If You Love This Planet
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Dr. Helen Caldicott interviewed by Bob Herbert about her...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Renowned journalist Bob Herbert interviews Dr. Helen Caldicott at The New School in New York, November 2012. Dr. Caldicott discusses her latest book, Loving This Planet (The New Press, Oct. 2012) which features 25 interviews from “If You Love This Planet,” as well as the state of the [...]
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Best of 2011: Dr. Caldicott’s speech in New Hampshire...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s March 31, 2011 lecture in Hanover, New Hampshire, three weeks after the Japan earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Fukushima nuclear power plant. She discusses the dangers of radioactive elements and the future of the planet. [...]
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Subhankar Banerjee on global warming’s threat to forests...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Subhankar Banerjee is an Indian-born American photographer, writer and activist. Over the past decade he has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous human rights and global warming, and over the past five years he has also been focusing on forest deaths from [...]
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Marion Pack on the many safety risks at the San Onofre...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this conversation recorded in June, Dr. Caldicott talks with California anti-nuclear activist, Marion Pack. Pack is one of many members of the Orange County community who highlight serious safety issues with the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, located a few miles south of San Clemente, [...]
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Tom Engelhardt on Washington’s increasing war focus to...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Tom Engelhardt, creator of the TomDispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, a non-profit media center based in New York, where he is a fellow. Englehardt is the author of two collections of his TomDispatch columns: The United States of Fear [...]
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Holly Barker on the devastating ongoing effects of...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Holly Barker, author and teacher at the Anthropology Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. Barker worked for the Republic of the Marshall Islands Government’s Embassy in Washington D.C. for 17 years, helping conduct research in the Marshall Islands about the [...]
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Brian D. Victoria on Buddhism’s role in Japan and on...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s special guest is Brian Daizen Victoria, Professor of Japanese Studies and director of a program at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio titled: Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions. Apart from numerous journal articles, Victoria’s major writings include Zen at War; Zen War Stories; [...]
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Jay Harman on the enormous promise of biomimicry to...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Jay Harman, entrepreneur and inventor. Harman has taken a hands-on approach to his lifelong fascination with natural fluid systems. In the process, he has grown companies that design innovative products, ranging from prize-winning watercraft called the WildThing and the Goggleboat, to [...]
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Prof. Wayne Getz on facing global warming tipping points...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott speaks with Professor Wayne Getz, and ecologist and population biologist with the Getz Lab at University of California at Berkeley. Students and postdoctoral students in the lab work on a broad range of theoretical and applied questions in population biology and behavior [...]
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Kathy Kelly on America’s resource domination agenda in...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, an organization which has steadily researched consequences of drone attacks, night raids and aerial bombings in Afghanistan. Risking imprisonment, they frequently protest U.S. government plans to continue U.S. military presence in Afghanistan until 2024 and [...]
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David Freeman on the urgency of fighting the nuclear,...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott’s guest this week is David Freeman, a senior advisor with Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign. Freeman has more than four decades of experience directing federal, regional and local energy policies. He was appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Jimmy [...]
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Helena Norberg-Hodge on building sustainable local...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s special guest on If You Love This Planet is Helena Norberg-Hodge, the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote systemic solutions to today’s social and environmental crises. Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the [...]
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Best of 2011: Col. Ann Wright on opposing war and U.S....
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we play a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s 2011 interview with Ann Wright, a diplomat and retired U.S. Army colonel. Col. Wright is also a peace activist and co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience, published by Koa books in 2007. She holds a Master’s [...]
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Chris Maser on the changes in thinking needed to save...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott talks to Chris Maser, author and international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, Maser has spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology, including positions as a research ecologist [...]
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Phil Caldicott on the the science and environmental...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott talks to Australian sommelier, Phil Caldicott, about the science of wine production. Description and guest photo to follow.
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Arnold Gundersen with another update on the unfolding...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott brings on nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen to update readers on the unfolding effects of the Fukushima meltdowns and what is happening with nuclear power in other parts of the world. Longer show description to follow. As background, listen to earlier conversations [...]
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Ralph Nader on fighting the complete corporate takeover...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is author and lawyer Ralph Nader. (Note: this interview was recorded in April 2012.) A pioneer in the field of consumer advocacy, Nader is a a four-time U.S. Presidential candidate. He ran in 1996 and 2000 on the Green Party ticket. [...]
