle-blower Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, inspiration for the No Fear Act. Radio Ecoshock 120208 1 hour. In this program, you'll hear the voices of Con ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Forever Planting (for Peak Oil & Climate Change) http://bit.ly/xFN24v Speech by Wes Jackson of the Land Institute to ASPO 2011 (the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas USA) in Washington D.C. Recorded by Gerri Williams for Ecoshock. Plus, carbon-cycle Australian scientist Dr. Michael Raupach of CSIRO on carbon to soil solutions, including biochar. Radio Ecoshock 120201 1 hourPLANTING A LONG-TERM SOLUTIONWe depend utterly on fossil fuels, especially to grow our food. From natural gas comes the millions of tons of fertilizers. Oi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oil to Occupy: The Restless West Coast http://bit.ly/waNOYN "Oil Free Coast" 3 speakers against Tar Sands pipelines and tankers in Canada, including First Nations. Then on-scene audio from Occupy Wall St West in San Francisco Jan 20th. Awaiting arrest, and crowd microphones against corporate takeover.Two weeks ago on Radio Ecoshock we heard from Australia and the distant past. Last week a top British scientist warned us of super-dangerous climate change. Now we head for the restless West Coast of North America. In Canada, tr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kevin Anderson: The Brutal Logic of Climate Change http://bit.ly/wulkTw "The future is impossible" says Dr. Kevin Anderson, former Director of UK's top climate research institute, the Tyndall Centre. Speech in London lays out our awful tilt toward an unlivable climate. Followed by discussion with Washington's Dr. William Calvin. Welcome. I'm Alex. Are you ready for the bad news about climate change? Really?I'm going to play you a speech too awful to run during the holidays. People with clinical depression and very young children may wan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE MAY FORCE HUMAN EVOLUTION http://bit.ly/wTeVfl What caused 5 previous mass extinctions of species? Scientists say we are in the 6th one now. Australian scientist Andrew Glikson reads the past, suggests the troubled future.Dr. Andrew Glikson of Australian National University studied the rocks and the timelines. He's also an expert on asteroid hits.Glikson was the Principal Research Scientist, for the Australian geological Survey Organization. Now he works with the Australian National University, and the Planetary S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oil Shock - The No Growth World http://bit.ly/zVEXwh Radio Ecoshock 120104 Oil Shock the Post-Growth World with Jeff Rubin, Charles Maxwell from ASPO 2011 and interview with Italy's Ugo Bardi on climate change vs. peak oil.The price of oil hits you at the pump, in your food bill, and everything you buy. What if you can't afford it?For years, I've covered Peak Oil as the story of a limited resource. Meanwhile, the oil industry, glutted with billions in profits, keeps drilling deeper offshore, finds more dirty oil in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FUKUSHIMA: TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES http://bit.ly/tEreAe Japan announces a fake "cold shutdown" & a new study says 14,000 Americans died of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident.COLD SHUTDOWN AT FUKUSHIMA - THE BIG LIEIn his infamous 1925 book "Mein Kamptf" Adolpf Hitler coined the term "the big lie". This lie, he said, should be so "colossal" that no once could believe anyone quote "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."This is Alex Smith. I am sorry to report the government of Japan, the Pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GREEN MUSIC FESTIVAL http://bit.ly/rOp3k3 Welcome to our annual best of green music show. You'll hear the songs of activism, despair, and love of Mother Earth.So much "blah blah blah" in the media. All those words fill our brain, and miss our hearts.That is where the musicians step in, to move us along. I'm Alex Smith. This year we've added three songs for broken economy. You'll hear two new songs for the Occupy Movement.PLAYLIST WITH LINKS TO THE ARTISTSWe kick off with "Change Change" by the Canadian gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE DOWN IN DURBAN http://bit.ly/tFbPAQ United Nations agreement fails to protect climate. Indian analyst prefers failure to empty climate agreement at COP17 Durban Dec 2011. James Hansen at AGU San Francisco Dec 6. Durban wrap up with Janet Redman of IPS. Australian Prof. Michael Raupach on burst of new carbon & changing world. Radio Ecoshock 111214 1 hour. Diplomats from all over the world are returning home after a hard-won agreement in Durban, South Africa. They agreed to do nothing to save our climate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Winter Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening http://bit.ly/w0fBnz Master winter gardener Eliot Coleman grows year round in Maine, USA. UK, guerrilla gardener Chris Tomlinson secretly plants food. "HumptyDumptyTribe" warns global famine from climate change comng soon. Winter greenhouse interview from "Locavore," with Martin Ronda at the U. of Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming. Radio Ecoshock Show 111207 1 hour.SHOW LINE UP - WITH INTERVIEW DOWNLOADS1. "Winter Gardening with Eliot Coleman" How to grow food in winter, even in Nor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE SOLUTION: FROM AIR TO SOIL READ THE NEW ALEX SMITH INTERVIEW IN GRIST MAGAZINE.Please pass that link, or this short link http://bit.ly/rxc5lj to all your email contacts, or post it in blogs. Add it to comment sections. Help get the word out, so we can get more listeners and more stations. Radio Ecoshock is broadcast on over 50 stations now. I'm working on extending it further, with more news in coming weeks. If you pass around this Grist interview you can really help!THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM: CLIMATE SOLUTION: FROM ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fracking Gas = Climate Crash For years, governments, industry, and TV ads told us natural gas is the safe bridge fuel while we move away from dirty coal and oil.Cornell University scientist Robert Howarth wondered "Is that true?". When Howarth found no science to back up big claims for the gas industry, he and a team from Cornell went to work.The results are startling. In the short-term, escaped methane from gas fracking threaten to tip us into catastrophic climate change. The total impact of the shale gas industry ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 5 Years to Climate Hell BONUS AUDIO: TELECONFERENCE with Lester Brown by Earth Policy Institute (recorded by Alex Smith) Download full conference in CD quality (22 minutes) here.Welcome. This week we have a show packed with good news, horrible news, and crazy news - all about the coming climate shift.Here is a quick show overview, with more notes below.Yes, those greenie extremists say we have only five fossil polluting years left before Planet Earth is thown on an unstoppable path toward extreme climate change. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Plane Justice - Banned In America BONUS AUDIO THIS WEEK: The complete interview with Dan Glass, the famous "Plane Stupid" campaigner from the UK. The crazy actions that highlighted the serious impacts of expanding airports and air travel. 32 minutes Lo-Fi 7 MB.Rockin' out with the Steve Miller Band, this is Radio Ecoshock. Big old jet airliner, the magic of flying, we can fly! Humans love those roaring jets so much, we hardly notice the 5 percent boost to greenhouse gases from all the jet fuel burned.You may not love t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Live From the Occupy Oakland General Strike! Remember this?The chaotic scene in Oakland, California on the night of October 25th. Former Marine Scott Olsen received serious head injuries after being shot at very close range by police clearing the Occupy Oakland site and streets.An investigation has been called into police actions. The Mayor apologized. The injury to Olsen invigorated Occupy Wall St protesters and others around the country.The ugly violence, played out on TV's around the world, also caused other Mayors to reconside ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DURBAN Conference of the Polluters This week is our first broadcast in the UK. Join us every Tuesday Noon on Resonance 104.4 FM, London. Radio Ecoshock is now carried by 48 stations on 3 continents.This program is about the upcoming "Conference of the Polluters" in Durban, South Africa. After the disappointments of Copenhagen and Cancun, does anyone really care? Do we the have the luxury of despair, as rising greenhouse gases threaten everything we know, and coming generations?The real show at Durban, offically known as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | HOMELESS - A Tour of Four Cities Some of the people camped out in Occupy Wall Street have no where else to go. As reported by Associated Press, Occupy encampments from Portland, Oregon through L.A. to Atlanta are finding homeless people moving into tent cities set up by protesters.Some Occupy sites are finding bylaws written to send away the homeless are being used to prevent Consitutional rights to Freedom of Assembly and expression.Polls show millions of Americans are just one paycheck away from losing their homes. Man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Occupied Territory Happy Birthday humans! At the end of October 2011, the 7th billion person will be born on Earth. With over a billion humans already going to bed hungry every night, this may not be a blessed event.Just twelve years after we hit the 6 billion mark in 1999, it's going to a be a lot harder to look after the new arrivals. The extra billion people will find an unstable climate, declining energy and resources, and a host of other challenges.To help us sort out what it means, and what can be d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Walker: From 6 to 7 Billiion Happy Birthday humans! At the end of October 2011, the 7th billion person will be born on Earth. With over a billion humans already going to bed hungry every night, this may not be a blessed event.Just twelve years after we hit the 6 billion mark in 1999, it's going to a be a lot harder to look after the new arrivals. The extra billion people will find an unstable climate, declining energy and resources, and a host of other challenges.To help us sort out what it means, and what can be do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bastards of a Dying World Welcome to another packed show from Radio Ecoshock!This week we cover:* behind-the-scenes panic over reports of methane blowing out of the sea-bed in the Eastern Arctic. This could dramatically increase global warming.* activist resistance against a wave of gas frackin in Australia - with a new album of great songs* a feature interview (you heard it here first) with Craig Rosebraugh on his new film about the oil giants: "Dirty Lying Bastards"* second feature interview with Peter F. Sale. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SUDDEN & ABRUPT CHANGE It's a fine time for bad news bears. World floods continue, this time in Asia. The Arctic has an ozone hole. Oh yeah, the global financial system is on the edge of bankruptcy.The economic system and the ecosphere are at risk of massive and abrupt change. From the popular financial blog "The Automatic Earth" writer "Ilagi" on the European banking mess, and blowback to America. Boston Globe journalist Dianne Dumanowski reads from book "The End of the Long Summer" (our former stable climat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How A Far Away Island Can Rock Your World FAR AWAY PLACES WILL ROCK YOUR WORLDI'm hoping my bank will still be open next Monday. Most of us are trying to get through the next week. Half of us can't live without the next paycheck.Will Europe survive? Despite the smiling faces of banking experts on TV, too many signs say "Wecome to the Great Depression". And some 1930's-style slowdown isn't the worst that could happen.In the constant drum-beat of beat-down times, it's pretty hard to care what is happening somewhere else, in plac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CORRUPTION OR TRUE ENERGY? In this week's show, we hear about another huge rain disaster in Pakistan, Dengue fever panic, and how that tropical disease is coming to America, thanks to climate change. I've included a few survival tips for you.Then a full 45 minute speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the long-time "green Kennedy" and former host of the "Ring of Fire" show on the Air America network. Whether he's talking the evils of coal, or the stranglehold of corporate media on our news, Kennedy pulls no punches. It' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fighting Fossil Goo - Activism This program features environmental activists and action.We begin with iconic anti-globalist author Naomi Klein, interviewed by Daphne Wysham from Earthbeat Radio. Naomi was outside the White House, September 2nd, on the Indigenous Peoples day of protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline proposed to carry dirty Tar Sands oil to refineries in Texas.Klein outlines the long-standing plot by the Canadian government and the Tar Sands oil companies to export oil to Europe. The Europeans are dis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Growing Through The Storm What can we learn from the storms and fires? Will gardening still be possible if the climate is disrupted? Where will fertilizer come from after Peak Oil?In this Fall 2011 Kick-off show, we have three interviews.LEARNING FROM HURRICANE IRENE"Peak Oil Shrink" psychologist Kathy McMahon starts out. Watching the TV reports, and being kind of a "prepper" - Kathy got caught in Hurricane Irene in Vermont. As the roads washed out, making a strange journey home, Kathy learned to watch what is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE: FOUR DEGREES or more... Welcome back to another season of Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith. A few years ago, one of our guests suggested as the climate destabilized, the world economy could go down with it. With one weather disaster following another, it costs more trying to recover than a country can produce or tax. Eventually, decades away, there would be no money for recovery. Governments would become incapable and bankrupt. That time is now. After a year of record snow storms, record drought and fires, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Summer Program Alert This is a message for radio stations and listeners of the Radio Ecoshock Show,I'm Alex Smith.You should have already received our four new programs for the month of July. They are: Kill the Car, The Myth of Industrial Forests, Oil and Coal - How Much Left, and The Machinery of Climate Denial.If you missed any of those, in a minute I'll tell you where to download them. These were posted on radio4all.net in the first week of July.While I am on vacation, Radio Ecoshock is offering 4 replay p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Machinery of Climate Denial IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL STATIONS AND TREASURED LISTENERS:SUMMER RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAMSI will be uploading 8 programs to Pacifica Audioport, and the publicly available radio4all.net this week, to cover my annual vacation. Load up, and you are set for the Summer. All available by Friday July 8.Podcast subscribers will receive all 8 in the next three days.Stations can also find our summer schedule, with the same programs ready for download, by Friday 8th, at our station support page: http:// ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oil & Coal - How Much Is Left? IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL STATIONS AND TREASURED LISTENERS:SUMMER RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAMSI will be uploading 8 programs to Pacifica Audioport, and the publicly available radio4all.net this week, to cover my annual vacation. Load up, and you are set for the Summer. All available by Friday July 8.Podcast subscribers will receive all 8 in the next three days.Stations can also find our summer schedule, with the same programs ready for download, by Friday 8th, at our station support page: http:// ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Myth of the Industrial Forest IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL STATIONS AND TREASURED LISTENERS:SUMMER RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAMSI will be uploading 8 programs to Pacifica Audioport, and the publicly available radio4all.net this week, to cover my annual vacation. Load up, and you are set for the Summer. All available by Friday July 8.Podcast subscribers will receive all 8 in the next three days.Stations can also find our summer schedule, with the same programs ready for download, by Friday 8th, at our station support page: http:// ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | KILL THE CAR Studies show humans rate driving and commuting as the most stressful time every day. They are not aware of the harmful fumes filling the car. Or the carbon pouring up into the atmosphere.As times get hotter, they crank up the air-conditioning, burning more fuel.Most people will work until mid-April just to pay their car costs. That's just their personal share. More is paid by all levels of government, to keep the road network going. The auto, insurance,construction and oil gang domina ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | De-Growth - the Alternative to Collapse II Should we wait for the oil to run out? Food to run out? For collapse?Or can we plan our way back down, through power-down, simplification, localization?You have heard the big banks, in Europe, America and Japan are actually bankrupt. They still value their real estate collateral at the high points before the crash.Most National governments are also bankrupt. Not just Greece, but Japan, Britain, and America too. They have borrowed more than they can ever repay.We are also past peak oil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | De-Growth - the Alternative to Collapse II Should we wait for the oil to run out? Food to run out? For collapse?Or can we plan our way back down, through power-down, simplification, localization?You have heard the big banks, in Europe, America and Japan are actually bankrupt. They still value their real estate collateral at the high points before the crash.Most National governments are also bankrupt. Not just Greece, but Japan, Britain, and America too. They have borrowed more than they can ever repay.We are also past peak oil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | U.S. Nuclear Scares, Fukushima Update, and De-Growth Three nuclear facilities in the United States hovered on the brink of catastrophe in the last month of June 2011 - due to climate change. Nuclear reactors and labs depend upon a relatively stable climate. A single accident could permanently withdraw a large area of the United States from safe human use.Nuclear technology, instead of being a solution to climate change, is becoming a victim of it. The nuclear power plant at Fort Calhoun Nebraska was within feet of a 100 percent chance of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | OCEAN EXTINCTION & AMERICAN FUKUSHIMA The oceans are dying, says a team of top scientists. The causes are all human: overfishing wiping out key species, warmer waters from a warming world, dying coral which supported millions of species, pollution like fertilizers causing deadly algae blooms and dead zones, - a whole host of factors.But key among them: our huge carbon emissions are being sucked up the sea, turning them more acidic. As Dr. Alex Rogers explains in an audio clip, there is more than just the difficulty when plan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RISING TO THE CHALLENGE "How Will We know the crisis has arrived?"The signs are all around us. You know what I'm talking about.As our first guest Ellen Laconte says right on the book cover: "Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once - and how Life teaches us to fix it."This is a wise woman with new rules, Life Rules.To give you the flavor of our interview, I'm just going to brazenly cut and paste from Ellen's excellent web site."We’re Not Done Yet: Five Ways Humanity Can Save ItselfHumans are a remarkable, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Your Renewable Energy Path Now Welcome to Earthbeat and Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith. In this show, you will learn how to slash your carbon emissions, while gaining energy independence - hearing from people who do it now. As climate, peak oil, and economy crash into a perfect storm, get ready to keep going, get off fossil fuels, and get off the grid.This week we are talking with off-grid specialists, about your future with renewable energy. Our first guest, Cam Mather was already a publisher when his family set of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | NUKES, STORMS & FIGHTING BACK Meltdowns, storms, and