This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith with eye-popping headlines on the triple crisis: Peak Oil, climate change, and economic collapse. While America basks in Obama, Europe quietly fell further apart over the week-end. On Martin Luther King Day, the British government announced …
Can a city really work without oil? How will we ever make the transition? I’m Alex Smith for Radio Ecoshock – and you are in for a treat. Professor Peter Newman has designed public transport in Australia, and studied sustainable cities all over …
The new science is rolling in from England, Australia, and the American Geophysical Union conference. The news isn’t chilling – it’s heating and it’s very scary. To cover it, we interview two top people in the field. We open with David Spratt, co-author …
All the tunes we’ve used on Radio Ecoshock – full versions and how to contact the artists. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB (click title above – recommended) or Lo-Fi 14 MB After all the words, of scientists and activists, it’s time to …
Forget Madoff. Wall St. is the giant Ponzi scheme. The former NASDAQ Chairman and investing icon Bernard Madoff admits he ran a giant investment scam that lost $50 billion. Everyone, the wealthiest and wise, were taken in. Even the Rothschilds were hit, not …
1. Testimony to Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming Dec 9. On auto bail-out & real future of green transpo. Clips from Chairman Ed Markey, Member Jay Inslee, plus testimony from Joan Claybrook of the watchdog group Public Citizen (founded by …
As #1 supplier of oil to USA, Canada’s tar sands kill the environment, locals, and pollute the world’s atmosphere. Canada can never control its emissions with this giant carbon smokestack to the sky. Now they want to make the damage five times greater. …
It’s the double whammy: the economy and the climate crash at the same time. Outgoing President Bush is exercising his scorched Earth policy on BOTH, as he slides out the door. This is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. The news is pouring in …
We open up this program with a classic 1946 quote from U.S. President Harry Truman. Old Harry begs Americans to save scraps of bread to help feed the starving overseas. We haven’t heard much of that recently, although an estimated 860 million something …
With the excitement of elections and a crumbling economy, who cares if ocean life is being killed off? Jeff Hutchings does – even if the government is ignoring his warnings. Jeff is the Chair of the committee advising Canada on endangered species. And …
As government and corporate governance fails, we need a wide-spread social movement to address climate change, peak oil, and extinction. Where is it? How does it start? Tom Hayden witnessed the beginning of a dozen social movements. We gather his insight from a …
Dr. Paul Ehrlich is our feature speaker this week on Radio Ecoshock. His 1968 book “The Population Bomb” awoke the world to the ecological and social threats behind exploding human population. Since then, Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne have published dozens of …