Radio Ecoshock
Listen to Radio Ecoshock's weekly 1 hour show. Originates from Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7 FM in Vancouver, Canada. Syndicated to over a dozen community & college radio stations. Fridays 1 pm PST; find Co-op radio on B.C. cable; on Satellite - Starchoice 845; live on the Net at www.coopradio.org/listen.html; or download shows here, for your computer, IPOD, or MP3 player. Email: radio [at] ecoshock.org
Host - Alex Smith
A RAY OF HOPE Ecoshock 071102 (59 min) Paul Hawken's speech to Long Now Foundation, on his new book "Blessed Unrest." Progressive groups are the largest unseen movement in history. Plus Canada's Maude Barlow on hope, in desperate times.
WORLD WATER CRISIS Ecoshock show 071109 Maude Barlow on global freshwater crisis, water privatization, bottled crap. SpeechVancouver 071030. Plus: Britain's Chief Scientist Sir David King on serious climate threat, a starving voice by the road, & Goodall on primate extinctions. 1 hr.
BURNING DOWN THE WEST Wildfires stoke the carbon load. Ecoshock Show 071116 (1 hr) Interview: Dr. Tom Gower, saying fires in N. Canada make positive feedback; speech by Temperate Rainforest activist Pas Rasumussen - why she is now a climate activist as well. Echoes by Andrea Reimer of the Wilderness Committee. New research on the Rockies burning by Lara Kueppers; were California fires climate change? And a bit of George Monbiot.
CLIMATE & CAPITALISM Ecoshock show 071123 1 hr American Titanic Steady as She Sinks - navigating the U.S. financial crisis with indie journalist Mike Whitney. Then Canadian educator/author Ian Angus speech "Climate and Capitalism" (must Capitalism fall to save the climate?)
JAMES HANSEN: LATEST CLIMATE SCIENCE top NASA scientist explains newest understanding of Earth's climate system. Ecoshock show 071130 56 MB 1 hour. Rebroadcast with permission from TUC Radio in San Francisco. Speech in Houston Oct 24th, 2007. One of most important of the year.
What A Way to Go Life at the End of Empire. Interview with film makers re multiple crisis points from Peak Oil to climate change, population, etc. Plus: Canada's Deadly Secret author Jim Harding on world's biggest supply of uranium. Ecoshock show 071207 1 hour 56 MB (CD quality) or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Abrupt Arctic Meltdown Why is the Arctic Sea becoming an open ocean in summer? Latest science digest, radio clip on damage to Northern landscape, clips from ice scientists panel to Congress November 28th, 2007. Models & IPCC failed to predict this rapid change. Facts behind the headlines. Ecoshock show 071214 1 hour 56 MB Or: Lo-Fi 14 MB
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE Sir James Lovelock speech to Royal Academy Oct 29th, 2007. IPCC has underestimated scope & rapidity of global heating. Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis, says we begin a rapid shift to a hot-state planet. Time to adapt, but billions may die. One of top speeches of 2007. Required listening. 1 hr 56 MB. or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Weekly Radio Ecoshock Show - 2008
GREENHOUSE WORLDS Interview with deep time expert Dr. Robert Spicer of UK. Plus review of 2007 record weather; caution on Lovelock fatalism; limits to heating?; scientific activism. Ecoshock program 080104 1 hour 56 MB or LoFi 14 MB 32 kbps mono.
Past Programs 2006 and 2007 covering the global environment crisis.
Recent Programs
PEAK OIL & POPULATION Guest host George Kenny interviews Dr. Albert Bartlett on rising prices, declining reserves, and impact of billions more people. Lifelong expert with frank talk on future. Ecoshock 080111 Courtesy Electric Politics podcast. 1 hr 56 MB Also available in Lo-Fi mono 14 MB
Capitalist Despair & the Climate Deadline Markets churn over a global banking fraud. Clive Doucet on U.S. refugee cities; George Monbiot on growth fixation; Evan Goodstein of Focus the Nation - climate goes to colleges; Ian Angus, full speech on climate after the Bali failure. Ecoshock show 080125 1 hour CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
End of the Age of Oil James Howard Kunstler lecture as 1st visiting scholar to Simon Fraser Urban Studies 080124 From the Long Emergency to new measures after Peak Oil. Part 1 of 2. Ecoshock show 080201 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB End of speech plus Q and A next week.
