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Unburnable: Risky Fossil Fuel Investments Vs. Climate...
Two new reports say climate change could cause the next financial crisis. From London, Bob Ward, LSE lead author of "Unburnable: Carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets." From Australia's Climate Institute, John Connor on coal's risky future. Plus Nancy LaPlaca: why does sunny Arizona burn so much coal? Radio Ecoshock 130515 1 hour. Could climate change bring us the next financial crisis? Yes indeed, say two new reports. We'll go London to get the low-down on the new report from the...
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Fracking: Sacrifice Zones of the American West
Fracking: Sacrifice Zones of the American West. What can other countries expect? Four voices from the Bakken shale lands. Polluting oil & gas extraction impacts in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana & North Dakota. The dark side of the fracking boom. Radio Ecoshock 130508 1 hour http://tinyurl.com/cgkhq8s INTRODUCTION: FRACKING HELL Tonight and tomorrow, gas flares burn over the dry and dryer lands of the Western United States. There is a fracking boom exploding rock ten thousand feet down, and...
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The Age of Super Fires
The new age of super fires in N. America, Europe, Australia, Asia. Silviculturalist John Betts explains strange unstoppable forest fires. Then Nicole Rycroft, Exec Dir of enviro group "Canopy". Why they quit talks with industry, as logging ravages the Canadian Boreal forest. Plus MD Donald B. Louria says loss of faith in the future can kill. Radio Ecoshock 130501 1 hour. Listen to/download this Radio Ecoshock Show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Listen to/Dowload the John Betts...
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Burying the Future: Tars Sands, Pipelines, & Melting...
Canadian scientist Paul Beckwith explains how the Arctic warming emergency is changing your weather. But first, the story of an anti-pipeline media warrior, John Bolenbaugh in his own words. The leaks, scandals and deaths behind Tar Sands pipelines. Radio Ecoshock 130424 1 hour. LISTEN TO/DOWNLOAD THIS RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOW in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Listen to/download the John Bolenbaugh interview (27 minutes) in CD Quality or Lo-Fi Listen to/download the Paul Beckwith interview...
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Coping: Climate Anxiety. Preparing: Dehydrating Food
How to cope with climate despair. UK psychotherapist & co-founder of Carbon Conversations, Rosemary Randall. Then a practical alternative to industrial food: learn to dehydrate in season with traditional cooking expert Wardeh Harmon. Radio Ecoshock 130417 1 hour. Listen to/download this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Listen to/download my interview with Wardeh Harmon on food dehydration (23 min) in CD Quality or Lo-Fi Listen to/download the Rosemary Randall...
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Green Seas, Good Food, Bad Numbers
Serial climate hacker Russ George's office raided. Nick Saul takes food banks to a whole new level - feeding citizens during tough times. UC Berkeley political scientist Dr. Martha Campbell - how economists & women's advocates helped enable the next population explosion. Radio Ecoshock 130410 1 hour. FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS FOR THIS SHOW Listen to/download this Radio Ecoshock show 1 hour in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Listen to/download the Nick Saul interview (26 min 30 sec) in CD...
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Green Medley: Climate, Population, Off-Grid
American scientist Virginia Burkett: violent weather threats to coastal energy. Activist Dave Foreman on population & immigration. Sheri Koones "Prefabulous & Almost Off-Grid" green building. Radio Ecoshock 130403 1 hour. FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS Listen to/download this "Green Medly" Radio Ecoshock in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Listen to/download the Virginia Burkett interview in CD Quality or Lo-Fi Listen to/download the Dave Foreman interview in CD Quality or Lo-Fi Listen to/download...
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From Growing Greens to Fukushima
Expert urban gardening tips from John Kohler, host of popular "Growing Your Greens" channel on You tube. Then speech by Dr. Helen Caldicott March 12, 2013 on medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Radio Ecoshock 130327 1 hour FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS FROM THIS PROGRAM Listen to/download this Radio Ecoshock Show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Listen to/download Helen Caldicott's speech (31 minutes; edited for radio) from the New York City Fukushima...
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Deadly Myths of Fukushima
Selections from symposium "The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident" New York March 11-12 by Helen Caldicott Foundation & Physicians for Social Responsibility. It isn't over. Danger to women, children, wildlife. Radio Ecoshock 130320 1 hour. Download/listen to the Radio Ecoshock show in CD quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) POISONED FLAG Last week I sent out by podcast a pathetic audio press conference from the New York City symposium. I called it "Poisoned...
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Citizens Lobby with Life on the Brink
Life on the Brink ...approaching the vanishing point for climate hope. As emissions hit new record, Citizens Climate Lobby Exec. Dir. Mark Reynolds teaches people to lobby the government for sane policy, like Hansen's "Tax and Dividend". Philip Cafaro on new book "Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation." Radio Ecoshock 130313 1 hour. FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS Listen to/download this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Listen to/download the Mark Reynolds...
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Growing Food Indoors Under Lights
From herbs to food under new high tech, low-energy lighting. Inventor Philip Be'er. We can lower emissions by growing our own. Plus small scale farmer, author & anthropologist Walter Haugen. Song by Australian band Pagan Love Cult. Radio Ecoshock 130306 Part of doing right, is cutting out the big agri-food machine that is killing people, the soil, and the atmosphere. In this week's program, we'll consider a late winter remedy: growing food under lights. Our guest is Philip Be'er. We start...
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How Will We Power the Future?
In-depth interview with Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin on his book "Powering the Future: How We Will Eventually Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow." Dr. Rose M. Cory's new science on positive feedback loop discovered in the melting Arctic. Plus song "No Such Thing As Waste" by Australia's Formidable Vegetable Sound System. Radio Ecoshock 130227 FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS FOR THIS PROGRAM Download/listen to Radio Ecoshock 130207 "How Will We Power the Future?" in CD...
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Survivor Soul Food
African American culinary historian Michael W. Twitty interviewed by Gerri Williams on black crops, climate change, & safe seeds. K. Rashid Nuri from Truly Living Well urban farm in Atlanta, Georgia. Music by Mavis Staples ("Down in Mississippi") & Memphis Gold ("Mississippi Flatlands"). Radio Ecoshock 1 hour 130220 DOWNLOAD THESE FREE MP3 AUDIO FILES: All I ask, please help when you can, with a donation or subscription to Radio Ecoshock. The helps pay not just for production, but the tens...
