Radio Ecoshock
Listen to Radio Ecoshock's weekly 1 hour show. Originates from from Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7 FM in Vancouver, Canada. Syndicated to over a dozen community & college radio stations. Fridays 1 pm PST; 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. Email: radio [at] ecoshock.org
Host - Alex Smith
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
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
Weekly Radio Ecoshock Show
GREENHOUSE WORLDS Interview with deep time expert Dr. Robert Spicer of UK. Plus review of 2007 record weather; caution on Lovelock fatalism; limits to heating?; scientific activism. Ecoshock program 080104 1 hour 56 MB or LoFi 14 MB 32 kbps mono.
Past Programs 2006 and 2007 covering the global environment crisis.
Recent Programs
PEAK OIL & POPULATION Guest host George Kenny interviews Dr. Albert Bartlett on rising prices, declining reserves, and impact of billions more people. Lifelong expert with frank talk on future. Ecoshock 080111 Courtesy Electric Politics podcast. 1 hr 56 MB Also available in Lo-Fi mono 14 MB
Capitalist Despair & the Climate Deadline Markets churn over a global banking fraud. Clive Doucet on U.S. refugee cities; George Monbiot on growth fixation; Evan Goodstein of Focus the Nation - climate goes to colleges; Ian Angus, full speech on climate after the Bali failure. Ecoshock show 080125 1 hour CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
End of the Age of Oil James Howard Kunstler lecture as 1st visiting scholar to Simon Fraser Urban Studies 080124 From the Long Emergency to new measures after Peak Oil. Part 1 of 2. Ecoshock show 080201 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB End of speech plus Q and A next week.
End of the Age of Oil Part 2 James Howard Kunstler Conclusion of speech + lively Q and A. What will it be like as oil runs out? Audience reacts with tough questions for author and now urban planner, Kunstler, as first visiting scholar to Urban Studies Program at SFU. Recorded 080124 by Ecoshock. Ecoshock Show 080208 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
| Eating Oil - From Tar Sands to Food. Here is the Ecoshock show 080215 for next week. Agriculture heating the planet, says Greenpeace. Dr. Pete Smith (author) & Josh Brandon (ag campaigner); 2nd half of show is speech on Canadian Tar Sands by MacDonald Stainsby. 1 hour CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) |
Drying of the West with National Geographic author Robert Kunzig; the first Carbon Tax in North America in B.C. (and what it means for the U.S.); censored Canadian scientists - speech clip from Dr. John Fyfe, IPCC author. Oh yeah, and some hope. 1 hour. Ecoshock show 080222
CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Our Dying Oceans Latest awful science on climate's impact: dead zones, acidification, extinctions. From the AAAS in Boston Ben Halpern (maps of ocean damage); Smithsonian's Nancy Wilson ("Code Red"); John Timmer on acidification; from Norway, Dr. Christian Nellemann, author of UNEP report "In Dead Water" - plus "the new Stern report" from Australia. 1 packed hour Ecoshock Show 080229 CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
20 Years of Climate Failure The time for "learning" & wishful thinking is over, says Prof Mark Jaccard, author of "Sustainable Fossil Fuels," and "Hot Air". Jaccard says governments need compulsory greenhouse laws, that work, to avoid catastrophe. Recorded 080304 Vancouver, 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Dirty Coal, Dirty Politics, Wasted World Packed show: coal plant blues, Obama and McCain on climate, exclusive Derrick Jensen speech - comprehending the Ecocaust. Plus super climate scientist Ken Caldeira on Zero emissions. Side order of clips from activist band Manu Chao. 080314 show 1 hr
CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Wall Street & Climate Crash Will we have money to create the new energy economy? Wall Street insider from Climateer Investing talks trades, carbon emissions, and the climate bubble. Warren Buffet's carbon footprint, & interview with Rainforest Action Network's campaign against Wall St. coal financeers.Ecoshock 080321 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
