“How Will We know the crisis has arrived?” The signs are all around us. You know what I’m talking about. As our first guest Ellen Laconte says right on the book cover: “Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once – and …
Welcome to Earthbeat and Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith. In this show, you will learn how to slash your carbon emissions, while gaining energy independence – hearing from people who do it now. As climate, peak oil, and economy crash into a perfect …
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 …
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock, and a special welcome to Earthbeat listeners. This is Alex Smith. We’ve been broadcasting to college and community radio stations for over 5 years. Now I’m filling in for Earthbeat host Daphne Wysham while that great American green radio …
Worried about high oil prices and exploding nuclear plants? Carry on shoppers, because we’ve found gold right under our feet – a bonanza of natural gas. Yes, fracking will fill your tank, heat your house, and light up the streets for another 100 …
In the age of Fukushima. Past the time of dead terrorists and Royal Weddings. Underlying deadly storms and higher food prices, we continue our relentless carbon war against the atmosphere and the sea. In this Radio Ecoshock program 5 guests take us through …
LINKS TO FULL BILL MCKIBBEN SPEECH IN VANCOUVER BELOW… This is Alex Smith, and I have a problem. Important news continues to pour out of the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, along with radiation reaching my home here on the West …
Do you get the feeling it is all unwinding, faster and faster? High prices for gas and food, new war and revolution, and nuclear fear. Even the Earth feels unstable, the times untrustworthy. We need professional help, and we get it in this …
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 …
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 …
The majority of humans on Earth are likely unaware that their 193 governments met in Cancun Mexico in December 2010. Their goal was to agree on ways to save the planet’s climate from a brutal catastrophe. Did anything happen? It depends on who …
A physicist, a leading expert on clean energy and climate, he was an advisor in the Clinton Administration. His book “Hell and High Water” becomes too true daily. Time Magazine called him “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger” . Dr. Joseph Romm’s “Climate …