Progressive Podcast Videos

It was announced this morning that President Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen, and he also announced his emissions targets: in the range of 17% by 2020. This is great news! It s also bad news. Is this the best America can do? This response to climate change [...]

The new 2009 World Energy Report shows a decline in oil, but did the U.S. interfere in the final report to avoid a panic in the markets?  The IEA denies the pressure. Many experts think Saudi Arabia and other countries are inflating the numbers reflecting what oil they have left. This was NaPodPoMo episode 11 of the [...]

Meat consumption might be destroying the planet and killing us.  It s certainly not green, so maybe we should think about it more before using it so much.  And Americans consume more meat than anyone on the planet.   It s contributing to climate change, to terrible environmental practices, pollution and our inability to feed everyone on [...]

Climate change will be very much about justice in the years and decades to come.  This is Episode8 of the podcasting marathon known as Napodpomo.  Green money Green jobs Green greed the Jolly Green Giant Known as Copenhagen Is climate change stalling and finger-pointing  green insanity?  Not everything can be called green. Economic INjustice means those [...]

Kicking off NaPodPoMo month, Futurism Now covers environmental and climate justice and EPA news.  Join FN this month while we explore whether a daily podcast can be done  while retaining a semblance of a life. NaPodPoMo stands for National Podcast Post Month . Check out the other ones participating here. Climate justice is about climate [...]

The tar sands of Canada are the dirtiest fossil fuel on the planet so far and they are invested in by T. Boone Pickens. So why is he a part of developing our new renewable clean energy plans? Over the last several years Mr. Pickens has acquired a reputation as a green energy promoter, a [...]

This is a show from the CBC, it s an interesting look at what makes a society healthy, in more ways than one. It is also a filler show until I start recording them. Enjoy this recording from the CBC Download this episode here.

This is a first attempt at live podcasting! In this episode, I present just the tip of the iceburg on why John McCain is the worst possible person we could have as our next president. I explain a little bit of what happened at the Democratic convention, why Robert Wexler sounds like such [...]

The climate change conference in Bali is being snubbed by both the U.S. mainstream media and the president of the U.S. Neither entity seems to understand or accept science as important. Coincidence? I get an email from Al Gore, a man who does understand science, and I update you on the basics of [...]

True Stories of how some of the Bush administration policies have impacted real people since the beginning of his reign. The effects have been mostly negative, both on civilians and on soldiers, and they are a direct result of his methods of running the country (into the ground) and the wars he has [...]

Savage Capitalism is another term for the shock doctrine or disaster capitalism. A simplistic way to describe it is opportunistic profit from disasters and shock. The Israeli lobby, the Republican Neocon think tanks, the Bush administration, our foreign policy, our lack of dedication to fighting climate change, our use of disaster zones as free [...]