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Author: patrickdixon Added: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:40:14 -0800 Duration: 486http://www.globalchange.com Paper and packaging industry. Future of sustainable packaging, paper, logistics. Demographics, digital impact, distribution and destiny.Future of packaging, paper and cardboard environmental issues and emotions of consumers / clients / customers. Sustainability. Future driven by emotional reaction to global warming issues over next two decades. Pressure for innovation and change in paper and cardboard industries. Future of climate change action and new regulations. Changes in American policies on climate changes. Video on future of paper and packaging industry by Patrick Dixon, author Futurewise, conference keynote speaker. Will we destroy our planet? Change from plastics to paper packaging. Plastic bottles to paper bottles added efficiency on shelves from liquid cartons. Recycling challenges from liquid food cartons eg Tetrapak. Innovation in packaging to save weight, cost. Future of plastic bags new regulations. Protection of ...

http://www.globalchange.com Paper and packaging industry. Future of sustainable packaging, paper, logistics. Demographics, digital impact, distribution and destiny.Future of packaging, paper and cardboard environmental issues and emotions of consumers / clients / customers. Sustainability. Future driven by emotional reaction to global warming issues over next two decades. Pressure for innovation and change in paper and cardboard industries. Future of climate change action and new regulations. Changes in American policies on climate changes. Video on future of paper and packaging industry by Patrick Dixon, author Futurewise, conference keynote speaker. Will we destroy our planet? Change from plastics to paper packaging. Plastic bottles to paper bottles added efficiency on shelves from liquid cartons. Recycling challenges from liquid food cartons eg Tetrapak. Innovation in packaging to save weight, cost. Future of plastic bags new regulations. Protection of forests and sustainable forestry. Reducing energy in paper pulp processes. Wood industry will move from supplier of paper to deliverer of power. Increased recycling will reduce paper demand in Europe, releasing more wood for power. Carbon offsetting impact on paper manufacturing, sales and distribution. Making life easy in a great way for our future world. Paper, packaging, cardboard, pulp, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, marketing, management, energy, efficiency, sustainable, sustainability, plastics, recycling, renewable, forests, forestry, environment, trees, emerging markets, boosk, magazines, newspapers, print media, direct mail and marketing, postal

http://www.globalchange.com Paper and packaging industry. Future of sustainable packaging, paper, logistics. Demographics, digital impact, distribution and destiny.Digital impact on newspapers, direct mail and paper industry. Future of communications does paper have a future? Future has more paper in it than people think. Why the future is about emotion and how consumers actually feel. Emotional pull of books and paper media. Touch and feel of books. Video on future of paper and packaging industry by Patrick Dixon, author Futurewise, conference keynote speaker. Why market research often gives wrong answers about the future. Future of handwriting. Future of Yellow Pages and paper directories. Future of direct mail and paper letters. Future of books and why book sales will continue to do well. Challenge to save energy, protect environment. Why paper communicates data faster to human eye than digital screens lower resolution and lower contrast. Why printing big reports is faster to read than on-line. Future of screens. Why rapid scanning of text will be a primary leadership skill. Paper, packaging, cardboard, pulp, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, marketing, management, energy, efficiency, sustainable, sustainability, plastics, recycling, renewable, forests, forestry, environment, trees, emerging markets, boosk, magazines, newspapers, print media, direct mail and marketing, postal

http://www.globalchange.com Paper and packaging industry. Future of sustainable packaging, paper, logistics. Demographics, digital impact, distribution and destiny. Demographics 1 billion new consumers. Emerging markets growth and demand for commodities / resources / paper and cardboard. Growth of emerging middle class and paper products growth. Oil price rises, growing populations, food supply, growth of meat eaters, shortage of grain, rice, wheat, soya. Energy shortage and conservation. Developed world population decline eg Germany, small families and ageing population, decline unless migration / immigration. France, Portugal, Spain, UK demographic challenges in European Union. Expect huge immigration, populations shifts. Video on future of paper and packaging industry by Patrick Dixon, author Futurewise, conference keynote speaker. Economic and population growth with decline in developed nations creates future differences in paper demand. India and China paper use compared to America / US and EU 300kg paper use per year compared to 4kg in India. Emerging economies growth in paper and cardboard packaging. India paper consumption trends. Energy costs impact on pulp, paper, cardboard and packaging industries. Future oil price trends. Global energy savings. Impact on paper industry Future of newspapers and newsprint industry in US, UK, Australia, Japan, France and rest of EU. Fall of newspaper revenues, rise of online advertising revenues. Growth of magazines. Growth of newspapers in India 5,500 titles and 25 million new newspaper readers in last 24 months alone. Paper, packaging, cardboard, pulp, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, marketing, management, energy, efficiency, sustainable, sustainability, plastics, recycling, renewable, forests, forestry, environment, trees, emerging markets, boosk, magazines, newspapers, print media, direct mail and marketing, postal