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Living on The Edge
Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, is the father of "biodiversity". He advises Presidents and the World Bank. Thomas Lovejoy visits Radio Ecoshock. Next science vs. spirituality with Dr. Carolyn Baker She says: go positive in a negative world. Alex investigates why millions of people in America, Europe & Australia can't come up with $500 (300 Pounds). Song "Mother Nature" by Kukulcan. Radio Ecoshock 130213 Radio Ecoshock, living on the edge. FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS THIS WEEK RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOW in CD Quality...
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Has The World Gone Crazy, Or Is It Just Me?
Journalist and scientist Andrew Freedman: what new science is saying about freaky 2013 weather. Plus Dr. Kathy McMahon "the Peak Oil Shrink." Kathy tells us about Nicole Foss, "sucky collapse", and a surprising turn in her own life. Radio Ecoshock 130206 Remember normal winters? Actually, anyone under the age of 26 has never seen one. Maybe we thought global warming would just add a bit more slush. But January 2013 showed us what "climate disruption" can really do. One January day, people in...
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A Warning From the Future
Coming up in this program: leading scientist Dr. David Karoly says record heat and fires in Australia are a warning to the world. But we are not alone in the big change. Insects may adapt or die faster than humans, as told by "the bug guy", University of Maryland's Dr. Michael Raup. Then Steven Davis explains why climate solutions advanced just 9 years ago are no longer possible. A new report says existing technology is not enough to stem the climate tide. Now what? Welcome to another full...
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Can We Avoid A Collapse?
Population Bomb author Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich on his Royal Society Paper Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? From Tasmania, forest expert Dr. David Bowman: wild fires drive more global warming. Economist John Talberth suing the U.S. Government over risky ocean oil leases in the Arctic. Three interviews from a world of trouble. Radio Ecoshock 130123 FREE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS PROGRAM Listen to/download this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14...
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Why Is the Economy Shrinking? - Richard Heinberg
Endless growth is a delusion with consequences...The spiral of climate change, peak energy, and economic crisis, with author Richard Heinberg. Fresh interview on giant new book "Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth". Followed by speech to Chicago Bioneers "Life After Growth: Why the Economy Is Shrinking and What to Do About It”. Radio Ecoshock 130116 Download/listen to this Radio Ecoshock show (1 hour) in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Download/listen to Richard...
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Burning the Future
Fires in Tasmania, typhoons in the Philippines, Mexican coal criminals - another work week for Radio Ecoshock. Environmental journalist for the Nation, Mark Hertsgaard on book "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth". Robert M. Hirsch of U.S. Geological Survey on real cause of floods. Radio Ecoshock 130109 1 hour.Download/listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)Download/listen to the Mark Hertsgaard interview only in CD Quality or...
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Dragging Hope from the Mess
After a look at weird weather around the world, passionate pleas from people victimized by nuke waste & plutonium. Recorded at NIRS Conference Chicago 121201. Then Your Environmental Road Trip film director Ben Evans on great solutions found at the grass roots. Radio Ecoshock 130102 FREE AUDIO DOWNLOADS Listen to/download this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality 56 MB Or try the faster downloading, lower quality Lo-Fi version(14 MB) You can listen to/download just the nuclear segment here in...
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BURNING THE FUTURE
Download/listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) Download/listen to the Mark Hertsgaard interview only in CD Quality or Lo-FiDownload/listen to the Robert Hirsch interview only in CD Quality or Lo-Fi
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Annual Ecoshock Green Music Festival 2012
The Radio Ecoshock annual best of Green music festival. Eclectic mix of voices found or sent in by the artists, mood music for a climate-safe, species-friendly world. Radio Ecoshock 121229 1 hour. Download in CD Quality (56 MB) recommended for this music show. If you are on a slow connection, you can use this lower quality Lo-Fi version (14 MB) ****Welcome to the annual Radio Ecoshock Green Music Festival. All year people send in their favorites, and even original recordings direct from the...
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Climate: Arctic Thermostat Blows Up
The Arctic thermostat for the world is broken, with record heat & emissions in 2012. Four speakers from Arctic Methane Emergency group film: Peter Wadhams, James Hansen, Natalia Shakhova, and David Wasdell. Plus interview with AMEG member Paul Beckwith from University of Ottawa. How polar ice-melt derails climate of Northern Hemisphere, heading for uncontrollable heating. Radio Ecoshock 121219 1 hour. FREE AUDIO DOWNLOADS FROM THIS WEEK'S SHOW Download/listen to the show in CD Quality (56...
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Victory Gardens Past and Future (with LaManda Joy)
Food prices are rising due to climate, peak oil & poor economy. Best time to start your city on Victory Gardens. Speech by LaManda Joy to Great Lakes Bioneers tells how. With intro on food prices in Canada, UK, Australia, USA, clips from WWII garden propaganda. Radio Ecoshock 121212 1 hour in CD Quality (56 MB) or faster downloading Lo-Fi (14 MB) If you eat food, maybe you've noticed groceries costs more and more. Well stock up now, food inflation is just ramping up. It's not just the extra...
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Climate: On the Road to Extinction?
Are we on the road to climate extinction? Dr. Guy McPherson lays out the case in this speech at Bluegrass Bioneers in Kentucky. Then the World Bank says "Turn Down the Heat". Daphne Wysham on their coal addiction, and Olivia Maria Serdeczny from the Potsdam Institute in Germany, authors of the report for the Bank. Is collapse our best way out of a Hellish future? Radio Ecoshock 121205 Download or listen to the Radio Ecoshock show for this week (1 hour) in CD Quality (56 MB) Or try the faster...
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The C.I.A., Nigeria and Germany
Three stories, 3 hosts, 3 continents. Professor John D. Steinbruner on a new report to the C.I.A. about disruptive climate change. Ecoshock's Gerri Williams with Jonathan Kaufman, EarthRights International. Why do big oil companies pay for spills in developed countries, and get away with murder in Nigeria? From Berlin, Daphne Wysham with expert Hans Verholme: the fantastic growth of renewable energy in Germany. Radio Ecoshock 121128 1 hour. LISTEN TO OR DOWNLOAD THESE FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS FOR...
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Kevin Anderson: What They Won't Tell You About Climate...
