Radio Ecoshock
Radio Ecoshock Show
Listen to Radio Ecoshock's weekly 1 hour show from Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7 FM in Vancouver, Canada. Fridays 1 to 2 pm; find Co-op radio on B.C. cable; on Satellite - Starchoice 845; live on the Net at www.coopradio.org/listen.html; or download shows here, for your computer, IPOD, or MP3 player. Now syndicated to over a dozen college and community stations. Email: radio [at] ecoshock.org
September 22nd Show (1 hour)
Hummers, air travel kills, "Heatwave" with James Lovelock, Union talks climate, BC Sustainable Energy Association, "Making Waves" with youth activism. Select segments: Peter Ronald, BC Sust Energy Assoc. 7 min Cliff Walker, BCGEU Union (excerpts) 5 min Cliff Walker Unions & Climate Change (full speech) Part One (28 min) Part Two (29 min) Sept 19, 06
Past Programs 2006 & 2007
November 24th Show Transit in Vancouver area; Gateway sucks; Ned Jacobs; Gordon Price; climate: Nairobi, Canada and BC
November 29th Special Edition Peace Show #1 Should America bomb Iraq? With nuclear weapons? Four Plots to Nuke Iran; highlights from Goldbard-Bashi - women say "Don't do it for us"; Heidi from Iranian Women's Voices; highlights from warnings by Scott Ritter, weapons inspector, and journalist Seymour Hersh. 1 hr
Dec 6th Show Health & Environment
Dr. David Suzuki to B.C. Public Health Assoc.
Part One (30 min) Part Two (30 min)
DID MEDIA WAIT TOO LONG TO TELL US? CFRO show 070309 Expert panel w Ross Gelbspan ("Boiling Point") Chris Mooney ("Republican War on Science") Exxon-funded academic Hadi Dowlatabadi, Desmogblog.com founder James Hogan, and Vancouver Sun editor Kirk Lapoint. State of Media & Climate Change presented by UBC School of Journalism & Desmogblog.com. 1 hour, 56 MB
A Sustainable Future: Jonathon Porritt, founder of UK Green movement, ex-Director of Friends of Earth, Chair of UK Sustainable Development Commission speech at Vancouver May 2, 2007 (58 min); followed by round-table Q and A
Part One (48 min), Part Two (49 min)
Total Denial May 18th show (1 hr) Glenn Beck, CNN's Climate Quisling; Senator Inhofe's Greatest Hits; Jonathon Porritt on the psyschology of denial, music from David Rovecs ("What If You Knew?") Ozzy Osbourne ("Denial") Dana Lyons ("Swimmin in Da Nile") and more.
The Poisoned Chalice CFRO Eshock show June 1st Noam Chomsky judges American wars by Nuremberg Nazi war trial standards. Should Bush be hung? 56 MB 1 hour.
Hard Rain Gonna Fall Ecoshock 1 hr show 070608 Extreme rain events Climate Modeller Dr. Noah Diffenbaugh on warming and precipitation 12 MB 13 min; Dam Nation Cleo Woelfle-Erskine (17 min) - plus positive feedbacks, climate 3 times worse, and dumb NASA head, plus music.
JAMES HANSEN CLIMATE CALL Ecoshock show 070713 (1 hr) top NASA scientist warns 10 years left; answers critics; speech to Zero Emissions Conference, Melbourne June 30th.
ECOFEMINISM Eshock show 070720 (1 hr) theologian Rosemary Ruether speaks in Vancouver July 3rd, 2007. What is eco-feminism? Examples from India and Brazil.
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: EAST & WEST Ecoshock 1 hr show 070727 Prof William Moomaw, Tufts U & IPCC lead author "How to Cut Emissions by 75%"; then selections from Satish Kumar "Ghandi & Climate Change."
Climate DESPAIR & EMPOWERMENT Roadshow Ecoshock 070824 Show (1 hr) Australia's Kelly Tudhope's inspiring presentation at Vancouver, Planetarium August 15th with new clips from Gore, Gelbspan, etc.
PEAK OIL/CLIMATE PANEL followed Escape from Suburbia, Vancouver 070817. Ecoshock Show 070831 1 hr. Conrad Schmidt, Founder of the Work Less Party, and the World Naked Bike Ride. Greenpeace founder/historian Rex Wyler, a Director of the BC Sustainable Energy Assoc., a city planner & more. How will we get out of this mess?
