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 …
Helen Caldicott’s new broadcast/podcast program #1. Hands up everyone who wants to hear about nuke reactor safety….. Nobody? Perfect. That’s just the way the nuclear industry wants it – as they plan a new “renaissance” of reactor construction as a “solution” to climate …
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 …
Even President George Bush admits we are addicted to oil. But what does that really mean? THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTION Dr. Bruce Alexander, a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Canada, is a pioneer researching addiction. His ideas are so unconventional, he …
This week’s program begins with a quick review of planet-shaking news. Then, we go to the book launch of “Transportation Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil” The authors are Richard Gilbert & Anthony Perl. I recorded that on March 18th, in Vancouver, …
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 …
How will we live as oil declines – and the price keeps going up? In our previous program, we ran the first hour of a speech by James Howard Kunstler, given as the first visiting scholar to the Urban Studies Program at Simon …
James Howard Kunstler lecture as 1st visiting scholar to Simon Fraser Urban Studies 080124 From the Long Emergency to new measures after Peak Oil. The best speech of the year so far. Why the housing boom will not return, and what that means …