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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 accept climate change? How to overcome public resistance, and empower those who are ready to change. The police seemed to think any public gathering was a good chance to practice mass anti-terrorist games. They raided the peaceful camp for no reason, and confiscated such dangerous items as crayons (from the kids) which could be used to make signs. The media focused on the discovery of a set of kitchen knives, which proved deadly intent. Actually, it proved there were thousands of people on site to feed. Try slicing onions by hand. The protest was to stop the construction of two new coal fired power plants at Kingsnorth (which is actually in the South East of Britain). After more or less closing down their coal industry, and lowering emissions with natural gas, the government of Gordon Brown is turning back the clock, to go back to coal. Never mind their own lofty greenhouse gas promises. This regressive action threatens us all. How can anyone ask the Chinese to stop, when rich Britain, loaded with wind and tidal power options, decides to build more coal plants? Even though a huge group of scientists in the UK have protested building new coal, and even though the protesters were merely asking for what the government promised - the entire police apparatus of the state was used against the generally middle-class and student protesters. While the camp was going, with clean energy and food raising workshops, there were three protests: one against the Royal Bank of Scotland, which funds more dirty energy than anyone in the country; a very innovative campaign at Heathrow airport, trying to get holiday-goers to consider their climate impact; and the main attempt to get into the Kingsnorth site (where an old coal fired plant is still belching black into the sky). All peaceful attempts, met generally with police violence. That is the only answer the state has, apparently, to people gathering to protect the climate. And the media focused on that, of course, rather than the issues. Headlines about knives, hardly anything about the ecosphere going down the crapper. Stupid humans. The show is composed of clips broadcast live from the Climate Camp in early August - another useful demonstration of the new media. Don't like the old media? Do it yourself. A great work-together project by several UK community stations and radio activists. All of this: North America (and Australia) - take notes! We don't have to sit around moaning about stupid coal plants being built. Let's get together and act! Britain leads the way. Alex. Radio live from Camp. Ecoshock Show 080822 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

Two entrepreneurs figure out how to make solar panels more affordable.

This evening streets around the country will be closed off for National Night Out. It's a chance for neighbors to meet one another. How well do you know your neighbors? Not as well as you'd like? Or plenty well enough? What's the best neighborhood you ever lived in? What made it that way? What about the worst neighborhood you ever lived in? Why was it so bad? Also today, Governor Gregoire instituted a hiring freeze for state employees under her direct control. She also asked public universities to freeze hires. We'll talk to UW President Mark Emmert and find out if he plans to freeze hiring. And a new law requires trucking and rental car companies as well as large factories and power facilities to measure their carbon footprint. We'll find out why.

Gurminder Singh, the Co-Chairman of the Green Technology Institute at UCLA, assists US-based green, clean and environmental companies to explore and invest in India's growing economy. In this brief discussion, Dr. Singh shares his thoughts on climate change.

Who is BEF? BEF is a very different kind of non-profit business, engaging people in solving our most pressing environmental issues. For more information, please visit www.b-e-f.org

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.

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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

John McCain is in North Bend Washington today to talk about the environment. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee wants a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions. He also thinks nuclear power may help get us there. We'll take a closer look at McCain's proposals. Also today, is a politician's stage of life relevant? Is McCain too old? Is Obama too young? Airline pilots have to retire at age 65. Should there be a mandatory retirement age for presidents? There already is a mandatory minimum age. You can't run for president if you're under 35. Is that right? Call (206) 543 5869. Plus, the President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Arjun Makhijani, explains how he thinks we can have an energy future that is carbon free without resorting to nuclear power. He'll explain.

IPCC ReportsIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change CU Salon Series How Serious Is Climate Change? April 17, 2008 - Moderated by: Richard Brenne Featured Panelists: NCAR Social Scientist and IPCC Report author Dr. Patricia Romero Lankao CU Atmospheric Science Department Chair Dr. Brian Toon NCAR Social Scientist and IPCC Report author Dr. Kevin Trenberth produced by OnSight Media www.onsight-media.com

Industrial designers and Closed-Loop manufacturing; Human and wildlife clashes in suburbs; Junkyard music.

Oregon Lottery Director Dale Penn discusses the success and concerns of Scratch-its, Powerball and video lottery games. With annual sales of $900 million in creates jobs, the Oregon lottery bolsters public education, and funds state parks and salmon habitat projects. 1% goes to gambling education programs.

Science tells us that the internal combustion engine powered car is a major greenhouse gas contributor. Cars and light trucks represent about 60% of greenhouse gas emission from mobile sources. Though many plans call for increasing public transportation alternatives, people seem wedded to the private vehicle for their travels. Today we will take a look at greener cars, electric vehicles in particular, but ask if a greener single occupancy vehicle really reduces your carbon footprint. Explore with us the wide variety of alternative vehicles; from the proposed, to the dreamed of, to the existing.Plus, Cliff Mass joins us with a weekend weather forecast.Monday on Weekday: Human Trafficking in and through Seattle

Author: FredBattaglia Added: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:16:19 -0800 Duration: 3170A 50's version of Global Warming!

Climate change will be a major focus of the Washington State Legislature this session. Yesterday, Governor Chris Gregoire weighed in with her proposals to limit the state's greenhouse gas emissions. KUOW's Deborah Wang reports.

