Radio Ecoshock
Short pieces from Radio Ecoshock's weekly 1 hour show. No copyright claimed - OK for broadcast or repodcast but please drop a line to radio (at) ecoshock.org
Host - Alex Smith
Radio Ecoshock FEATURES
CLIMATE CHANGE
MONBIOT - A Man for All Climates George outlines new book "Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning" 25 Mb 26 min
HEAT WAVE Welcome to New Heat Age. News plus predictions by James Lovelock.
16 MB 17 min
Africa Eats Our Exhaust Our pollution wrecking African economy & ecology. w hot music.18 min.
Smog & Climate Interview w cloud specialist Dr. Phil Austin 17 min
Methane Primer What you need to know about this climate killer. 15 MB 15 min
The Methane Fix America's alternative to carbon control. Will it work? 14 MB 15 min.
Big Brown Cloud - Global Dimming Can pollution stop global warming?
18 MB 19.5 min
LET'S TALK ABOUT SMOG One of most downloaded broadcasts...
16 MB 17 min
THE POLLUTED WOMB Increase in Asthma, Autism, Learning Disorders.
20 MB 21 min.
END COAL NOW (or Earth burns)
12 MB 13 min
OCEANS
EXXON'S GHOSTS - TOXIC OIL with Riki Ott 20 min 18 MB
GAIA'S REVENGE Is it already too late?
9 min 8 MB
Fish Collapse by 2048 Seafood going...gone, scientists say. 16 min.
MURDER in the DEEP Trawling killing up to 98% of ocean life. 11 min
ENERGY/PEAK OIL
CANADA'S TAR BABY Oil sands suck up cleaner fuels to power America & climate change. 11 min.
MILITARY/POLITICS
Ritter, Hersh Vs. Mad Iranian War Stop Bush/Cheney before they kill again. 22 min
4 PLOTS TO NUKE IRAN
Israel, Cheny, Hersh, Ritter, Tarpley
20 MB 22 min.
MAD COW LURKING Exploding Alzheimer's, Deer Wasting Disease, BSE - a new plague from factory meat? 37 min 34 MB
OTHER
THE GREAT EXTINCTION - E.O. Wilson says half of species may disappear. 18 MB 19 min.
THE BIG CRUSH
Populuation 6.5 Billion - 10 MB 11 min
BRUCE STERLING Sci-Fi million seller on consumer junk, climate change & solutions. 27 MB 29 min.
Kick It Over - Derrick Jensen
Environmentalism of Despair 26 min
The Music of Dying Forests
Climate change releases bugs 7 min
Coal Plant Radiation Tons of Uranium from Coal 10 min. 12 MB
THERMAGEDDON
Greenpeace Founder Robert Hunter says we have 25 years to avoid Hell.
GREEN QUAKERS When you know the cost of Freedom of Assembly, you'll fight to keep it. The Quakers won it with non-violence. They were early proponents of free thought, women's rights, an end to slavery, care for the mentally ill. Quakers named, funded, and founded Greenpeace. 16MB 17 min 34 sec. Click here to listen or download.
THE STRANGE CASE OF WILHELM REICH Life and death of a social pioneer.
Part 1 (17MB 19 min) Part 2 (17MB 19 min)
Climate Change A to Z 5 min - from
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
The Birth of Gaia
Part One (10 min/8MB)
The Birth of Gaia Part Two
The Birth of Gaia Part Three
CHEMICAL WEAPONS
A Civil Defense Primer
What your government doesn't tell you.
CONFESSION OF AN AUTO-HOLIC 3 min
Toxic Babies testing on newborns, plus CDS report on chemicals in your blood.
Weather Weapons & Climate Modification 13.5 MB 14 min
ABC's OF CLIMATE CHANGE - Will Miami Flood? Blame Oil Whitehouse says TV. 6 MB 6.5 min
PIT OF MADNESS: Uranium Mining - Are Mine Tailings Bigger Threat Than Spent Fuel? 17 MB 19 min
GLENN BECK: CNN's Climate Quisling 21 min
Climate: Canada Gives Up Baird's new plan "complete fraud" says Al Gore. Kyoto dead, democracy bypassed, CO2 to rise.