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Best of 2011: Dr. Alan Robock on climate change and the...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s September 2011 interview with Dr. Alan Robock, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor of Climatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. Dr. Robock has published more than 300 articles on his research in the area of [...]
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Dr. Brian Moench on the need for doctors to speak out...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Dr. Brian Moench, President and Founder of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Dr. Moench is an anesthesiologist at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has taught at both Massachusetts [...]
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David Dufty on his book ‘How to Build an Android’,...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode, Dr. Caldicott talks to David Dufty, author of How To Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick’s Robotic Resurrection, published in the U.S. by Holt in 2012. Dufty completed a psychology degree with honors at the University of Newcastle [...]
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Christine Milne on the the climate crisis, carbon taxes...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott talks to Christine Milne, leader of the Australian Greens Party and Senator for Tasmania. They discuss refugees, carbon taxes, green energy and other aspects of the climate crisis. Milne gives a history of Green parties around the world, saying that the first party started [...]
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Professor Richard Falk on the status of democracy...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Richard Falk, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus at Princeton University, where whe was a member of the faculty for forty years until 2001. Prof. Falk is currently Research Professor at the Santa Barbara campus of the [...]
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Bob Herbert on the state of America in 2012
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week Dr Helen Caldicott talks with author and former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert about the state of America in 2012. Herbert is now one of the experts for the think tank Demos. Listen to Dr. Caldicott’s 2009 interview with Herbert here. [...]
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Robert Alvarez with more on Fukushima and the enormous...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott interviews Robert Alvarez, a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. Alvarez is an award-winning author and has published articles in prominent publications such as Science Magazine, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review and The Washington [...]
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Amory Lovins on the future of renewable power and the...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Helen Caldicott talks about renewable energy with physicist Amory B. Lovins, cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent non-profit think-and-do tank that drives the efficient and restorative use of resources. An advisor to major firms and governments [...]
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Best of 2011: David Bradbury on the power of film to...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we play a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s July 2011 interview with David Bradbury, described as “one of Australia’s best known and most successful documentary filmmakers” on his website. Bradbury’s 2007 film Hard Rain addresses the horrifying realities of nuclear power, and gets beneath the [...]
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Kristen Iversen on the devastating public health impact...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Kristen Iversen, author of the new book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, published this month by Crown Books in the U.S. and Random House in the U.K. Read the press release about the book. [...]
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Dr. Arjun Makhijani on the downsides of the proposed...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this program, Dr. Caldicott interviews plasma physicist and electrical engineer Dr. Arjun Makhijani is the President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER). A recognized authority on energy issues, Dr. Makhijani is the author and co-author of numerous reports and books on energy and [...]
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Kay Drey on how “routine emissions” from nuclear power...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott interviews Kay Drey, a board member of Beyond Nuclear. Drey is also a board member of the Great Rivers Environmental Law Center. For nearly 40 years, she has researched the dangers of nuclear energy and nuclear waste, and advocated for the closure of [...]
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Arnold Gundersen with a new report on the Fukushima...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week Dr Caldicott welcomes back nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen for yet another update on the stricken Fukushima plant which suffered multiple nuclear meltdowns in 2011. As background, read the May 5 article Thousands March as Japan Shuts off Nuclear Power, for Now: Japan goes [...]
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Richard Broinowski on the U.S. stance toward North Korea...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode, Dr. Caldicott has another chat with academic and author, Richard Broinowski, adjunct professor in media and communications at the University of Sydney. Prof. Broinowski, Dr. Caldicott’s brother, is also a retired Australian diplomat who was posted in Tokyo, Rangoon and Tehran, and served [...]
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Hugh Gusterson on U.S. war culture, the destruction of...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this fascinating conversation, respected anthropologist, author and lecturer Professor Hugh Gusterson from George Mason University delves into the psychology of nuclear weapons scientists, and the culture of war. Prof. Gusterson has studied those who design nuclear weapons and those who fight to abolish them in [...]
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Best of 2012: Seymour Hersh and John Pilger on U.S....
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s January 2012 conversations with two noted journalists: Seymour Hersh, an American Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative writer based in Wahington D.C., and Australian documentary filmmaker John Pilger, two-time recipient of Britain’s Journalist of the Year award. In the first [...]
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Prof. Doug Brugge on the medical effects of uranium...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Doug Brugge, a professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Navajo People and Uranium Mining and the associate editor of the Journal of Immigrant [...]
