Studies show humans rate driving and commuting as the most stressful time every day. They are not aware of the harmful fumes filling the car. Or the carbon pouring up into the atmosphere. As times get hotter, they crank up the air-conditioning, burning …
Don’t you hate it when a shadow comes into another nice day? All my weather worries are far away. The East Coast is grumbling under more snow. The deep South may be freezing the Canadian “Snow Birds.” There is another crazy cyclone over …
The majority of humans on Earth are likely unaware that their 193 governments met in Cancun Mexico in December 2010. Their goal was to agree on ways to save the planet’s climate from a brutal catastrophe. Did anything happen? It depends on who …
Avocados from South America. Apples from New Zealand, instead of the next valley. Industrially-grown carrots with no taste, no vitamins, but a microscopic coating of carcinogenic pesticides. Meanwhile we are paving over the nearby farms, leaving our cities utterly dependent on global corporations. …
RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOW 101126 It has come to my attention that last week’s show was a bit of a downer, leaving some listeners depressed. A scientist showing a savage economic collapse in a red-hot world by 2100. And a food expert predicting global …
This week on Radio Ecoshock – we give it all. There are two hot interviews. Julian Cribb tell us about his new book “The Coming Famine. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It.” I had a major realization …
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I’ve got two tasty speeches for you: why the billionaires are taking over, and what we can do about it. A quick note on this week’s program. More than half of Radio Ecoshock listeners are American. Although we do …
There is optimism – and then there’s the facts. Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. We have a triple-header for you this week. The Watchman is going to rattle out danger – with a brain wave escape hatch – as I interview California author Rebecca …
This week on Radio Ecoshock – the losing game. One in seven Americans are now officially poor. Millions are losing their homes. The “Recovery” was just a fantasy: if we all believed hard enough – the empty shell economy could stumble on forever. …
The deadly culture of cars and air-conditioning. Radio Ecoshock Show September 10th, 2010 GO STRAIGHT TO SHOW TRANSCRIPT with all the links. The program begins with a reading from “Autogeddon” by Heathcote Williams. That was a quote from the long poem “Autogeddon” written …
Radio Ecoshock Show September 3rd, 2010 GO STRAIGHT TO THE TRANSCRIPT, with lots of links and downloads. [Radio show starts with a clip from “Fire” by Arthur Brown, 1968][plus news radio clips…] Welcome back to Radio Ecoshock. Thanks to the 22 college and …
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, …