Radio Ecoshock

Listen to Radio Ecoshock's weekly 1 hour show. Originates from Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7 FM in Vancouver, Canada. Syndicated to over 20 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 Half hour Ecoshock program on Green 960 AM San Francisco (Sunday 10:30 pm)

ENJOY YOURSELF (It's Later Than You Think) Authorities are saying climate change is unstopable now. Should we just give up & party like there's no tomorrow? Scientist James Lovelock, inventor of Gaia, says yes. NASA scientist James Hansen says no. Loaded with clips including Obama's science man John Holdren, deep greener Derrick Jensen, country singer Katty Mattea, rocker Tom Petty, new Lovelock on "Vanishing Gaia" and Hansen arrest audio (with Daryl Hannah). Radio Ecoshock 090626 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Program Notes: full list of credits and links to video here. It's click heaven.

WHEN THE GREAT CORRECTION COMES Start of new season! Jan Lundberg, former oil analyst. Peak Oil, the coming energy shock, climate disruption, and the economic hit. Jan goes positive, with ways to get out and up. His blog culturechange.org. Ecoshock 090904 1 hr. CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Music "The Great Correction" by Eliza Gilkyson

Gas Pump Blues - for 100,000 years. How high before economy collapses, again? Forbes writer Christopher Steiner author of "Twenty Dollars per Gallon: How the inevitable rise in the price of gasoline will change our lives - for the better." Former CIBC analyst Jeff Rubin agrees. Then climate scientist David Archer, author of "The Long Thaw" - humans changed climate for next 100,000 years. Important new climate science. Ecoshock 090918 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

GEOENGINEERING SPECIAL Bye Bye Blue Skies. Worried scientists look at "Plan B" - human control of the climate. Big fossil fuel companies and deniers suddenly jump on board. Like Bjorn Lomborg. Just keep on polluting! Real scientist Alan Robock talks risks. Diana Bronson from the ETCgroup with the big ugly picture. Mr. Burns. Music by Neko Chase & Shane Philip Ecoshock 090925 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

KILLER NATURE: The Medea Hypothesis Scientist Peter Ward on past extinctions & the next one. Against James Lovelock's friendly "Gaia" - Ward says life may be ecocidal. Plus Alex interviewed on the darkening future. Music: celebrity "Beds Are Burning" (Tcktcktck); "Fear Itself" Loudon Wainwright III. Ecoshock 091016 1 hr
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SMART DECLINE Bill Rees, originator of the ecological footprint, says we are already into overshoot. We can plan to reduce our resources, or plunge through a series of disasters. Full keynote speech from "Resilient Cities" 091021 plus Q and A with Warren Karlenzig on Post Carbon Cities, including China's "eco-cities". Breakthrough information. Ecoshock 091030 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Song clip: Mavis Staples "99 and a Half Won't Do"

THE FUTURE: DARK OR RESILIENT? Interview with Peak Oil expert Richard Heinberg on his new book "Coal, Climate Change, and the Last Energy Crisis". Then speech by Paul Hawken, author of "The Ecology of Commerce" and now "Blessed Unrest". Keynote at "Resilient Cities" conference, Vancouver 091020 on a resilient future. Ecoshock 091106 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB music "What You Don't Know" by Million Dollar Nile.

GREENING PORTLAND Your City How To. Why is Portland such a livable city? What can your city learn from these green leaders? From the Resilient Cities conference, Mayor Sam Adams plus sustainability directors Susan Anderson and Erin Flynn. What works, and what doesn't. Plus Sarah Severn on Nike and climate change. Nike "Air" was actually a global warming gas. Ecoshock 091113 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

DINOSAURS WILL DIE Consumer suburbia is dead. 2 interviews: UK Gov't advisor Tim Jackson on book "Prosperity Without Growth" (time for big changes); ASPO Peak Oil analyst Dave Cohen on dying American Empire, Now what? Plus Canada's risky real estate while Australia slowly cooks. Ecoshock 091120 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

DEEP TROUBLE - OUR OCEANS Is it the end of fish? Dr. Daniel Pauly says it is. Interviews: Dr. Jennifer Jacquet, Sea Around Us on fish to pigs & chickens. Catherine Stewart,"Living Oceans Society, on perils of fish-farming. Quotes from Daniel Pauly. All ocean call for action. Ecoshock 091127 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Credit "End of Fish" The New Republic.