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Glenn Carroll on the urgency of fighting new nuclear...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott interviews long-time antinuclear activist Glenn Carroll, coordinator of Nuclear Watch South, headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Carroll has been committed to grass roots direct action for 25 years, ever since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in Russia inspired her to join efforts to stop [...]
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Mary Olson on how women are more vulnerable to atomic...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is biologist Mary Olson, Southeast Regional Coordinator with the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) in the U.S., an organization that provides information to citizens concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues. In her 21st year of this work, [...]
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Best of 2010: Natalie Wasley on how the nuclear fuel...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s 2010 interview with Australian Natalie Wasley, coordinator of the Beyond Nuclear Initiative based at the Arid Lands Environment Center in the Northern Territory of Australia. Wasley has travelled extensively over the last 10 years, meeting with communities [...]
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Prof. Lawrence Wittner on reenergizing the nuclear...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Professor Lawrence S. Wittner, an award-winning American historian, writer, and activist for peace and social justice. Prof. Wittner is the author or editor of a dozen books including Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement and his [...]
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Dr. Margaret Flowers on demanding single-payer health...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician and mother of 3 teenagers from Baltimore, M.D. Dr. Flowers left medical practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for single-payer health care. She served as Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and is on [...]
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Prof. Richard Broinowski on his travels to Japan...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode, Dr. Caldicott talks with academic and author, Richard Broinowski, adjunct professor in media and communications at the University of Sydney. Broinowski, Dr. Caldicott’s brother, is also a retired Australian diplomat. After junior postings in Tokyo, Rangoon and Tehran, he was deputy chief [...]
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Prof. Michel Chossudovsky on the U.S.-NATO war on Libya,...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott interviews Michel Chossudovsky, the Founder and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization in Montreal, and Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the University of Ottawa. Professor Chossudovsky’s new e-book is entitled Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011). [...]
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Ronnie Cummins on safeguarding healthy food against...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit, U.S. based network of 850,000 consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a sustainable system of agriculture and commerce. Cummins has been active as a writer [...]
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Michael Pollok on removing corporate money from politics...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Michael Pollok, an experienced criminal defense litigator who focuses his practice on matters in federal and New York state courts, as well as regulatory investigations and hearings. Pollok is one of a new movement of activists who are focused on reform, not [...]
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Arnold Gundersen with the first 2012 Fukushima update;...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week Dr Caldicott receives another update on Fukushima from nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen. After this conversation, we hear another excerpt of Dr. Caldicott’s lecture at a conference on Chernobyl in Berlin in 2011. Longer show description to follow. As background, read three 2012 [...]
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Father Laurence Mooney on finding one’s own spirituality...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode, Dr. Caldicott interviews Father Laurence Mooney, an Augustinian priest based in Melbourne, Australia. For the past five years, Father Mooney has worked in the boutique Augustinian seminary in Brookvale, Sydney, attending to the academic, vocational, spiritual, communal and language needs of young men aspiring [...]
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Kono Taro on Japan’s reaction to the Fukushima nuclear...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott speaks with Kono Taro for an in-depth look at Japan’s reaction to the Fukushima meltdown. Kono is Director General of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party’s International bureau and a fifth-term Member of the House of Representatives in Japan. He is especially critical [...]
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Dr. Jim Green on Australia’s role in the nuclear weapons...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott interviews Dr. Jim Green this week. Dr. Green is the national nuclear campaigner for Friends of the Earth Australia, a federation of independent local groups working for a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future. Dr. Green’s Ph.D thesis dealt with the history of [...]
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Dr. Reese Halter on global warming and why you should...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode of If You Love This Planet, Dr. Caldicott talks with conservation biologist Dr. Reese Halter. Dr. Reese, as he is known, is a distinguished biologist who describes himself as an “Earth Doctor.” For more that 20 years, Dr. Reese has studied nature [...]
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Christine Milne on the Durban climate summit and the...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne talks with Dr. Caldicott about her recent involvement in climate talks in Durban. Sen. Milne explains why the Durban summit was a failure in terms of any meaningful agreement for the industrial world to cut emissions, and which countries and industries [...]
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Arnold Gundersen with A Fresh Report on Fukushima
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott and Arnold Gundersen, a nuclear energy consultant with Fairewinds Associates, have another look at how the Fukushima disaster is affecting Japan, and how the U.S. nuclear industry continues its plans to build new plants in America. As background for today’s program, read [...]
