QUICK GUIDE AND LINKS – RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAM June 6, 2008 Voices on this program: ANTHONY PERLE Simon Fraser University Urban Studies Program, Co-author of “Transport Revolution” Download that book launch speech Here. Download 20 minute presentation at “Our Transportation Future” 080522 Here. …
Those are the choices. CONNECTIONS FOR THIS WEEK’S RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOWWeek of May 30th, 2008 Guest: Michael T. Klare (new book “Rising Powers, Shrinking World”)Listen to the Ecoshock Klare interview here.(http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Klare_RisingPowers_LoFi.mp3)Read his blog at http://www.tomdispatch.com Space For Peace activist Bruce GagnonListen to the …
Is it just me… or is the world falling apart? The Radio Ecoshock Show 080516 Worried? Need a hole to hide in? All through Western history, the human herd has reached panic points. Civilization was expected to end. And sometimes it did. In …
Polluted cities kills hundreds of thousands. Under-reported plague from vehicle emissions. 2 interviews. We are honored to have as a guest on this weeks’ show: Dr. Joel Schwartz, Harvard’s top expert on air pollution. I discuss Dr. Schwartz’ testimony to Congress in late …
This week we dig into the Wall Street Mess. Are we headed into the next Great Depression? We’ll talk to a Finance Campaigner at the Rainforest Action Network, to see how they fought some big bankers, and won. That interview with Matt Leonard …
Why have all the political climate plans failed so badly? Targets are set, with big announcements, and yet greenhouse gas emissions just keep going up, and up. Canada’s Professor Mark Jaccard has developed scientific models, to study how governments cope with the climate …
The report is called “Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential” It’s from Greenpeace International. We have with us one of the authors, Dr. Pete Smith from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Dr. Smith was also a lead …
Sir David King warns we are headed toward a hot-state planet, not seen since 55 million years ago (when life huddled on Antarctica). The only way out, he says, is a binding international agreement by 2009. Even so, we only have a window …
[In Blogger, to hear the show, click the title above.] When we purchase carbon offsets, or companies claim to be “carbon neutral” – are we kidding ourselves? In the first of a two-part radio series, we look at one of the best-known “green” …
[Click on the title above to hear the 9 minute podcast] America is the largest single cause of climate change. So says one of the government’s top scientists, James Hansen of NASA in a hard-hitting speech given February 20th in New York. The …
Click the title above to hear my 12 minute summary on global drying news. Don’t get me wrong. The science says that a warmer world will hold more water vapor in the atmosphere. And water vapor is also a potent greenhouse gas itself! …
Click the title above to hear an 11 minute interview with Dr. Andrew Weaver, lead author of the “future predictions” section of the IPCC report released in February in Paris. We discuss the role of scientists, and the reliability of the future predictions …