"Transport Revolutions: Moving People & Freight Without Oil" Speech March 18 by Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl. How new oil economy reshapes air, road, rail, & shipping toward sustainable power. 080328 show 1 hr
CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
CLIMATE: WHO, IF NOT US? Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of "Ingenuity Gap" and "Updside of Down" Toronto 080320. Carbon surge threatens the world, breaking IPCC predictions. Latest science. Plus interiew with climate modeller Andreas Schmittner. Stunning, scary look at gap between the new atmosphere and human inaction. Ecoshock show 080404 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
SOLAR TO SAVE US Calif. scientist Nate Lewis says CO2 is rising rapidly - why only Solar can power the Earth. Then Wall Street insider of Climateer Investing explores solar market & new tech that could do the job. Who owns India's Tata, and why World Bank is financing Tata Ultra Mega coal plants as "clean energy." Ecoshock show 080411 1 hour
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ADDICTED TO OIL Why can't we kick the habit? Interview w. psychologist Bruce Alexander, author of "Globalized Addiction"; clip from Nate Hagens at ASPO (why we don't react to Peak Oil); clips from Dr. Gabor Mate, Terry Tamminen, Tim Flannery & new quotes from Al Gore. Plus original radio play: "Eco-Intervention". Ecoshock Show 080418 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Highway to Hell: How Smog Kills Polluted cities kills hundreds of thousands. Under-reported plague from vehicle emissions. 2 interviews: Dr. Ricki Ott on oil toxicity & PAH's; Dr. Joel Schwartz, Harvard's top expert on air pollution. Nanoparticles in your bloodstream - and carbon soot makes more global warming. Ecoshock show 080425 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Radio for Troubled Times Biofuels & world food crisis. Breaking climate news: Jetstream moving, CO2 way up, methane escaping. From the UK: Off-grid living expert Nick Rosen. American housing crisis, storms, or fire: living in your car. Plus Medea Benjamin on Code Pink anti-war. Ecoshock 080502 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or LoFi 14 MB Songs: "Here at the End of the World" by David Rovics and new hit "Sea Lion Woman" by Canadian star Feist.
If You Love This Planet Helen Caldicott's new broadcast/podcast program #1. Famous anti-nuclear physician & activist interviews David Lochbaum, from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Near-melt-downs of U.S. reactors, spent fuel as terrorist targets, failure to protect public safety. Nuclear power not the answer to global warming. Use helencaldicott.com & beyondnuclear.org. Ecoshock show 080509 1 hr
CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB.
Crisis in Confidence News of global breakdown. Clips from Yale's James G. Speth on eco failure; comedy duel "The Bugle" on biofuels; Lester Brown on food crisis; Mel Hurtig on capital flight; UBS Swiss Bank as Rogue Capitalism? Billionaries bailing on climate (and you) - but activist Bill McKibben says we have One Last Chance. Packed Ecoshock Show 080516 1 hour
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE! C.S. Soong of KPFA Berkeley interviews Canadian environmental historian Colin Duncan. Why climate change may overwhelm civilization. Full interview from "Against the Grain" May 5th show. Then: song-writing activist David Rovics talks about his music, his life, and the movement. I think he's a modern Pete Seeger. The Radio Ecoshock Show 080523 1 hour
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Safe Climate or Endless War? Guests Michael T. Klare (new book "Rising Powers, Shrinking World) & space activist Bruce Gagnon on need to convert military budget toward a fossil-free America. Plus two clips: Dimitri Orlov on "Re-inventing Collapse. The Soviet Example and American Prospects"; and Robert Kennedy Jr. 5 men who run U.S. media. Is American collapsing? Where are the $$ for new transpo & energy systems, climate adaptation?
