Meltdowns, storms, and ships crashing together on the high seas, this is Radio Ecoshock. For the coming months, we added dozens of new college and community radio stations to this broadcast, probably taking us to 50 more stations. I’m still counting. As you …
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 …
Floods and extreme snowfall events, once in a hundred years, are almost every year. No matter what the season, we keep on pumping up more carbon into the Earth’s thin atmosphere. The actors on the scene, most voices and talking heads, learned and …
This program is really two tied together. It’s about oil activism, with ideas you can use. Then a funny but serious speech on media activism, by Andy Bichlbaum of “The Yes Men”. In the first half hour, Radio Ecoshock covers the various anti-BP …
A different twist on Ecoshock this week. We go radio active. While major media goes into denial hyper-spin, the public and greens are making a difference. You’ll hear about the victories over insane expansion of coal-fired power plants in the United States. It’s …
The Copenhagen climate conference, known as COP 15, was one of the most complex in the world. Thousands of delegates, from almost 200 countries. The bureaucrats, the heads of state. Thousands more from NGO’s – plus up to a hundred thousand protesters. Multi …
Everything in the techno-capitalist society forms us into separate atoms. We demand our own space, travel in personal metal boxes, and struggle as individuals. When disaster strikes, hardly anyone remembers how to respond. How will your community react to a major threat? Will …
Obviously it’s pointless. We are doomed. Or it that just a frightened voice inside, knowing what we know? Social failure rears it’s ugly head, as half million more Americans, and countless millions more around the world, head home, if they have one. You …
It is already too late to stop rampant climate change? An emailed blog posting asks: “Do we just enjoy the time we have left?” Scientist James Lovelock thinks so. He wanted the sub-title of his new book “Vanishing Gaia” changed from “Final Warning” …
This program explores how green leaders are converting to climate activism. And how you can move from spectator to citizen action. You’ll hear Forest Ethics co-Founder Tzeporah Berman in a moving speech, going to a new climate group Power Up Canada. United Church …
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. Today you’ll hear two green broadcasters meet on air. Matt and Alex ask how cities can work in the climate energy crunch. Should you get out – and what can we learn from the back-to-the-land movement of the late …
As the world economy crumbles, a combination of corporate high finance is moving to consolidate power – as they do in any emergency. Naomi Klein explains her new book “Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” – in the light of our current …