This is a gentle spoof, or light parody if you will, of the BBC David Attenborough Life Of Birds documentary. It contains the actual footage of the original, but most of the imitations are mashed up by the band Young Punx. The only real imitation you hear is the chainsaws. The radio, turn table, rnusic, and human sounds are fake, and thats what makes this a funny clip! The original version has the bird imitating camera shutters, chainsaws, and car alarms.

Ecoshock Show 080815 Top 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 experience of our children - or sooner. The implications are enormous. 2. The drying of the West. Already well underway. Dry soils, and 20 percent of normal rainfall this spring (and hot temperatures) are behind the North California fires we now know. Overpeck explains why tree species are dying, and the great droughts that have driven humans from the South West in the past. This time, we have triggered this phenomenon, as the Jet Stream moves North, the former rains move with it. Overpeck gives a clear explanation, with predictions for Americans that sound to me a lot like what has hit Southern Australia. The possibility of centuries-long drought. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB. Production Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 30:14

Ecoshock Show 080808 Guest 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 MB Production Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 33 min

A nature Miracle Worms Following Them Chef in a Moroccan Forest Near by Fez, Filmed by me and My best friend.

Ecoshock Show 080801 Surf 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 couple of years, and it just got new funding, for a new series. In the re-opener he interviews a top UK climate scientist to get the latest juice, and goes after government administrators to see how they resolve the conflict between proclaimed carbon reduction goals - versus the construction of new highways and everlasting airport construction. That is broadcast from Radiance FM, the finest alternative radio station in the UK. Radio Ecoshock tries to keep track of climate activism at least in the English-speaking world, and this week's review of the UK scene balances our previous coverage from Canada, the United States, and Australia. Then we go to a hot speech by Canadian scientist and broadcaster Dr. David Suzuki. He's worried about where all the wild things will go, as the climate shifts too rapidly out from under them. Suzuki became known to millions as the brilliant scientist who educated us all with the television program "The Nature of Things" (which is still broadcast all over the world in re-runs). Now 70 something, Dr. Suzuki heads his own environmental advocacy group, the David Suzuki Foundation, based in British Columbia. This speech, where David doesn't hold back much! - was recorded in Toronto by our fellow posse recording friend, John Paul Warren. Excellent job John Paul, and thanks for sending this one in. If you want to capture important speech and events in your city or town, take a look at our "How to Record for Radio" page on the Ecoshock web site. It all helps. This is the Radio Ecoshock Show for August 1st, 2008 - sent out early because Alex Smith is on vacation. He is, "with Nature." 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Production Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 29:34 Song "Endless Summer" by Ghostly Penguin Display.

Ecoshock Show 080725 How 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 of the brain. A little on women, and how they handle the stress of climate change, too. Catherine is just a smart, stimulating, grounded person - I loved doing the interview with her. Spencer Weart is someone who educated and tortured me, with his book "Nuclear Fear". I had a lot of resistance to the book. Partly it is because Weart is a nuclear physicist, in fact he's a top member of the nuclear scientists organization. In the book, he analyzed why we were so terrified of this new technology. The images of mad scientists, and other quasi-religious fears that have always been with us. Ostensibly, Weart is trying to exorcise these demons, so we can all build new nuclear plants, or something. In fact though, the book turns out to be a kind of psychological cleanser for a lot of Cold War fears, built into our psyches. And Weart himself admits nuclear tech scares him too, at times. I recommend the book, even though I dislike (hate) nuclear weapons, and nuclear power. But the real reason I called Spencer Weart: he is also an environmental historian. His book "The Discovery of Global Warming" explains how we rose to consciousness on this subject. It's also handy for the new generation of students, who know less about how we got here. How did our ideas about climate change develop? Weart knows. That's why I though he would be a good interview, knowing how to cope with both nuclear fear, and with climate change. How does he do it? It was a good chat, with helpful info, and that's why I'm running it again, just as the news about possible complete extinction of our species looms closer to possibility. (See previous Ecoshock programs, like "Climate Criminals" on James Hansen, and "A Warning from the Past" with Dr. Andrew Glikson...) This is an updated replay from our 2007 season. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Our one and only re-run of the year. Not because we don't have enough good audio, but because it's time to heal ourselves, somewhat. Many of our newer listeners would have missed this show. Production Notes: Music "Mother Earth" by Shane Philip (Canadian content)