End of the Age of Oil Part 2 James Howard Kunstler Conclusion of speech + lively Q and A. What will it be like as oil runs out? Audience reacts with tough questions for author and now urban planner, Kunstler, as first visiting scholar to Urban Studies Program at SFU. Recorded 080124 by Ecoshock. Ecoshock Show 080208 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
| Eating Oil - From Tar Sands to Food. Here is the Ecoshock show 080215 for next week. Agriculture heating the planet, says Greenpeace. Dr. Pete Smith (author) & Josh Brandon (ag campaigner); 2nd half of show is speech on Canadian Tar Sands by MacDonald Stainsby. 1 hour CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB) |
Drying of the West with National Geographic author Robert Kunzig; the first Carbon Tax in North America in B.C. (and what it means for the U.S.); censored Canadian scientists - speech clip from Dr. John Fyfe, IPCC author. Oh yeah, and some hope. 1 hour. Ecoshock show 080222
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Our Dying Oceans Latest awful science on climate's impact: dead zones, acidification, extinctions. From the AAAS in Boston Ben Halpern (maps of ocean damage); Smithsonian's Nancy Wilson ("Code Red"); John Timmer on acidification; from Norway, Dr. Christian Nellemann, author of UNEP report "In Dead Water" - plus "the new Stern report" from Australia. 1 packed hour Ecoshock Show 080229 CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
20 Years of Climate Failure The time for "learning" & wishful thinking is over, says Prof Mark Jaccard, author of "Sustainable Fossil Fuels," and "Hot Air". Jaccard says governments need compulsory greenhouse laws, that work, to avoid catastrophe. Recorded 080304 Vancouver, 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Dirty Coal, Dirty Politics, Wasted World Packed show: coal plant blues, Obama and McCain on climate, exclusive Derrick Jensen speech - comprehending the Ecocaust. Plus super climate scientist Ken Caldeira on Zero emissions. Side order of clips from activist band Manu Chao. 080314 show 1 hr
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Wall Street & Climate Crash Will we have money to create the new energy economy? Wall Street insider from Climateer Investing talks trades, carbon emissions, and the climate bubble. Warren Buffet's carbon footprint, & interview with Rainforest Action Network's campaign against Wall St. coal financeers.Ecoshock 080321 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
"Transport Revolutions: Moving People & Freight Without Oil" Speech March 18 by Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl. How new oil economy reshapes air, road, rail, & shipping toward sustainable power. 080328 show 1 hr
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CLIMATE: WHO, IF NOT US? Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of "Ingenuity Gap" and "Updside of Down" Toronto 080320. Carbon surge threatens the world, breaking IPCC predictions. Latest science. Plus interiew with climate modeller Andreas Schmittner. Stunning, scary look at gap between the new atmosphere and human inaction. Ecoshock show 080404 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
SOLAR TO SAVE US Calif. scientist Nate Lewis says CO2 is rising rapidly - why only Solar can power the Earth. Then Wall Street insider of Climateer Investing explores solar market & new tech that could do the job. Who owns India's Tata, and why World Bank is financing Tata Ultra Mega coal plants as "clean energy." Ecoshock show 080411 1 hour
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ADDICTED TO OIL Why can't we kick the habit? Interview w. psychologist Bruce Alexander, author of "Globalized Addiction"; clip from Nate Hagens at ASPO (why we don't react to Peak Oil); clips from Dr. Gabor Mate, Terry Tamminen, Tim Flannery & new quotes from Al Gore. Plus original radio play: "Eco-Intervention". Ecoshock Show 080418 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Highway to Hell: How Smog Kills Polluted cities kills hundreds of thousands. Under-reported plague from vehicle emissions. 2 interviews: Dr. Ricki Ott on oil toxicity & PAH's; Dr. Joel Schwartz, Harvard's top expert on air pollution. Nanoparticles in your bloodstream - and carbon soot makes more global warming. Ecoshock show 080425 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Radio for Troubled Times Biofuels & world food crisis. Breaking climate news: Jetstream moving, CO2 way up, methane escaping. From the UK: Off-grid living expert Nick Rosen. American housing crisis, storms, or fire: living in your car. Plus Medea Benjamin on Code Pink anti-war. Ecoshock 080502 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or LoFi 14 MB Songs: "Here at the End of the World" by David Rovics and new hit "Sea Lion Woman" by Canadian star Feist.