CLIMATE SCAMS 7 Roads to Hell on Earth (Ecoshock special) 37 MB 40 min
Climate Solutions Mix Ideas for Earth Day 12 MB 13 min
IPCC Censorship & Apollo Gaia project to replace it? Ecoshock 20 min
The Coal Dirge details on new coal plants binge set to Chopin's Funeral March 8 MB 8 min
6 Best Climate Songs 24 MB 26 min
Disappearing Fisheries: Ecoshock review & highlights of speech by Dr. Daniel Pauly 45 MB 48 min
James Hansen 10 Years to Act speech Feb 20, 2007 New York 32 MB 34 min; Digest of clips from speech (w music) 9 MB 9 min
From Solutions to Survivalism digest of Ross Gelbspan speech, author of "Boiling Point" 20 MB 22 min
SURVIVAL/HARD TIMES
Steve Shallhorn, Greenpeace Australia plus news on burned out ship & whaling in sanctuary. 15 MB 16 min
Climate Economics of Acting/Not Acting Sir Nicholas Stern testimony to US Senate Feb 13, 2007 (also China & carbon capture) 28 MB 30 min
Sustainable Fossil Fuels? Dr. Mark Jaccard on real energy future & carbon capture. 28 MB, 29 min
Mark Lynas British author/activist on new climate book: "6 Degrees" 23 min
Stormy Future Cross continental storms warn of climate change 12 MB 13 min
STEVE IRWIN Good-bye to Australian protector of alligators, reptiles, and all species. 8 MB 7 min
TERRY JACKS - CONCRETE SEA Interview with one of 1st enviro musicians, award-winning Canadian Terry Jacks. 24 MB 27 min
JAMES HANSEN, SCIENTIST Look at NASA's climate warning with 2007 clips and digest. 8 MB 9 min.
WARREN BUFFET Where is the world's richest man when it comes to climate change? MIA. 11 MB 12 min
MICHAEL BYRON Through Infinity's Rainbow spiritual & green transformation. San Diego professor interview. Lo-Fi 4 MB 18 min
CLIMATEER INVESTING Interview with top NY investor on alternative energy markets 2008. 17 MB 20 min
CLIMATEER INVESTING 2nd interview with top NY investor re solar energy markets 2008. Lo-Fi 6 MB 27 min
ALEXANDER COCKBURN CLIMATE DENIER Famous lefty author from "Counterpunch" goes loopy with climate denial. 21 MB 23 min
JULIAN DARLEY Interview with founder of the Post Carbon Institute & author of "High Noon for Natural Gas" Lo-fi 7 MB 30 min
ECO INTERVENTION Ecoshock parody of A&E TV show "Intervention" - this time for carbon addicts. Serious fun. 8 MB 9 min
GREENPEACE CHINA Interview from Beijing of Tamara Stark, then head of Greenpeace China. 10 MB 11 min
ICE QUAKE Ice shelf breaks off in Canada - start of big breakup in the Arctic.
