This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock with a blog and audio bulletin. Japan has 24 hours to avoid a nuclear reactor melt-down. There are reports of 5 nuclear reactors damaged either by the country’s largest-ever Earthquake, but also by the tsunami that …
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Lost the climate gamble! Now what?reporting the extreme
In this week’s Radio Ecoshock Show we cover one of the most under-reported stories of this century: warming oceans. Up to 90 percent of the extra heat we create with rising greenhouse gas emissions is being hidden away in the world’s oceans. Now …
Is it time for the lifeboats? Are there any lifeboats? I’m Alex. Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. We face “wicked problems” like climate change, peak oil, or an economy depending on … call it “make-believe” or call it “fraud”. Science cannot provide the answers. …
SURVIVING THE TRIPLE CRUNCH An interview with Jeremy Leggett, by Alex Smith. From the Radio Ecoshock Show Feb. 25, 2011. Alex Smith: This civilization uses oil for its blood. Almost everything we make, buy, and use has oil in it’s food chain. You …
Don’t you hate it when a shadow comes into another nice day? All my weather worries are far away. The East Coast is grumbling under more snow. The deep South may be freezing the Canadian “Snow Birds.” There is another crazy cyclone over …
THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES (and “Deep Transition”) Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock interviews MICHAEL BROWNLEE on February 18, 2011. Transcript. ——————————— Alex Smith: The Transition movement has spread from the United Kingdom to North America. Michael Brownlee is a gateway …
Finally, a shaky roadmap toward sustainability, in troubling times. I’m Alex. This week we go for the Transition movement – West Coast style. What started with Rob Hopkins in the village of Totnes,England, is evolving in North America. We hear from early adopters …
Radio Ecoshock interview with Alex Smith, February 11, 2011 When it comes to population, the name Paul Ehrlich inevitably comes up. In 1968, Dr. Ehrlich published “The Population Bomb”. About 40 years, and 40 books later, this distinguished scientist comes to us with …
Welcome, welcome, to the house of Ecoshock. Last week we tried a little shock therapy: a modest proposal from Dr. Jack Alpert to sterilize everyone, to bring about Rapid Population Decline. Birth permits, just 350,000 a year, would be awarded to the lucky …
Radio Ecoshock February 4, 2011. Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith. When it comes to “the population bomb”, our feature speaker today makes Paul Ehrlich sound like an optimist. Now that it’s over 30 years into the tragedy of exploding humanity on …
Welcome my friends. Yes we’re going to cover the coming crisis – again this week. We’ll travel to Brazil, to find out about those deadly floods, more signs of climate change – you know – the words former awareman Barrack Obama was afraid …
THIS WEEK ON RADIO ECOSHOCKJanuary 21, 2010 1. “THE FOOD BUBBLE” with Lester Brown 2. “The Australian super-floods” with Professor Matthew England 3. “12 X12 – back to simplicity” with author William Powers. THE FOOD BUBBLE You have seen food prices going up …