Scientists and officials are not telling the public the awful truth: we are hurtling toward catastrophic climate change. A review, summary and critique of an earth-breaking speech by Prof. Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre in Britain. Speaking to the Cabot Institute in Bristol November 6th, Anderson told the sold-out crowd our future is not possible. Radio Ecoshock 121114 1 hour. Professor Kevin Anderson Are the climate deniers right? Are some scientists colluding with...
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Dirty Overload - Overpopulation to the Tar Sands
Film-maker Mike Freedman says we've hit "Critical Mass" toward extinction by over-population. Bill McKibben tells me why everybody in the world needs to battle the Tar Sands. Council of Canadians founder Maude Barlow links dirty energy to dirty politics. And native leader Caleb Behn on his fracked land, poisoned lives, and linking up around the world. With previews from film "Fractured Land". Radio Ecoshock 121121 FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS FOR THIS PROGRAM Radio Ecoshock show November 21st, in CD...
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Ravaging Tide or Renewable World?
SUMMARY: Can big cities like New York or Washington protect against storm surge and rising seas? Three interviews. Mike Tidwell, author of "The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities." Professor J. Court Stevenson, University of Maryland, on city surge defenses around the world. Daphne Wysham interviews German Green Parliamentarian Hermann Ott: leading the way to renewables before climate collapse. Radio Ecoshock 121107 1 hour. FREE...
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Sandy: Storms in the Emergency Room
Storms in the Emergency Room - Hurricane Sandy, coal & nukes - it's not pretty. From D.C. as storm hits, Earthbeat's Daphne Wysham on the climate connection. From Australia, Greenpeace's Georgina Woods on huge coal expansion. Then a Canadian plan to dump nuclear waste right next to Lake Huron & world's biggest running reactor. Radio Ecoshock 121031 1 hour Download/listen in CD Quality (54 MB) Or the faster downloading, lower quality Lo-Fi (14 MB) MUSIC THIS SHOW: clips from:"Secrets" by...
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Ocean Geoengineering: Serial Climate Hacking
Serial climate hacker Russ George (Planktos) leads indigenous villagers to dump iron into the sea - a secret geoengineering project off Canada's West Coast. Press conference statements by the Haida Old Massett Village Chief, interview with Living Oceans' Karen Wristen, Russ George clips from interview by Guardian's Martin Lukacs. Radio Ecoshock 121024 1 hour. Here are the audio files for this week's program: CD quality (56 MB) Lo-Fi (faster download, lower quality, most popular, 14 MB) AUDIO...
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Covert Geoengineering & Women Against Tar Sands
Jim Thomas of ETC Group on rogue geoengineering off Canada's West Coast by Russ George, former CEO of Planktos. "She Speaks: Indigenous Women Speak Out Against Tar Sands". Eriel Deranger & Freda Huson + Suzanne Dhaliwal co-founder of UK Tar Sands Network. World's most polluting project and pipelines threaten rivers, Great Bear Rainforest, and wild West coast. Radio Ecoshock 121017 1 hour Here is your download list for this program: Download/listen to full 1 hour program in CD Quality (56 MB)...
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FOOD AND REVOLUTION
Three guests. Rob Stewart, Director of movie "Sharkwater" and now his latest "Revolution" - is the ocean dying? An international media briefing by Lester Brown of Earth Policy Institute about rising food prices his new book "Full Planet, Empty Plates". Wes Regan on urban farming in the poorest neighborhood in Canada. Radio Ecoshock 121010 Download/listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD quality 56 MB. Download/listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in Lo-Fi 14 MB. Coming up this week: an...
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Tough Transition
From "The Farm" in Summertown, Tennessee, deep green thinker and activist Albert Bates on Tough Transition. Then one of the pioneers of localization and sustainable community, Dr. Mark Roseland. Alex reports on new ocean/climate movie to save... us. Rob Stewart's film "Revolution". Radio Ecoshock 121003. Download 1 hour program in CD Quality (56 MB) or faster download/lower quality Lo-Fi (14MB) This week we're still talking about social change to save the environment and ourselves. From...
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Transition Yourself
Ideas from America on starting a Transition Town. Ruah Wennerfelt, Steve Chase & host Mark Helpsmeet in live stage conversation. Plus Greg Pahl, author of "Power from the People, How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects." Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert on corporate corruption. Music: "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel. Radio Ecoshock 120926 1 hour. The climate has gone rogue, energy prices are threatening, and the economy sucks. You know the elections aren't going to make it...
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Heading to Air Conditioned Hell
Who knew air conditioning could add another 20% to the world's emissions? High power use and nasty refrigerants. Stan Cox, author of "Losing Our Cool". Guus Velders, Netherlands Environment Agency, expert on ozone and climate. Michael Sivak, U. of Michigan, on global expansion of air conditioning. Music: "Mercy" by The Dave Matthews Band. Radio Ecoshock 120919 1 hour. Download this show CD Quality mp3 (56 MB) Download this show in Lo-Fi mp3 (14 MB) Stage one: the Earth gets hotter and...
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ARCTIC MELT DOWN Scientists Speak Out
In 2012, the Arctic Sea Ice hit a stunning new record low. Rutgers scientist Jennifer Francis explains how this changes weather for billions of people in the Northern Hemisphere. Plus the Director of the Snow and Ice Data Center, Mark Serreze on record and what it means, and analysis from polar scientist Cecelia Bitz, U of Washington. In depth, direct from top scientists. Radio Ecoshock 120912 1 hour. DOWNLOAD/LISTEN TO THE WHOLE RADIO ECOSHOCK ARCTIC ICE MELT SPECIAL (1 HOUR) CD QUALITY...
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Looking for an End
MP3 FORMATWaiting for a resolution to the triple crisis of climate, energy and the economy? Alex interviews Gareth Renowden, co-host of New Zealand's "The Climate Show" on the big stories. From Beijing, Li Yan, Greenpeace East Asia climate coordinator, on China's emissions and coal dependence. Plus "Tip of the Iceberg News" points you to important blog posts and audio you may have missed. Music from Deva Prewal. Radio Ecoshock 120905 1 hour.Welcome back to another season of Radio Ecoshock!...