Several states including Washington and Oregon are lining up to sue the Bush Administration over tailpipe emission standards. The states want to impose their own limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new cars. But the EPA this week said that’s not allowed. Olympia Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports.

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 massive fires, drought, and floods with a temperature increase of just a degree or so. Scientists think we have another degree and a half "in the pipeline" - already stored in the Sea, but not yet out in the world (there is a delay factor.) Coming from a man who advises British Prime Minister Brown, and sets science goals for the United Kingdom - this is an extreme warning, from a renowned scientist, plugged into the latest satellite and other data. Scary but true. We are heading into something that human history has never prepared us for. This is the big alarm bell. It seems to me, that all new oil, gas, and coal projects should be stopped immediately. On a personal level, put your car up on blocks. Yes, it is that serious. Listen for yourself, by clicking the title above, or going to: www.ecoshock.org/downloads/climate_2007/ES_071109_DavidKing.mp3 This warning comes from a podcast interview by Robyn Williams, one of the best science journalists anywhere. The show is "Conversations," broadcast by ABC Radio National in Australia. Find out more at abc.net.au/rn Also: check William's other show, ABC's flagship "Science Show". Some great interviews with James Lovelock, plus many more. Their podcast and on-demand listening page is: www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/default.htm

Forty-six Northwest cities have signed a pledge to cut their global warming pollution below 1990 levels. Mayors from the Northwest and across the country continue to meet in Seattle today (Friday) to swap tips on reaching that goal. It'll be tough. Correspondent Tom Banse reports there's not even a common yardstick for measuring progress.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In what is believed to be the first effort of its kind, the Versus cable TV network and Brooklyn Brothers ad agency have just completed producing a campaign of television commercials in a carbon neutral manner. Working with ERM, a London-based environmental engineering firm, Brooklyn Brothers has created a software that tracks and quantifies the amount of carbon pollutants generated by all the processes involved in making TV commercials with studio and remote locations film shoots.

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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The notion that marketers should address and offset the carbon footprint of their print advertising has become credible enough to support a major panel discussion at Smith Barney. Among other things, the Manhattan gathering, which drew a standing-room-only crowd of executives from ad agencies, media companies and financial investment firms, featured a presentation by upscale jewelry merchant John Hardy. He is now planting bamboo across an entire island off the coast of Bali to offset the greenhouse gases generated by his print advertising in some of America's most chi-chi fashion magazines.

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This week, scientists recreate hair follicles, we uncover a means of making hydrogen in a hurry, hear about a stealthy way to destroy cancer and find out why a dose of herpes could be good for you. Also, John Grattan describes the biggest atmospheric pollution event in history, we discover with Rod Jones the role of water in the greenhouse effect, and Jonathan Shanklin tell us the 'hole' story of the ozone layer. Plus, in Kitchen Science, we make a cloud in a bottle!

This week, scientists recreate hair follicles, we uncover a means of making hydrogen in a hurry, hear about a stealthy way to destroy cancer and find out why a dose of herpes could be good for you. Also, John Grattan describes the biggest atmospheric pollution event in history, we discover with Rod Jones the role of water in the greenhouse effect, and Jonathan Shanklin tell us the 'hole' story of the ozone layer. Plus, in Kitchen Science, we make a cloud in a bottle!

This week, scientists recreate hair follicles, we uncover a means of making hydrogen in a hurry, hear about a stealthy way to destroy cancer and find out why a dose of herpes could be good for you. Also, John Grattan describes the biggest atmospheric pollution event in history, we discover with Rod Jones the role of water in the greenhouse effect, and Jonathan Shanklin tell us the 'hole' story of the ozone layer. Plus, in Kitchen Science, we make a cloud in a bottle!

1. Tactics by Australia's Anti-Nuclear Groups 2. No Hudson River Strontium from Indian Point 3. Water Purification via Nuclear Energy in Pakistan 4. More Energy Concerns in Eastern Europe 5. US Supreme Court Refuses to Hear PG&E Appeal Links: 1. This Week in Nuclear Home Page 2. Show Transcript and Blog 3. Support the show by shopping here

Get the Presentation Here This is the audio from the panel discussion I participated in with Rod Adams and Eric McErlain at the American Nuclear Society 2006 Winter Meeting in Albequerque, NM. In this episode you'll hear Rod Adams and I discussing the new media, blogging, podcasting, and sharing the truth about nuclear energy using these fantastic new media forms. The panel discussion was more than 2 hours long, so I was not able to include Eric's comments (the audio on Eric's part was not as clear). Also, the session was facilitated by Lisa Stiles-Shell. Nice job, Lisa!

1. Cigar Lake Mine 2. Greenpeace Files EU Complaint Against Olkiluoto Nuclear Plant 3. Yet another nuclear plant in China – and it’s a whopper! 4. Russia runs into technical snags at Iran’s nuclear plant 5. Russia blocks UNSC Sanctions on Iran – fear lost revenue 6. FPL and Constellation Merger is Officially Dead 7. World Utility Leaders Promote Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emissions 8. Dr. Alvin M. Weinberg, Nuclear Pioneer, dies at 91 Links: 1. Cigar Lake Mine Flood 2. World Sustainable Energy Report