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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
October 13th Show: (1 hour) Special on Canada's Tar Sands; Green Party Leader Elizabeth May "From Crud to Crude" plus Ecoshock feature "Canada's Tar Baby"
Past Programs 2006 & 2007
Sept 29th Show (1 hour) Prince Charles on climate; Guy Dauncey on carbonless life; Prof M'Gonigle talks green university in "Planet U"; plus Music of Dying Trees.
October 6th Show (1 hr) Oceans Special "Murder in the Deep" trawling, Catherine Stewart on safe sea food choices & aquaculture; NDP MLA Shane Simpson on climate; Amber Dawn's special OUR Eco-Village, young alternatives.
October 20th Show: Pathetic News; Smog Vs Climate Phil Austen Interview; Sakhalin Energy Fight.
October 27th Show Greenpeace in Beijing (Tamara Stark); WCWC's Paul George on Big Trees Not Stumps; Methane Primer.
November 3rd Show Climate & Stern Report: Ian Bruce, Suzuki Fdn; Dr. Michael Margolick, economist on Stern Report; Africa Eats Our Exhaust; The Methane Fix.
November 10th Show (1 hr) featuring Fish Collapse 2048; The Polluted Womb (smog & pesticides threaten a generation); and a funny green sermon.
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
December 1st Special Edition Peace Show #2 Speech by British MP George Galloway on Middle East Wars, Toronto Nov 20, 2006 1 hr
Dec 6th Show Health & Environment
Dr. David Suzuki to B.C. Public Health Assoc.

Part One
(30 min) Part Two (30 min)
Dec 8th Show (1 hr) Skiing: Will Warming End Snow? (Aspen, Whistler, Europe); Touring Galapagos Islands; The Great Extinction (with E.O. Wilson)
Dec 15th Show 1 hr. New tech: Solar Chill (Janos Mate); Senior Activist Betty Krawczyk; Forest activist Tzeporah Berman at Oct Bioneer Conf.
Dec 22nd Show (1 hr) Features: Climate Map of Doom (13 min); Greenpeace Boreal Campaign (12 min); Songwriter Terry Jacks (27 min) Lovelock's map of Earth 5 degrees warmer.
Dec 29th Show 2 New Coal Plants in BC; End Coal Now (or the Planet Dies); The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich Part One, Part Two
Jan 5 2007 Show Kick It Over: Derrick Jensen; Climate Criminals - Ross Gelbspan
Jan 10th & 12 Shows Helen Caldicott on Bush's New Nukes & Israel; Review of 5 best climate SOLUTIONS speeches of 2006
Jan 17 and 19th Show Andrea Rheimer (Wilderness Committee) back from Gore camp; John Bennett (Climate Action Network) climate must go political; Thermageddon: Bob Hunter's Confessions; The Big Crush: 6.5 Billion - Population Killing Us
Jan 24th & 26 Show Great Bear Rainforest Saved? Amanda Carr of Greenpeace; Stormy Future; Mark Lynas new book 6 Degrees on climate future.
Jan 31st & Feb 2nd Show COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE How we handle it mentally and socially. Guests historian Spencer Weart & Pulitzer journalist Katherine Ellison - plus thoughts from deep ecologist John Seed.
CLIMATE, COAL AND MEDIA Feb 9th Show. IPCC media to music; Dr. Andrew Weaver, IPCC lead author on future; Dr. John Nyboer "Does Clean Coal Exist?"; reporter Mitchell Anderson on failure of Canadian climate media.
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS Feb 14/16th Show Part One: two speakers from "We Need Bright Ideas Now" at Ridge Theatre - Dr. Bill Rees "Climate & Government" & Dr. Phil Austin "The Climate Challenge" (each 12 minutes). Find the other speeches, and full program here.

Part Two:
Sustainable Fossil Fuels? feature on Dr. Mark Jaccard (28 minutes). His full speech here (55 MB 1 hour).
WHALING AND CLIMATE Feb 21/23 Show. Japanese whaler fire special; Steve Shallhorn, Greenpeace Australia (10 min); Vaughn Palmer on British Columbia climate plan (10 min); Sir Nicholas Stern testimony to US Senate (30 min)
From Climate Crisis Film Festival. March 2nd. News, 3 short speeches, music, audience feedback on global warming1 hour show. Segments: Gregor Robertson, BC MLA (12 min); Colin Campbell, BC Sierra Club (8 min); Bill Taylor, climatologist Environment Canada (8 min); Full audience/panel Q & A, raw recording (51 min, large file)
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
Beyond Boiling Point CFRO Show Mar 14/16th Special on Ross Gelbspan, journalist who exposed fossil fuel deniers (1 hr) including fresh interview with Gelbspan (12 min); news on IPCC leak & global drying (12 min); plus music treats, while Alex ponders the general insanity.