4 MB 5 min
IPCC in CLIPS from the 2007 report launch, media & scientists report Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change. 7 MB 8 min
JAMES HANSEN WITH TUC TUC Radio San Francisco interviews Hansen at a climate conference, 2007. 15 MB 16 min
INHOFE'S GREATEST HITS Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma calls global warming the biggest scam ever. 4 MB 4 min
THOMAS HOMER-DIXON Podcast host KMO interviews author of "The Up Side of Down" Canadian professor sees possibilities in catastrophe. Lo-Fi 6 MB 25 min
MAP OF DOOM Sir James Lovelock explains maps from UK research showing band of deserts forming due to climate shift. Includes Australia, Africa and Southern U.S. 11 MB 12 min
MIKE WHITNEY The economic crash predicted in 2007. 18 MB 20 min
MONBIOT Bring on the Catastrophe Ecoshock interview August 2008 on new book. Lo-Fi 6 MB 23 min
PETER WARD scientist, author "Under A Green Sky" explains past extinctions & why we are heading there now. Important Ecoshock interview. Lo-Fi 6 MB 26 min
Global Finance Campaign RAN Rainforest Action Network against Wall Street Banks financing forest death. Matt Leonard 2008 15 MB 16 min
PROTECTING CANADA'S FORESTS Richard Brooks of Greenpeace Canada interview 2006. Boreal forests 10 MB 11 min
JOSEPH ROMM climate blogger "Climate Progress" 2009 update on climate news. Startling. Lo-Fi 4 MB 16 min
CLIMATE CODE RED The case for emergency action. Ecoshock interviews author David Spratt from Australia. Lo-Fi 5 MB 20 min
PAUL GEORGE Founder of Western Canada Wilderness Committee on his book. 14 MB 16 min
ECO MIGRATION Dr Norman Myers, Oxford. Expert in migration due to climate, scarcity & other eco causes. 11 MB 12 min
IN BEANS WE TRUST Jason Bradford, host of radio show "The Reality Report" on local currency based on food, in Mendicino California. Lo-Fi 5 MB 20 min
REPORTING THE WORST Ecoshock interview with enviro journalist Stephen Leahy of IPS. Why mainstream misses it.
Lo-Fi 4 MB 15 min
LIVING IN YOUR CAR Tips for the last resort (before homelessness) 4 MB 15 min
FOOD STORAGE TIPS Alex's audio blog on long-term food storage for very bad times. Lo-Fi 3 MB 13 min
RE-INVENTING COLLAPSE Ecoshock interviews Dmitri Orlov. Compares American crisis with Soviet collapse - lessons learned. 6 MB 20 min
WILL WORK FOR FOOD Trading city skills with farm food producers. Interview with Valerie Gates. Lo-Fi 2 MB 8 min
Ocean Acidification interview with Dr. Richard A. Feely of NOAA. Acid seas kill ocean life & geo-engineering makes it worse. 5 MB 19 min
Getting Started in Canning. Alex's 1 day project to get spring rhubarb at half the cost. Tips for buying canners. Complete how to. Lo-Fi 3 MB 10 min
GLOBESITY: A PLANET OUT OF CONTROL Interview with co-author Michelle Holdsworth. 1 in 12 on Earth now obese - more than the starving. Adds to greenhouse gases with big cars and more agricultural emissions. Lo-Fi 4 MB 17 min
DEAD MALLS, DEAD CONSUMERISM Howard Davidowitz says 200,000 stores will close. American consumerism will never return. Lo-Fi 4 MB 17 min
JOE BAGEANT Poverty & Ecocide. Famous author of "Deer Hunting With Jesus, Dispatches from America's Class War," Joe Bageant is a gonzo truthseeker. Joe covers our over-populated, midget-minded plunge into a damaged world. Lo-Fi 28 min 7 MB
HOW COMMUNITIES REBUILD - RIKI OTT Author of "Not One Drop" & surivor of Exxon-Valdez spill, researches disaster recovery around the world. Will your community fight, fail, or regroup? What works. Lo-Fi 5 MB 20 min
Economy of Happiness Prof. John Helliwell Why some communities grow stronger, while others fail, after disaster or hard times strike. 2009 UBC Forestry Lecture 090917 Radio abridged Lo-Fi 1 hour 14 MB
Blackout - Richard Heinberg Ecoshock interview with author of "Party's Over" and "Powerdown". Now book on peak coal & our climate. From Ecoshock Show 091106 19 min CD Quality 18 MB or Lo-Fi 4 MB
CRASH THEN & NOW Andrew Marshall explains how banks, not governments, create money. Ingo Schmidt compares "dirty 30's" to present economic crisis. Brown Bagger 1 hour Lo-Fi 14 MB