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Dr. Helen Caldicott’s speech in New Hampshire
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This episode feature a lecture by Dr. Caldicott at the retirement community of Kendal in Hanover, New Hampshire, on March 31, 2011. The program was recorded just two weeks after the Fukushima disaster. Longer show description to follow. Read Dr. Caldicott’s December 2011 article [...]
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Best of 2010: Bill McKibben on global warming, green...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s October 2010 interview with Bill McKibben about global warming, alternative energy and the growing need for more localized economies. Author, educator and environmentalist McKibben was described in 2010 by the Boston Globe as “probably the nation’s leading [...]
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Dr. Timothy Mousseau with more about Chernobyl’s effect...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s guest is Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina. For the past 12 years, Dr. Mousseau and his colleagues have been studying the ecological impacts of the Chernobyl disaster on wild plant and animal populations living in the so-called zone [...]
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Steve Omohundro on the future of artificial intelligence...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr Caldicott interviews Stephen Omohundro, a computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence. From 1986 to 1988, Omohundro was an Assistant Professor of Computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and cofounder of the Center for Complex Systems Research. He is now President of [...]
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Robert Koehler on U.S. warmaking, the role of the media...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week on If You Love This Planet, Dr. Caldicott talks with journalist Robert Koehler, who writes a nationally syndicated column for the Chicago Tribune. As the Bush administration unleashed its war on terror, Koehler became increasingly focused on current events, and refers to the column [...]
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Arnold Gundersen with another Fukushima report as...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott chats again with Arnold Gundersen, a nuclear energy consultant with Fairewinds Associates, about the ongoing situation at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. As background for today’s program, read the recent news articles Nuclear Expert Cites New Concerns about Westinghouse [...]
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Robert Alvarez on the hazards of spent nuclear fuel and...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode, Dr. Caldicott talks with Robert Alvarez, a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. Alvarez is an award-winning author and has published articles in prominent publications such as Science Magazine, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review and [...]
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Dr. Helen Caldicott’s recent speech about the medical...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This episode of If You Love This Planet features a lecture host Dr. Helen Caldicott delivered October 16, 2011 at the International Integrative Medical Conference in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Caldicott explains the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, and talks about the [...]
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Ian Fairlie on the significance of the Fukushima disaster
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Ian Fairlie joins Dr. Caldicott on the program in this interview recorded in July, a few months after the Fukushima accident. Dr. Fairlie is a radiobiologist from Great Britain. He works as an independent consultant in the field of radioactivity in the environment and advises [...]
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Dr. Neal Palafox on the continuing health effects of...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott’s guest this week is Neal Palofax, M.D., Professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. Dr. Palafox has been working with Pacific region healthcare disparities and developing cancer healthcare systems in [...]
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Hans Kristensen on the present status of the U.S....
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott interviews Hans M. Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where he provides the public with analysis and background information about the status of nuclear forces and the role of nuclear weapons. The discussion covers the [...]
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Dr. Anne Steinemann on toxic fragrances and other...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. On the show this week, Dr. Caldicott talks to Anne Steinemann, Ph.D., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor of Public Affairs, at the University of Washington. Dr. Steinemann combines expertise in engineering, economics and policy, and specializes in the public health effects of pollutants, [...]
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Professor Alex Rogers on urgent threats to the world’s...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott talks with Alex David Rogers, a Professor in Conservation Biology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and scientific director of the International Program on the State of the Ocean (IPSO). Read the IPSO reports State of the Ocean and Implementing the Global [...]
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Arnold Gundersen with a Fukushima update / Aileen Mioko...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott gets an update on the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan from Arnold Gundersen, a consultant with Fairewinds Associates. Two recent items from the Fairewinds website: Too Close For Comfort - Floods, Earthquakes & Tsunamis and Newly Released TEPCO Data [...]
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Bruce Gagnon with much more on U.S. plans for space...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott interviews Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, for the second time in a month. Gagnon’s previous interview was well received, and this time the conversation explores further issues surrounding the weaponization of space, military spending and nuclear [...]
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Jim Shields on new approaches to wildlife management
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. On the program this week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Dr. Jim Shields, a senior ecologist with more than 30 years experience in wildlife management. Dr. Shields has worked within agriculture, forestry, road construction and the hospitality industries in a variety of capacities. His common sense approach [...]
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Bruce Gagnon on America’s ruthless military strategies...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Bruce Gagnon is Dr. Caldicott’s guest this week. Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and has worked on space issues for nearly 30 years. He was the organizer of the Cancel Cassini Campaign (the Cassini Campaign was a [...]