Ecoshock Show 080718 Speech 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 will likely be the basis for American action in 2009 - no matter who wins the Presidency. The world is watching (and listening). Since this speech, Garnaut has released his report. Although he recommends various actions, including a carbon trading scheme, in public comments Garnaut has called the climate threat "diabolical". He has almost thrown up his hands, saying that special interests may prevent humanity from protecting the remains of the climate system. Rather radical for a former establishment figures - but Australia is deep in a killer drought which threatens one of the great agricultural production areas of the world. Their wheat exports are already down, adding to world hunger. Australia voted for climate action - in this speech you hear the proposals and direction that many developed countries might take. Then we dive into the "Clean Development" scam. Unscrupulous people have taken advantage of loop-holes in the United Nations system meant to reduce climate emissions. Their fake reductions, and investments in plants that would have been build anyway, takes billions out of real clean energy. I've included a clip from the BBC program "One Planet" where an Indian industrialist admits taking CDM money for projects already funded elsewhere. "Why not?" he asks, as the BBC records. My point is not just that an enforcement plan is needed - but the whole idea we can continue to burn coal in the first world, and pay off someone far away for the pollution, is nuts. We need to stop producing greenhouse gases right here in the developed world, first, and now. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Production Notes: Good insert spots for ID at 29:30, and 43:19 to 44:03 No copyright music. Clip from BBC One Planet.

Ecoshock Show 080711 We 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 to be threatened by drying forests, heat, and drought, so soon. We only got her story because she has a satellite uplink, using solar power. All other electricity in the area is down. Her story is very moving. That is followed by a report from the aboriginal people in the Yukon's dying forests. Around Hay River, as in Alaska and even in Washington State, the Spruce Bark Beetle has killed off vast areas of trees. It was formerly controlled by cold winters, but no longer, thanks to climate change. Just another sign of how the North is heating up. The First Nations people, as they prefer to be known, have always lived from and in the forest. The animals they hunted and knew are dying off. The elders report even the number of squirrels and ground hogs is way down. No wonder, with a dead gray forest all around. The trees look ghostly. As in California, the people must cut down trees around their homes, as they wait for the fires that will surely come. A rare type of freshwater salmon is also affected, perhaps from the changing chemistry of all the dead needles washing into their prehistoric lake system. A young woman speaker describes the way the community is trying to monitor their changing ecosystem, and plans to evacuate. A front line story, recorded by Radio Ecoshock. Then one of Canada's top climate scientists, Dr. Gordon McBean reports on rising CO2. Since 2000, we have increased emissions by 2 per cent per year, and the last count, for 2006, is 3 percent. Despite all the talk about controlling emissions, the greenhouse gases are pouring out of developed and developing countries, completely out of control. McBean, who was deeply involved in the IPCC, gives a good short account of our current situation. In early July, McBean led a group of Canadian scientists writing an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, calling for immediate and concrete action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The same thing is happening all over the world. Dr. Andrew Glikson, who spoke in our last Radio Ecoshock Show, has forwarded a letter sent by Australian scientists, warning that a climate shift may create a world where mammals may not survive. That's us, folks. Leaving on a lighter note, sort of, we add to an on-going series of short features on how to feed yourself and your family, should it come to that. From the Sagebrush Variety Hour on community radio in Idaho, we interview Bucky Buckaw on raising backyard chickens. 1 hour program CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Production Notes: 30 sec music bed for station ID at 30:38. Song "Fix It Or Stop Complaining" by Dan Berggren. Please note, Alex is going on holidays - but has prepared new programs for a hot Summer series. These will be podcast to you as a group - load up your computer, CD-Player or Ipod for summer listening.