SCIENCE OR CONSPIRACY? Testimony to House Select Committee on Climate Change 091202 John Holdren, Obama's science advisor, and Jane Lubchenco Director of NOAA, answer denial and "climategate" leaked emails. Then some fun: UK broadcaster & author Hugh Warwick on hedgehogs, the most important animal in the universe. Ecoshock 091204 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB.

BULLDOZE SUBURBIA Is it foolish to hope for eco-cities, while tax revenues collapse? Dean of green Richard Register says it's late, but world-wide cities, rich and poor, are finding solutions. Because they must. Speech to Resilient Cities conference. Then two interviews: Elizabeth Grossman on "Chasing Molecules" - the toxins in our homes and blood; plus Prashant Vaze, "The Economical Environmentalist" - his venture to slash personal emissions, depite job, family and all that. Ecoshock 091211 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB.

UNCIVILIZED The Copenhagen mess. Guest Paul Kingsnorth says our whole civilization IS climate change. Plus the best alternative reports from Copenhagen. Our focus: America, wealthiest polluter, versus Africa, poorest victims. Courtesy of climateradio.org & Democracy Now! Ecoshock 091218 1 hourCD Quality 55 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Separately: Paul Kingsnorth interview 27:42 or Copenhagen Digest 29:30

COPENHAGEN: Hope & Despair A wide range of reactions to the "Danish Accord", to Obama, to our prospects for climate change now. Clip extravaganza with summary wrap-up. Has politics failed? Is the U.N still alive? You be the judge. Ecoshock 091225 1 hour CD Quality 55 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Song: "It's Up To Us" by California's Spring Lundberg.

THE SIMPLICITY MOVEMENT Funny, dead-on, Cecile Andrews says "Slow Is Beautiful" and "Less Is More". Re-arranging to build connections & community, with examples. Develops both happiness & a more sustainable world. Ecoshock 100101 1 hour CD Quality 55 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Song: "Stuck In Our Ways" by The Administrators.

THE CLIMATE HAS ALREADY TIPPED New science from the American Academy is frightening. Carbon emissions way up. Horrible climate news from around the world. Plus: scientist V. Ramanathan says Earth has already warmed 2.4 degrees - but it's hidden by atmospheric smog. Will an industrial shut-down bring on a sudden heat wave? Radio Ecoshock 090220 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB. Music: "Don't Let the World Swallow You" by Canadian Andre Ethier.

THE COMING CLIMATE PANIC Auden Schendler's bombshell: delay now could lead to instability (and big gov't) later. Plus digest of AGU keynote speech Prof Richard B. Alley "The Carbon Control Knob" (should he be "arrested"?) Ecoshock 100108 1 hour CD Quality 55 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Music: "Slippin' Away" by Nine Inch Nails

CONSPIRACY! Turning 911 Truth to Climate Denial How the movement was spun by right-wing radio into anti-science. A review of rant media. Plus: UK author of "Confessions of an Eco-Sinner" & "Last Generation", Fred Pearce. Ecoshock 100115 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Song clip: "Don't Shoot the Messenger" by Gordie Sampson.

ATOMIC DREAMS, CLIMATE NIGHTMARES Can nuclear power really replace coal, and save the climate? New interview with Helen Caldicott, clips from climateradiofiles.com, analysis of Korea UAE nuke deal, & why is James Hansen pushing nuclear? Music: "Earth" by Imogen Heap, album Ellipsis. Ecoshock 100122 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

CLIMATE IN THE SIXTH EXTINCTION Interview with Dr. Jonathan Patz (19 min) - physician & expert on health impacts of climate change. Already deadly, & not just in the developing world. Plus opening speech for UNESCO 2010 Year of Biodiversity, by the man who invented it, Dr. Thomas Lovejoy. (35 min)Radio Ecoshock Show 100129 1 hour CD Quality 55 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB. Lovejoy recorded by indie journalist Stephen Leahy.