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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
Has environmentalism failed? If so, what do we do next? That's the question faced by three panelists, former Ecologist magazine deputy editor Paul Kingsnorth from the UK; American deep green activist and writer Lierre Keith; and eco-philosopher David Abram. The host of this web conference is Erik Hoffner of Orion magazine. In this week's program, three deep green activists ask and answer the perennial question: what are we supposed to do in a world hell-bent on destroying Nature. We are...
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What If the Permafrost Thaws?
http://bit.ly/L0DzFo There is more carbon frozen in far North than in all living things & the atmosphere. It has begun to thaw. Interview with Prof. Antoni Lewkowitcz and Academy of Science speech by Dr. Charles Koven. Radio Ecoshock 120530 1 hour. Gas pipelines in Siberia are rising out of the ground, while in Alaska oil pipelines sag. Houses and factories built on permafrost are tipping. Evergreens are slanting in so-called "drunken forests". Under the whole north, land is becoming...
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Why Are Forests Dying?
http://bit.ly/J1iHNJ Forests around the world are dying from insects, fungus, drought, heat. Drivers are climate change & ozone pollution. New Jersey activist Gail Zawacki on ozone damage to trees, crops & our lungs. University of Illinois scientist Lisa Ainsworth on FACE CO2 impacts study. A startling documentary from the public broadcaster ABC Australia explores dying forests. It is happening around the world, in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and all down the West Coast of North...
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Is It Too Late for Environmentalism?
http://bit.ly/K0hULKPeak oil, the energy crisis and the "climate hurricane" with expert Robert Rapier. Then green law professor Michael M'Gonigle explains "Exit Environmentalism" - leaving the old campaigns, and maybe society, behind. Radio Ecoshock 120509 1 hour.Give up hope and exit out of environmentalism? In the UK, deep greener Paul Kingsnorth says he's leaving the climate movement, which is lost anyway. Who else is on the way out the door?This week we'll hear a challenging interview...
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IT'S WRONG TO WRECK THE WORLD
http://bit.ly/JT8ingFrom Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore delivers an artful talk about our attack on Nature, and hope of reviving love instead. Recorded in Vancouver. With readings from her work original songs by Libby Roderick and Tempting Eve.I record a lot of speeches, and listen to many more. This talk by Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore of Oregon State University is one of the best speeches of 2012.The title was "It's Wrong to Wreck the World: Climate Change and the Moral...
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The Beginning of The End
http://bit.ly/IEik8wEconomic collapse will come before peak oil or climate disruption, says investment guru Chris Martenson, author of "Crash Course". Matthew Stein, author of "When Technology Fails" explains how a solar flare could cripple society and set off 400 Chernobyls - and how we could fix it. Alex rants against 2012 mythology. Radio Ecoshock 120425 1 hour.Sorry, it's a long blog this week. Blame it on our guests - they had too many good things to say!If you want to quickly...
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Fire! In A Crowded World
http://bit.ly/JfocDr Wild fires from climate change cause still more warming. Three experts from American Academy for the Advancment of Science meeting February 19th recorded in Vancouver by Alex Smith. Michael Flannigan, U of Alberta on fire and climate. From UBC medical unit, Dr. Michael Brauer on health impacts and personal protection during smoke events. Tasmania's Fay Johnston' estimation of global annual deaths from landscape fire smoke. Radio Ecoshock 120418 1 hour.I've been working...
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The Worst Problems In The World
http://bit.ly/HqmRdo Could the collapse of the fuel pool at Fukushima Reactor #4 endanger the Northern Hemisphere? Nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen explains. Then a top Canadian scientist exposes a scandalous government cover-up of poisons moving from the Tar Sands to dying aboriginal people. David Schindler speech excerpts. Plus a climate rant by comedian Lee Camp. -----------------------The nuclear accident at Fukushima Japan is far from over. Three reactors continue to...
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Relapse and Recovery
http://bit.ly/HsX2ac A fresh update on Japan after the tsunami and nuclear accident with Warren Karlenzig. Is it a chance to build new green cities, or a vision of what we all face as the oil runs out? Then a quick interview with anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott, and Marsha Coleman-Adebayo at the Occupy the EPA protest in Washington. We conclude with an invitation by Susanne Moser to "get real" about our difficult future as we destabilize the climate.BACK FROM POST NUCLEAR JAPAN -...
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Summer in March
http://bit.ly/GRGbPD Summer in March? I ask the experts, Joe Romm of Climate Progress, and Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground. Then we visit with Professor Raymond De Young.When we get exciting weather, it's hard to beat the Dr. Jeff Masters blog at the Weather Underground. Jeff has taught meteorology, he's been a Hurricane Hunter for NOAA, and still watches storms and all forms of strange weather.A BUNCHA HOT MARCH LINKS FOR YOUHere is a link to Jeff's key blog post on "Summer in...
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Go Green Media
http://bit.ly/GJPcvJ How can we be optimistic? Publisher of The Mother Earth News, Bryan Welch. From D.C. Environmental Film Festival, Harry Lynch, Director of "Switch", Alexandra Cousteau, and Robert Cole.This week on Radio Ecoshock, we go green media. You'll hear an interview with Bryan Welch, publisher of the Mother Earth News and the Utne Reader. Then off to the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, to talk with directors and producers of the energy film "Switch" and previews of the Blue...
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Fukushima Disaster - One Year Later
http://bit.ly/wS7C5M From "Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - One Year After" nuke expert Arnold Gundersen & 2 Japanese activists from Fukushima. Radio Ecoshock 120314 Music bed credit: drums by VastmandanaOn the anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan, I am taking you with me to a heart-breaking conference organized by physicians, to assess the on-going damage.You will hear the latest from nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen, just back from Japan. He'll tell us about...
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Private Spies: WikiLeaks Outs Stratfor
http://bit.ly/Avg7gI Julian Assange of Wikileaks reveals private intel company Stratfor spying on NGO's, helping big corporations and banks with government secrets. Ecoshock 120307Today on Radio Ecoshock you will hear about the brave new world of privatization of intelligence services, global corruption, and abuse of media services for propaganda, big corporations, and private gain. This whole program lets you hear what mainstream media fails to deliver. You will hear critical excerpts...