Scared of heights? This is the bridge we had to cross to get to the waterfall shown in one of my other videos. Video from http://www.CostaRicaTravelRevealed.com

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 bacteria) actually arrived from outer space - or whether the impact generated energy and unique chemical conditions that caused certain natural reactions to duplicate themselves. All that is a side issue to this speech, which is an education on the dominating role of the atmosphere in determining the state of life on Earth. Whether caused by impacts or volcanoes, or even gradual tilts in the Earth axis, a changing atmosphere can make life luxurious - or kill off up to 90% of all species. The science explained by Andrew Glikson in this speech find a parallel in the book "Under A Green Sky" by Peter Ward, a scientist in Washington State. We are talking, for example, about the Permian mass extinction, about 200 million years ago. The ocean lost it's oxygen, and life surived in only a few pockets of the ocean. Most land species were exterminated. Of the five past great extinctions (we are apparently living in the 6th extinction now) - FOUR WERE CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE. Not hits from outer space. For the survival of our species, we need to know what happened - and few people alive know more than Andrew Glikson, as he summarizes not only his own research, but the general science now developing in the field. This speech from Australia National University explains our current shift toward a hot-state planet - much faster than ever before. It has been slightly modified for radio, (to fit in an hour) with the permission of Dr. Glikson. Learn about your planet (or die?) The Radio Ecoshock Show 080704 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Alex Radio Ecoshock

http://www.ForestCreeks.com Nature Photography Deep in the lush forests of West Virginia is seneca creek and the falls of seneca. You can plainly see that my little boy is wore out after hiking miles into the very rugged seneca creek canyon.

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 key speeches from that Conference, available in program number 415 of the underground series "Unwelcome Guests" by Lynn Gary. Find that at the busy website www.radio4all.net Search by producer "Unwelcome Guests" - but be warned, the site can be too busy to respond well during peak hours. Go in off-peak hours to get your Media Reform files. radio4all is the backbone for distributing radio works by independent producers - including Radio Ecoshock. Also: Animal rights & global warming: Anthony Marr interview. Anthony runs "HOPE" which stands for "Heal Our Planet Earth". He's been a long time activist on everything from Tigers to biodiversity of the Amazon, and the abuse of farm animals in agribusiness. Anthony came to the realization that climate change will wipe out more species, faster, than pharmaceutical testing could ever dream of. Animal rights activists need to get on board fighting climate change - but will they? I hope so, just as I'm sick of seeing all the coverage about climate impacts on humans. As though we aren't going through a mass extinction event. As though animal's lives don't really matter to the animals themselves. As though all the creatures don't have an inherent right to live on this planet too. Amory Lovins tells government that Nukes are no answer to climate change. Our 6 minute clip is from Lovin's testimony to Congress, at the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on March 12th, 2008. It's been a long time since I've heard such a devastating put-down of the nuclear power illusion, in just a few minutes. I wont' try and summarize what he said - listen in. Check out some other really interesting testimony to the Committee, with some video, at: http://globalwarming.house.gov/pubs/testimony Alex on oil company Net trolls. I was reading a suggestion in Grist that the recent one in 500 year, never seen before, floods in the Mid West might actually be related to climate change. Then the writer gets pounded in the comments - with a pseudo scientific explanation by "Ralph". Ralph says the climate is cooling, and Brad is just a tool. I always wonder who those trolls really are. Checking out "Ralph" I find Ralph Hansen PHD. It turns out Ralph is "gainfully employed in the energy industry." What a surprise. Then I start thinking about all the "independent" military hacks that appeared on TV, really still employed by the Pentagon, as propagandists. Do you suppose that Exxon/Mobil, with $40 billion profits, and other big oil companies (not to mention PR companies hired by the Saudi's) - just might spend a few bucks on blog sites, and a thousand blog commenters like Ralph? This might explain why any climate science posted on the Net is immediately hit with a torrent of bricks and boos. A newcomer to the Net might think the American public HATES the idea of climate change, or any plan to do something about it. Funny, real public opinion polls show just the opposite. People are concerned about climate change, and want to save the climate. We've known the mainstream media, following the lead of the Bush Administration, has long been a force for climate denial and befuddlement. But don't underestimate the psychological operations and paid hacks on the Net as well. It's all propaganda, new and old. Speaking of mainstream, Discovery Channel has launched a 24 hour "green" themed channel. find it at planetgreen.com I was a little horrified to see green decorating tips, as the world goes down, but it's a step in the right direction? How about ABC News bringing out a new special for this September on the possible collapse of civilization due to climate change and other pressures? You can even contribute to the program, and game the end of civilization!!! (at Earth2100.tv) Their trailer is about as scary as anything I can produce. Is Radio Ecoshock about to be put out of business by Disney's ABC? Don't hold your breath waiting for that. I notice their news program still depends on a 50/50 toxic mix of drugs ads and car/truck/SUV ads. Hardly the stuff of the new age. Add it all up, and here you go, The Radio Ecoshock Show for June 20th, 2008. Crisis radio. Alex Smith - your host. Ecoshock 080620 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB. Production Notes: Check out this stinging social song "We Can't Make It Here Anymore" by John McMurty. We take the time to play the whole thing. Best I've heard in a while, almost a country Dylan, back when Dylan had something to say. Insert quick station ID over music at 29:03 if needed. Or cut into song if you need more.