PLANKTOS: Offsets Real & Imagined Ecoshock Show 070907 Planting trees, seeding seas, grabbing CO2, for money. Full show interview with Russell George, CEO of PLanktos, controversial carbon offset company in the news. Part 1 of 2. Interview transcript here.
ECOSOCIALISM Eshock Show 070928 (1 hr) Joel Kovel says capitalism must fall to save the planet. Author of "Enemy of Nature" His full speech here. Peruvian Indigenous activist Hugo Blanco, environmentalism in the South.Six Nations activist Lindsay Blomberry on violence at Caledonia, Ontario (18 min). "Left on Venezeula" - Blanco and Kovel (10 min).
PLOTTING THE GREEN DEATH Ecoshock show 071019 (54 min) The "Grim Reapers", Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus are at it again, claiming "environmentalism is dead". New book "Break Through", interview the authors, plus Peggy Shepard of WE ACT, environmental justicein Harlem. New song "Economy of the Devil" by Wone.
PLOTTING THE GREEN DEATH - 2 Ecoshock show 071026 (58 min) "Death of Environmentalism" boys, Shellenberger and Nordhaus, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, which pays forgreen bashing. Plus Dr. John Terborgh author of "Requiem for Nature."Song: "Another Day" by Tim O'Brien from his CD "Traveler." Show Transcript
A RAY OF HOPE Ecoshock 071102 (59 min) Paul Hawken's speech to Long Now Foundation, on his new book "Blessed Unrest." Progressive groups are the largest unseen movement in history. Plus Canada's Maude Barlow on hope, in desperate times.
WORLD WATER CRISIS Ecoshock show 071109 Maude Barlow on global freshwater crisis, water privatization, bottled crap. SpeechVancouver 071030. Plus: Britain's Chief Scientist Sir David King on serious climate threat, a starving voice by the road, & Goodall on primate extinctions. 1 hr.
BURNING DOWN THE WEST Wildfires stoke the carbon load. Ecoshock Show 071116 (1 hr) Interview: Dr. Tom Gower, saying fires in N. Canada make positive feedback; speech by Temperate Rainforest activist Pas Rasumussen - why she is now a climate activist as well. Echoes by Adrien Rheimer of the Wilderness Committee. New research on the Rockies burning by Lara Kueppers; were California fires climate change? And a bit of George Monbiot.
CLIMATE & CAPITALISM Ecoshock show 071123 1 hr American Titanic Steady as She Sinks - navigating the U.S. financial crisis with indie journalist Mike Whitney. Then Canadian educator/author Ian Angus speech "Climate and Capitalism" (must Capitalism fall to save the climate?)
JAMES HANSEN: LATEST CLIMATE SCIENCE top NASA scientist explains newest understanding of Earth's climate system. Ecoshock show 071130 56 MB 1 hour. Rebroadcast with permission from TUC Radio in San Francisco. Speech in Houston Oct 24th, 2007. One of most important of the year.
What A Way to Go Life at the End of Empire. Interview with film makers re multiple crisis points from Peak Oil to climate change, population, etc. Plus: Canada's Deadly Secret author Jim Harding on world's biggest supply of uranium. Ecoshock show 071207 1 hour 56 MB (CD quality) or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Abrupt Arctic Meltdown Why is the Arctic Sea becoming an open ocean in summer? Latest science digest, radio clip on damage to Northern landscape, clips from ice scientists panel to Congress November 28th, 2007. Models & IPCC failed to predict this rapid change. Facts behind the headlines. Ecoshock show 071214 1 hour 56 MB Or: Lo-Fi 14 MB
Bali Climate Conference Fails Audio reaction from around the world, including Greens. Plus: update on Planktos algae seeding demise; Polar Cities (Taiwan calling); Uranium protester Donna Dillman; world food crisis - jam-packed show. Ecoshock 071221 1 hour 56 MB CD quality. Or LoFi 10 MB
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE Sir James Lovelock speech to Royal Academy Oct 29th, 2007. IPCC has underestimated scope & rapidity of global heating. Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis, says we begin a rapid shift to a hot-state planet. Time to adapt, but billions may die. One of top speeches of 2007. Required listening. 1 hr 56 MB. or Lo-Fi 14 MB