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Free the Climate Scientists!
http://bit.ly/Ad7hzA Dr. John Mashey investigates right-wing billionaires & corporations who pay alleged "charities", bloggers, & old weathermen to deny climate science. Canadian journalist Margaret Munro on government muzzling scientists, plus update by UCS Francesca Grifo on science freedom in U.S.----------The fossil fuel industry have teamed up with very wealthy idealogues to make you doubt global warming is happening, or that we are forcing big changes in the climate.For years, we...
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ARCTIC EMERGENCY Global Threat
http://bit.ly/A2aJno Maybe we need a big burst of methane to get real climate action. Recent Russian expeditions to the Eastern Siberian coast find plumes of methane into the atmosphere. Is it worse than our own oil and coal pollution? I ask three top climate scientists: oceanographer Carlos Duarte, ice expert Peter Wadhams, and carbon-meister David Archer.------------Are you feeling lucky, Pilgrim? There is a growing wave of unease, even panic. Our fossil fuel civilization may be...
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Fracking - The Rest of the Story
http://bit.ly/yVj7Jt Gasland director Josh Fox arrested at U.S. Congress Hearing on Fracking Feb 1, 2012. Speakers Rep Harris (R-MD), Rep Miller (D-NC), Kathleen Sgamma (Industry), John Fenton (well poisoned, Pavillion Wyoming), Theo Colborne (on air pollution health impacts of fracking, for Great Lakes United NGO). Then interview with EPA whistle-blower Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, inspiration for the No Fear Act. Radio Ecoshock 120208 1 hour. In this program, you'll hear the voices of...
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Forever Planting (for Peak Oil & Climate Change)
http://bit.ly/xFN24v Speech by Wes Jackson of the Land Institute to ASPO 2011 (the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas USA) in Washington D.C. Recorded by Gerri Williams for Ecoshock. Plus, carbon-cycle Australian scientist Dr. Michael Raupach of CSIRO on carbon to soil solutions, including biochar. Radio Ecoshock 120201 1 hourPLANTING A LONG-TERM SOLUTIONWe depend utterly on fossil fuels, especially to grow our food. From natural gas comes the millions of tons of fertilizers. Oil...
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Oil to Occupy: The Restless West Coast
http://bit.ly/waNOYN "Oil Free Coast" 3 speakers against Tar Sands pipelines and tankers in Canada, including First Nations. Then on-scene audio from Occupy Wall St West in San Francisco Jan 20th. Awaiting arrest, and crowd microphones against corporate takeover.Two weeks ago on Radio Ecoshock we heard from Australia and the distant past. Last week a top British scientist warned us of super-dangerous climate change. Now we head for the restless West Coast of North America. In Canada,...
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Kevin Anderson: The Brutal Logic of Climate Change
http://bit.ly/wulkTw "The future is impossible" says Dr. Kevin Anderson, former Director of UK's top climate research institute, the Tyndall Centre. Speech in London lays out our awful tilt toward an unlivable climate. Followed by discussion with Washington's Dr. William Calvin. Welcome. I'm Alex. Are you ready for the bad news about climate change? Really?I'm going to play you a speech too awful to run during the holidays. People with clinical depression and very young children may want to...
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CLIMATE MAY FORCE HUMAN EVOLUTION
http://bit.ly/wTeVfl What caused 5 previous mass extinctions of species? Scientists say we are in the 6th one now. Australian scientist Andrew Glikson reads the past, suggests the troubled future.Dr. Andrew Glikson of Australian National University studied the rocks and the timelines. He's also an expert on asteroid hits.Glikson was the Principal Research Scientist, for the Australian geological Survey Organization. Now he works with the Australian National University, and the Planetary...
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Oil Shock - The No Growth World
http://bit.ly/zVEXwh Radio Ecoshock 120104 Oil Shock the Post-Growth World with Jeff Rubin, Charles Maxwell from ASPO 2011 and interview with Italy's Ugo Bardi on climate change vs. peak oil.The price of oil hits you at the pump, in your food bill, and everything you buy. What if you can't afford it?For years, I've covered Peak Oil as the story of a limited resource. Meanwhile, the oil industry, glutted with billions in profits, keeps drilling deeper offshore, finds more dirty oil in the Tar...
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FUKUSHIMA: TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
http://bit.ly/tEreAe Japan announces a fake "cold shutdown" & a new study says 14,000 Americans died of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident.COLD SHUTDOWN AT FUKUSHIMA - THE BIG LIEIn his infamous 1925 book "Mein Kamptf" Adolf Hitler coined the term "the big lie". This lie, he said, should be so "colossal" that no once could believe anyone quote "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."This is Alex Smith. I am sorry to report the government of Japan, the Prime...
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GREEN MUSIC FESTIVAL
http://bit.ly/rOp3k3 Welcome to our annual best of green music show. You'll hear the songs of activism, despair, and love of Mother Earth.So much "blah blah blah" in the media. All those words fill our brain, and miss our hearts.That is where the musicians step in, to move us along. I'm Alex Smith. This year we've added three songs for broken economy. You'll hear two new songs for the Occupy Movement.PLAYLIST WITH LINKS TO THE ARTISTSWe kick off with "Change Change" by the Canadian group...
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CLIMATE DOWN IN DURBAN
http://bit.ly/tFbPAQ United Nations agreement fails to protect climate. Indian analyst prefers failure to empty climate agreement at COP17 Durban Dec 2011. James Hansen at AGU San Francisco Dec 6. Durban wrap up with Janet Redman of IPS. Australian Prof. Michael Raupach on burst of new carbon & changing world. Radio Ecoshock 111214 1 hour. Diplomats from all over the world are returning home after a hard-won agreement in Durban, South Africa. They agreed to do nothing to save our climate...
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Winter Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening
http://bit.ly/w0fBnz Master winter gardener Eliot Coleman grows year round in Maine, USA. UK, guerrilla gardener Chris Tomlinson secretly plants food. "HumptyDumptyTribe" warns global famine from climate change comng soon. Winter greenhouse interview from "Locavore," with Martin Ronda at the U. of Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming. Radio Ecoshock Show 111207 1 hour.SHOW LINE UP - WITH INTERVIEW DOWNLOADS1. "Winter Gardening with Eliot Coleman" How to grow food in winter, even in...