TOWARD THE COLLAPSE Must the economy fail, to save the climate & biosphere? Should we help kick it over? Utah U Prof Tim Garrett figures climate catastrophe is unstoppable unless the economy collapses. UK green Keith Farnish says "Time's Up!" - we should undermine the growth machine. Plus IPCC problems in scientists' web cast, and lastest on "Climate Wars" from Gwynne Dyer. Ecoshock 100205 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

Buying Into A Dying World Interview with Erik Assadourian on new Worldwatch State of the World 2010 Report (transforming cultures from consumerism to sustainability). Then David Satterthwaite interview, expert on illegal settlements for the IIED, says consumers, not population, is damaging the climate, and the world. It's us, not them. Music: "Garbage" by Chairlift. Ecoshock 100212 1 hour
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Hot Climate Activism Ted Nace, author of "Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal" - how 90 coal plants were stopped. Gavin Edwards, climate campaign Director for Greenpeace International on world activism. Clips from stirring new speech by Gwynne Dyer, author of "Climate Wars". Ecoshock 100219 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

ON THE ROAD TO MASS EXTINCTION Scientists warn. Dr. Mark Pagani (Yale) interview says Earth will heat even at current CO2 levels. Jeremy Jackson, oceanographer at Scripps, says extinction coming. New Andrew Glikson paper (reading)(online) & Peter Ward agree, and explain how. Plus Bill Gates discovers climate change. Ecoshock 100226 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Transcript with links here.

EXPECTING COLLAPSE It's the new hot meme: we are going down. Interview with Dmitry Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse", and John Michael Greer, "The Long Descent". Plus clips from Prof Joseph Tainter & Dennis Meadows. Will it be a relief? Ecoshock 100305 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

OUR PRODUCT IS DOUBT Clive Hamilton on "Requiem for a Species, Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change." The madness of masses & media. Stanford's Prof. Stephen Schneider on death threats, & threats from Senators (calling climate scientists "criminals"). Naoimi Oreskes on "Merchants of Doubt". Ecoshock 100312 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Opening music from Thamnos. In the Year 2525,#1 hit 1969 by Zager & Evans plus Venice Beat

Surfing Waves of Trouble The triple threat: economy, climate, Peak Oil. Kurt Cobb on navigating collapse. Carolyn Baker on psychological and spiritual strength confronting chaos. Graham Saul of Climate Action Network on Canada's shameful muzzling of climate scientists. music from 350.org Ecoshock 100319 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

DARK OPTIMISM How do we handle Peak Oil AND climate change? Shaun Chamberlin from UK Transition Towns, energy writer Kurt Cobb, plus Richard Heinberg on renewable hope, with Lester Brown. Ecoshock 100326 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

GIMME SHELTER Special on super low-energy building. Architect Guido Wimmers on "Passivhaus" (Canada's first); Tom Pittsley on solar mass windows (sun heat in Massachusetts winter); Jamee DeSimone on Net Zero construction. Reducing emissions while saving big on energy costs. Ecoshock 100402 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

THE UNKNOWN CLIMATE Can we predict it? Sudden tipping points, with Dr. Alan Hastings. Dr. David Orr, author of "Down to the Wire: confronting climate collapse." James Hansen in Australia. Plus Twelve Batty Things About James Lovelock. And why TV weathercasters never mention climate change. Ecoshock 100409 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

BACK TO THE LAND! Aging farmers, a threatened food system & desire for good food are driving a new wave of local growing. Severine Fleming of Greenhorns talks young farmers, Sharon Astyk tells us all how. Learn Community Supported Agriculture, organic volunteers ("WOOFING"), city farming, and more. Ecoshock 100416 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

BLACK CARBON = FAST WARMING = EARLY DEATH Up to half of warming & Arctic ice melt comes from smog of incomplete compustion (cook stoves, diesel, forest fires). Interview with expert Dr. Tami Bond. Summary of Testimony to House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming. Gull testimony audio Part 1 45 min and Part 2 42 min. Reading from new James Hansen book. Plus what coal company CEO's told Congress about warming. Ecoshock 100423 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB More in Blog on Black Carbon.