THE MEDEA HYPOTHESIS Scientist Peter Ward disputes Lovelock's "Gaia" image of life saving life. Ward says the record shows "Nature" can be biocidal. Says geoengineering can stave off final extinction. Lo-Fi 25 min 5 MB from Ecoshock 091016
Dr. Anthony Barnosky on his new book "Heatstroke, Nature in an Age of Global Warming" Impact of climate on rest of natural world. From Radio Ecoshock 090619 18 min CD Quality 17 MB or Lo-Fi 4 MB
THE LONG THAW - DAVID ARCHER Chicago scientist says our carbon lasts 100,000 years. Your gas, the lasting legacy, that reshapes the long future. From Ecoshock 090918 27 min CD Quality 25 MB or Lo-Fi 6 MB
PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH Professor Tim Jackson, advisor to UK gov't. New book on "Economics for a Finite Planet" Does't duck challenges of peak oil, climate, economic crisis. Redefining "prosperity" beyond GDP. Interview from Ecoshock Show 091120 22 min CD Quality 20 MB or Lo-Fi 5 MB
Dying American Empire. Now What? Dave Cohen, analyst with Assoc. for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) on bleak economic reality. Interview from Ecoshock 091120 18 min CD Quality 16 MB or Lo-Fi 4 MB
COPENHAGEN DIGEST: Obama's America Vs. Africa From climateradio - How Obama can act without Congress. The impacts on Africa (as told by Africans). Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Cassie Siegel, Nnimmo Bassey, Sylvia Wutchara, Phil England, Frederika Whitehead. 29 min 30 sec CD Quality 27 MB or Lo-Fi 7 MB
Paul Kingsnorth Deep green British author & broadcaster says governments & climate conferences will never stop fossil fuel use. We make climate change - & won't stop until a crumbling economy & climate chaos force us. Revisioning the new ecology with The Dark Mountain Project. 28 min CD Quality 26 MB or Lo-Fi 6 MB From 091218 Ecoshock Show.
Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmon Catherine Stewart, The Living Oceans Society tracks aquaculture damage from big Norwegian companies to Scotland, Chile, and British Columbia, Canada. Sea lice, escapes, pesticides & pollution. Supermarkets, negotiations. 20 min Lo-Fi 5 MB
FARM ANIMALS AS OCEAN PREDATORS Dr. Jennifer Jacquet says pigs & chickens get 30% of fisheries catch. Cleaning out the oceans for agribusiness. 20 min CD Quality 19 MB or Lo-Fi 5 MB
Consumerism Killing the Planet Interview with project director Erik Assadourian on Worldwatch State of the World 2010 report. Plus my review. Suggests how to use institutions to transform consumer culture into sustainability. See also this blog entry for reactions from Monbiot and others. From Ecoshock Show 100212 30 min CD Quality 28 MB or Lo-Fi 7 MB
From UK Transition Town movement, Shaun Chamberlin's fresh thinking on climate and Peak Oil. Author of "Transition Timeline" & advisor on Tradable Energy Quotas. Blog "Dark Optimism". Stimulating interview 24 min CD Quality 22 MB or Lo-Fi 6 MB
John Michael Greer Author of "The Long Descent" (and 19 other books) explains the myths and realities of collapse. Could it be good for us? His blog. Interview Lo-Fi 25 min 6 MB from Ecoshock 100305
DMITRY ORLOV Author of "Re-inventing Collapse" returns for a fresh Radio Ecoshock interview. Always original, thought-provoking. Lo-Fi 21 min 5 MB from Ecoshock 100305
Dying American Empire. Now What? Dave Cohen, analyst with Assoc. for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) on bleak economic reality. Interview from Ecoshock 091120 18 min CD Quality 16 MB or Lo-Fi 4 MB
Carolyn Baker Adjunct Prof History & Psychology, author of "Sacred Demise, Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse". Blog "Speaking Truth to Power". We talk collapse and rejuvenation. 20 min CD Quality 18 MB or Lo-Fi 5 MB
KURT COBB Indie journalist on collapse, peak oil, climate and cultural survival. From Ecoshock 100319 & 100326. His blog. Part 1 21 min CD Quality 20 MB or Lo-Fi 5 MB Part 2 25 min CD Quality 25 MB or Lo-Fi 6 MB