The Radio Ecoshock Show
The Radio Ecoshock Show
Latest science, authors, issues - from climate change, oceans, forests, pollution, and peace. Ready for re-broadcast, computer, IPOD, or mp3 player. No copyright. As heard on CFRO Vancouver, 15 other college & community radio stations and now Green 960 AM, San Francisco. Published Thursdays.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 book on surviving the worst of times.Are you worried about the way the world ...