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Robert Gilkeson and Joni Arends on the alarming risk of...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott talks first with Robert Gilkeson, Registered Geologist, about the multiple hazards posed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The site in New Mexico is vulnerable to seismic activity, causing concerns about a new nuclear facility that is planned to be built which [...]
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Best of 2010: Diane Curran on the legal aspects of...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s January 2010 interview with Diane Curran, an environmental laywer based in Washington, D.C. Since 1981, Curran has represented citizen groups, state and local governments, and individuals in a wide range of licensing and enforcement cases relating to [...]
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Michael Madsen on the staggering problem of storing the...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Michael Madsen, the Danish director of the new documentary film “Into Eternity”, joins Dr. Caldicott for a riveting conversation with worldwide implications. “Into Eternity” focuses on the vast amounts of radioactive waste created every day by nuclear power plants the world over, and the constant challenge [...]
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Dr. Arjun Makhijani on the stunning potential for solar,...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott once again welcomes engineer Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D. to the program to further update listeners on how solar, wind, geothermal and other green power sources can fully replace nuclear power and fossil fuel-based energy right now, not in the future. The need for such a [...]
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Dale Bridenbaugh on the numerous safety flaws in...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode, Dr. Caldicott talks to Dale Bridenbaugh, a former nuclear engineer and retired energy consultant to governmental and other groups interested in evaluation of nuclear plant safety and licensing. In his role as a consultant within his own company and others, Bridenbaugh worked with [...]
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Martin Sieff on issues of global security and America’s...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week on If You Love This Planet, Dr. Caldicott delves into conversation with Martin Sieff, Chief Global Analyst for the daily online magazine, The Globalist. For the past decade, Sieff has been chief news analyst for United Press International and is its former Managing Editor [...]
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Arnold Gundersen with the latest on the Fukushima...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott has an in-depth conversation with Arnold Gundersen, energy advisor with Fairewinds Associates Inc. and a former nuclear engineer. They discuss the present situation in Fukushima, where three nuclear power plants have melted down, and the continuing effects of the disaster on Japan [...]
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Best of 2010: Chris Hedges on the power of military...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we play for the third time Dr. Caldicott’s August 9, 2010 interview with American journalist, author, and war correspondent Chris Hedges about military culture and the consequences of combat. Hedges, a Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute, specializes in American and Middle Eastern politics and [...]
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Best of 2008-2010: Dr. Vini Khurana on the potent health...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear for the third time Dr. Caldicott’s October 2008 interview with Dr. Vini Khurana about the dangers of cell phones and electromagnetic radiation. In May, a new report was released indicating a connection between cell phone use and cancer. Read the May [...]
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Martin Sheen on his antinuclear activism and the current...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott has a lively discussion with film and television actor and anti-war activist, Martin Sheen. Sheen has been a long-time supporter of efforts to stop nuclear testing and eliminate nuclear weapons. Read a 2003 interview with Sheen in The Progressive in which [...]
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Thomas Cochran on the undisclosed radiation risks from...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr Caldicott talks with Thomas Cochran, the Wade Greene Chair for Nuclear Policy and a nuclear physicist and senior scientist in the Natural Resources Defense Council’s nuclear program. He is the author or co-author of several books and numerous articles on nuclear weapons, proliferation and nuclear [...]
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Dr. Robert Moore on the promise of algae biofuels and...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week on If You Love This Planet, Dr Helen Caldicott talks with Dr. Robert Moore, a microbiologist trained at The Australian National University and The University of Sydney. Dr. Moore now works as a freelance biotechnology consultant specialising in algae as biofuel. His unofficial [...]
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Miriam Pemberton on runaway American military spending,...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Before hearing from this week’s guest, Dr. Caldicott gives a short Fukushima update recorded mid-week, laying out the “terribly serious” facts that seven nuclear reactors at Fukushima have melted down. Next, she brings on this week’s guest, Miriam Pemberton, a Research Fellow at the Institute for [...]
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Baroness Susan Greenfield on how technology is affecting...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott provides a new eight-minute Fukushima update recorded April 20, describing how the multiple meltdowns in this unprecedented nuclear disaster are starting to sicken people in Tokyo. She then conducts an interview with Baroness Susan Greenfield, the former Director of the Royal Institution of Great [...]