FROM OCCUPIED EARTH Nikolas Kozloff on South America eco-news (Venezuela, Boliva) & drying of Amazon. Deirdre Barrett, author of "Supernormal Stimuli" asks whether old brains work on new tech problems. Plus two big media lies. Song: "Occupying Army" by Vanessa Richards. Ecoshock 100430 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

FROM THE DEEPWATER HORIZON Riki Ott, marine biologist, fisherwoman, spill expert, reports from New Orleans. Antonia Juhasz, Global Exchange, on BP & D.C. lobby. Peak Oil guru Richard Heinberg on big picture impact. Former Shell Oil exec Anita Burke the inside track. + new song, "Corporate Catastrophe." Ecoshock 100507 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

DEGROWTH Planned contraction (before the collapse). 1st North American Conference April 29-May1 2010, Vancouver, Canada. Intro by Rex Weyler, plus Tom Walker on Barcelona Conf. Lo-Fi 8 min 2 Mb. Overview of peak fossil fuels by ASPO'S Dave Hughes Lo-Fi 30 min 7 MB. Maximum human population, Jack Alpert Lo-Fi 12 min 3 MB. Also available: Anita Burke on degrowth Lo-Fi 27 min 6 MB. Rick Balfour reducing city impacts Lo-Fi 16 min 4 MB Ecoshock Show 100514 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB For info: www.de-growth.com/vancouver

THE COMING GREENHOUSE WORLD We are drilling, mining, and burning our way to a horrible climate shift. Can Gaia save us? Dr. Melanie Lenart, U of Arizona on her book "Life in the Hothouse - How A Living Planet Survives Climate Change." Plus clips from "What Awaits Us In the Greenhouse World" by Prof George Kennedy, & review of book "The Cretaceous World" (back to the dinosaurs?) Ecoshock 100521 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Get all the links in the show blog.

IS HUMANITY UNSUSTAINABLE? The co-inventor of "the ecological footprint" now calls for a planned contraction of the economy, to save the biosphere and promote world fairness. How primeval brain works against us. Powerful speech by Canadian biologist Dr. Bill Rees, April 15, 2010. Ecoshock 100528 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Full transcript here. Music by Dana Pearson.

BP PROTESTS, OIL ACTIVISM & "THE YES MEN" Round up of anti-BP protests in U.S., plus drilling halted in U.S. and Canada. Ideas and songs for your activism. Funny speech by "The Yes Men" Andy Bichlbaum on media activism. Ecoshock 100604 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB READ MORE

HEAT STROKE! When Heat Kills. Scientists predict more deadly heat waves. Now they have found the upper limit our bodies tolerate - and we'll get there if we don't stop our emissions. The "skeptical scientist" John Cook and the technical , Stuart Staniford, talk it through. Then we take a diversion into the wild world of ants, with Dr. Mark Moffett. Ecoshock 100611 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

DARK CONSPIRACIES OF THE GULF Rumors, myth, and conspiracy pour out of the Gulf Gusher. Alex investigates. Is it possible this leak can never be contained? Plus Stanford Research's Jack Alpert explains "time blindness" - why we can't handle problems like Peak Oil and climate change. Ecoshock 100618 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB

DEEP DANGER IN THE GULF While crackpot radio warns the Gulf will explode into a tsunami, - I interview experts. Dr. Joye just returned from the Gulf measuring plumes. Dr. Mike Hirshfield of Oceana just testified to Congress. We talk methane. Stephanie Mencimer of Mother Jones mag on Tea Party & FEMA camps. Fantasy is spreading even to the Huffington Post. Americans are reaching panic. Ecoshock 100625 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Transcript with links here. Song "Sportsman's Paradise" by The Rambling Letters (adaptation of John Prine song) & clip by Dana Pearson.

AFTER THE OIL RUSH Doubt rises that BP relief wells won't work. Beyond oil, is transition to a clean economy - if we don't crash first. Dr. Kessler just back from the Gulf talks methane. Will the BP spill change the climate? Alex wraps up the big picture - including heat, floods, record ice melt, & the economy. Music by various artists. Last new show of this season. Ecoshock 100702 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Transcript with lots of links here. Find all our Summer programs (most downloaded by listeners) here.