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CLIMATE SOLUTION: FROM AIR TO SOIL
READ THE NEW ALEX SMITH INTERVIEW IN GRIST MAGAZINE.Please pass that link, or this short link http://bit.ly/rxc5lj to all your email contacts, or post it in blogs. Add it to comment sections. Help get the word out, so we can get more listeners and more stations. Radio Ecoshock is broadcast on over 50 stations now. I'm working on extending it further, with more news in coming weeks. If you pass around this Grist interview you can really help!THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM: CLIMATE SOLUTION: FROM AIR TO...
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Fracking Gas = Climate Crash
For years, governments, industry, and TV ads told us natural gas is the safe bridge fuel while we move away from dirty coal and oil.Cornell University scientist Robert Howarth wondered "Is that true?". When Howarth found no science to back up big claims for the gas industry, he and a team from Cornell went to work.The results are startling. In the short-term, escaped methane from gas fracking threaten to tip us into catastrophic climate change. The total impact of the shale gas industry may...
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5 Years to Climate Hell
BONUS AUDIO: TELECONFERENCE with Lester Brown by Earth Policy Institute (recorded by Alex Smith) Download full conference in CD quality (22 minutes) here.Welcome. This week we have a show packed with good news, horrible news, and crazy news - all about the coming climate shift.Here is a quick show overview, with more notes below.Yes, those greenie extremists say we have only five fossil polluting years left before Planet Earth is thown on an unstoppable path toward extreme climate change. Oh...
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Plane Justice - Banned In America
BONUS AUDIO THIS WEEK: The complete interview with Dan Glass, the famous "Plane Stupid" campaigner from the UK. The crazy actions that highlighted the serious impacts of expanding airports and air travel. 32 minutes Lo-Fi 7 MB.Rockin' out with the Steve Miller Band, this is Radio Ecoshock. Big old jet airliner, the magic of flying, we can fly! Humans love those roaring jets so much, we hardly notice the 5 percent boost to greenhouse gases from all the jet fuel burned.You may not love them so...
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Live From the Occupy Oakland General Strike!
Remember this?The chaotic scene in Oakland, California on the night of October 25th. Former Marine Scott Olsen received serious head injuries after being shot at very close range by police clearing the Occupy Oakland site and streets.An investigation has been called into police actions. The Mayor apologized. The injury to Olsen invigorated Occupy Wall St protesters and others around the country.The ugly violence, played out on TV's around the world, also caused other Mayors to reconsider,...
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DURBAN Conference of the Polluters
This week is our first broadcast in the UK. Join us every Tuesday Noon on Resonance 104.4 FM, London. Radio Ecoshock is now carried by 48 stations on 3 continents.This program is about the upcoming "Conference of the Polluters" in Durban, South Africa. After the disappointments of Copenhagen and Cancun, does anyone really care? Do we the have the luxury of despair, as rising greenhouse gases threaten everything we know, and coming generations?The real show at Durban, offically known as...
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HOMELESS - A Tour of Four Cities
Some of the people camped out in Occupy Wall Street have no where else to go. As reported by Associated Press, Occupy encampments from Portland, Oregon through L.A. to Atlanta are finding homeless people moving into tent cities set up by protesters.Some Occupy sites are finding bylaws written to send away the homeless are being used to prevent Consitutional rights to Freedom of Assembly and expression.Polls show millions of Americans are just one paycheck away from losing their homes. Many...
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From Occupied Territory
Happy Birthday humans! At the end of October 2011, the 7th billion person will be born on Earth. With over a billion humans already going to bed hungry every night, this may not be a blessed event.Just twelve years after we hit the 6 billion mark in 1999, it's going to a be a lot harder to look after the new arrivals. The extra billion people will find an unstable climate, declining energy and resources, and a host of other challenges.To help us sort out what it means, and what can be...
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Bastards of a Dying World
Welcome to another packed show from Radio Ecoshock!This week we cover:* behind-the-scenes panic over reports of methane blowing out of the sea-bed in the Eastern Arctic. This could dramatically increase global warming.* activist resistance against a wave of gas frackin in Australia - with a new album of great songs* a feature interview (you heard it here first) with Craig Rosebraugh on his new film about the oil giants: "Greedy Lying Bastards"* second feature interview with Peter F. Sale....
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SUDDEN & ABRUPT CHANGE
It's a fine time for bad news bears. World floods continue, this time in Asia. The Arctic has an ozone hole. Oh yeah, the global financial system is on the edge of bankruptcy.The economic system and the ecosphere are at risk of massive and abrupt change. From the popular financial blog "The Automatic Earth" writer "Ilagi" on the European banking mess, and blowback to America. Boston Globe journalist Dianne Dumanowski reads from book "The End of the Long Summer" (our former stable climate)....
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CORRUPTION OR TRUE ENERGY?
In this week's show, we hear about another huge rain disaster in Pakistan, Dengue fever panic, and how that tropical disease is coming to America, thanks to climate change. I've included a few survival tips for you.Then a full 45 minute speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the long-time "green Kennedy" and former host of the "Ring of Fire" show on the Air America network. Whether he's talking the evils of coal, or the stranglehold of corporate media on our news, Kennedy pulls no punches. It's a...
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Summer Program Alert
This is a message for radio stations and listeners of the Radio Ecoshock Show,I'm Alex Smith.You should have already received our four new programs for the month of July. They are: Kill the Car, The Myth of Industrial Forests, Oil and Coal - How Much Left, and The Machinery of Climate Denial.If you missed any of those, in a minute I'll tell you where to download them. These were posted on radio4all.net in the first week of July.While I am on vacation, Radio Ecoshock is offering 4 replay...
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Oil & Coal - How Much Is Left?
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL STATIONS AND TREASURED LISTENERS:SUMMER RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAMSI will be uploading 8 programs to Pacifica Audioport, and the publicly available radio4all.net this week, to cover my annual vacation. Load up, and you are set for the Summer. All available by Friday July 8.Podcast subscribers will receive all 8 in the next three days.Stations can also find our summer schedule, with the same programs ready for download, by Friday 8th, at our station support page:...
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The Myth of the Industrial Forest
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL STATIONS AND TREASURED LISTENERS:SUMMER RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAMSI will be uploading 8 programs to Pacifica Audioport, and the publicly available radio4all.net this week, to cover my annual vacation. Load up, and you are set for the Summer. All available by Friday July 8.Podcast subscribers will receive all 8 in the next three days.Stations can also find our summer schedule, with the same programs ready for download, by Friday 8th, at our station support page:...