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.

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.com Guido Wimmers is from Austria, where he studied and designed super low energy buildings. He is likely the only person in Canada who could certify a home or other structure as meeting the "passivhaus" standards, which are voluntarily regulated by several Institutes in Europe. Over 12,000 "passivhaus" buildings have already been constructed in Europe. The method involves using solar input through windows, a very tight inner barrier and outer wind screen, plus a heat-controlling air exchanger. During the winter, even our body heat and warmth from electric appliances (even your computer) are held inside, instead of lost as waste. Very little fossil fuel needs to be added. As he describes in the talk, one passivhaus office building had an air conditioner installed for summer use - but it was found to be unnecessary. These buildings are also much more comfortable for humans - because there are no big cold or hot spots. Everywhere has a comfortable uniform heat or coolness. Kids in a "passivhaus" school design like it so much, they come home and wish for the same. This is an energy revolution. As explained in the previous program on "Building Madness" - our buildings use 48% of all fossil fuels - and waste most of it! Buildings use more than all transportation combined. Our cities are really carbon smokestacks, and there is a much better way to do it. North Americans and people everywhere need to learn this technology. Even older homes can be retro-fitted. We can reduce fossil fuel consumption, bills & greenhouse gas emissions (!) by 90%. Dr. Guido Wimmers explains how. Ecoshock Show 080613 1 hour CD Quality (56 MB) (click title above) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Recorded by Alex Smith, 080524 in Vancouver, Canada.

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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 Transportation at the University of British Columbia in the School of Community and Regional Planning and Institute. "Our Transportation Future" Presentation at SFU Downtown Vancouver, 080522 21 minutes 5 MB Here. SIR NORMAN FOSTER Grand old man of green architecture, based in Britain, major buildings all over the world. Audio from DLD Conference Munich Jan 2007. See full video at: www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/174 DERRICK JENSEN Deep green author of "Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization and Volume 2 Resistance". Activism Beyond Hope interview on Wild Earth Radio 29 min 27 MB or "Kick It Over" Ecoshock intro to Derrick Jensen 26 min GUIDO WIMMERS Austrian architect now in Vancouver, Canada. Expert on "Passivhaus" super low-energy building design and retrofits. His workshop next week on Radio Ecoshock. AL GORE Clip from 2006 speech on Zero Emission Buildings. RADIO SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Another evening downtown, another forum. This one is called "Our Transportation Future". The usual suspects are on stage: three professors and a city engineer. Smugness about our city invades the room. We have reached our goals for cars downtown, years early. The new buzz-word "eco-density" makes all the glass-walled condos sound so green. The local joke: the city has a new symbolic bird: the crane. The mayor is pro-development. The Premier or Governor is a friend of developers. Everybody seems to feed on campaign donations from building bigger and bigger cities. Pedestrians are still run down regularly in this model city. A two bedroom condo downtown sells for a quarter million dollars. Glossy full page advertisements show the new suave bourgeois couple luxuriating in their tiny mansions, with granite counter-tops, piled sixty stories high. It's all set up like a magnet for the rich. Working class people can't afford anything in this planner's dream. Down below, not shown on the slides, a growing swarm of homeless people dig through the dumpsters for pop cans. I'll bet half the population is on drugs, legal or illegal, just to kill the pain. The gnawing sense of disconnection. Everyone is part of the growth agenda. They either work for the developers, or struggle clean up their mess. The city tries to add enough bushes, and strips of grass, like billboards to remind the prisoners of by-gone nature. Lost in a memory of real hills, with real seasons, something in me snaps. I interrupt the dream with a rude question.... READ MORE...