OCEAN FISHERIES CRASH DOWN Show Mar 21/23 1 hr Fisheries Doom & Gloom Dr. Daniel Pauly (47 min); James Hansen "different planet" clip; Song "Betty's Back in Jail" (for senior activist Betty Krawczyk)
Planet Emergency CFRO Show 070330 (1 hr) Hansen's Warning (9 min) New Coal Plants Will Kill Us All (9 min) Sample ABC Science Show - Antartic Waves Sequestering CO2 (9 min) plus 5 new climate change songs.
LIVES PER GALLON (1 hr 070406) Q & A with Terry Tamminen April 4; full speech here; Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson on whaling; Greenpeace Australia's Steve Shallhorn on Aussie coal exports.
Activism Beyond Hope Eshock Show 070413 (1 hr) IPCC Censorship of Science (20 min); Prof Krauter on rare glass sponge reefs (8 min); "Endgame" author Derrick Jensen (30 min)
American Coal, N. American Impacts (50 min) Bill Barclay on RAN's fight to stop new coal plants (15 min); climate change impacts on N. America from IPCC WG2 scientists (12 min); Climate solutions mix (13 min)
Car Culture & Climate Show 070426 (1 hr) Segments: Catherine Stewart (Living Oceans Society) Fish Farms Killing Marine Mammals; Car Culture: Kill It or Cure It? w Matthew Patterson 27 min; Nottingham climate protest UK
Climate: What Works, What Doesn't Ecoshock Show 070504 (54 min) Canada Gives Up (Gore calls Baird's plan "fraud") (20 min); Climate Cafe with Mark Jaccard (40 min)
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.
NEWS, POPULATION & FISH FARMS May 23/35 07 (1 hr) A roundup of key enviro news; Dr. John Guillebaud of ULC UK on saving climate w population control; Catherine Stewart on closed containment fish farms plus new Madonna Earth song.
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.
PEAK OIL, CLIMATE FAILURE Ecoshock show 070615 (1 hr) James Howard Kunstler on dwindling oil, dwindling future (42 min); John Doerr, tech billionaire, on green tech, but fear of failure (19 min)
LEFTY DENIERS, PEAK OIL, CHILD'S VOICE Ecoshock Show June 22 07 (1 hr) Alexander Cockburn as climate denier; 13 year old Severn Suzuki tells UN to grow up;
Dr.
Jeremy Leggett on collision of peak oil & climate change.
911 Truth Vs. Climate Ecoshock Show 070629 (1 hr); Leuren Moret on Depleted Uranium - and climate denial, Lyndon Larouche & 911. Derrick O'Keefe on lefty academic deniers. Anne Lindsay on new Canadian plan to bury nuke waste.
CURRENT PLAGUES - FUTURE FORESTS Can forests keep up with global warming? Ecoshock Show 070706 1 hour
Dr. Clive Welham on ravages on pine bark beetle in Rockies; Dr. Del Meidinger speech "Future Forests" to 6th N.A. Forest Ecology Conference.
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."
VACATION: FLOODS, FIRES, BUGS. Ecoshock Show 070803 (1 hr) 56 MB The news ain't good. UK Floods & extreme rainfall events; Mediterannean & E. Europe in flames; Prof. Overpeck on great S.W. drought in U.S.; Logging beetle killed pines - does it add to global warming?
ESCAPE FROM SUBURBIA Ecoshock Show 070810 (1 hr) Clips from film on Peak Oil, Climate, and suburbia; plus big interview with the director, Gregory Greene (27 min)
BUSH'S BIOFUEL SCAM Ecoshock show 070817 (1 hr) F. William Engdahl on Biofuel Scam (18 min); Crop Circle - Greenpeace GE Corn Protest (12 min); Solution to Farmed Salmon Dangers? Catherine Stewart (11 min)
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.
PLANKTOS II: THE INTERVENTION Who are they, and will it work? Part 2: 3 critics respond + Alex Smith's take. (Ecoshock show 070914 - 56 MB 1 hr) Greenpeace (9 min)Science Unit, ETC Group (9 min), & David Baines (16 min)(newspaper business columnist)
PLANET WATCH: Ecoshock Show 070921 (56 MB 1 hr) Allan Weisman, (13 min) author of "The World Without Us"; security expert Richard Power (23 min) on coming climate chaos; NY State Senator Liz Krueger (7 min) on styrofoam ban. Plus horror, humor for World Car Free Day.
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).
LOVE THE HEAT? Ecoshock Show 071012 Radical author Derrick Jensen explains why civilization is bad. Plus insider "coal call" from Rainforest Action Network (w. Bill McKibben and more). Hot radio for hot times.
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
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