Radio Ecoshock takes on the financial crash, funding for green jobs instead of banksters, and youth organizing to get green back in the elections. We start with a brand new interview with independent journalist Mike Whitney. He’s been writing searing articles (for the …
A double-header, with two “don’t miss it” interviews. We start out with Dr. Peter Ward author of the revolutionary climate book “Under A Green Sky.” Peter has just returned from an exploratory trip in Australia, and will head to Antarctica later this year. …
Crappy summer weather? August was more like November for many across Canada, while the U.S. South was battered by heavy storms, with more to come. But it isn’t just “bad weather”. Two scientists from the UK and the U.S. have published a paper …
Ecoshock Show 080815 Top IPCC organizer & U of Arizona Professor Jonathan Overpeck speech at Washington U. given on April 1st, 2008. After updating the world climate report, Overpeck predicts climate impacts on North America. His focus, on the two worst climate problems …
Ecoshock Show 080808 Guest host KMO from C-Realm podcast interviews David M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA Langley Research Center. Lots of doom, but really good solutions too. Thanks to KMO for sharing this rare interview. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or …
Ecoshock Show 080801 Surf is up and the heat is on. We begin with a review of the UK climate activist scene. Hear a representative of “Rising Tide” describe British climate protests, including boarding coal trains headed for a massive polluting power station. …
Ecoshock Show 080725 How can we face it? 2 interviews: Pulitzer prize winner Catherine Ellison, and climate/nuclear historian Spencer Weart. Catherine Ellison is one of America’s top reporters. She caught me attention again when she wrote about the difficulty of telling kids about …
Ecoshock Show 080718 Speech by top climate/economic adviser to new Australian government, Prof. Ross Garnaut. His report is an update of the famous Stern Report in the UK – with even better accounting for China and all Asia. Professor Garnaut was the Australian …
NASA scientist James Hansen shakes up Capitol Hill (and the media) with explosive testimony to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate Change. For one thing, he thinks oil industry executives who purposely (and secretly) fund groups to confuse the public about …
Dmitry Orlov interview. Author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects.” Orlov compares end of Soviet & American empires. His advice for Presidential candidates, as oil era ends is priceless. Hear about “The Collapse Party” platform…. We run a clip from …
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. …
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 …