If You Love This Planet Helen Caldicott's new broadcast/podcast program #1. Famous anti-nuclear physician & activist interviews David Lochbaum, from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Near-melt-downs of U.S. reactors, spent fuel as terrorist targets, failure to protect public safety. Nuclear power not the answer to global warming. Use helencaldicott.com & beyondnuclear.org. Ecoshock show 080509 1 hr
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Crisis in Confidence News of global breakdown. Clips from Yale's James G. Speth on eco failure; comedy duel "The Bugle" on biofuels; Lester Brown on food crisis; Mel Hurtig on capital flight; UBS Swiss Bank as Rogue Capitalism? Billionaires bailing on climate (and you) - but activist Bill McKibben says we have One Last Chance. Packed Ecoshock Show 080516 1 hour
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE! C.S. Soong of KPFA Berkeley interviews Canadian environmental historian Colin Duncan. Why climate change may overwhelm civilization. Full interview from "Against the Grain" May 5th show. Then: song-writing activist David Rovics talks about his music, his life, and the movement. I think he's a modern Pete Seeger. The Radio Ecoshock Show 080523 1 hour
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Safe Climate or Endless War? Guests Michael T. Klare (new book "Rising Powers, Shrinking World) & space activist Bruce Gagnon on need to convert military budget toward a fossil-free America. Plus two clips: Dimitri Orlov on "Re-inventing Collapse. The Soviet Example and American Prospects"; and Robert Kennedy Jr. 5 men who run U.S. media. Is American collapsing? Where are the $$ for new transpo & energy systems, climate adaptation?
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BUILDING MADNESS Buildings emit 48% of fossil CO2 killing the climate. Six voices on cities, "eco-density," green architecture, and city fascism. Anthony Perle, Richard Register, Larry Franks, Sir Norman Foster, Derrick Jensen, Al Gore, Guido Wimmers. Is the global stampede to cities sustainable - or just a bubble? Hard info on Israeli electric cars & why suburbs make people fat. Ecoshock Show 080606 1 hour CD quality (56) MB or Lo-Fi (14 MB) New music: "Dirty Town" by Vancouver group "Mother Mother"
BUILDING SANITY A one hour workshop on super-low energy houses, office & municipal buildings with Dr. Guido Wimmers. Over 12,000 already built in Europe. Reduce Fossil fuel consumption, bills & emissions (!) by 90%. Ecoshock Show 080613 1 hour CD Quality (56 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)
COLLAPSE & THE CLIMATE CRISIS Dmitry Orlov interview "Re-inventing Collapse" compares end of Soviet & American empires as oil era ends. Also: Animal rights &warming: Anthony Marr interview. Amory Lovins tells gov't Nukes no answer to climate. Alex on oil companytrolls. Add fires, floods, and drought - it's radio for the unwinding. Ecoshock 080620 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB. Song "We Can't Make It Here Anymore" James McMurty
HANSEN: CLIMATE CRIMINALS NASA Scientist wants oil exec's who fund deniers tried for crimes against humanity. James Hansen warns we are past the danger point already. Stop coal, build new power grid, REDUCE CO2! Clips from NPR, ABC, NBC, Fox, Democracy Now etc on this controversy. Also: how Exxon hit Greenpeace with IRS, and Robert Kennedy Jr. Vs. Glenn Beck. You be the judge. Ecoshock 080627 1 hr CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Download Hansen's testimony & Q and A at Congressional Select Committee 080623.