ships crashing together on the high seas, this is Radio Ecoshock.For the coming months, we added dozens of new college and community radio stations to this broadcast, probably taking us to 50 more stations. I'm still counting. As you may know, Daphne Wysham and her Earthbeat radio crew are taking a break, while they re-organize. Even while off-duty, the reporter in Daphne never takes a break. Later in this program you'll hear her on-the-spot recording from a torn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FLOOD FIRE WIND - Climate Shift Welcome to Radio Ecoshock, and a special welcome to Earthbeat listeners. This is Alex Smith. We've been broadcasting to college and community radio stations for over 5 years. Now I'm filling in for Earthbeat host Daphne Wysham while that great American green radio "Earthbeat" reorganizes, and seeks new funding. Find out how you can help bring Daphne back by going to earthbeatradio.org.Meanwhile, the weird news about this Earth of ours keeps pouring in. We have a lot to cover, and some ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fracking Myths & Climate Capitalism Worried about high oil prices and exploding nuclear plants? Carry on shoppers, because we've found gold right under our feet - a bonanza of natural gas. Yes, fracking will fill your tank, heat your house, and light up the streets for another 100 years. At least that's what we've been told.A new report out from the Post Carbon Institute pokes a sharp pin in the natural gas bubble. We'll hear from energy analyst David Hughes. And in the second part of the program - a new book "Climate Ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FUKUSHIMA POISON RELEASED Welcome to Radio Ecoshock - to the program I didn't want to make.I'm Alex Smith - and I have an important show ready for you about rapidly depleting oil supplies. Post peak oil will change all of our lives in the next few years, much sooner than we thought. The speech I recorded explains the forces behind high prices at the gas pump, a hugely popular topic in North America. Lots of folks want to know why prices are going so high.Instead, I have more news nobody wants to hear about. Yes, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate, Media and Learning In the age of Fukushima. Past the time of dead terrorists and Royal Weddings. Underlying deadly storms and higher food prices, we continue our relentless carbon war against the atmosphere and the sea.In this Radio Ecoshock program 5 guests take us through the process. Almost the father of public health warnings on climate change, Harvard's Dr. Paul Epstein is our guest. Before the deadly tornados in the American South, he specifically warned of more violent weather. An advisor to gove ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FUKUSHIMA DRAMA - Are You Safe? On a heavily populated island in the Pacific, the world's third largest economy, the world is shaking. Call it 3/11 for the March 11th date when four reactors started their journey to explosions and runaway radiation.Your life will never be the same. Right now, listeners outside Japan are asking "Are we safe?" What about the drinking water, milk, food? Should we buy Japanese products?This is Alex Smith for Radio Ecoshock. I have a mountain of news you should know - and a few warning a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FUKUSHIMA FACT & FANTASY Radio Ecoshock bonus overtime feature April 29th show.Let's knock out some of the wilder stories first. I am ruling out "aliens did it", drug visions, and and astrological explanations. You can find all those on the Net.But was Fukushima made worse by a secret weapons program? Did the Americans cause this disaster with HAARP?SECRET WEAPONS PROGRAM AND FUKUSHIMAOne blogger, citing Chinese sources, says the big quake and Fukushima accident are the result of a secret Japanese nuclear weapo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BILL MCKIBBEN - Last Stand for Climate LINKS TO FULL BILL MCKIBBEN SPEECH IN VANCOUVER BELOW...This is Alex Smith, and I have a problem. Important news continues to pour out of the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, along with radiation reaching my home here on the West Coast of North America.At the same time, about a dozen listeners have sent email reminders that this nuclear accident, even at it's very worst, can never kill as many millions of people as climate change. Though Fukushima radiation may continue ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fukushima: NUCLEAR MUTINY In Fukushima Japan, we've passed another week out of eternity. Quakes rocked the damaged reactors, at the accident now rated Level 7, like Chernobyl. The evacuation zone was expanded, massive radiation admitted, and found in milk from Hawaii through California to Vermont and Europe.I'm Alex Smith. This week on Radio Ecoshock we dig to find you the news not heard. In Japan, North America, Australia, all over this world, reconsecrated to the atomic nightmare.We start out with the American ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FEAR AND LOATHING IN FUKUSHIMA Welcome to Radio Ecoshock - where we are all more radio active. It is almost a month since the multiple nuclear disasters in Japan. And still, we hardly know what to expect.Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency assured the world there would be no further explosions. The following Tuesday the Los Angeles Times reported, "Engineers also planned to begin injecting nitrogen gas into reactors Nos. 1,2, and 3 in an attempt to prevent possible explosions from the buildup of hydroge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | JAPAN: TRIPLE MELTDOWN We wake up today, as every day, with an uncontrollable nuclear wound on the side of the world. Welcome to a more radioactive world.The truth is out. Three Japanese reactors are melting down.I'm Alex Smith. In this Radio Ecoshock special, you will hear the evidence, the testimony, the awful facts. For the frightened people of Japan. For the world.Radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors has been measured on a hill just behind my home. Very small amounts have spread acr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Plutonium, more leaks, & big no-go zone - Japan This your Radio Ecoshock update on unfolding events at the Fukushima nuclear disaster - Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #5, for Monday March 28th in North America, Tuesday in Japan.Disturbing developments continue.A full 17 days after the earthquake and tsunami shut-off power to the six reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi, and long after 3 reactor buildings blew up, the Japanese government finally announced they would test for plutonium around the plant.Reactor number 3 was burning a type of pl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Heads Up - Prepare for a Japanese Nuke Melt-down Hello friends,You may be part of a small group of a few thousand people who receive the Radio Ecoshock podcast from ecoshock.org, or check the program blog, at ecoshock.info.This is my personal warning: the Japanese reactor disaster appears to be spinning out of control, heading toward Chernobyl levels.You should have at least two week's worth of water in your home. A month if you can.There is no way to boil radioactivity out of water. None of us has filters to remove it.We should try to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Nuclear Nightmare Continues In this Radio Ecoshock program you get:#1 a major interview with world-famous anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott after the Fukushima Japan nuclear accident. Red hot. Covering nuclear power threats in Japan, the United States, Canada, France, and Europe generally.#2. I talk with the "Peak Oil Shrink" psychologist Dr. Kathy McMahon about how we handle the wave of bad news lately. She has an old nuke plant 35 miles away, and will fight that license renewal.Kathy also tells us abou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Navigating the Chaos - Carolyn Baker interview transcript Do you get the feeling it is all unwinding, faster and faster? High prices for gas and food, new war and revolution, and nuclear fear. Even the Earth feels unstable, the times untrustworthy. We need professional help, and we get it in this new Radio Ecoshock interview with Dr. Carolyn Baker. Her book "Navigating the Chaos" continues to point the way to prepare, inwardly, to pick out way through land-mines like Peak Oil, climate change, and economic unraveling. A thoughtful interview, j ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE DISASTER CONTINUES Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #4 [RUSH TRANSCRIPT, MAY CONTAIN SPELLING ERRORS]Radio Ecoshock[Early March 21st, 2011 in North America]Now that the bombing of Libya has started, we can all forget about the on-going nuclear disaster. People are getting bored with news out of Japan. More than half the media is reporting the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Reactor is under control, or the authorities are making "good progress".Is it all over? Time to move along folks, nothing to see here. Our attention span is only about a week ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE DISASTER CONTINUES Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #4 [RUSH TRANSCRIPT, MAY CONTAIN SPELLING ERRORS]Radio Ecoshock[Early March 21st, 2011 in North America]Now that the bombing of Libya has started, we can all forget about the on-going nuclear disaster. People are getting bored with news out of Japan. More than half the media is reporting the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Reactor is under control, or the authorities are making "good progress".Is it all over? Time to move along folks, nothing to see here. Our attention span is only about a week ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | JAPAN: Twilight of the Nuclear Gods Welcome to Radio Ecoshock, as Japan enters history with the world's most extended nuclear disaster. At least 7 nuclear reactors, and several pools burning with nuclear waste, with a chain of violent explosions, fires and radiation blowing from the coast to the capital.I'm Alex Smith. Like you, I've been through about a week of jaw-dropping news. It has been painful and emotional, even across the ocean, to record the fear, suffering, and mass deaths in Japan.That island was moved 8 feet c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #3 Japan's nuclear crisis on Monday is now more serious than ever before.This is Alex Smith, host of the weekly program Radio Ecoshock, with Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #3, at noon Pacific Time, Monday March 14.As you know from spectacular news footage, the outer containment shell of Reactor #3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant exploded on Monday Japan time, Sunday in Europe and North America. This is the second explosion at the site, after Reactor #1 also suffered a hydrogen gas explosion ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #2 This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock with Bulletin Number Two concerning the atomic emergency in Japan, following the record-breaking earthquake and tsunami in March, 2011.As of ten o'clock Pacific Time, Saturday the containment building of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor #1 has blown up. The video of a violent explosion is seen all over Network news and the Internet. Now we learn up to six Japanese nuclear reactors are out of control and in danger of melting down.The cause of the fir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Japan Earthquake Atomic Emergency This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock with a blog and audio bulletin.Japan has 24 hours to avoid a nuclear reactor melt-down.There are reports of 5 nuclear reactors damaged either by the country's largest-ever Earthquake, but also by the tsunami that followed.The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor first lost it's water cooling system, then a backup diesel generation scheme failed. Only insufficient cooling from limited-life batteries are working.Even though rods to discourage atomic activit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Age of Ocean Warming In this week's Radio Ecoshock Show we cover one of the most under-reported stories of this century: warming oceans. Up to 90 percent of the extra heat we create with rising greenhouse gas emissions is being hidden away in the world's oceans. Now they are heating up too.Warmer oceans will lead to species extinction, adding to the great extinction now happening on land. Hotter seas expand, flooding coastlines. And warming oceans guarantee our climate will continue to heat, likely for hun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wicked Problems & Solutions Is it time for the lifeboats? Are there any lifeboats?I'm Alex. Welcome to Radio Ecoshock.We face "wicked problems" like climate change, peak oil, or an economy depending on ... call it "make-believe" or call it "fraud". Science cannot provide the answers. Social change is required - and that calls on all of us. It requires all of our minds and passions.We'll start with a snapshot of the wicked problems we face, with one of my favorite synthesizers, Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon. He's the a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PEAK TROUBLE: Navigating the Chaos Don't you hate it when a shadow comes into another nice day?All my weather worries are far away. The East Coast is grumbling under more snow. The deep South may be freezing the Canadian "Snow Birds." There is another crazy cyclone over Darwin Australia, dumping over a foot of rain in 24 hours.But hey! The sun shines where I am. Then I see the sign by the produce stand. It says:"Due to extreme cold in California, Arizona, Texas, and Mexico produce prices will go up. Farmers lost near ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Transition in America - Michael Brownlee Transcript THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES (and “Deep Transition”)Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock interviews MICHAEL BROWNLEE on February 18, 2011. Transcript.---------------------------------Alex Smith: The Transition movement has spread from the United Kingdom to North America. Michael Brownlee is a gateway for many people discovering this new vision of living and community building. Brownlee co-founded Transition Colorado.Michael, welcome to Radio Ecoshock.Michael Brownlee: Thanks Ale ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TRANSITION - The West Coast Scene Finally, a shaky roadmap toward sustainability, in troubling times. I'm Alex. This week we go for the Transition movement - West Coast style. What started with Rob Hopkins in the village of Totnes,England, is evolving in North America. We hear from early adopters in Colorado, Los Angeles, and Vancouver. Our guests are Michael Brownlee from Boulder, Joanne Poyourow from Village L.A., and Vandy Savage from Vancouver. We top that off from with two speakers I recorded at a Village Vanco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Ehrlich - Humanity on a Tightrope Radio Ecoshock interview with Alex Smith, February 11, 2011When it comes to population, the name Paul Ehrlich inevitably comes up. In 1968, Dr. Ehrlich published "The Population Bomb". About 40 years, and 40 books later, this distinguished scientist comes to us with a new book called "Humanity On A Tightrope."Dr. Erhlich, it's an honor to welcome you to Radio Ecoshock.PRE: Great to be with you.Alex Smith: First off, you have an authoritative co-author for this project. Can you tell us a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | POPULATION OVERLOAD Welcome, welcome, to the house of Ecoshock.Last week we tried a little shock therapy: a modest proposal from Dr. Jack Alpert to sterilize everyone, to bring about Rapid Population Decline. Birth permits, just 350,000 a year, would be awarded to the lucky few by lottery. Earth would head back down to the 100 million human animals it can support forever.For now, that's just dark science fiction.But the reality of over-population, and over-consumption, is not.Right now the Egyptian people a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RAPID POPULATION DECLINE - OR BUST Radio Ecoshock February 4, 2011.Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith.When it comes to "the population bomb", our feature speaker today makes Paul Ehrlich sound like an optimist. Now that it's over 30 years into the tragedy of exploding humanity on a small planet.Jack Alpert says it's time for "Rapid Population Decline or Bust." That bust may haul down civilization, taking us back thousands of years. In Roman Times, there were about 100 million humans on the planet. It turns out, with r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | HELLO HARD TIMES Welcome my friends. Yes we're going to cover the coming crisis - again this week.We'll travel to Brazil, to find out about those deadly floods, more signs of climate change - you know - the words former awareman Barrack Obama was afraid to mention in his State of the Union address! Not once. Our interview is with Kiko Brito, communications director for Greenpeace Brazil. He grew up in the worst hit area.You will hear an interview with the man Christopher Hitchens loves to attack, Nafeez Mos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | LIFE INTERRUPTED Food, Storms & Escape THIS WEEK ON RADIO ECOSHOCKJanuary 21, 20101. "THE FOOD BUBBLE" with Lester Brown2. "The Australian super-floods" with Professor Matthew England3. "12 X12 - back to simplicity" with author William Powers.THE FOOD BUBBLEYou have seen food prices going up at the local grocery store. That could be just the beginning. According to Lester Brown, a leading expert in both the environment and world agriculture, those bulging supermarket shelves are part of a "food bubble", which could crash.Lester ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Against Civilization This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith, with an in-depth look at the works of deep green writer Derrick Jensen, an interview with film maker Franklin Lopez, and a series of ugly questions for impossible times. After we learn a bit about the film's inspiration, Deep Green thinker Derrick Jensen, and talk with Frank Lopez - I've left some time to let out a Net rumor (again!) that the U.S. military might call home troops to put down people rioting in the streets, in an upcoming economic coll ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE CHAOS & CHINESE CONSUMERS Hi there,There are three parts to this program:#1. I interview Jeff Masters. Millions of people check with "The Weather Underground" for the latest. Last week, it was #56 for traffic, out of all the sites on the Net. It's huge.Visitors want the color charts, maps, satellite photos, - and - the big picture from Dr. Jeff Masters. As a Meteorologist, Jeff was a "Hurricane Hunter", flying with the National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration planes out of Miami. He flew right into the big ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Transforming Power - Judy Rebick Floods and extreme snowfall events, once in a hundred years, are almost every year. No matter what the season, we keep on pumping up more carbon into the Earth's thin atmosphere.The actors on the scene, most voices and talking heads, learned and ignorant, are mostly white men, the silver-backs. What about women? And aboriginal people pushed to the fringes?Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith.In the radio broadcast (click the title above) you hear a powerful speech by Judy Rebick, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PEACE PAYS Bringing our war dollars back home.Radio Ecoshock December 24, 2010 Holiday edition.The Christians call their founder "The Prince of Peace." Yet America, which loudly proclaims it's Christianity, has been at war for decades, all over the world, during most of my life.American states, cities, and towns are broke. They are laying off services to the most needy, cutting off even essential things like police and firemen. The media says America is too poor to deliver universal health care del ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CANCUN CLIMATE TALKS: Fraud or Forward? The majority of humans on Earth are likely unaware that their 193 governments met in Cancun Mexico in December 2010. Their goal was to agree on ways to save the planet's climate from a brutal catastrophe.Did anything happen? It depends on who you talk to.I'm Alex Smith reporting. In this Radio Ecoshock special, you will hear five different voices on what really happened - inside the barricaded conference rooms, and outside in the streets.Our guests are: Harvard policy expert Dr. Robert N ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beyond the Tipping Point A physicist, a leading expert on clean energy and climate, he was an advisor in the Clinton Administration. His book "Hell and High Water" becomes too true daily. Time Magazine called him “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger” . Dr. Joseph Romm's "Climate Progress" is the only blog right on my browser tool-bar. It IS indespensible.We welcome Joe Romm back to Radio Ecoshock.Among other things, we'll discuss the new theme issue from the British Royal Society "Four degre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Food - Growing Sane Avocados from South America. Apples from New Zealand, instead of the next valley. Industrially-grown carrots with no taste, no vitamins, but a microscopic coating of carcinogenic pesticides.Meanwhile we are paving over the nearby farms, leaving our cities utterly dependent on global corporations. On cruelty to workers and animals. On oil and daily long-distance trucks. If something breaks down, or just runs down into collapse, your city can go to a starvation in a single week.And the g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SURVIVING NOW AND THEN RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOW 101126It has come to my attention that last week's show was a bit of a downer, leaving some listeners depressed.A scientist showing a savage economic collapse in a red-hot world by 2100. And a food expert predicting global famine. Come on.... is the future depressing?The Management has asked me to read the following statement:"Everything is fine. The future will be fine too. The scientists you may have heard are just egg-heads with a horrible agenda to enslave us all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AN ATMOSPHERE OF CRISIS This week on Radio Ecoshock - we give it all. There are two hot interviews.Julian Cribb tell us about his new book "The Coming Famine. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It." I had a major realization myself, during this interview, and we'll talk about that shortly.Then, Dr. Tim Garrett from the University of Utah blew my mind (again). I interviewed Tim back in February 2010 - after he published a peer-reviewed article suggesting that utter economic collapse, world-wide, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Trouble with Billionaires Welcome to Radio Ecoshock.I've got two tasty speeches for you: why the billionaires are taking over, and what we can do about it.A quick note on this week's program. More than half of Radio Ecoshock listeners are American. Although we do have people grabbing the podcast from all over the English-speaking world, and beyond.Our topic this week: a new book ""The Trouble with Billionaires, Why Too Much Money at the Top Is Bad for Everyone." You'll hear directly from the authors, tax Profess ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | KILLED BY COMPLEXITY There is optimism - and then there's the facts. Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. We have a triple-header for you this week. The Watchman is going to rattle out danger - with a brain wave escape hatch - as I interview California author Rebecca Costa.Transportation planner Jeff Tumlin gives a short, stark warning speech about how cars make us fat, sick, and dead. Good commuting fare.And we'll wrap up with happy bad news for the inner Doomster - NASA's new project to blackout your city, before t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peak Oil Vs. "Pathological Optimism" PEAK OIL VERSUS "PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMISM"- Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock - on "the Peak Shrink", Kathy McMahon.[Find links to free mp3 recordings of Kathy's full speech in Vancouver, plus an interview with Alex Smith - at the bottom of this post.]You know the Peak Oil three-step? First you find out our oil-based civilization has a nasty best-before date. Second, your own emotions and worries begin to surface. Then your friends and relatives start avoiding your "Doomer" talk.As a clinical ps ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Legacy: David Suzuki This week on Radio Ecoshock, we are listening to a speech by famous geneticist, broadcaster, and author David Suzuki. For almost 50 years, he hosted the Canadian Broadcasting TV show "The Nature of Things", published 40 books, won awards. This is his "legacy" speech - before the release of a biographical film "David Suzuki - Force of Nature," at the Toronto Film Festival. This talk was recorded by Alex Smith, at a standing room only auditorium at the Kitsilano High School, Vancouver, on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Top Down or Bottom Up? Brand Vs. Korten Should the very rich control our climate? Our food? In the Radio Ecoshock for last week, I may suprised listeners with a very different point of view. Former Whole Earther Stewart Brand came out swinging for nuclear power, genetic engineering, and geoengineering as the new "green." I'll reply in just a minute.Our main speaker this week is a refreshing antidote to Brand. David Korten was recorded at the University of British Columbia. He's a well-travelled specialist in the economy and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | STEWART BRAND - "ECOPRAGMATISM" We all know the creatures of the Earth are in dire straits. Billions of humans. More tens of billions of our food animals. All slashing down the landscape, denuding the oceans and polluting the atmosphere.Unless we make a drastic change, the climate is headed for a catastrophic shift. Are we ready for desperate measures?Stewart Brand became a household name in the 1970's with his Whole Earth Catalog - the tool that connected do-it-yourself energy, and back-to-the land implements, to an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Post Climatic Stress Disorder - Climate Psychology Friends did a month of rain that fall last night? Did rivers flood in the Fall? Did you know 214 all-time heat records were set in the U.S. September 24th? It was 30 degrees in Toronto, feeling like 37 with the humidity - the heat of the human body. And just lately, Los Angeles hit an all-time high of 113 degrees - in late September!Worried about your kids? You might have Post Climatic Stress Disorder. PCSD is a serious condition. But don't worry, professional help is on the way....T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SHADOWS OF DOUBT "I feel great despair. My heart tells me to drop everything and run to the mountains, to try to find a place to take my family to ride out this great demise. Help!Wednesday September 22, 2010 12:05" Bill McKibben: "Hey, me too on occasion. What salves that despair is seeing how many people are coming together to do great organizing. check out the pictures from last year at 350.org. we may not win, but we're going to give the bad guys a run for their (considerable) money. " ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | When the World Is Running Down This week on Radio Ecoshock - the losing game. One in seven Americans are now officially poor. Millions are losing their homes. The "Recovery" was just a fantasy: if we all believed hard enough - the empty shell economy could stumble on forever. Now, even the mainstream media doubts our chances. I'm Alex Smith. Our theme song this program: "When the World Is Running Down (you make the best of what's comming 'round) by The Police.There are people who know what is going on...what are th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | HATE THE MACHINE The deadly culture of cars and air-conditioning.Radio Ecoshock Show September 10th, 2010GO STRAIGHT TO SHOW TRANSCRIPT with all the links.The program begins with a reading from "Autogeddon" by Heathcote Williams.That was a quote from the long poem "Autogeddon" written by British writer HeathCote Williams and originally published in 1987, the fall edition of The_Whole Earth Review. It was released as a lavishly illustrated book in 1991, and even made into a radio drama by BBC2. The present ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WARNINGS: THE RUSSIAN HEAT STORM Radio Ecoshock Show September 3rd, 2010GO STRAIGHT TO THE TRANSCRIPT, with lots of links and downloads.[Radio show starts with a clip from "Fire" by Arthur Brown, 1968][plus news radio clips...]Welcome back to Radio Ecoshock. Thanks to the 22 college and community stations that carry this show - and Green 960 AM and online, in San Francisco.And you downloaders and podcast subscribers! You amaze me. I don't keep close track of statistics, but I happened to check downloads of the Radio Eco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AFTER THE OIL RUSH Go straight to Show transcript, with all the links.Mainstream media carefully dances with the government, as they release the bad news in the Gulf of Mexico, one little bit at a time. For almost two months, we have heard the chorus: the only sure way to fix this oil volcano is through a relief well. All those other methods were really burning time, but no worries, the ultimate solution is coming in early to mid-August. Everything is going well, according to BP and all their talking heads ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DANGER DEEP IN THE GULF GO straight to the Full Transcript with links now.Coast to Coast AM covers the Gulf:RICHARD C. HOAGLAND: "Gas explosion, 50 miles off Louisiana, that you can imagine. Think Mount St. Helens, underwater. What that would do is create a cloud of incredible toxic material, which would then drift with the winds over the shore, where there are millions of people..."GEORGE NOORY: "What about a tsunami?"R. Hoagland: "The next step is you would get a tsunami."Oh please. And some of this garbage w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dark Conspiracies of the Gulf Around the camp fire, humans tell horror stories. About goblins, and dark conspiracies of death. Soon after the shock of the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the cranks rolled out new tales that tell us a lot about the human mind, and how we react to environmental tragedy.While the deadly rig explosion, the oiled wild-life, and the lost jobs are no joke, I can't resist rating the wildest theories, coming from non-existent mystics, far-out blogs, right-wing radio, and even mainstream TV.R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | HEAT STROKE: When Heat Kills While oil gushes out of the Gulf, and the economy staggers toward the exits, scientists continue to investigate our longer future. For example, could it get so hot that large parts of the heavily inhabited Earth would have to be abandoned? And I ask two popular bloggers, why are most of the public blissfully unaware of how heat kills? Do you know the operating temperature of your skin? No, it is not 98.6, or 37 degrees C.Scientists predict more extreme heat waves, as the planet warms. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PAINT IT BLACK: Oil Activism This program is really two tied together. It's about oil activism, with ideas you can use. Then a funny but serious speech on media activism, by Andy Bichlbaum of "The Yes Men".In the first half hour, Radio Ecoshock covers the various anti-BP and Gulf Spill protests arising spontaneously around the United States, and abroad. This includes a couple of protest songs, including one by the Raging Grannies of South Florida, and another by Code Pink in Houston - that you can use. Plus more practi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IS HUMANITY UNSUSTAINABLE? - Resend Who knows why the podcast attachment fails to make Itunes?Anyway, for those who missed it, here it the talk by Dr. Bill Rees, who questions whether our archaic brains can cope with our present situation.Alex Smith Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Coming Greenhouse World “Look. I’m going to do my best to end up in a kind of hopeful optimistic place. But – I am by nature, by sort of profession, I am kind of a professional bummer-outer of people. So we’re going to have to deal with that for a little while. Because there’s no use not. We need to figure out just where we are, in order to figure out where we need to go.”Yes, it's ugly being Green these days. That was Bill McKibben, opening a speech in Colorado, touring with his new book "Eaarth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DEGROWTH - Planned Contraction Today, more cars are sold in China than in the United States. Chinese companies, many state-owned, are traveling the world to buy up oil to power them. We are already going to extremes to keep our own fossil economies going - blowing the tops of mountains for coal, the horrible tar sands, and now super deep ocean drilling, like BP's Gulf of Mexico blow-out.Ours is a fossil economy. Every day, humans burn up fuels made from 5 million years worth of solar power, stored by ancient plants. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FROM THE DEEPWATER HORIZON Black oil, millions of years old, gushes out of a gash in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the world's largest companies, BP, formerly British Petroleum says it's 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000. Satellite photos suggest 25,000 a day. In a closed session at Congress, BP admits they don't know - it could be 40 to 60,000. The Governor of Louisiana prepares for 100,000 barrels. The "spill" is really a man-made underwater volcano of oil.I'm Alex Smith. This accident taps a primeval fear in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Occupied Earth This Ecoshock program features two interviews. We start out talking about South America, and how changes to the Amazon rainforest could impact the climate of the whole world.I also cover two jaw-dropping stories this week: #1. the complete fake-out as General Motors claims to pay back billions to the American and Canadian governments. Wow, car sales must be great! Nope. The whole thing was a sham, as GM used some TARP money to repay the government. Kinda like paying your mortgage with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Black Carbon = Fast Warming = Early Death If I feel a strain this week, it's not because of the volcano blowing planes out of the sky over Europe. Unless the larger Icelandic volcano nearby goes off, scientists say the dangerous ash will not really cool the planet much. It may damage our economy more in the short run. But the biggest-ever suspension of air travel reduced carbon emissions for a few days, and taught a few people how to take a train, or use video-conferencing. Every cloud has a silver lining.No, my worry is about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back to the Land! Get back to where you once belonged. Get your hands dirty, with this week's grow-op on Radio Ecoshock.We'll hear from the young farmers movement, with film maker and dirt farmer Severine von Tscharner Fleming of Greenhorn Radio. Community supported agriculture, organic, getting out, or grow where you are, feed the city, from the city.Our second guest, Sharon Astyk, says we need a nation of farmers. As the oil and fertilizer get scarce, as climate disrupts the rivers and the crops, we all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Unknown Climate In the Spring of 2010, the East Coast of the United States was nearly drowned in an extreme precipitation event. Ditto parts of Australia, and Rio in Brazil. This is the other half of "global warming" - global wetting. Scientists have been warning about it for years - now it's happening. Can anyone say "Extreme Rainfall Events?"Right afterwards, Eastern Canada went way above any temperature records, hitting summer beach weather, the eighties - 25 degrees C - in the first week of April. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gimme Shelter - blog and links you need How to make buildings that use 10% of current energy needs.Here is a bonanza of links you want for this Radio Ecoshock special on Passivhaus and Net Zero construction, including two free workshops.The full workshop by Guido Wimmers on Passivhaus, held at the Sustainable Building Center in Vancouver, is just over 80 minutes long. You can download the whole recording by Alex Smith of CFRO, here:Part 1 49 min CD Quality 46 MB or Lo-Fi 11 MB; Part 2 CD Quality 39 MB or Lo-Fi 9 MBGuido Wim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gimme Shelter NOTE: A FULL BLOG WITH ALL THE LINKS WILL BE POSTED THURSDAY APRIL 1STUnless you are a farmer or one of the last rugged outdoors adventurers, 90 percent of your time on Earth is spent inside buildings. We are snails who don't know we are snails.Naturally, we dream of the perfect home. That's a cheap day-dream. It's expensive to really do it. But the biggest cost, whether you build, buy, or rent - is the energy needed to run all these buildings. Eighty percent of the long-term cost of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dark Optimism You know we are going to run out of civilization's life-blood: fossil fuels. And if we burn what's left, the climate will tip into a mass extinction event. Meanwhile, barking madness seems to be the only growth industry. Is it time for more pills, booze, or end-time religion?Our first guest says there may be some hope left. Shaun Chamberlin's blog is called "dark optimism" - and that may be as good as it gets. Shaun is part of the "transition movement" in Britain. He's the author of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waves of Trouble - Really! The re-send So sorry I sent last week's show. Just a slip of the old finger, typing in the wrong date.This really is the Radio Ecoshock show released March 19th, called "Surfing Waves of Trouble."Enjoy.Alex Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DOUBT IS OUR PRODUCT - the show This is the Radio program, "Doubt Is Our Product".Apparently, Blogger/Feedburner can't reliably send the enclosures any more, if there are links in the posting.Find all the links for this show in the following blog entry.Alex Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EXPECTING COLLAPSE - re-send Once again, the Blogger/Feedburner combo failed to send the actual radio program.So, once again...here it is.Alex Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EXPECTING COLLAPSE Collapse is the new in thing. Columnists in collapsing newspapers write about it. Historians tell us it's coming. Prominent economists predict it. We all expect it.What is collapse? Definitions vary from uncontrollable downturns, all the way to great culls in our population.Lets start gently, with mild-mannered professor Dennis Meadows, one of the original authors to "The Limits to Growth". Here is a clip from a film prepared September 2009 for leaders and billionaires at Davos, Switz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ON THE ROAD TO MASS EXTINCTION Are we on the road to mass extinction? More scientists, from different fields of study, say that is possible, as we pollute the atmosphere and oceans.We'll explore that - the worst case scenario - in this edition of Radio Ecoshock. I'm going to dedicate this program to one such scientist, Dr. Andrew Glikson, an Earth and Paleoclimate specialist, from Australian National University. We featured Andrew Glikson in our Radio Ecoshock show, May 1st, 2009. You can download that free from our w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hot Climate Activism A different twist on Ecoshock this week. We go radio active. While major media goes into denial hyper-spin, the public and greens are making a difference.You'll hear about the victories over insane expansion of coal-fired power plants in the United States. It's grass-roots, it's bigger than the anti-nuclear movement of the 70's, and it's grossly under-reported. Author Ted Nace explains the high-tech tools and old-fashioned grit that stopped the construction of at least 90 more coal plan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Buying Into A Dying World FST746RWSN87Attics, basements, and garages are loaded with the plunder of past shopping. Some people rent storage lockers just to hold all their extra stuff. Dumps are filling up with brand new items, never used, but tossed out. There's even a TV show called "Hoarders" - a reflection of the national preoccupation. Do all these THINGS really make us happier?In this Radio Ecoshock program, we examine the two extremes of consumption: the Americans who use up more of the world's resources th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Toward the Collapse Is global warming unstoppable now? Could we be saved by total economic collapse? If so, should we help civilization fall?It's another cheery edition of Radio Ecoshock, with your darkness at the end of the tunnel, Alex Smith. There are lots of links to our program content below.Last night I recorded another glimpse of the climate apocalypse, with the author of "Climate Wars" Gwynne Dyer. He outlined the short distance from here to the cliff where long-known natural feed-backs leading to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate in the Sixth Extinction - Resend Hi there,Most of you received only the interview with Dr. Patz, and not the full show (with Thomas Lovejoy etc).I'm not sure why Blogger is just picking up links further down in the text, instead of sending the proper "enclosure link". This is the second such problem, and I may have to switch away from Blogger if it persists.Meantime, here is the correct file, and my apologies.Alex SmithhostRadio Ecoshock Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate in the Sixth Extinction NASA just declared 2009 the second hottest year since modern measurements began in 1880. The warmest year was 2005. And the past decade was the warmest on record. Global climate change is upon us.In this program, you'll hear two of the world's top authorities explain how this will impact our health, and the survival of the species.I interview Dr. Jonathan Patz, a physician and lead author for the IPCC, on health and climate change. He is now advising emergency doctors and disaster agenc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Atomic Dreams, Climate Nightmares In this program you'll hear about the new nuclear renaissance. The lobbyists, and the greens, who want you to accept more reactors, to prevent catastrophic climate change.I'll toss in one slightly tarnished hero, Dr. James Hansen, and a new interview with another combative doctor, Helen Caldicott. And running throughout, a stimulating podcast from Shelly Thomas, urging us to "Drop the Nuke Bias" And I introduce you to your new nuclear neighbors: the United Arab Emirates. Where torture is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CONSPIRACY! Turning 911 Truth to Climate Denial Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. We're going to plunge into the fevered world of dark conspiracy. We'll find the men who hate greens, the fringe media voices who call us to commit suicide. If they are to be believed, we must arrest hundreds of thousands of scientists, for their role in the global warming hoax.We'll find out who is behind the scheme to turn the 911 Truth Movement almost overnight, into the global warming denial network. This is a review of a new made-for-cable TV series, and r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Coming Climate Panic Should we arrest our best climate scientists? The denier fringe is calling for investigations and criminal charges. On today's Radio Ecoshock Show you'll hear one of the world's top scientists answer those charges. I'll digest the best from a stunning speech by Professor Richard B. Alley, at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco, in December.Here is the link to a video of that speech.Scroll down for much more on Richard Alley's speech, including a link to transcr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE SIMPLICITY MOVEMENT Are you trying harder and harder to get things done? Stop it. Stop right now, and enjoy your life. You might live longer, and help save the planet as well.That's the message from Cecile Andrews, author of "Slow Is Beautiful". Her book tour speech of the same name has been heavily downloaded from our web site.Now Cecile has a new book out this year, called "Less Is More, Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, A Caring Economy and a Lasting Happiness"- co-authored with Wanda Urbanska. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Copenhagen Hope & Despair RE-Podcast Sorry folks, I don't know where the system broke down, but apparently many of you got the incorrect file? A Brown Bagger program instead of my Radio Ecoshock show for this week went out to the podcast list (even though the correct show comes up when I click on the blogger title....Strange tech.So, attached, hopefully, is the Real Radio Ecoshock Show for this week, December 25th.Apologies, and enjoy.Alex Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COPENHAGEN Hope & Despair The Copenhagen climate conference, known as COP 15, was one of the most complex in the world. Thousands of delegates, from almost 200 countries. The bureaucrats, the heads of state. Thousands more from NGO's - plus up to a hundred thousand protesters. Multi multi media cranking out instant reports 24/7.And we're still not sure what happened.We know what didn't happen. Not a single carbon atom was banned from the sky. Humans acknowledged a problem, but failed to solve it.Promises were ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | UNCIVILIZED Coming up on Radio Ecoshock - hot from Copenhagen, American energy - and the destruction of Africa. Two continents adrift in hard choices. We know climate change is upon us. It's just a matter of how fast, and how bad. The struggle stretches from Washington to Denmark to Kenya, where the President's family live, among the growing millions of climate refugees. Stick around, in our second half hour, we're off to Copenhagen, with voices you've never heard from the mainstream media. What O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BULLDOZE SUBURBIA Ecocities? Don't make me laugh... Just as Green Mayors finally arrive, the financial collapse is draining cities into poverty. San Francisco has almost half a billion dollars in revenue shortfall. Vancouver is slashing, starting with a 40 year-old plant conservatory. The only stimulus left is for the banksters and dinosaur highway projects.It's time to call in Richard Register, one of the inventors of the ecological city concept. He knows the time is late. The climate is damaged. Ener ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Science or Conspiracy? Do you believe in climate science? Or is it a world-wide conspiracy to control your life?We begin with a digest of a key hearing at the U.S. government, December 2nd, 2009. You'll hear testimony from Dr. John Holdren, Obama's top science adviser, and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, head of NOAA, among other things. The sparks fly when Republicans like Jim Sensenbrenner talk about a global scientific fraud, "scientific fascism" and a "culture of corruption" in science.I try to referee the event, with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DEEP TROUBLE - OUR OCEANS [opening clip from Greenpeace]To be a life scientist now, is to explore despair. Arriving for the glory of the natural world, the experts find themselves chronicling the end of species, of the climate, of the ecosphere.I'm Alex Smith. We're going to dedicate this Radio Ecoshock program to the sea, and to one of it's lovers, Dr. Daniel Pauly, head of the Sea Around Us Project. His latest article, published in The New Republic magazine September 28th, 2009 is titled "Aquacalypse Now, The E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Economy: Dinosaurs Will Die Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. This week's program is about schizophrenia: the state of hoping the system will crash before it kills the planet, while counting on all the usual creature comforts of home, jobs, and a well-stocked supermarket.Yes, I know the Western world is hanging in suspension. We're waiting for the shopping to resume, for the economy to rebound, for the good life to return. Most politicians and the mainstream press promise that it will all go back to the normal process of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GREENING PORTLAND - Your City How To I tossed this recording of "Greening Portland" into a small line at the bottom of last week's Radio Ecoshock blog, thinking maybe a few people would be interested. To my shock, over 400 people downloaded it within two days! I didn't know that many people read my humble show notes... Thanks for being here.I'll go into a description of this week's program and speakers, followed by a bigger question about the role of cities in solving climate change, now that we see big governments too para ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Future: Dark or Resilient? Hi there. We have so much great audio for you this week - I don't have time to tell you about it. Buckle up for a new Radio Ecoshock interview with Richard Heinberg, famous Peak Oiler, author of "The Party's Over", "Powerdown" and now his latest "Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis." Then it's off to the Resilient Cities conference for the keynote speech by Paul Hawken, author of the Ecology of Commerce, and lately, "Blessed Unrest" - the strength of movements to make soci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SMART DECLINE Bill Rees, originator of the ecological footprint, says we are already into overshoot. We can plan to reduce our use of Earth's resources, or plunge through a series of disasters. Full keynote speech from "Resilient Cities" 091021 plus Q and A with Warren Karlenzig on Post Carbon Cities, including China's "eco-cities". That presentation, with host Daniel Lerch from the Post Carbon Institute, was October 20th, all at the Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada.Breakthrough information. Ecoshoc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RESILIENT CITIES for Transition Times #1 THIS WEEK: The latest speeches from the "Gaining Ground/Resilient Cities" conference in Vancouver, Canada October 20-23.You'll hear Post Carbon Institute fellow, and green city guide author Warren Karlenzig - plus former Shell Oil executive (now turned anti-corporate activist) Anita Burke. Much more in the coming weeks, as we hear from Paul Hawken, Richard Register, Bill Rees and more. This is the latest on the latest, from people struggling to plan for the "long emergency" facing our cit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | NATURE AS KILLER: The Medea Hypothesis From the edge of the Earth, broadcast, podcast, by cable and satellite, this is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith.Gaia - the great interconnected force of living things on a minor planet called Earth. British scientist James Lovelock wondered how life created it's own space, with the oxygen and nutrients we all need. It's a soothing idea. Some Greens took it further, suggesting Gaia is a super-consciousness that watches over balance and survival. A few worship Gaia.Dr. Peter Ward, a deep t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beyond 4 Degrees What will our grandchildren experience in the year 2080? Or will some of you feel the heat, the climate and social disruption as soon as 2060? Scientific studies are pouring out their warnings - we have already passed the danger levels. And there is no sign of action to stop horrible climate change.What if the politicians fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep the Earth's climate from warming? What if the people of the world keep on pumping out carbon dioxide, as they now ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | HOW COMMUNITIES SURVIVE DISASTER Everything in the techno-capitalist society forms us into separate atoms. We demand our own space, travel in personal metal boxes, and struggle as individuals. When disaster strikes, hardly anyone remembers how to respond. How will your community react to a major threat? Will it fall apart, or grow stronger? Is there anything you can do to prepare?This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm your host Alex Smith. It's a real shock when those lonely atoms, conversing through electronic screens, realiz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GEOENGINEERING: Bye Bye Blue Skies Excuse me. Do you mind if I turn your blue skies white? Why spend all that money on wind farms and insulation? Keep on driving, brothers and sisters, because Big Science is going to fix global warming.While they talk up a new Manhattan project to block out the Sun, it's another year of multi-billion dollar profits for the coal and oil companies. Stall, stall, stall, while the money rolls in!Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith. In this program, we'll dig into geoengineering - the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gas Pump Blues - for 100,000 Years They're on practically every corner. Some people feel nervous at the gas pump. Others are outraged. Everybody knows prices are going nowhere but up.Did you know a gallon of gas weighs about 6 pounds - or 2.7 kilos? Almost all of it - 5 pounds, 2.2 kilos - goes straight into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, out the exhaust pipe. And that substantial weight, for every additional gallon or liter we burn, remains as CO2 for 100,000 years.Don't believe it? Stay tuned. We'll talk with Dav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ECOCIDE OR ACTIVISM? Obviously it's pointless. We are doomed.Or it that just a frightened voice inside, knowing what we know?Social failure rears it's ugly head, as half million more Americans, and countless millions more around the world, head home, if they have one. You are no longer valued. Kiss consumerism, and your future plans, good-bye.That's all good for nature, who needs a break, but still heartless to see it in motion, with real people - people who will work hard, who want a role.All this breakup o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WHEN THE GREAT CORRECTION COMES This is Alex Smith. In this new start to the Fall 2009 season, we thrash out the triple crisis with Jan Lundberg, a former oil and gas industry expert. I say former, because he left "the Lundberg Oil and Gas Letter" in the late '80's, to become a voice for change. Jan's been an early warner on Peak Oil and our energy dependency. He also knows that climate change is going to change the human game, more or less forever.Despite the California fires, the new tent cities, and car company ban ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BURNED OUT: Crops and Climate Change Food and climate change with two speakers: Dr. Geoffrey Heal, an eco-economist from the Columbia School of Business, NY, speaking at the London School of Economics; and author/food activist Wayne Roberts at McMaster University, Canada. Wayne Roberts courtesty of Maggie Hughes "News from the Other Side" at CFMU FM McMaster U Radio.No copyright music.IMPORTANT NOTES FOR RADIO STATIONS AND PODCAST SUBSCRIBERS:This is the last show of our 2009 Spring season. Rebroadcasting stations, podcast l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ENJOY YOURSELF (It's Later Than You Think) It is already too late to stop rampant climate change? An emailed blog posting asks: "Do we just enjoy the time we have left?"Scientist James Lovelock thinks so. He wanted the sub-title of his new book "Vanishing Gaia" changed from "Final Warning" to "Enjoy it while you can." Is it really that serious? We'll hear top American and British administrators say it is. But I want to contrast the response by two scientists: James Lovelock, who at age 90 plans to blast out into space, and NASA ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AMERICAN CLIMATE CHANGE The star of today's Radio Ecoshock Show is the American climate.We'll start with the most important Press Conference of 2009: the release of the multi-agency report "Global Climate Change Impacts In the United States". It's the list of violent storm warming, heat wave predictions, cities and parts of whole states either going under-water, or roasting without water. Everyone will know the climate is badly out of balance.Welcome to our special coverage of new report "Global Climate Change I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate Catastrophe - Can the Economic Crash Save Us? News can be a poison sometimes. Newspaper owners learned years ago that people buy frightening headlines. The motto of TV news: if it bleeds, it leads. The most horrific stories get top billing. We all need to turn away from time to time, to those we love, to amazing Nature, and the trivia that convinces us for another day.Lately, the climate news is too shocking even for Radio Ecoshock. In the last two weeks, I've been rebuilding myself, and listeners, with back-stop nourishment. We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BE THE CHANGE Climate Conversion This program explores how green leaders are converting to climate activism. And how you can move from spectator to citizen action. You'll hear Forest Ethics co-Founder Tzeporah Berman in a moving speech, going to a new climate group Power Up Canada. United Church Pastor Bruce Sanguin gives us a new vision of Gaia-friendly Christianity. And Maureen Jack-LeCroix explains her calling to "Be the Change" - as host of the recent Be The Change Circles event in Vancouver. There's more... Arran ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YOUR FOOD SECURITY This Radio Ecoshock - with something you can't live without: food. No, we haven't invented edible radio - but we'll introduce you to a homesteading woman who's brought out her second book on surviving the worst of times.Are you worried about the way the world is going? Our top financial institutions turned out to be hollow Ponzi schemes. Nobody is too sure of their job. The Earth's climate is unstable. Even the bees are dying. Meanwhile, grasping men at multinational food corporations ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DEAD MALLS, GLOBESITY & SIMPLICITY [Opening clip: I just want to get a megaphone, and yell to people entering the Mall "It isn't in there."]That is Cecile Andrews - and she's right. Happiness is not in the shopping mall, never was. I'm Alex Smith, this is Radio Ecoshock. This program is loaded. You'll hear retail expert Howard Davidowitz. He's the shopping expert who says 200,000 American stores will close - and the great days of consumerism are dead. May they rest in peace. Following that interview from New York, we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | OFF THE CLIMATE CLIFF? OR GREENER CITIES? Every day tankers and pipelines carry black gold to power industrial society. The coal trains and ships deliver more carbon for the great bonfire of humanity. We know for a certainty, if we keep on burning it all, our planet will become hot, stormy, ice-free with dying oceans and extinction for most big species. Including ourselves.Now the question: how much can we use, before we tip the climate too far?This is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. HERE ARE THE LINKS YOU'LL NEED FOR TODAY'S P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. Today you'll hear two green broadcasters meet on air. Matt and Alex ask how cities can work in the climate energy crunch. Should you get out - and what can we learn from the back-to-the-land movement of the late '70's. I'll toss in the mental survival tips I use to survive the awful knowledge of climate change.Matt and I also talk about Derrick Jensen and so-called "Eco-Terrorism". Non-violence hasn't worked (our life support system is going into the crapper) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ASTEROID STRIKES & INVISIBLE WOMEN This is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith.The bad news just keeps on coming. Just as America began to recognize torture, swine flu wipes away the slate. Everybody just wants to talk about pandemic. We know pandemics will come. More than half the world's population live in crowded slums without sanitation or clean water. The true population of Mexico City, for example, is unknown. Best guesses run between twenty five and thirty million people. Most of them have no medical care or knowledg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | URBAN MELTDOWN II American cities in decay. Refugees not from New Orleans after Katrina. This is a different kind of Hurricane. A trifecta of climate change, high oil prices and the real estate bubble leaves abandoned holes from Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and beyond.I'm Alex Smith, this is Radio Ecoshock. We'll track the causes and the victims.In our opening cuts, you heard video Blogger George4title in his You tube special called "Detroit Ground Zero for Economic Collapse". An amazing drive-by of ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ROTTING FROM THE TOP The banks are doing great. The stock market is up 25 percent. Happy Days Are Here Again!Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the White Star Titanic. We are not sinking, there are plenty of lifeboats, please go back to an evening of fine dancing.If you're happy with that, maybe you shouldn't listen to this edition of Radio Ecoshock. We're going to hear other voices, outside the mainstream box.Famed ABC producer, author and blogger Danny Schechter will lead off the charge. He claims the fina ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TROUBLE DOWN BELOW You have just heard rioting hit the central banks of London during the G20 conference, set to Dirty Town from Mother Mother. This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith.The world is quietly burning with discontent as corporate schemes go bad. Industry and trade are collapsing and no one seems immune. The world trade center has fallen again, and maybe the Pentagon will be next. I've had some long hours into the night worrying - how about you?We have two guest speakers this week to help you en ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE GREEN SIDE OF DOWN Some big icons like General Motors go crash, but most of it just goes quietly, with little announcement. I'm talking about all the small shops going dark, the once-famous magazines gone and hardly remembered.Just a couple of years ago, I wished I'd taken videos of some of our major streets. Little malls and corner garages disappeared overnight, replaced with a big hole and a sign advertising Fenway Gardens, another deluxe condo tower. The building boom was disorienting. It's easier now. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VOICES FROM BELOW Radio Ecoshock moves from Washington and Wall Street all the way to tent city. We’ll hear from the homeless – and from the new breed of independent citizen reporters who will replace the dying newspapers and gutted TV newsrooms.The financial news is so depressing, I couldn’t make the program without coming up with “Four Solid Tips for Surviving Bad Times”. That’s in this program and blog as well.This week we're going to take a quick cruise through the battered economy. Like ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Progress and Denial In last week's Radio Ecoshock Show, we talked with Professor Michael T. Klare, about the looming possibility of social instability or riots, even here in North America. Can't happen here? There was a riot in downtown Montreal, Canada on March 15th. The march to protest police brutality ended up with smashed store fronts, burned police cars, and over 200 arrests.Meanwhile the European think tank called "LEAP/Europe 2020" says America is likely to have outbreaks and riots due to a lack of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WILL THERE BE RIOTS? The economy, says billionaire Warren Buffet, has fallen off a cliff. "The economy, ever since we talked in September, we talked about it being an economic Pearl Harbor, and how, what was happening in the financial world would move over to the real world very quickly. It's fallen off a cliff. And, not only has the economy slowed down a lot, people have really changed their behavior, like nothing I've ever seen. Luxury goods, and that sort of thing, have just sort of stopped. And that's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TROUBLE AND VISION Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith. In this program we'll explore the big black hole where your dreams of prosperity used to be. Like rescue dogs, we'll sniff around the wreckage for the corpses - and the survivors, the dead-ends and the new paths of living.In past shows, we've presented top experts and authors. This time around, I just need to thrash this through with some intelligent people. What really is happening with the economy? Does the crash doom us to irreversible climate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | LIFE AFTER THE CRASH Holy Hanna - the wheels are coming off the gilded wagon of capitalism. Part of me is excited that the zombie system killing the planet has cracked open. My other side is fearful. I like peaceful streets and grocery stores with food in them. Damn it, I'm cheering and weeping for both sides!Let's have a little chat. In addition to surviving, we'll also talk about whether you should homestead where you are, or plan to eco-migrate. The show includes an interview with Eco-migration expert Dr. N ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Forget the Economy - Is It Too Late for Our Climate? This is the Radio Ecoshock Show. I'm you're host and tormentor, Alex Smith.Yes I know the economy is crashing around the world. Eastern Europe threatens to bring down the Austrian and Italian banking systems. Britain is in the tank, along with Spain, Greece and Ireland. Everybody is hoping the Germans have saved enough to bail out the European Union.It's as bad or worse in Asia. Japan's exports have plummetted, the results so terrible the Japanese Finance Minister was dead drunk at his pres ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Economy of Climate Burn The Australian wildfires - a warning to the world? I interview Dr. Barry Brook a climatologist from Adelaide. Brook was named one of the top 10 bright young scientists in Australia. His blog makes a strong case that the drying of Australia shows a radical shift in the climate. More: he argues the recent combination of drought and heat is without precendent in recorded history, and driven by climate change. Check out the particulars in his blog at bravenewclimate.com. I've bookmarked it.Ple ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Economy of Climate Burn The Australian wildfires - a warning to the world? I interview Dr. Barry Brook a climatologist from Adelaide. Brook was named one of the top 10 bright young scientists in Australia. His blog makes a strong case that the drying of Australia shows a radical shift in the climate. More: he argues the recent combination of drought and heat is without precendent in recorded history, and driven by climate change. Check out the particulars in his blog at bravenewclimate.com. I've bookmarked it.Ple ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TIDAL POWER - Is It Real? Whenever politicians and greens talk about alternative energy, the list usually goes wind, solar, and tidal power. But how real is tidal power? Where will it happen and when?This week on Radio Ecoshock you'll hear Martin Burger, CEO of a tidal power company called Blue Energy. He spoke to the New Energy Movement in Vancouver on January 26th, 2009. This is an original recording by Radio Ecoshock.In fact, Martin went further. He explained four other neglected new energy sources, the best ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TIDAL POWER - Is It Real? Whenever politicians and greens talk about alternative energy, the list usually goes wind, solar, and tidal power. But how real is tidal power? Where will it happen and when?This week on Radio Ecoshock you'll hear Martin Burger, CEO of a tidal power company called Blue Energy. He spoke to the New Energy Movement in Vancouver on January 26th, 2009. This is an original recording by Radio Ecoshock.In fact, Martin went further. He explained four other neglected new energy sources, the best ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BANKRUPTCY OF THE ATMOSPHERE [opening Quote from John Kerry on the looming catastrophe in climate change]That is Senator John Kerry, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith, and you are about to get 20 minutes of the latest from Al Gore. In our second half hour, I'll interview Pieter Tans, one of the top scientists measuring greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. In fact, he is Chief Scientist at the Earth Research Lab, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BANKRUPTCY OF THE ATMOSPHERE [opening Quote from John Kerry on the looming catastrophe in climate change]That is Senator John Kerry, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith, and you are about to get 20 minutes of the latest from Al Gore. In our second half hour, I'll interview Pieter Tans, one of the top scientists measuring greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. In fact, he is Chief Scientist at the Earth Research Lab, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THIS IS IT! The ship is going down. This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith with eye-popping headlines on the triple crisis: Peak Oil, climate change, and economic collapse.While America basks in Obama, Europe quietly fell further apart over the week-end. On Martin Luther King Day, the British government announced more hundreds of billions to prop up banks and bad bets. Stocks in Barclay Bank fell to 25 percent in less than an hour. The largest, Royal Bank of Scotland, is already 80 percent owned by the government.The same ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THIS IS IT! The ship is going down. This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith with eye-popping headlines on the triple crisis: Peak Oil, climate change, and economic collapse.While America basks in Obama, Europe quietly fell further apart over the week-end. On Martin Luther King Day, the British government announced more hundreds of billions to prop up banks and bad bets. Stocks in Barclay Bank fell to 25 percent in less than an hour. The largest, Royal Bank of Scotland, is already 80 percent owned by the government.The same ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RESILIENT CITIES Peak Oil & Climate Can a city really work without oil? How will we ever make the transition?I'm Alex Smith for Radio Ecoshock - and you are in for a treat. Professor Peter Newman has designed public transport in Australia, and studied sustainable cities all over the world. Now we'll hear his first speech of the book tour for "Resilient Cities - Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change."The one hour talk, on January 9th, 2009, was hosted by Anthony Perl of Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver Canada. Profe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RESILIENT CITIES Peak Oil & Climate Can a city really work without oil? How will we ever make the transition?I'm Alex Smith for Radio Ecoshock - and you are in for a treat. Professor Peter Newman has designed public transport in Australia, and studied sustainable cities all over the world. Now we'll hear his first speech of the book tour for "Resilient Cities - Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change."The one hour talk, on January 9th, 2009, was hosted by Anthony Perl of Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver Canada. Profe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE PANIC & BIOFUEL SCAMS Jack Nicholson: "You Can't Handle the Truth"All right, I admit it. I can't handle the truth. Friends and family losing their jobs, and their self respect. Even German billionaires are throwing themselves under trains.It used to be so easy out on the edge. Nobody took the truth seriously. Economic doomsayers were just nuts then. Now they dominate prime time TV.In last week's show I did a feature on tools for tough times. Now I open up a blog on Wired magazine and they do the same thing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE PANIC & BIOFUEL SCAMS Jack Nicholson: "You Can't Handle the Truth"All right, I admit it. I can't handle the truth. Friends and family losing their jobs, and their self respect. Even German billionaires are throwing themselves under trains.It used to be so easy out on the edge. Nobody took the truth seriously. Economic doomsayers were just nuts then. Now they dominate prime time TV.In last week's show I did a feature on tools for tough times. Now I open up a blog on Wired magazine and they do the same thing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE CODE RED: SCIENCE AND PROSPECTS The new science is rolling in from England, Australia, and the American Geophysical Union conference. The news isn't chilling - it's heating and it's very scary.To cover it, we interview two top people in the field. We open with David Spratt, co-author of "Climate Code Red - The Case for Emergency Action" - which is just now being released in North America.I received an update from David, passed on by top Australian scientist Andrew Glikson. I trust Glikson, and he says Spratt has the sci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE CODE RED: SCIENCE AND PROSPECTS The new science is rolling in from England, Australia, and the American Geophysical Union conference. The news isn't chilling - it's heating and it's very scary.To cover it, we interview two top people in the field. We open with David Spratt, co-author of "Climate Code Red - The Case for Emergency Action" - which is just now being released in North America.I received an update from David, passed on by top Australian scientist Andrew Glikson. I trust Glikson, and he says Spratt has the sci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ECOSHOCK GREEN GOLD the best enviro tunes All the tunes we've used on Radio Ecoshock - full versions and how to contact the artists. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB (click title above - recommended) or Lo-Fi 14 MBAfter all the words, of scientists and activists, it's time to reach another part of your brain. We've never done this before - but see if these songs don't get you going. And play it any time.Production Notes: 30 second song bed at 29:30, pull down for your station ID. Ready to play.Playlist: "Endless Summer" Ghostly Penguin Dis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ECOSHOCK GREEN GOLD the best enviro tunes All the tunes we've used on Radio Ecoshock - full versions and how to contact the artists. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB (click title above - recommended) or Lo-Fi 14 MBAfter all the words, of scientists and activists, it's time to reach another part of your brain. We've never done this before - but see if these songs don't get you going. And play it any time.Production Notes: 30 second song bed at 29:30, pull down for your station ID. Ready to play.Playlist: "Endless Summer" Ghostly Penguin Dis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EARLY DEPRESSION DAZE Forget Madoff. Wall St. is the giant Ponzi scheme.The former NASDAQ Chairman and investing icon Bernard Madoff admits he ran a giant investment scam that lost $50 billion. Everyone, the wealthiest and wise, were taken in. Even the Rothschilds were hit, not to mention Swiss banks, British Banks (Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC), hedge funds (for a cool ten billion), Jewish charities, university endowments, pensions funds, municipalities. Lots of pain - but it's also illustrative of the much ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EARLY DEPRESSION DAZE Forget Madoff. Wall St. is the giant Ponzi scheme.The former NASDAQ Chairman and investing icon Bernard Madoff admits he ran a giant investment scam that lost $50 billion. Everyone, the wealthiest and wise, were taken in. Even the Rothschilds were hit, not to mention Swiss banks, British Banks (Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC), hedge funds (for a cool ten billion), Jewish charities, university endowments, pensions funds, municipalities. Lots of pain - but it's also illustrative of the much ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FOUR HORSEMEN Cars, Coal, Climate & War 1. Testimony to Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming Dec 9.On auto bail-out & real future of green transpo. Clips from Chairman Ed Markey, Member Jay Inslee, plus testimony from Joan Claybrook of the watchdog group Public Citizen (founded by Ralph Nader). Next up is a bit from Reuben Munger, Chairman of a start-up independent auto maker - of electric plug-in vehicles, called Bright Automotive.Also, Dr. Peter Morici, Professor of International Business at the Uni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FOUR HORSEMEN Cars, Coal, Climate & War 1. Testimony to Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming Dec 9.On auto bail-out & real future of green transpo. Clips from Chairman Ed Markey, Member Jay Inslee, plus testimony from Joan Claybrook of the watchdog group Public Citizen (founded by Ralph Nader). Next up is a bit from Reuben Munger, Chairman of a start-up independent auto maker - of electric plug-in vehicles, called Bright Automotive.Also, Dr. Peter Morici, Professor of International Business at the Uni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE TERRORISM: The Tar Sands As #1 supplier of oil to USA, Canada's tar sands kill the environment, locals, and pollute the world's atmosphere. Canada can never control its emissions with this giant carbon smokestack to the sky.Now they want to make the damage five times greater. To scoop off the soil in an area the size of Florida. Strip mining vast areas for the world's dirtiest source of oil.The U.S. group Environmental Defense launched a report February 2008 titled "Canada's Toxic Tar Sands, The Most Destructive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE TERRORISM: The Tar Sands As #1 supplier of oil to USA, Canada's tar sands kill the environment, locals, and pollute the world's atmosphere. Canada can never control its emissions with this giant carbon smokestack to the sky.Now they want to make the damage five times greater. To scoop off the soil in an area the size of Florida. Strip mining vast areas for the world's dirtiest source of oil.The U.S. group Environmental Defense launched a report February 2008 titled "Canada's Toxic Tar Sands, The Most Destructive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS It's going to be a bumpy ride... It's the double whammy: the economy and the climate crash at the same time.Outgoing President Bush is exercising his scorched Earth policy on BOTH, as he slides out the door.This is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. The news is pouring in with changes too big for the imagination. In this program, you'll hear a quick clip from Barack Obama, his climate promises.A Toronto Professor explains the links between economic and natural crashes. Peter Victor's book launch for "Managing Without Growth, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS It's going to be a bumpy ride... It's the double whammy: the economy and the climate crash at the same time.Outgoing President Bush is exercising his scorched Earth policy on BOTH, as he slides out the door.This is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. The news is pouring in with changes too big for the imagination. In this program, you'll hear a quick clip from Barack Obama, his climate promises.A Toronto Professor explains the links between economic and natural crashes. Peter Victor's book launch for "Managing Without Growth, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FOOD THREATS & SURVIVAL - PLUS HYBRID HUMAN POWER We open up this program with a classic 1946 quote from U.S. President Harry Truman. Old Harry begs Americans to save scraps of bread to help feed the starving overseas. We haven't heard much of that recently, although an estimated 860 million something people are hungry to dying.You get a 24 minute interview with Kathy Jo Wetter of ETC Group. They've just released a report ""Who Owns Nature? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life." That's the title of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FOOD THREATS & SURVIVAL - PLUS HYBRID HUMAN POWER We open up this program with a classic 1946 quote from U.S. President Harry Truman. Old Harry begs Americans to save scraps of bread to help feed the starving overseas. We haven't heard much of that recently, although an estimated 860 million something people are hungry to dying.You get a 24 minute interview with Kathy Jo Wetter of ETC Group. They've just released a report ""Who Owns Nature? