Are you trying harder and harder to get things done? Stop it. Stop right now, and enjoy your life. You might live longer, and help save the planet as well. That’s the message from Cecile Andrews, author of “Slow Is Beautiful”. Her book …
Coming up on Radio Ecoshock – hot from Copenhagen, American energy – and the destruction of Africa. Two continents adrift in hard choices. We know climate change is upon us. It’s just a matter of how fast, and how bad. The struggle stretches …
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. This week’s program is about schizophrenia: the state of hoping the system will crash before it kills the planet, while counting on all the usual creature comforts of home, jobs, and a well-stocked supermarket. Yes, I know the Western …
Bill Rees, originator of the ecological footprint, says we are already into overshoot. We can plan to reduce our use of Earth’s resources, or plunge through a series of disasters. Full keynote speech from “Resilient Cities” 091021 plus Q and A with Warren …
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 …
They’re on practically every corner. Some people feel nervous at the gas pump. Others are outraged. Everybody knows prices are going nowhere but up. Did you know a gallon of gas weighs about 6 pounds – or 2.7 kilos? Almost all of it …
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 …
News can be a poison sometimes. Newspaper owners learned years ago that people buy frightening headlines. The motto of TV news: if it bleeds, it leads. The most horrific stories get top billing. We all need to turn away from time to time, …
[Opening clip: I just want to get a megaphone, and yell to people entering the Mall “It isn’t in there.”] That is Cecile Andrews – and she’s right. Happiness is not in the shopping mall, never was. I’m Alex Smith, this is Radio …
This is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. The bad news just keeps on coming. Just as America began to recognize torture, swine flu wipes away the slate. Everybody just wants to talk about pandemic. We know pandemics will come. More than half the …
American cities in decay. Refugees not from New Orleans after Katrina. This is a different kind of Hurricane. A trifecta of climate change, high oil prices and the real estate bubble leaves abandoned holes from Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and beyond. I’m Alex Smith, …
You have just heard rioting hit the central banks of London during the G20 conference, set to Dirty Town from Mother Mother. This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith. The world is quietly burning with discontent as corporate schemes go bad. Industry and …