A WARNING FROM THE PAST Past greenhouse worlds, quick climate shifts, and mass extinctions caused by changes to the atmosphere. Dr. Andrew Glikson studies space impacts, volcanoes, and past climates. This speech from Australia National University explains current shift toward a hot-state planet - much faster than ever before. Ecoshock Show 080704 1 hour
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| FIRESTORM: CARBON RISING Ecoshock Show 080711 Report from climate front-line - the Calif fires, with Maria Gilardin. Aborginal people in Yukon dying forests. Canada's top scientist Dr. Gordon McBean on rising CO2. Bucky Buckaw on raising backyard chickens. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Song "Fix It Or Stop Complaining" by Dan Berggren. |
| CHANGE OR BURN The Australian Experience. Ecoshock Show 080718 Speech by top climate/economic advisor to new Australian gov't, Prof. Ross Garnaut. Likely basis for American action in 2009. Plus the "Clean Development" scam takes billions out of real clean energy. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
| Coping With Climate Change Ecoshock Show 080725 How can we face it? 2 interviews: Pulitzer prize winner Catherine Ellison, and climate/nuclear historian Spencer Weart. Updated replay from our 2007 season. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
| ENDLESS SUMMER Ecoshock Show 080801 Surf is up and the heat is on. A review of the UK climate activist scene. Then a hot speech by Canadian scientist and broadcaster Dr. David Suzuki. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Song "Endless Summer" by Ghostly Penguin Display. |
| METHANE BURPS AND TELE-EVERYTHING Ecoshock Show 080808 Guest host KMO from C-Realm podcast interviews David M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA Langley Research Center. Lots of doom, but really good solutions too. Thanks to KMO for sharing this rare interview. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
| RISING SEAS, DRYING WEST Ecoshock Show 080815 Top IPCC organizer & U of Arizona Professor Jonathan Overpeck speech at Washington U. After updating the world climate report, Overpeck predicts climate impacts on North America. 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
| UK CLIMATE ACTION Thousands gather in Britain's climate camp against coal; 3 protests, police over-reaction. Is it "Green Stalinism" versus decentralized power? Radio live from Camp. Ecoshock Show 080822 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Compiled from over 9 hours of live radio from www.climatecamp.org.uk/radio. |
| PEAK OIL AND THE MEDIA Why isn't mainstream media explaining oil decline, and it's impact on society? Vancouverpeakoil.org presents a panel of 5 journalists: Rex Weyler, Barbara Jaffe, Charlie Smith, Sara Robinson and Alex Smith. How to organize, use media, bypass the mainstream. Ecoshock Show 080829 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
EXTREME STORMS. MONBIOT. Interview w. UK columnist/author George Monbiot; coverage of extreme rainfall events around the world; possibility of violent climate reaction. Are we going to let this happen? Ecoshock Show 080905 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB.
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THE OLD FUTURE'S GONE As Wall St crumbles, Texas U Prof Robert Jensen asks if days of mass movements are gone. The 60's are not coming back. Alternative title: "The Delusion Revolution: We're On the Road to Extinction and In Denial" Ecoshock Show 080919 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Theme song "The Old Future's Gone" by John Gorka. |
A CLIMATE OF CRASH AND CHOICE Finance & elections.Mike Whitney on Wall Street mess -Bush's plan to grab the money & run. Voting for climate action. Brianna Cayo Cotter U.S. PowerVote.org;Tzeporah Berman speech introducing PowerUpCanada.ca. Also Rep Ed Markey webcast on new Green Jobs initiative. Plus some fun (e.g. George Carlin) and music. Ecoshock Show 080926 1 hour
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| THE PROLONGED CRASH Investigation into why FDIC and Federal Reserve took over a trillion in toxic trash for the taxpayer. Also James H. Kuntsler on deep reasons crash of America is inevitable (Peak Oil X greed = obvious disaster). News of global bailouts and why they will fail. Meanwhile, climate threat grinds on - remember Galveston? Also: where are the protests? Ecoshock Show 081003 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