Looking for waterfront real estate in Metro Vancouver can be a challenge. In this video I reveal a hidden bit of waterfront real estate in the forests just 30 odd minutes from Downtown Vancouver. Learn more at http://www.604homesblog.com

http://www.globalchange.com Future of plastics and competition with paper and cardboard in food and drink industry. Logistics, distribution, courier companies and supply chain management, packaging in manufacturing, wholseale and retail. Intelligent packaging and courier services.Video by futurist conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon. Manufacturing demand for packaging. Alternative packaging and biodegradeable packaging. Pakcages: Resuseable cartons and recycling. Paper industry, packaging, cardboard, recycling, forests, forestry, newspapers, magazines, books, future, sustainable, sustainability, energy, paperless, intelligent, rfid, plastics

http://www.globalchange.com Paperless office reality. Advantages of paper resolution, contrast, convenience, able to write on it. Digital paper and scree resolution of electronic books. Future of plastics and competition with paper and cardboard in food and drink industry. Manufacturing demand for packaging. Resuseable cartons and recycling. Paperless office future trends? Why paperless offices slow in coming. Future of direct mail and future of paper directories. Biological reasons why paper reading speed faster than screens. Human eye bandwidth and brain processing speed. Electronic books and digital paper. Why books and other paper products will have longer life than people think. Future of paper and cardboard packaging in China, India, emerging markets, America and the EU. Impact of new technology on paper use. Newsprint market and newspaper readership trends decline in EU, growth in India. Use of paper and cardboard in Africa. Growth of middle class consumers. Future of newspapers, magazines and books. Paperless office trends reality. Paper consumption per person per year. Global market for paper. Exports newsprint from Russia, South America, India and China. Future of logistics, supply chain management, packaging and distribution. Energy costs in paper industry. Video on future of paper industry by Futurist Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker for Paper Industry conference in Sweden. Future of forestry and sustainable forestry link to paper industry. Verifiable forestry, reduction in energy use, chemical use, water use. Growth of online advertising revenues and fall of traditional advertising. Future of online newspapers and news sources. RFID technology in supply chain and intelligent packaging plus intelligent paper. Paper industry, packaging, cardboard, recycling, forests, forestry, newspapers, magazines, books, future, sustainable, sustainability, energy, paperless, intelligent, rfid, plastics