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life." That's the title of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GOING DOWN IN FLAMES As corporate icons like General Motors tumble - what will be left of the economy?This is a bleeding edge show with 3 interviews plus media clips.In the first half hour: our second interview with Dmitri Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects." Our previous interview with Mr. Orlov was picked up by more than 40 radio stations. He predicted rapid economic collapse - and how right he was!Now Orlov says we are hitting Step Two of a Five Part devolutio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GOING DOWN IN FLAMES As corporate icons like General Motors tumble - what will be left of the economy?This is a bleeding edge show with 3 interviews plus media clips.In the first half hour: our second interview with Dmitri Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects." Our previous interview with Mr. Orlov was picked up by more than 40 radio stations. He predicted rapid economic collapse - and how right he was!Now Orlov says we are hitting Step Two of a Five Part devolutio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | LAMENT FOR A NATION'S OCEANS With the excitement of elections and a crumbling economy, who cares if ocean life is being killed off?Jeff Hutchings does - even if the government is ignoring his warnings. Jeff is the Chair of the committee advising Canada on endangered species. And though warnings of extinctions come thick and fast - the government continues to issue fishing and hunting permits to kill off the last of a kind.I debated running this speech, now, on Radio Ecoshock. Surely Americans will be too absorbed with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | LAMENT FOR A NATION'S OCEANS With the excitement of elections and a crumbling economy, who cares if ocean life is being killed off?Jeff Hutchings does - even if the government is ignoring his warnings. Jeff is the Chair of the committee advising Canada on endangered species. And though warnings of extinctions come thick and fast - the government continues to issue fishing and hunting permits to kill off the last of a kind.I debated running this speech, now, on Radio Ecoshock. Surely Americans will be too absorbed with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RUNAWAY TRAIN Finance & Climate Crisis How we go bankrupt; the currency crisis from Max Keiser et al. Features a clip from Unwelcome Guests underground radio show, plus Alex on the developing Depression.Then Jim Laurie interview: how we can save the climate without spending a trillion dollars. Ecoshock Show 081031 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MBSongs: James McMurty "We Can't Make It Anymore" and Eliza Gilkyson "Runaway Train" I love this song - it could be a theme for our times. Both Americ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | RUNAWAY TRAIN Finance & Climate Crisis How we go bankrupt; the currency crisis from Max Keiser et al. Features a clip from Unwelcome Guests underground radio show, plus Alex on the developing Depression.Then Jim Laurie interview: how we can save the climate without spending a trillion dollars. Ecoshock Show 081031 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MBSongs: James McMurty "We Can't Make It Anymore" and Eliza Gilkyson "Runaway Train" I love this song - it could be a theme for our times. Both Americ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SHOCK DOCTRINE NOW! As the world economy crumbles, a combination of corporate high finance is moving to consolidate power - as they do in any emergency.Naomi Klein explains her new book "Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" - in the light of our current economic meltdown. Suddenly, the trillions givens to major banks and investment gamblers begins to make sense.Naomi spoke to an enthusiastic audience in Santa Cruz, California on October 17th, 2008. Through the magic of non-profit radio, the speech ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOM HAYDEN The Birth of Movements As government and corporate governance fails, we need a wide-spread social movement to address climate change, peak oil, and extinction. Where is it? How does it start?Tom Hayden witnessed the beginning of a dozen social movements. We gather his insight from a new speech in Vancouver, an Alternative Radio program, and quotes from his 2008 book: "Writings for a New Democracy, The Tom Hayden Reader."The Reader begins with Hayden's "Letter to a New Young Left" in 1961. There are selections fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOM HAYDEN The Birth of Movements As government and corporate governance fails, we need a wide-spread social movement to address climate change, peak oil, and extinction. Where is it? How does it start?Tom Hayden witnessed the beginning of a dozen social movements. We gather his insight from a new speech in Vancouver, an Alternative Radio program, and quotes from his 2008 book: "Writings for a New Democracy, The Tom Hayden Reader."The Reader begins with Hayden's "Letter to a New Young Left" in 1961. There are selections fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PAUL EHRLICH - "THE DOMINANT ANIMAL" Dr. Paul Ehrlich is our feature speaker this week on Radio Ecoshock.His 1968 book "The Population Bomb" awoke the world to the ecological and social threats behind exploding human population. Since then, Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne have published dozens of books, many of them pioneering in fields like biology, evolution, and social affairs.His latest, with Anne, is "The Dominant Animal and the Fate of Biodiversity."I was privileged to hear and record Paul Ehrlich speaking to a packed hou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PAUL EHRLICH - "THE DOMINANT ANIMAL" Dr. Paul Ehrlich is our feature speaker this week on Radio Ecoshock.His 1968 book "The Population Bomb" awoke the world to the ecological and social threats behind exploding human population. Since then, Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne have published dozens of books, many of them pioneering in fields like biology, evolution, and social affairs.His latest, with Anne, is "The Dominant Animal and the Fate of Biodiversity."I was privileged to hear and record Paul Ehrlich speaking to a packed hou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A CLIMATE OF CRASH AND CHOICE Radio Ecoshock takes on the financial crash, funding for green jobs instead of banksters, and youth organizing to get green back in the elections.We start with a brand new interview with independent journalist Mike Whitney. He's been writing searing articles (for the rest of us) at counterpunch.org - and many other online journals and blogs.We talk about the latest grab and run with the money, as the same Wall Street experts who bankrupted the nation - call for even more money (for themselv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A CLIMATE OF CRASH AND CHOICE Radio Ecoshock takes on the financial crash, funding for green jobs instead of banksters, and youth organizing to get green back in the elections.We start with a brand new interview with independent journalist Mike Whitney. He's been writing searing articles (for the rest of us) at counterpunch.org - and many other online journals and blogs.We talk about the latest grab and run with the money, as the same Wall Street experts who bankrupted the nation - call for even more money (for themselv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE OLD FUTURE'S GONE - ROBERT JENSEN Robert Jensen's provocative speech launched in Vancouver, appearing on the front pages of Z-Net, Alternet and many more. Our Radio Ecoshock provided the audio links, and thousands downloaded this powerful re-assessment of the Left, and social movements generally.Jensen is a tenured Professor at University of Texas, Austin. He came to prominence through his work on an feminist perspective of pornography. And then zoomed into news byte of the day status when he said the attacks of 911 were no ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE OLD FUTURE'S GONE - ROBERT JENSEN Robert Jensen's provocative speech launched in Vancouver, appearing on the front pages of Z-Net, Alternet and many more. Our Radio Ecoshock provided the audio links, and thousands downloaded this powerful re-assessment of the Left, and social movements generally.Jensen is a tenured Professor at University of Texas, Austin. He came to prominence through his work on an feminist perspective of pornography. And then zoomed into news byte of the day status when he said the attacks of 911 were no ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PEAK CLIMATE A double-header, with two "don't miss it" interviews.We start out with Dr. Peter Ward author of the revolutionary climate book "Under A Green Sky." Peter has just returned from an exploratory trip in Australia, and will head to Antarctica later this year.Dr. Ward has summarized the newest science which shows that 4 out of the past 5 great extinctions were not caused by asteroid hits - but by wrenching and deadly climate change. The cause? Carbon dioxide belching out of volcanoes. But now we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PEAK CLIMATE A double-header, with two "don't miss it" interviews.We start out with Dr. Peter Ward author of the revolutionary climate book "Under A Green Sky." Peter has just returned from an exploratory trip in Australia, and will head to Antarctica later this year.Dr. Ward has summarized the newest science which shows that 4 out of the past 5 great extinctions were not caused by asteroid hits - but by wrenching and deadly climate change. The cause? Carbon dioxide belching out of volcanoes. But now we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EXTREME RAIN. MONBIOT. Crappy summer weather?August was more like November for many across Canada, while the U.S. South was battered by heavy storms, with more to come.But it isn't just "bad weather". Two scientists from the UK and the U.S. have published a paper in the journal "Science" showing extreme rainfall events are increasing - and they are caused by global warming.Whenever you hear the phrase "record rain" on TV, or in the newspapers - pay attention. In this program I've collected reports on crazy rainfa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EXTREME RAIN. MONBIOT. Crappy summer weather?August was more like November for many across Canada, while the U.S. South was battered by heavy storms, with more to come.But it isn't just "bad weather". Two scientists from the UK and the U.S. have published a paper in the journal "Science" showing extreme rainfall events are increasing - and they are caused by global warming.Whenever you hear the phrase "record rain" on TV, or in the newspapers - pay attention. In this program I've collected reports on crazy rainfa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PEAK OIL AND THE MEDIA Experts predict Mexico, America's number 3 oil producer, will run out of oil in just 7 years. OPEC producers have been lying about their reserves for years. The world is starting new subterranean military tensions - or outright wars - just to keep our Hummers humming.Our whole life depends upon oil based fertilizers, oil based plastics, oil based medicines. The whole world wants to cache in on fossil energy supplies, just as supplies are getting harder to find, more expensive to produce.Now ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PEAK OIL AND THE MEDIA Experts predict Mexico, America's number 3 oil producer, will run out of oil in just 7 years. OPEC producers have been lying about their reserves for years. The world is starting new subterranean military tensions - or outright wars - just to keep our Hummers humming.Our whole life depends upon oil based fertilizers, oil based plastics, oil based medicines. The whole world wants to cache in on fossil energy supplies, just as supplies are getting harder to find, more expensive to produce.Now ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | UK CLIMATE ACTION Thousands gather in Britain's climate camp against coal; 3 protests, police over-reaction.Is it "Green Stalinism" versus decentralized power? That is a recurring theme between those calling for big government action - and the anarchists who believe the government poisons everything it touches.Quotes from George Monbiot, and music from the camp.Plus a good interview on getting the public to accept alternative clean power. Will a windmill really blot out the landscape? Or is it better to acc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate Change Impacts on America Ecoshock Show 080815Top IPCC organizer & U of Arizona Professor Jonathan Overpeck speech at Washington U. given on April 1st, 2008.After updating the world climate report, Overpeck predicts climate impacts on North America.His focus, on the two worst climate problems for America:1. Rising seas. More than half of Americans live within 50 miles of the sea coast. Many American cities, like New York, and States, like Florida, may be flooded by rising seas (plus storm surges) within the expe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Methane Burps & Tele-Everything Ecoshock Show 080808Guest host KMO from C-Realm podcast interviews David M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA Langley Research Center.Lots of doom, but really good solutions too.Thanks to KMO for sharing this rare interview.1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MBProduction Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 33 min Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ENDLESS SUMMER Ecoshock Show 080801Surf is up and the heat is on.We begin with a review of the UK climate activist scene. Hear a representative of "Rising Tide" describe British climate protests, including boarding coal trains headed for a massive polluting power station. Courtesy of RiseUp! Radio - a community program from Nottingham England.We also hear a short clip from a new/old climate radio program coming out of London, called "The Two Degrees Show".Phil England has been doing this program for a co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Coping With Climate Change Ecoshock Show 080725How can we face it? 2 interviews: Pulitzer prize winner Catherine Ellison, and climate/nuclear historian Spencer Weart.Catherine Ellison is one of America's top reporters. She caught me attention again when she wrote about the difficulty of telling kids about climate change. What should we tell them? What should we tell ourselves. We discuss that, and also a bit on her earlier book "The Mommy Brain" - on how giving birth and raising children actually stimulated parts ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CHANGE OR BURN The Australian Experience Ecoshock Show 080718Speech by top climate/economic adviser to new Australian government, Prof. Ross Garnaut. His report is an update of the famous Stern Report in the UK - with even better accounting for China and all Asia. Professor Garnaut was the Australian Ambassador to China, and knows places like Indonesia well. So his view is from a developed country, but knowing the huge growth and challenges happening in Asia - which may well tip the climate of the world.I think Garnaut's report ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FIRESTORM - Carbon Rising Ecoshock Show 080711We begin with a first hand report from climate front-line - the California fires, with Maria Gilardin. Maria is the host of the TUC radio program, originating from San Francisco. This time she is sending out last emails, from her straw bail house, surrounded by four major fires in Mendicino County, California.Although Maria has produced some excellent programs on climate change, including interviews with scientists like James Hansen of NASA, perhaps she never expected ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A WARNING FROM THE PAST This week's Radio Ecoshock broadcast is about past greenhouse worlds, quick climate shifts, and mass extinctions caused by changes to the atmosphere.Dr. Andrew Glikson studies comet/asteroid impacts, volcanoes, and past climates. He's been doing it for 40 years.While studying the oldest record of life on Earth, in the Australian outback, Glikson found a relationship between comet or asteroid impacts and the generation of living things. We do not yet know whether life forms (such as bacte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | HANSEN: CLIMATE CRIMINALS NASA scientist James Hansen shakes up Capitol Hill (and the media) with explosive testimony to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate Change. For one thing, he thinks oil industry executives who purposely (and secretly) fund groups to confuse the public about climate science � should be charged with crimes against humanity. Here are the links to supplement this week�s Radio Ecoshock show: James Hansen Testimony to Select Committee (June 23, 2008) as a .pdf file.Ti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COLLAPSE & CLIMATE CRISIS Dmitry Orlov interview. Author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects." Orlov compares end of Soviet & American empires.His advice for Presidential candidates, as oil era ends is priceless. Hear about "The Collapse Party" platform....We run a clip from the Minneapolis National Conference on Media Reform (Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford on how media sows doubt on global warming, which doesn't exist in climate science...) Then I reference two hours of ke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Re Send of Building Sanity, Passivhaus Workshop Hi folks!Sorry, but last week's podcast send was incomplete. You didn't get the full show. So here is a re-send - the workshop on how to save 90% on building energy costs (and greenhouse gases) is too important to miss.That was the Radio Ecoshock show for June 13th, 2008.Won't happen again.Alex. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BUILDING SANITY - PASSIVHAUS WORKSHOP A follow up to last week's program "Building Madness - Constructing Climate Change"This week: a real solution to making our buildings way more efficient. Called "Passivhaus" in Germany, the technique really means much more than "house" - but all buildings.This week we present an exclusive one hour workshop on super-low energy houses, office & municipal buildings with Dr. Guido Wimmers. His company web site at eqcanada.comGuido Wimmers is from Austria, where he studied and designed super ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BUILDING MADNESS Constructing Climate Change QUICK GUIDE AND LINKS - RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAM June 6, 2008 Voices on this program: ANTHONY PERLE Simon Fraser University Urban Studies Program, Co-author of "Transport Revolution" Download that book launch speech Here. Download 20 minute presentation at "Our Transportation Future" 080522 Here. RICHARD REGISTER Clip from "A Sustainable World" on KCSB radio, in Santa Barbara. Download full interview Here. LARRY FRANK J. Armand Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SAFE CLIMATE OR ENDLESS WAR? Those are the choices.CONNECTIONS FOR THIS WEEK'S RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOWWeek of May 30th, 2008Guest: Michael T. Klare (new book "Rising Powers, Shrinking World")Listen to the Ecoshock Klare interview here.(http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Klare_RisingPowers_LoFi.mp3)Read his blog at http://www.tomdispatch.comSpace For Peace activist Bruce GagnonListen to the Gagnon interview separately here.www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Gagnon_080521_LoFi.mp3 His web site is http://space4pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOO HOT TO HANDLE! Radio Ecoshock Show script 080523 "TOO HOT TO HANDLE"[quick opening clip from George Michael "Time to Pray"]Yes, the wounded skies above, say it's much too late.Pop back a few anti-depressants. This is Radio Ecoshock, I'm Alex SmithDo we have still have time? Pop star George Michael asked the millions watching the finale of American Idol 2008. He sang of the time of guilty men, in front of a giant screen image of a red and molten world.That was almost as close as this TV parade of geezer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Notice to Subscribers: change in your podcast HiThis is Alex Smith, your host on Radio Ecoshock. I have an important message for my beloved podcast subscribers.You may have noticed that the most recent program for May 16th, "Crisis in Confidence" arrived in the "Lo-Fi" format. That is more compressed - a much smaller file at 14 megabytes (instead of 56). It arrives on your computer faster, and takes up less space for those who collect the programs on their hard drives.By popular demand, I have switched this podcast to the smaller Lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE Is it just me... or is the world falling apart?The Radio Ecoshock Show 080516Worried? Need a hole to hide in?All through Western history, the human herd has reached panic points. Civilization was expected to end. And sometimes it did.In this program, we'll take the bullet train through global defrosting, climate adaptation, rogue capitalism, economic crash, selling out, capital flight, and the food crisis.You will hear samples from a conference call with world food expert Lester Brown, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET Helen Caldicott's new broadcast/podcast program #1.Hands up everyone who wants to hear about nuke reactor safety.....Nobody?Perfect. That's just the way the nuclear industry wants it - as they plan a new "renaissance" of reactor construction as a "solution" to climate change. Really, the same big corporations want the government to back and insure their risky plans to rake in billions of bucks.George Bush loves the plan. So does the military. Republican candidate John McCain just told n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Radio For Troubled Times A new survey by worldpublicopinion.org shows that the majority of people in the world think oil is running out. They want their governments to find new energy supplies. Americans agree we have passed Peak Oil - but they are the only public to feel their government is operating on the wrong assumptions.One big bad assumption: biofuels are the way to energy independence. We investigate news reports from all over the world, connecting biofuels to the new world food crisis. Even U.S. sources s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ADDICTED TO OIL Even President George Bush admits we are addicted to oil. But what does that really mean?THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIONDr. Bruce Alexander, a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Canada, is a pioneer researching addiction. His ideas are so unconventional, he won the Stirling Prize for controversy. Bruce Alexander is currently writing a book titled "The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in the Poverty of the Spirit." - coming out this summer."Addiction is a democratic disease, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SOLAR TO SAVE US Calif. scientist Nate Lewis says CO2 is rising rapidly - and why only Solar can power the Earth.This includes Repodcast clip from ABC National's "In Conversation" with Robyn Williams. Robyn finds Nate frustrated with the gush of greenhouse gases in the last few years. We are going the wrong way, while conferences conference, politicians talk, and consumers take teeny tiny green steps.That leads to disaster, but scientist Lewis quickly knocks out the nuclear option. By his calculation, we wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate: Who If Not Us? In this show: a new speech by Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of "Ingenuity Gap" and "Updside of Down" Toronto 080320.Homer-Dixon says a carbon surge threatens the world, breaking IPCC predictions. He outlines the latest science, and makes an odd suggestion of how the Internet might help save us.This is one of the most powerful speeches I have heard this year. It was recorded by John-Paul Warren of Toronto - an example of the kind of recording and exchange that is pushing exchange of new climat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PEAK OIL = TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION This week's program