PAUL EHRLICH - THE DOMINANT ANIMAL and the Fate of Biodiversity. New book by Stanford Professor and author of "The Population Bomb" and dozens more. Wide-ranging speech on threats to humanity, and to all species. Recorded UBC 080924 Ecoshock Show 081010 1 hour
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| TOM HAYDEN The Birth of Movements As government and corporatations fails, a wide-spread social movement to address climate change, peak oil, and extinction. How does it start? Tom Hayden helped birth a dozen social movements. From a new speech in Vancouver, an Alternative Radio program, and quotes from his 2008 book: "Writings for a New Democracy, The Tom Hayden Reader." Ecoshock Show 081017 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB Audio quotes read by Steve Bowell. |
| NAOMI KLEIN Shock Doctrine Now! Rocking speech from Santa Cruz Oct 17th 08 on Rise of Disaster Capitalism - developed from current affairs. How the big boys use the finance crisis. Ecoshock 081024 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
RUNAWAY TRAIN Finance & Climate Crisis How we go bankrupt; the currency crisis from Max Keiser et al. Then Jim Laurie interview: how we can save the climate without spending a trillion dollars. Ecoshock Show 081031 1 hour
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GOING DOWN IN FLAMES Dmitri Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse" predicts next stages of economic crisis. Need to know info. Plus clips from Karmabanque Radio. Second half: dying newspapers. Journalist/editor Paul Gillin on disappearing print and new media. Also Redeye Collective on tottering Canwest media empire in Canada & Australia. 3 interviews.
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| FOOD DOMINATION, SURVIVAL & HUMAN HYBRID POWER 3 speakers: ETC Group report naming multinationals now controlling your food supply; Survival food business picking up (plus tips for you); Max Donelan's "hybrid humans" generate electricity as they walk. Ecoshock Show 081121 1 hour CD quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
| FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS It's going to be a bumpy ride. Last ditch plans to save the climate from: Barack Obama (Nov 18th); Prof. Robert Pollin on new green economy; Prof Victor compares ecological and economic collapse; boil-down of latest testimony by NASA's James Hansen (Nov 26th) to UK government. All fresh audio with the latest. Ecoshock Show 081128 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
| Climate Terrorism: The Tar Sands As #1 supplier of oil to USA, Canada's tar sands kill the environment, locals, and pollute the world's atmosphere. Three speeches: Jessie Kalman on environment; Mike Mercredi - the industrial genocide of aboriginals; Will Horton on new pipelines, ports and spills in British Columbia's treasured forests and coast. Ecoshock 081205 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
| FOUR HORSEMEN Cars, Coal, Climate & War 1. Testimony to Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming Dec 9. On auto bail-out & real future of green transpo. 2. Frosty the Coal Man? Twisted carols and coal plant radiation. 3. second half hour - Gwynne Dyer columnist, author, military historian on extreme climate change and resulting wars. Exclusive preview of new radio series. Radio Ecoshock Show 081212 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
| EARLY DEPRESSION DAZE Forget Madoff. Wall St. is the giant Ponzi scheme. The CDS/CDO asteroid set to strike Earth in 2009. Then Michael Byron on surviving the Crunch. Alex's food storage audio blog. Bit of music and fun. Radio Ecoshock 081219 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB |
ECOSHOCK GREEN GOLD Best Enviro Music Special All the tunes we've used on Radio Ecoshock - full versions and how to contact the artists. Ecoshock 081226 1 hour CD Quality 56 MB (recommended) or Lo-Fi 14 MB
Playlist: "Endless Summer" Ghostly Penguin Display; "Runaway Train" Eliza Gilkyson; "Alternative Energy" Combat Wombat (Australia); "Mother Earth" Shane Philip (Canadian); "What If You Knew" David Rovics; "Is That What It Will Take?" Bryan Wood; "Swimmin In D'Nile" Dana Lyons; "High Water Rising" Joel Zifkin; "Our Ocean" Te Vaka (Polynesia); "Slow Down Fast" Bruce Cockburn (Cdn); "Power From Above" Dan Berggsen (#1 from our site); "Good Planets Are Hard to Find" Steve Forbert; "Dirty Town" Mother Mother (Cdn); "It's Not Easy Being Green" Kermit the Frog; "House of Trouble" Clatter; "Gamma Ray" Beck. |
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