Those are the choices. CONNECTIONS FOR THIS WEEK'S RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOW Week of May 30th, 2008 Guest: 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.com Space For Peace activist Bruce Gagnon Listen to the Gagnon interview separately here. www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Gagnon_080521_LoFi.mp3 His web site is http://space4peace.org Dimitri Orlov on "Re-inventing Collapse. The Soviet Example and American Prospects"; I read the 5 steps of collapse from Orlov's blog at http://cluborlov.blogspot.com (look for "older posts" at bottom). Then a clip from Orlov talking with KMO on the C-Realm podcast (http://c-realm.org). Listen to that whole Orlov segment from the Ecoshock show here www.ecoshock.org/downloads/peakoil/ES_Orlov_Collapse_LoFi.mp3 Robert Kennedy Jr. on 5 men who run almost all U.S. media. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQIkMZadApY savings are wiped out, and access to capital is lost. Stage 2: Commercial collapse. Faith that "the market shall provide" is lost. Money is devalued and/or becomes scarce, commodities are hoarded, import and retail chains break down, and widespread shortages of survival necessities become the norm. Stage 3: Political collapse. Faith that "the government will take care of you" is lost. As official attempts to mitigate widespread loss of access to commercial sources of survival necessities fail to make a difference, the political establishment loses legitimacy and relevance. Stage 4: Social collapse. Faith that "your people will take care of you" is lost, as local social institutions, be they charities or other groups that rush in to fill the power vacuum run out of resources or fail through internal conflict. Stage 5: Cultural collapse. Faith in the goodness of humanity is lost. People lose their capacity for "kindness, generosity, consideration, affection, honesty, hospitality, compassion, charity" (Turnbull, The Mountain People). Families disband and compete as individuals for scarce resources. The new motto becomes "May you die today so that I die tomorrow" (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago). There may even be some cannibalism." Orlov doesn't predict cannibalism as a future for America - he just says some societies have reached terrible stages, and give examples in his book from the dislocated African tribe described in the book "The Mountain People" by Colin M. Turnbull. Hopefully, by learning from previous cases of collapse, we can learn how to do better, as individual, and as a society. We shouldn't wait until things drop down to the bottom of the pit of collapse. Find out more about Dimitri Orlov from his blog at cluborlov.blogspot.com - Orlov is spelled orlov. Let's hear just a couple of minutes from KMO's C-Realm podcast, number 96 for May 14th, 2008. KMO and Orlov are discussing whether the people of the Soviet Union were actually better situated for collapse of their system. Is anybody sorry the old Soviet Union is gone? They kept massive millions of their own people in prisons. Interrogators used torture. The press was censored and distorted to propaganda. You wouldn't want to live in a society like that. I run a clip of Bobby Kennedy explaining how 5 corporations control almost all of the TV, radio and print that persuade Americans. Most of the investigative journalists have been fired. The right wing dominates it all. And Kennedy explains how Bush, in exchange for millions in donations, created a new wave of illness and pollution in the United States. The link for this powerful Youtube expose it posted above. Watch it and weep. And that is why you need alternative media, underground radio, and people like our next guest, Bruce Gagnon. People all over the world want the United States to take a leadership role in cleaning up fossil fuel emissions, before we lose a livable climate. Our next guest, Bruce Gagnon says America has far different plans. Instead of converting the economy, the military industrial complex will war it's way to control of the world's energy, through domination of space. Bruce Gagnon is a Senior Fellow at the Nuclear Policy Research Institute and Co-ordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Find that at space4peace.org. You must watch the video "Arsenal of Hypocracy" available from that site, and on Google Video. One hour of your time, one big enlightenment about the shiny new announcements from NASA, and the real reason America wants to dominate space. We also discuss near-space as a threatened environment in its own right. Greens worry about protecting Antarctica, and the Amazon, without realizing that the space around the planet is so infested with space junk, we may not be able to get away from Earth - ever. Maybe that would be a good thing for the rest of the universe, consider what we are doing down here. Alex Smith host Radio Ecoshock

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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 Smith Do 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 rock came to the real world this year. As though climate change really existed on the Fox network. But we are all still climate deniers - aren't we? Our eyes watch video of stormy times. Dying bees mean higher berry prices. At the malls, we are still shopping until the end of the world. Even the experts have trouble internalizing the climbing data of warning, the models of fire, flood, and extinctions. That is one reason I find our next interview so important. A quiet Canadian environmental historian wakes up at his desk. He smells the smoke. The planet really is a tinderbox. Now it is real. Where do we run? What can we do? Called "Too Hot to Handle" we'll hear veteran Pacifica Radio host C.S. Soong interview Dr. Colin Campbell. The weekly program, called "Against The Grain" is fairly famous in California, and downloaded heavily across the United States. In it, C.S. Soong and his co-host Sasha Lilley take on all kinds of issues, from social justice to peace activism - and the environment. A Colorado listener suggested this program for Radio Ecoshock. I listened, and realized even after my own work on climate, I still hadn't really grasped the enormity of the social change we are about to experience. Should I call up Colin Campbell and ask him all the same questions? When someone does it right, it is time for me to step aside, and deliver the straight news you need to know. Colin Duncan doesn't shout. He just cuts the old oil world out from under you, and shows you the tough new future underneath. With the kind permission of C.S. Soong and his co-producer H.N. Youan, here is "Too Hot to Handle" as broadcast on KPFA Berkeley, May5th, 2008. ----------- That was a rebroadcast of the program "Against The Grain" with host C.S. Soong. It was originally heard on KPFA listener-supported radio in Berkeley, California on May 5th, 2008. Find the program archives at againstthegrain.or