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Subhankar Banerjee on global warming, the terminal greed...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Once again, before interviewing this week’s guest, Dr. Caldicott provides another update on the perilous situation at Fukushima, Japan, where four reactors are compromised in an accident that will likely surpass the effects of Chernobyl. Next, Dr. Caldicott welcomes Subhankar Banerjee, an Indian-born American photographer, writer and [...]
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Lexi Shultz on Republican efforts to destroy global...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Before interviewing this week’s guest, Dr. Caldicott provides a short update on the situation at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, explaining how the accident is far more dangerous than news media are reporting. She elucidates what will happen if there is an explosion at the [...]
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SPECIAL FUKUSHIMA UPDATE: Arnold Gundersen and Dr. Helen...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this special program about the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, we present two interviews recorded last week followed by a speech about nuclear radiation given by Dr. Caldicott in 2009. In the first 20-minute segment, If You Love This Planet’s Australian producer Jasmin Williams [...]
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Best of 2010: Dr. Janette Sherman on the true magnitude...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, in light of the still unfolding nuclear accident in Japan, we play for the third time Dr Caldicott’s May 17, 2010 interview with Janette D. Sherman, M.D. on the long-term effects of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown. Dr. Sherman translated and edited the book Chernobyl: Consequences of [...]
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Prue Acton on how logging Australian forests contributes...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear Dr. Caldicott’s recent conversation with Prue Acton, artist, internationally recognized clothing designer and spokesperson for an alliance of conservation groups in Australia called SERCA (South East Region Conservation Alliance). In the 1980’s, Acton became involved with naturalists in Victoria, Australia who showed [...]
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Professor Gordon Edwards on the perils of nuclear...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. On If You Love This Planet this week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Dr. Gordon Edwards, one of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology, uranium, and weapons proliferation. Dr Edwards is also the co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR). He [...]
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Professor Frances Fox Piven on ensuring democracy in the...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode, Dr. Caldicott interviews Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the Graduate School, City University of New York. Professor Piven is also the president of the American Sociological Association and author of numerous publications, most recently Keeping Down the [...]
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Dr. Caldicott’s speech about the radiation danger in...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear Dr. Caldicott’s November 2010 address to residents from the town of Port Hope, Canada. Much of Port Hope was built using uranium tailings from the nearby uranium refinery, posing potentially serious health risks for the town’s population. Dr. Caldicott outlines the [...]
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Drew Hutton on fighting coal mining and coal seam gas...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. On this program, Dr. Caldicott interviews Drew Hutton, an environmental campaigner in his home state of Queensland, Australia. Hutton founded the Greens party in Queensland and was a co-founder of the Australian Greens in 1992. He is an organizer of the Lock the Gate [...]
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Dr. Michel Chossudovsky on the issue of global survival...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Michel Chossudovsky is Dr. Caldicott’s guest this week. Dr. Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal, Quebec. He has been a visiting professor at colleges in [...]
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Best of 2010: Daniel Ellsberg on U.S. foreign policy...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s September 2010 interview with Daniel Ellsberg. In 1959, Ellsberg became a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation. He was also a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House, specializing in problems of the command and control [...]
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Best of 2010: Dr. John Church on how global warming will...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s July 2010 conservation with Dr. John Church, oceanographer and the world’s leading expert on sea-level rise. The two discuss the urgency of global-warming induced sea-level rise we are facing this century. Scientists predict the oceans will rise by [...]
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Bruce Gagnon on fighting the U.S. weaponization of space
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr Caldicott’s guest this week is Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Between 1983–1998, Gagnon was the State Coordinator of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice, and has worked on space issues for 27 years. He [...]
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Dr. Avner Cohen on Israel’s nuclear weapons, conditions...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week on the program, Dr. Caldicott has a conversation with Dr. Avner Cohen, an internationally recognized author and expert on non-proliferation issues, focusing on the Middle East. Dr. Cohen is a Senior Fellow with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He is widely [...]
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Tad Daley on how to remove the threat of nuclear war...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott talks with Tad Daley, the author of Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World, on this week’s program. Daley is the Writing Fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the 1985 Nobel Peace-Prize-winning organization initiated by Physicians for [...]
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Antony Loewenstein on the campaign to defend WikiLeaks...
Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott interviews Antony Loewenstein, a Sydney-based journalist who has written for publications around the world, including the Guardian, Haaretz, The Nation, Sydney Morning Herald and many others. He is a media spokesman for the campaign to defend Wikileaks, and discusses Julian Assange’s background. Loewenstein’s [...]
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