Radio Ecoshock Show 080530 1 hour
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BUILDING MADNESS Buildings emit 48% of fossil CO2 killing the climate. Six voices on cities, "eco-density," green architecture, and city fascism. Anthony Perle, Richard Register, Larry Franks, Sir Norman Foster, Derrick Jensen, Al Gore, Guido Wimmers. Is the global stampede to cities sustainable - or just a bubble? Hard info on Israeli electric cars & why suburbs make people fat. Ecoshock Show 080606 1 hour CD quality (56) MB or Lo-Fi (14 MB) New music: "Dirty Town" by Vancouver group "Mother Mother"
BUILDING SANITY A one hour workshop on super-low energy houses, office & municipal buildings with Dr. Guido Wimmers. Over 12,000 already built in Europe. Reduce Fossil fuel consumption, bills & emissions (!) by 90%. Ecoshock Show 080613 1 hour CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
COLLAPSE & THE CLIMATE CRISIS Dmitry Orlov interview "Re-inventing Collapse" compares end of Soviet & American empires as oil era ends. Also: Animal rights &warming: Anthony Marr interview. Amory Lovins tells gov't Nukes no answer to climate. Alex on oil companytrolls. Add fires, floods, and drought - it's radio for the unwinding. Ecoshock 080620 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB. Song "We Can't Make It Here Anymore" James McMurty
HANSEN: CLIMATE CRIMINALS NASA Scientist wants oil exec's who fund deniers tried for crimes against humanity. James Hansen warns we are past the danger point already. Stop coal, build new power grid, REDUCE CO2! Clips from NPR, ABC, NBC, Fox, Democracy Now etc on this controversy. Also: how Exxon hit Greenpeace with IRS, and Robert Kennedy Jr. Vs. Glenn Beck. You be the judge. Ecoshock 080627 1 hr CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Download Hansen's testimony & Q and A at Congressional Select Committee 080623.
A WARNING FROM THE PAST Past greenhouse worlds, quick climate shifts, and mass extinctions caused by changes to the atmosphere. Dr. Andrew Glikson studies space impacts, volcanoes, and past climates. This speech from Australia National University explains current shift toward a hot-state planet - much faster than ever before. Ecoshock Show 080704 1 hour
CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Slides for Glikson talk (.pdf)
FIRESTORM: CARBON RISING Ecoshock Show 080711 Report from climate front-line - the Calif fires, with Maria Gilardin. Aborginal people in Yukon dying forests. Canada's top scientist Dr. Gordon McBean on rising CO2. Bucky Buckaw on raising backyard chickens. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Production Notes: 30 sec music bed for station ID at 30:38. Song "Fix It Or Stop Complaining" by Dan Berggren. |
CHANGE OR BURN The Australian Experience. Ecoshock Show 080718 Speech by top climate/economic advisor to new Australian gov't, Prof. Ross Garnaut. Likely basis for American action in 2009. Plus the "Clean Development" scam takes billions out of real clean energy. 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. |
Coping With Climate Change Ecoshock Show 080725 How can we face it? 2 interviews: Pulitzer prize winner Catherine Ellison, and climate/nuclear historian Spencer Weart. Updated replay from our 2007 season. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Production Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 30:00 Music "Mother Earth" by Shane Philip (Canadian content) |
ENDLESS SUMMER Ecoshock Show 080801 Surf is up and the heat is on. A review of the UK climate activist scene. Then a hot speech by Canadian scientist and broadcaster Dr. David Suzuki. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Production Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 29:34 Song "Endless Summer" by Ghostly Penguin Display. |
METHANE BURPS AND TELE-EVERYTHING Ecoshock Show 080808 Guest host KMO from C-Realm podcast interviews David M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA Langley Research Center. Lots of doom, but really good solutions too. Thanks to KMO for sharing this rare interview. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Production Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 33 min |
RISING SEAS, DRYING WEST Ecoshock Show 080815 Top IPCC organizer & U of Arizona Professor Jonathan Overpeck speech at Washington U. After updating the world climate report, Overpeck predicts climate impacts on North America. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB.
Production Notes: 30 second music bed for station ID at 30:14 |
SUMMER PROGRAMS July 11 to Aug 15th
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