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KILL THE CAR
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 more fuel.Most people will work until mid-April just to pay their car costs. That's just their personal share. More is paid by all levels of government, to keep the road network going. The auto, insurance,construction and oil gang dominate...
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NUKES, STORMS & FIGHTING BACK
Meltdowns, storms, and ships crashing together on the high seas, this is Radio Ecoshock.For the coming months, we added dozens of new college and community radio stations to this broadcast, probably taking us to 50 more stations. I'm still counting. As you may know, Daphne Wysham and her Earthbeat radio crew are taking a break, while they re-organize. Even while off-duty, the reporter in Daphne never takes a break. Later in this program you'll hear her on-the-spot recording from a...
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FLOOD FIRE WIND - Climate Shift
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock, and a special welcome to Earthbeat listeners. This is Alex Smith. We've been broadcasting to college and community radio stations for over 5 years. Now I'm filling in for Earthbeat host Daphne Wysham while that great American green radio "Earthbeat" reorganizes, and seeks new funding. Find out how you can help bring Daphne back by going to earthbeatradio.org.Meanwhile, the weird news about this Earth of ours keeps pouring in. We have a lot to cover, and some great...
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Fracking Myths & Climate Capitalism
Worried about high oil prices and exploding nuclear plants? Carry on shoppers, because we've found gold right under our feet - a bonanza of natural gas. Yes, fracking will fill your tank, heat your house, and light up the streets for another 100 years. At least that's what we've been told.A new report out from the Post Carbon Institute pokes a sharp pin in the natural gas bubble. We'll hear from energy analyst David Hughes. And in the second part of the program - a new book "Climate...
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FUKUSHIMA FACT & FANTASY
Radio Ecoshock bonus overtime feature April 29th show.Let's knock out some of the wilder stories first. I am ruling out "aliens did it", drug visions, and and astrological explanations. You can find all those on the Net.But was Fukushima made worse by a secret weapons program? Did the Americans cause this disaster with HAARP?SECRET WEAPONS PROGRAM AND FUKUSHIMAOne blogger, citing Chinese sources, says the big quake and Fukushima accident are the result of a secret Japanese nuclear weapons...
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Plutonium, more leaks, & big no-go zone - Japan
This your Radio Ecoshock update on unfolding events at the Fukushima nuclear disaster - Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #5, for Monday March 28th in North America, Tuesday in Japan.Disturbing developments continue.A full 17 days after the earthquake and tsunami shut-off power to the six reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi, and long after 3 reactor buildings blew up, the Japanese government finally announced they would test for plutonium around the plant.Reactor number 3 was burning a type of...
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Heads Up - Prepare for a Japanese Nuke Melt-down
Hello friends,You may be part of a small group of a few thousand people who receive the Radio Ecoshock podcast from ecoshock.org, or check the program blog, at ecoshock.info.This is my personal warning: the Japanese reactor disaster appears to be spinning out of control, heading toward Chernobyl levels.You should have at least two week's worth of water in your home. A month if you can.There is no way to boil radioactivity out of water. None of us has filters to remove it.We should try to...
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Navigating the Chaos - Carolyn Baker interview transcript
Do you get the feeling it is all unwinding, faster and faster? High prices for gas and food, new war and revolution, and nuclear fear. Even the Earth feels unstable, the times untrustworthy. We need professional help, and we get it in this new Radio Ecoshock interview with Dr. Carolyn Baker. Her book "Navigating the Chaos" continues to point the way to prepare, inwardly, to pick out way through land-mines like Peak Oil, climate change, and economic unraveling. A thoughtful interview, just...
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THE DISASTER CONTINUES Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #4
[RUSH TRANSCRIPT, MAY CONTAIN SPELLING ERRORS]Radio Ecoshock[Early March 21st, 2011 in North America]Now that the bombing of Libya has started, we can all forget about the on-going nuclear disaster. People are getting bored with news out of Japan. More than half the media is reporting the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Reactor is under control, or the authorities are making "good progress".Is it all over? Time to move along folks, nothing to see here. Our attention span is only about a week long...
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Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #3
Japan's nuclear crisis on Monday is now more serious than ever before.This is Alex Smith, host of the weekly program Radio Ecoshock, with Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #3, at noon Pacific Time, Monday March 14.As you know from spectacular news footage, the outer containment shell of Reactor #3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant exploded on Monday Japan time, Sunday in Europe and North America. This is the second explosion at the site, after Reactor #1 also suffered a hydrogen gas explosion...
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Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #2
This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock with Bulletin Number Two concerning the atomic emergency in Japan, following the record-breaking earthquake and tsunami in March, 2011.As of ten o'clock Pacific Time, Saturday the containment building of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor #1 has blown up. The video of a violent explosion is seen all over Network news and the Internet. Now we learn up to six Japanese nuclear reactors are out of control and in danger of melting down.The cause of the first...
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Japan Earthquake Atomic Emergency
This is Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock with a blog and audio bulletin.Japan has 24 hours to avoid a nuclear reactor melt-down.There are reports of 5 nuclear reactors damaged either by the country's largest-ever Earthquake, but also by the tsunami that followed.The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor first lost it's water cooling system, then a backup diesel generation scheme failed. Only insufficient cooling from limited-life batteries are working.Even though rods to discourage atomic activity...
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The Age of Ocean Warming
In this week's Radio Ecoshock Show we cover one of the most under-reported stories of this century: warming oceans. Up to 90 percent of the extra heat we create with rising greenhouse gas emissions is being hidden away in the world's oceans. Now they are heating up too.Warmer oceans will lead to species extinction, adding to the great extinction now happening on land. Hotter seas expand, flooding coastlines. And warming oceans guarantee our climate will continue to heat, likely for...
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Wicked Problems & Solutions
Is it time for the lifeboats? Are there any lifeboats?I'm Alex. Welcome to Radio Ecoshock.We face "wicked problems" like climate change, peak oil, or an economy depending on ... call it "make-believe" or call it "fraud". Science cannot provide the answers. Social change is required - and that calls on all of us. It requires all of our minds and passions.We'll start with a snapshot of the wicked problems we face, with one of my favorite synthesizers, Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon. He's the author...
