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 …
Sir David King warns we are headed toward a hot-state planet, not seen since 55 million years ago (when life huddled on Antarctica). The only way out, he says, is a binding international agreement by 2009. Even so, we only have a window …
[Click on the title above to hear the 9 minute podcast] America is the largest single cause of climate change. So says one of the government’s top scientists, James Hansen of NASA in a hard-hitting speech given February 20th in New York. The …