begins with a quick review of planet-shaking news.Then, we go to the book launch of "Transportation Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil"The authors are Richard Gilbert & Anthony Perl. I recorded that on March 18th, in Vancouver, Canada.You get the speech by Richard Gilbert, plus some of the Q and A.Both the talk, and the book, are loaded with real facts and figures on future transpo, and how to get there, sustainably. Finally, some answers. Are you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wall Street & the Climate Crash This week we dig into the Wall Street Mess. Are we headed into the next Great Depression? We'll talk to a Finance Campaigner at the Rainforest Action Network, to see how they fought some big bankers, and won. That interview with Matt Leonard of RAN is only available in the audio program.But first, Wall Street needs to dig themselves out with a new bubble scam. Why not use our concern about climate change. If a new American Administration takes on carbon emissions, they may hand out bi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dirty Coal, Dirty Politics, Wasted World Before I launch into the script for this week's Radio Ecoshock show, I want to get the key information into your hands. Here is new science, just published in the March 7th, Geophysical Letters scientific journal, explained by Ken Caldeira, senior scientist of the Carnegie Institute. Apparently, every bit of CO2 we emit eventually warms the atmosphere for thousands of years. Read on.KEY QUOTES FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH KEN CALDEIRA, Senior Scientist, Carnegie Institute, from the Mebourne 3C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mark Jaccard: 20 Years of Climate Failure Why have all the political climate plans failed so badly? Targets are set, with big announcements, and yet greenhouse gas emissions just keep going up, and up.Canada's Professor Mark Jaccard has developed scientific models, to study how governments cope with the climate challenge. His results are solid, and controversial.Just knowing about the climate threat is obviously not enough. As consumers, we know, but just keep polluting. Some politicians mean well, but we can't seem to change o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Our Dying Oceans - New Science Latest awful science on climate's impact: dead zones, acidification, extinctions. Forget Obamamania and gowns on the red carpet - oh, by the way, the oceans are dying.This show begins with clips from the 1973 classic "Soylent Green". The usual warnings apply: people with depression, cynicism, skepticism, or despair listen at their own risk.3 original interviews by Alex Smith, of top scientists, with news from the Boston meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Then ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Drying of the West & More (Ecoshock 080222) This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm your host, Alex Smith.Our audio show begins with a 21 minute interview with Robert Kunzig, author of "The Drying of the West" in the February issue of National Geographic. A great science writer and researcher, Robert Kunzig has discovered a wealth of science showing the American South West is entering into a period of prolonged drought.The whole Colorado River system, and the massive population who depend upon it (from Denver to Los Angeles) are imperiled. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | NOT SO COOL FARMING The report is called "Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential" It's from Greenpeace International.We have with us one of the authors, Dr. Pete Smith from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Dr. Smith was also a lead author, reporting for last year's climate series, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The total amounts of greenhouse gases coming from human agriculture are surprising to me. Your report finds that farming c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | End of Age of Oil - Kunstler Part 2 How will we live as oil declines - and the price keeps going up?In our previous program, we ran the first hour of a speech by James Howard Kunstler, given as the first visiting scholar to the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University, in Canada.Today, we present the conclusion of the speech followed by a moving question and answer period, uncut. The audience reacts with admiration, animosity, and tough questions for author Kunstler.Hear what your neighbors think, their worries, sugge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | End of the Age of Oil - 1 James Howard Kunstler lecture as 1st visiting scholar to Simon Fraser Urban Studies 080124From the Long Emergency to new measures after Peak Oil. The best speech of the year so far.Why the housing boom will not return, and what that means to the American economy. The disaster of investing in suburbia, as oil becomes more and more expensive, and dangerous to get.How Nationalization of most of the oil of the world (the major companies like Shell and Exxon only deliver about 5% now, Kunstler ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Capitalist Despair & the Climate Crisis [Show script][to hear the program, click the title above][sci-fi - but all too true clip from trailer for new game]Our opening clip comes not from a documentary of our times, but from a trailer for a new video game called "Frontlines, Fuel of War." I suppose gamers really know the game is up. But, even our collapse, can be made into a profitable fantasy, for the screen.I'm Alex Smith, and this is Radio Ecoshock.You know, life has always been a battle between routine and interruptions. I sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TAR SANDS CRIMES This is writer, activist and hitchhiker MacDonald Stainsby. He is coordinator of a website called oilsandstruth.org.The Tar Sands megaprojects in Northern Alberta, Canada are so horrible, so insane, I don't really want to talk about it. In fact, most Canadians - and Americans, prefer not to think about this issue at all.It is the world's largest strip mining operation. It is Canada's largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions. The Tar Sands are melting down gluey rock to feed Ame ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bali Climate Conference Fails As the poles melted, the world governments assembled at the tropical paradise of Bali, to confront the climate crisis.With Canada running interference (threatening to kill the conference) - the U.S. APPEARED to give in - but actually gave up nothing. As we hear from the rabid supporters of the Bush Administration, the American Enterprise Institute. No firm targets were set - despite the willingness of Europe and all the rest of the developing world to act now. A huge opportunity missed.T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Canadian Wild Fire Carbon - Tom Gower In the last few years, as the North heats up, wild fires have been burning, unreported and unopposed, across the top of the world, in both Canada and Siberia.The latest climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does NOT include this growing source of carbon.Dr. Tom Gower is from the University of Wisconsin/Madison. In this exclusive interview with Radio Ecoshock, Dr. Gower explains the vast boreal forest of Canada is no longer a carbon sink. It is losing more ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOP UK SCIENTIST'S BLUNT CLIMATE WARNING Sir David King warns we are headed toward a hot-state planet, not seen since 55 million years ago (when life huddled on Antarctica).The only way out, he says, is a binding international agreement by 2009. Even so, we only have a window of 5 years to act, to cut carbon drastically. Otherwise, the global climate may shift by 5 degrees C. ( 9 degrees Fahrenheit) or more. Keep in mind, that's the just the global average. The arctic may go up 14 degrees or more.We are already experiencing ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEYMOUR HERSH: US INTENTIONS FOR IRAN As the Iraq war stumbles into bloody nowhere, who - just what kind of madmen - could ramp up for yet another war, this time against Iran?Seasoned journalist Seymour Hersh attempts to answer this question, in the Amnesty International 2007 Lecture, delivered in Dublin, Ireland on October 24th of this year. It is one of the most compelling speeches I've heard in months.For those who've been away in outer space: Seymour Hersh has been reporting for 40 years. He exposed the 1968 massacre of V ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Derrick Jensen's End Game What ever label humans give their system - Capitalism, Socialism, any-ism - the name of the game is consume the planet as fast as we can.That's what deep green author and activist Derrick Jensen tells me in this first Ecoshock interview with the radical philosopher. The problem? Call it civilization.The occasion for our call is an impending visit to Vancouver and Victoria, for speeches about his new book. Hear Derrick October 19th at the Ukrainian Hall in Vancouver (8 pm), October 20th a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ECO-SOCIALISM WITH JOEL KOVEL Does capitalism have to fall - to save the Earth?Dr. Joel Kovel thinks so. He's the influential lefty academic who wrote "Enemy of Nature." The subtitle was "The End of Capitalism, or the End of the World."Kovel was in Vancouver to promote his new book on Zionism, as well as an upcoming new edition of "Enemy of Nature." He's also promising a DVD criticizing Al Gore as a Capitalism substitute for real action to save the planet.Al Gore? Kovel explains that Gore, and the Kyoto Protocol, ai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PLANKTOS II: THE INTERVENTION [To hear the whole show, including the 3 interviews, click the title above in Blogger, or go to http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock/ES_070914_Show.mp3][As prepared before air. Items in [square brackets] were cut due to time limits.]ALEX SMITH:Today we're going to continue our investigation of Planktos Corp. This company plans to farm ocean algae, stimulating them with iron dust, to capture carbon dioxide from the air. If successful, the company would sell carbon offset credits to polluting co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PLANKTOS: OFFSETS REAL & IMAGINED [In Blogger, to hear the show, click the title above.]When we purchase carbon offsets, or companies claim to be "carbon neutral" - are we kidding ourselves?In the first of a two-part radio series, we look at one of the best-known "green" carbon offset companies, Planktos Corp. I spend the whole show interviewing the CEO, Russell George.You can always learn a lot about the workings of the ocean, from Russ George. He tells us plankton, the very basis of the food chain, is greatly reduced si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Escape from Suburbia - Director interview To hear the audio interview with Gregory Greene, Director of "Escape from Suburbia" click the title above.This 27 minute interview was selected for replay on the Indymedia show of KPFK Los Angeles, on the Pacifica Network, after it's original broadcast on CFRO FM radio in Vancouver, and other college and community stations.Gregory Greene became known for his underground hit DVD "End of Suburbia" - which went over a million dollars in sales. The premise of the first film essentially followe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DU and 911 Truth?? [As broadcast - to hear the audio click the title above]This is Alex Smith, asking, why are so many in the 911 Truth movement so hostile to the reality of climate change? On June 22nd, 2007 the traveling road show of 911 speakers arrived in Vancouver, Canada.As an environmentalist, and a radio journalist, I went to the Sunday afternoon presentations. These promised to explain the dangers of depleted uranium, and the conspiracy of wars to get oil. My intention was to broadcast the speech b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Alexander Cockburn - Climate Denier When some right wing pseudo fascist nut is convicted, or discovered in the bedroom of a little boy, something inside me accepts. I want to cheer, but I don't, because it shows we are all kind of crazy, in some way. But at least all their hurtful rants become sidelined, in the great debates of the day. Thank God, if there is one, we don't have to listen to Jerry Falwell anymore.When an icon of the Left falls - someone who has warned and enlightened us, it is much harder. That's what make ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SMALLER FOOTPRINT - AND FEWER FEET! Who cares if we all reduce our carbon footprint - if there are billions more of us. It still adds up to a greenhouse gas disaster.For Dr. John Guillebaud, a UK population expert - controlling our numbers is a biological necessity - and one key factor in averting the worst of climate change. Since his early days growing up in Africa, this medical doctor has devoted himself to family planning. Now he, and a team at Optimum Population, have calculated just how many air miles, or driving mile ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GLENN BECK CNN's Climate Quisling to hear the broacast, click the title above.[Opening clips: Glenn Beck: "And I read this one part, about global warming, about how they got, what was the first they did, to get people to exterminate the Jews. Now, I'm not saying that anybody's going to - Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however."Narrator: "Vidkun Quisling was the Norwegian Traitor, the self-styled Fuehrer for Hitler during World War Two..."Strident CNN woman host: "O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CANADA'S CLIMATE PLAN GOES BLACK [This is a part script for the audio broadcast/podcast. Tohear the real thing, click the titleabove]What kind of greenhouse gas reduction begins byviolating an international climate treaty, and then promising to emit even more carbon dioxide?That plan is called "Turning the Corner" - announced April 27th, by Canadian Environment Minister John Baird, of the Conservative Party.Baird says Canadians are dumping 35% more greenhouse gases now, than in 1990. He blames all that not on Canadian en ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MASS KILL OF SEA LIONS AT BC FISH FARMS A storm of public concern erupted after 50 dead Sea Lions were hauled up with nets in a single British Columbian salmon farm. Now, it turns out a wide range of marine mammals, including endangered species, are routinely shot or drowned by the Canadian fish farming industry. It's just another black eye for fish farms, which are already accused of killing off wild stocks and polluting the sea.Let's investigate with the Living Oceans Society in Canada.[for Audio Interview with Catherine Stew ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE SCAMS - 7 Roads to Hell on Earth CLIMATE SCAMS: 7 ROADS TO HELL ON EARTH[opening clips]Global Warming - It's the Sun! Cosmic Rays! the U.S. Military - anybody but us, the common car-driving, energy sucking, Western-style humanoid.Welcome to the Radio Ecoshock guide to climate change scams - the wrong-headed ideas, and pork-barrel wrong turns, that stall, stall, stall, real solutions to rapid climate change.Someone once said there are as many ideas, and excuses, as there are humans. We wouldn't want it any other way. Bu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GOVERNMENTS HIDE IPCC FACTS Welcome to Radio Ecoshock[click title above to hear audio, 20 minutes, with clips]First, I want to hit a couple of the highlights from last week's new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. This is the Second Working Group, looking at the impacts we are already feeling from global warming, and predicting who gets hurt in the future. That turns out to be up to 30 percent of all species going extinct, including coral reefs, and billions of humans running out of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BEST NEW CLIMATE MUSIC - 6 SONGS Hi there, this is Alex Smith from Radio Ecoshock. OK, my last podcast was the most depressing ever - the latest news on new coal fired power plants all over the world - set to Chopin's funeral march. I suppose I was just trying use music, art, to convey the true horror of our situation - and not just for us, but for all the animals and plants, now that the carbon monster is out of the ground.But art should heal as well as hurt. So this time round, I've gathered up the six best new songs a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COAL DIRGE [Click the title above to hear the Coal Dirge - 8 minutes long]A new article in the Christian Science Monitor details how the world is building a whole new wave of dirty coal power plants - sure to tip the climate beyond recognition.Somehow the facts don't seem enough - so I set this piece with the appropriate music - Chopin's famous funeral march. This IS what will kill off civilization and the species we know and love - unless investors, governments, and power companies wake up from the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | OCEAN FISHERIES: Gloom&Doom - Daniel Pauly [to hear the full version, with many quotes from the Pauly speech, click the title above. You may have to wait a minute, it is 47 minutes long, 45 megabytes]What would it take to be the Grand-daddy of fisheries researchers? On-site experience in many places. Five hundred papers published, working with a dedicated team, and with other top scientists all over the world.Then, what if that top scientist sees, and can now prove, thathumans are killing off their own food fisheries, and creatin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE TOTALITARIAN URGE In just a sec, I'm going to tell you where to download a hot new speech from Cory Doctorow.Normally, I stick to the environment and nothing but. That's right, I want to help save the plentiful Earth as we know it. But we can't do it without the freedom to express ourselves, to move around without government or corporate interference. We need all or our creativity unleashed to solve problems like climate change and dying oceans - not a dictatorship - and especially not a "green" totalitari ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Hansen: Climate Deadline To listen to/download the audio mp3, click the title above.It's time to hear the awful truth: Nature's carbon clock is ticking. We have less than ten years to make a major turnaround, according to one of America's top scientists.This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock.Despite being censored by the Bush administration, there is an important recent interview with James Hansen, the outspoken climate scientist at NASA. This one comes from independent radio journalist Maria Gilardin, who has prod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whaling Ship Fire, Protests&Greenpeace To hear the full audio report (16 minutes long)click the title above.This piece begins with clips from radio in Australia and New Zealand. A minister in New Zealand makes clear their objections to continued Japanese whaling in the internationally designated whale sanctuary.So far the Japanese have slaughtered over 18,000 whalesfrom this sanctuary. Neither Australia nor New Zealand have enforced the rules to protect whales - even though New Zealand has sent ships down to protect fish.We le ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate: STERN TESTIMONY TO US SENATE [Listento the testimony to the Senate byclicking on the title above. It is 30 important minutes for the planet.]Sir Nicholas Stern, the UK economist who caught the attention of the business world, when he warned of the huge costs of ignoring climate change, testified before the US Senate Energy Committee on February 13th, 2007.This hearing would never have been held before the Democratic takeover of the Senate and its committees. It isa sea change in the development of American climate po ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CAN FOSSIL FUELS BE SUSTAINABLE? [Click the title above to hear the full audio file - 27 megabytes in size, and 29 minutes long][opening music clips, including a shout protest against Merill Lynch - for financing new mega-coal plants in Texas]Professor Mark Jaccard predicts a strong future for fossil fuels. He says their use will only rise, despite fears of climate change.We may not be doomed though.The carbon dioxide could be trapped and put back in the ground.This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock - and I don't like what ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IPCC Future Forecaster: Andrew Weaver Click the title above to hear an 11 minute interview with Dr. Andrew Weaver, lead author of the "future predictions" section of the IPCC report released in February in Paris.We discuss the role of scientists, and the reliability of the future predictions in the report.Dr. Weaver says there is some good news: he was directly involved in wrapping up oceans research which indicates a catastrophic failure of the Atlantic Converyor Belt, (often called the "Gulf Stream") is VERY UNLIKELY to happe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IPCC Climate News - Set to Music Just a little audio goodie: news reports from the February release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including statements from the scientists. Also, coverage of obscene Exxon/Mobil profits, and equally obscene meandering about climate - from President George Bush. All set to tunes from 2 new Canadian artists. It's 7 Megabytes (fast download) and 8 minutes short. Shudder and enjoy. Alex. www.ecoshock.