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Oil Versus Light: the Jeremy Leggett interview transcript
SURVIVING THE TRIPLE CRUNCHAn interview with Jeremy Leggett, by Alex Smith. From the Radio Ecoshock Show Feb. 25, 2011.Alex Smith: This civilization uses oil for its blood. Almost everything we make, buy, and use has oil in it's food chain. You know that.Never mind that we are bleeding carbon into the sky and the ocean, or the developing climate shift. Even if oil was lily white, we are still running out of the cheap stuff - that we need for a global economy feeding billions of humans.And...
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Transition in America - Michael Brownlee Transcript
THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES (and “Deep Transition”)Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock interviews MICHAEL BROWNLEE on February 18, 2011. Transcript.---------------------------------Alex Smith: The Transition movement has spread from the United Kingdom to North America. Michael Brownlee is a gateway for many people discovering this new vision of living and community building. Brownlee co-founded Transition Colorado.Michael, welcome to Radio Ecoshock.Michael Brownlee: Thanks Alex,...
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TRANSITION - The West Coast Scene
Finally, a shaky roadmap toward sustainability, in troubling times. I'm Alex. This week we go for the Transition movement - West Coast style. What started with Rob Hopkins in the village of Totnes,England, is evolving in North America. We hear from early adopters in Colorado, Los Angeles, and Vancouver. Our guests are Michael Brownlee from Boulder, Joanne Poyourow from Village L.A., and Vandy Savage from Vancouver. We top that off from with two speakers I recorded at a Village Vancouver...
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Paul Ehrlich - Humanity on a Tightrope
Radio Ecoshock interview with Alex Smith, February 11, 2011When it comes to population, the name Paul Ehrlich inevitably comes up. In 1968, Dr. Ehrlich published "The Population Bomb". About 40 years, and 40 books later, this distinguished scientist comes to us with a new book called "Humanity On A Tightrope."Dr. Erhlich, it's an honor to welcome you to Radio Ecoshock.PRE: Great to be with you.Alex Smith: First off, you have an authoritative co-author for this project. Can you tell us a...
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POPULATION OVERLOAD
Welcome, welcome, to the house of Ecoshock.Last week we tried a little shock therapy: a modest proposal from Dr. Jack Alpert to sterilize everyone, to bring about Rapid Population Decline. Birth permits, just 350,000 a year, would be awarded to the lucky few by lottery. Earth would head back down to the 100 million human animals it can support forever.For now, that's just dark science fiction.But the reality of over-population, and over-consumption, is not.Right now the Egyptian people are...
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RAPID POPULATION DECLINE - OR BUST
Radio Ecoshock February 4, 2011.Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith.When it comes to "the population bomb", our feature speaker today makes Paul Ehrlich sound like an optimist. Now that it's over 30 years into the tragedy of exploding humanity on a small planet.Jack Alpert says it's time for "Rapid Population Decline or Bust." That bust may haul down civilization, taking us back thousands of years. In Roman Times, there were about 100 million humans on the planet. It turns out, with...
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HELLO HARD TIMES
Welcome my friends. Yes we're going to cover the coming crisis - again this week.We'll travel to Brazil, to find out about those deadly floods, more signs of climate change - you know - the words former awareman Barrack Obama was afraid to mention in his State of the Union address! Not once. Our interview is with Kiko Brito, communications director for Greenpeace Brazil. He grew up in the worst hit area.You will hear an interview with the man Christopher Hitchens loves to attack, Nafeez...
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Against Civilization
This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith, with an in-depth look at the works of deep green writer Derrick Jensen, an interview with film maker Franklin Lopez, and a series of ugly questions for impossible times. After we learn a bit about the film's inspiration, Deep Green thinker Derrick Jensen, and talk with Frank Lopez - I've left some time to let out a Net rumor (again!) that the U.S. military might call home troops to put down people rioting in the streets, in an upcoming economic...
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CLIMATE CHAOS & CHINESE CONSUMERS
Hi there,There are three parts to this program:#1. I interview Jeff Masters. Millions of people check with "The Weather Underground" for the latest. Last week, it was #56 for traffic, out of all the sites on the Net. It's huge.Visitors want the color charts, maps, satellite photos, - and - the big picture from Dr. Jeff Masters. As a Meteorologist, Jeff was a "Hurricane Hunter", flying with the National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration planes out of Miami. He flew right into the big...
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Transforming Power - Judy Rebick
Floods and extreme snowfall events, once in a hundred years, are almost every year. No matter what the season, we keep on pumping up more carbon into the Earth's thin atmosphere.The actors on the scene, most voices and talking heads, learned and ignorant, are mostly white men, the silver-backs. What about women? And aboriginal people pushed to the fringes?Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I'm Alex Smith.In the radio broadcast (click the title above) you hear a powerful speech by Judy Rebick, as...
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PEACE PAYS
Bringing our war dollars back home.Radio Ecoshock December 24, 2010 Holiday edition.The Christians call their founder "The Prince of Peace." Yet America, which loudly proclaims it's Christianity, has been at war for decades, all over the world, during most of my life.American states, cities, and towns are broke. They are laying off services to the most needy, cutting off even essential things like police and firemen. The media says America is too poor to deliver universal health care...
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CANCUN CLIMATE TALKS: Fraud or Forward?
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 you talk to.I'm Alex Smith reporting. In this Radio Ecoshock special, you will hear five different voices on what really happened - inside the barricaded conference rooms, and outside in the streets.Our guests are: Harvard policy expert Dr. Robert N....
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Beyond the Tipping Point
A physicist, a leading expert on clean energy and climate, he was an advisor in the Clinton Administration. His book "Hell and High Water" becomes too true daily. Time Magazine called him “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger” . Dr. Joseph Romm's "Climate Progress" is the only blog right on my browser tool-bar. It IS indespensible.We welcome Joe Romm back to Radio Ecoshock.Among other things, we'll discuss the new theme issue from the British Royal Society "Four degrees and...
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Local Food - Growing Sane
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. On cruelty to workers and animals. On oil and daily long-distance trucks. If something breaks down, or just runs down into collapse, your city can go to a starvation in a single week.And the great...
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SURVIVING NOW AND THEN
RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOW 101126It 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 famine. Come on.... is the future depressing?The Management has asked me to read the following statement:"Everything is fine. The future will be fine too. The scientists you may have heard are just egg-heads with a horrible agenda to enslave us...
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