THIS WEEK: The latest speeches from the “Gaining Ground/Resilient Cities” conference in Vancouver, Canada October 20-23. You’ll hear Post Carbon Institute fellow, and green city guide author Warren Karlenzig – plus former Shell Oil executive (now turned anti-corporate activist) Anita Burke. Much more …
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From the edge of the Earth, broadcast, podcast, by cable and satellite, this is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. Gaia – the great interconnected force of living things on a minor planet called Earth. British scientist James Lovelock wondered how life created it’s …
What will our grandchildren experience in the year 2080? Or will some of you feel the heat, the climate and social disruption as soon as 2060? Scientific studies are pouring out their warnings – we have already passed the danger levels. And there …
Everything in the techno-capitalist society forms us into separate atoms. We demand our own space, travel in personal metal boxes, and struggle as individuals. When disaster strikes, hardly anyone remembers how to respond. How will your community react to a major threat? Will …
Excuse me. Do you mind if I turn your blue skies white? Why spend all that money on wind farms and insulation? Keep on driving, brothers and sisters, because Big Science is going to fix global warming. While they talk up a new …
They’re on practically every corner. Some people feel nervous at the gas pump. Others are outraged. Everybody knows prices are going nowhere but up. Did you know a gallon of gas weighs about 6 pounds – or 2.7 kilos? Almost all of it …
Obviously it’s pointless. We are doomed. Or it that just a frightened voice inside, knowing what we know? Social failure rears it’s ugly head, as half million more Americans, and countless millions more around the world, head home, if they have one. You …
This is Alex Smith. In this new start to the Fall 2009 season, we thrash out the triple crisis with Jan Lundberg, a former oil and gas industry expert. I say former, because he left “the Lundberg Oil and Gas Letter” in the …
Food and climate change with two speakers: Dr. Geoffrey Heal, an eco-economist from the Columbia School of Business, NY, speaking at the London School of Economics; and author/food activist Wayne Roberts at McMaster University, Canada. Wayne Roberts courtesty of Maggie Hughes “News from …
It is already too late to stop rampant climate change? An emailed blog posting asks: “Do we just enjoy the time we have left?” Scientist James Lovelock thinks so. He wanted the sub-title of his new book “Vanishing Gaia” changed from “Final Warning” …
The star of today’s Radio Ecoshock Show is the American climate. We’ll start with the most important Press Conference of 2009: the release of the multi-agency report “Global Climate Change Impacts In the United States”. It’s the list of violent storm warming, heat …
News can be a poison sometimes. Newspaper owners learned years ago that people buy frightening headlines. The motto of TV news: if it bleeds, it leads. The most horrific stories get top billing. We all need to turn away from time to time, …