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mark Lynas: Six Degrees of Climate Change What happens as the Earth heats up? British author and activist Mark Lynas set out to answer those questions in his new book "Six Degrees." Searching the science, putting it together, he describes the impacts with each degree of temperature rise. The book is due out this March in England, by Harper Collins. We got a sneak preview in this interview with Lynas from his home in the UK.Sorry, but I don't have time to transcribe the whole thing for my blog. Here are the questions I asked Mar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | STORMY FUTURE [Audio begins with almost 2 minutes of alarming media clips on recent storms in U.S. and Europe - to listen,click the title above]Do these media reports worry you? Take a deep breath.Humans are hard-wired to fear extreme climate events.And not just humans. My big German Shepard dog always headed into the bathtub with every bolt of lightening - even though she was relatively safe inside the house. Mammals instinctively don't like big wind storms, big piles of snow, or big waves crashing a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Top 5 "Save the Climate" Speeches of 2006 Will it be a happy or a grim New Year?In 2006, the Arctic melted more, rains fell heavier, fires burned bigger, the plants and animals were confused by a changing climate. This was the year polls showed the public is slowly getting the big picture. People are worried. Unlikely characters and corporations are calling themselves "green."It was alsothe year of plans to avert catastrophic change.Most of these proposals did not come from governments, who are still, with a few exceptions, in p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ICE QUAKE! To hear full audio version, click title above. Look out! Look out! The Arctic Ice is disappearing much faster than anyone thought possible. Events which were supposed to take centuries are occurring now. Scientists at Canada's new global ice laboratory, at the University of Ottawa, have discovered a giant ice shelf cracked off Canada's most northerly island, Ellesmere Island. The Ayles ice shelf is about 40 square miles. Now it is loose in the Arctic, and next year may head towar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLIMATE MAP OF DOOM December 23, 2006What is the climate like in your home town? Last week the Radio Ecoshock internet station went down for two days, while we shivered in the dark with no electricity, along with a quarter million other Vancouver area residents. Trees more than three hundred years old were knocked down, whole parks flattened. But the local newspaper managed to find one climate expert who says that's just weather. Nothing to do with climate change, just move along folks.A typhoon strength st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WILL WARMING END SNOW SPORTS? In this Ecoshock Feature (click title above to listen/download) we cover the disappearance of snow in the highly unusual warm start to winter in Europe. World Cup ski races in the most famous resorts of the Alps have been cancelled. The hills are bare. Some are offering hiking tours instead. We hear two reports. One from NPR on Europe. One expert says the lack of snow is a combination of global warming and recent weather patterns. He expects a cold winter to arrive any time soon. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WILL WARMING END SNOW SPORTS? In this Ecoshock Feature (click title above to listen/download) we cover the disappearance of snow in the highly unusual warm start to winter in Europe. World Cup ski races in the most famous resorts of the Alps have been cancelled. The hills are bare. Some are offering hiking tours instead. We hear two reports. One from NPR on Europe. One expert says the lack of snow is a combination of global warming and recent weather patterns. He expects a cold winter to arrive any time soon. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ritter, Hersh Vs. a Mad Iranian War [To hear the podcast, click the title above]In the spring of 2006, the celebrated journalist Seymour Hersh warned the United States was considering using nuclear weapons to wipe out suspected Iranian nuclear processing sites. Now, the tide appears to have turned against the Neo-Con warmongers. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has resigned over failures and scandals in Iraq. The Democrats have regained control of both the House and the Senate.Yet Hersh is back in the late November issue o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ritter, Hersh Vs. a Mad Iranian War [To hear the podcast, click the title above] In the spring of 2006, the celebrated journalist Seymour Hersh warned the United States was considering using nuclear weapons to wipe out suspected Iranian nuclear processing sites. Now, the tide appears to have turned against the Neo-Con warmongers. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has resigned over failures and scandals in Iraq. The Democrats have regained control of both the House and the Senate. Yet Hersh is back in the late November ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MONBIOT: A Man for All Climates Millions of people have come to rely on George Monbiot as a clear-headed investigator into the threats and possible solutions to climate change.Through his regular columns in Britain's respected Guardian newspaper, his books, and appearances on television and radio,Monbiot has become more than a journalist.He's an activist and a player in the greatest drama unfolding in human history.This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock. I was galvanized by a speech George Monbiot gave to a packed house in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MONBIOT: A Man for All Climates Millions of people have come to rely on George Monbiot as a clear-headed investigator into the threats and possible solutions to climate change. Through his regular columns in Britain's respected Guardian newspaper, his books, and appearances on television and radio, Monbiot has become more than a journalist. He's an activist and a player in the greatest drama unfolding in human history. This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock. I was galvanized by a speech George Monbiot gave to a packed h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Nairobi Mess This is the script for "Nairobi Mess" - a 13 minute (12 Megabyte) MP3 audio file.To hear the full report, click the TITLE above.[Begins with short BBC clip and statement by UN's Kofi Anan]This is Alex Smith, dis-reporting on news that affects the world.It's a mess in Nairobi Kenya, as nations scramble to legitimize a policy of doing nothing. These are theclimate talks trying to establish climate talks, in the future, to discuss the future. And no one can agree on that.The arctic is melting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Nairobi Mess This is the script for "Nairobi Mess" - a 13 minute (12 Megabyte) MP3 audio file. To hear the full report, click the TITLE above. [Begins with short BBC clip and statement by UN's Kofi Anan] This is Alex Smith, dis-reporting on news that affects the world. It's a mess in Nairobi Kenya, as nations scramble to legitimize a policy of doing nothing. These are the climate talks trying to establish climate talks, in the future, to discuss the future. And no one can agree on that. The arct ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FISH COLLAPSE BY 2048 To hear the full audio broadcast (16 minutes) click on the title above. [Part of script for Fish 2048: an audio broadcast/podcast with news clips, interview bits with lead author, snippets of music] [opens with short clip from The Waterboys "Fisherman's Blues"; CBC and CBS news announcers, etc] That's what kills me about mass media news. Horrors never known can be reported in those news voices, followed immediately by the trivial. As though the disappearance of fish in the sea is jus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FISH COLLAPSE BY 2048 To hear the full audio broadcast (16 minutes) click on the title above. [Part of script for Fish 2048: an audio broadcast/podcast with news clips, interview bits with lead author, snippets of music] [opens with short clip from The Waterboys "Fisherman's Blues"; CBC and CBS news announcers, etc] That's what kills me about mass media news. Horrors never known can be reported in those news voices, followed immediately by the trivial. As though the disappearance of fish in the sea is jus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | METHANE PRIMER [click on the title above to hear the 15 minute audio broadcast] SAY HELLO TO METHANE � THE AMERICAN QUICK FIX FOR GLOBAL WARMINGFrom Radio Ecoshock, www.ecoshock.org. The United States, the world�s largest source of human-made greenhouse gases, has ditched global efforts to control carbon dioxide pollution. Instead, following an alternative suggested by top NASA scientists, including James Hansen, America has developed a plan to control trace gases in the atmosphere, principally metha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE METHANE FIX A report from Radio Ecoshock.- Alex Smith This is the third in a series of broadcasts about the American-led alternative to controlling carbon dioxide emissions, in the desperate fight to control global climate change. The first part was an interview with Dr. Phil Austen an atmospheric scientist. That was followed by a primer on methane: what it is, where it comes from, and how it damages both our health and the climate. These can be downloaded from our website at www.ecoshock.org. Now ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | METHANE PRIMER [click on the title above to hear the 15 minute audio broadcast]SAY HELLO TO METHANE � THE AMERICAN QUICK FIX FOR GLOBAL WARMINGFrom Radio Ecoshock, www.ecoshock.org.The United States, the world�s largest source of human-made greenhouse gases, has ditched global efforts to control carbon dioxide pollution. Instead, following an alternative suggested by top NASA scientists, including James Hansen, America has developed a plan to control trace gases in the atmosphere, principally methane.Ame ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE METHANE FIX A report from Radio Ecoshock.- Alex SmithThis is the third in a series of broadcasts about the American-led alternative to controlling carbon dioxide emissions, in the desperate fight to control global climate change. The first part was an interview with Dr. Phil Austen an atmospheric scientist. That was followed by a primer on methane: what it is, where it comes from, and how it damages both our health and the climate. These can be downloaded from our website at www.ecoshock.org.Now we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SMOG AND CLIMATE CHANGE Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper adopts American plans, or lack of plans, to combat climate change. For one thing, he claims he will clean up city smog, and that will fix the warming ruining Canada's arctic. This is the first of a two-part exploration of the theory and practice of smog control as climate policy. I interview a cloud specialist from the University of British Columbia, Dr. Phil Austin. We re-discover another inconvenient truth - smog has helped shelter us from the tr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SMOG AND CLIMATE CHANGE Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper adopts American plans, or lack of plans, to combat climate change. For one thing, he claims he will clean up city smog, and that will fix the warming ruining Canada's arctic.This is the first of a two-part exploration of the theory and practice of smog control as climate policy. I interview a cloud specialist from the University of British Columbia, Dr. Phil Austin. We re-discover another inconvenient truth - smog has helped shelter us from the true ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Toward a Carbonless Economy Here's an interview with Guy Dauncey, author of "Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Climate Change. It's 20 megabytes, and 21 minutes. You can rebroadcast this piece, so long as you leave the CFRO station ID tag on the end. Audio: slight hum but still useful as an important interview - some positive vision and solutions for energy and greenhouse gases. Alex Smith Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Toward a Carbonless Economy Here's an interview with Guy Dauncey, author of "Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Climate Change. It's 20 megabytes, and 21 minutes. You can rebroadcast this piece, so long as you leave the CFRO station ID tag on the end.Audio: slight hum but still useful as an important interview - some positive vision and solutions for energy and greenhouse gases.Alex Smith Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate Change Worries A to Z Set to music, and read by a variety of computer voices, this is a reading of climate change impacts announced by governments and scientists, as compiled by:http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htmAlthough created by a bit of skeptic, this web page leads to the original articles. Very handy.The alphabetical listing leads to some whimsical, almost poetic junctions. The list could also be used as a kind of index system for those collecting news about climate change.Climate change is SO comp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BIG BROWN CLOUD: GLOBAL DIMMING [This is a partial working script for the broadcast/podcast. It does not include added comments, music, and over 5 minutes of audio clips from various sources, such as NPR, the Scripps Institute, and Dr. Joel Schwarz. Blog readers can hear the full 19 minute program by clicking the title above. Or listen/download the show at:www.ecoshock.org/downloads/ecoshock/Ecoshock_BrownCloud.mp3 ] What is global dimming? We go to the discoverer of the Asian Brown Cloud, Veerabhadran Ramanthan, i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BIG BROWN CLOUD: GLOBAL DIMMING [This is a partial working script for the broadcast/podcast. It does not include added comments, music, and over 5 minutes of audio clips from various sources, such as NPR, the Scripps Institute, and Dr. Joel Schwarz. Blog readers can hear the full 19 minute program by clicking the title above. Or listen/download the show at:www.ecoshock.org/downloads/ecoshock/Ecoshock_BrownCloud.mp3 ]What is global dimming? We go to the discoverer of the Asian Brown Cloud, Veerabhadran Ramanthan, in th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Croc Hunter Steve Irwin Dies [This summary does not include some of the great film clips found in the audio version...give it a listen, by clicking the Title above.] The famous Australian "Crocodile Hunter" and environmentalist Steve Irwin was killed September 4th, 2006, during filming in the Great Barrier Reef. Apparently he was swimming over a large Sting Ray, in shallow water, when the Ray stung him in the chest, perhaps causing a heart attack. He was 44, leaving his wife and TV partner Terri and their two childr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Croc Hunter Steve Irwin Dies [This summary does not include some of the great film clips found in the audio version...give it a listen, by clicking the Title above.]The famous Australian "Crocodile Hunter" and environmentalist Steve Irwin was killed September 4th, 2006, during filming in the Great Barrier Reef. Apparently he was swimming over a large Sting Ray, in shallow water, when the Ray stung him in the chest, perhaps causing a heart attack. He was 44, leaving his wife and TV partner Terri and their two children ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The NEW HEAT AGE Steaming in the heat, Europeans and North Americans know we are entering a new Heat Age.These news compilations bring it home, accompanied by quotes from the scientist and Gaia founder, James Lovelock.With music by Kosmos, Shane Philipp, and others - and, as always, your host - Alex Smith. It's hot and getting hotter. The more we air-condition, the more fossil fuels we burn, turning heat into a vicious cycle. Is it true that most humans in 2100 will migrate toward the poles? Lovelock says ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The NEW HEAT AGE Steaming in the heat, Europeans and North Americans know we are entering a new Heat Age.These news compilations bring it home, accompanied by quotes from the scientist and Gaia founder, James Lovelock.With music by Kosmos, Shane Philipp, and others - and, as always, your host - Alex Smith.It's hot and getting hotter. The more we air-condition, the more fossil fuels we burn, turning heat into a vicious cycle. Is it true that most humans in 2100 will migrate toward the poles? Lovelock says bi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BRUCE STERLING Author, Cyber-green [The real star of this broadcast is Bruce. To hear excerpts from his speeches, including a new interview from May 2006, click the title above. Or download it from www.ecoshock.org. Program is 29 minutes long, 27 Mb MP3.][Intro clips][SWX2005_10_UnimaginableVsUnthinkable_BTS.wav][BPicTV_EveryoneFightsGWGases.wav]We're going to take a whirl-wind tour of a whirl-wind: one Michael Bruce Sterling. He's a science-fiction writer, working visionary, and cyber-green activist. Along the way, we'll e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BRUCE STERLING Author, Cyber-green [The real star of this broadcast is Bruce. To hear excerpts from his speeches, including a new interview from May 2006, click the title above. Or download it from www.ecoshock.org. Program is 29 minutes long, 27 Mb MP3.][Intro clips][SWX2005_10_UnimaginableVsUnthinkable_BTS.wav][BPicTV_EveryoneFightsGWGases.wav]We're going to take a whirl-wind tour of a whirl-wind: one Michael Bruce Sterling. He's a science-fiction writer, working visionary, and cyber-green activist. Along the way, we'll e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kick It Over - Derrick Jensen Caution: explicit expression of the environmentalism of despair. [Most of this feature is in the embedded audio clips. This short script just gives more web links. To listen, just click on the title above.] Do we have to stamp out civilization to save the planet? The American author and activist Derrick Jensen thinks so, and offers his body to defeat the organized beast that is stripping the planet of forests, soil, and species. There are three main reactions to the developing colle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kick It Over - Derrick Jensen Caution: explicit expression of the environmentalism of despair.[Most of this feature is in the embedded audio clips. This short script just gives more web links. To listen, just click on the title above.]Do we have to stamp out civilization to save the planet?The American author and activist Derrick Jensen thinks so, and offers his body to defeat the organized beast that is stripping the planet of forests, soil, and species.There are three main reactions to the developing collection of c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MAD COW LURKING To listen to the audio version (36.5 min) with all the radio clips, just click on the title above.[clip: A_NPR_ConsumerVoice_ImScared_6 sec.wav][clip:A_HLyman_060603_MadCowAlzheimer_54seconds.wav]["I hope that your realize that Mad Cow disease has not gone away. We have over five million people in North America today being diagnosed as having Alzheimer's. When they actually did a study at Pitsburg's vetran's hospital, they found that 5 and a half percent of the people that died that were d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MAD COW LURKING To listen to the audio version (36.5 min) with all the radio clips, just click on the title above.[clip: A_NPR_ConsumerVoice_ImScared_6 sec.wav][clip:A_HLyman_060603_MadCowAlzheimer_54seconds.wav]["I hope that your realize that Mad Cow disease has not gone away. We have over five million people in North America today being diagnosed as having Alzheimer's. When they actually did a study at Pitsburg's vetran's hospital, they found that 5 and a half percent of the people that died that were d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Climate: The Music of the Tree Killers It�s best to listen to this post in audio form � it�s only 6 minutes long- because you�ll hear a unique soundtrack of insects � the focus of this review. Just click on the title above to listen or download the MP3 file. [clip from "The Sound of Light in Trees" by David Dunn] In his best-selling book, "The Weather Makers," Tim Flannery writes: "Among the most visible impacts of climate change anywhere on Earth, are those brought by the Spruce Bark Beetle. Over the past 15 years, it has ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |