This program explores how green leaders are converting to climate activism. And how you can move from spectator to citizen action. You’ll hear Forest Ethics co-Founder Tzeporah Berman in a moving speech, going to a new climate group Power Up Canada. United Church …
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This Radio Ecoshock – with something you can’t live without: food. No, we haven’t invented edible radio – but we’ll introduce you to a homesteading woman who’s brought out her second book on surviving the worst of times. Are you worried about the …
[Opening clip: I just want to get a megaphone, and yell to people entering the Mall “It isn’t in there.”] That is Cecile Andrews – and she’s right. Happiness is not in the shopping mall, never was. I’m Alex Smith, this is Radio …
Every day tankers and pipelines carry black gold to power industrial society. The coal trains and ships deliver more carbon for the great bonfire of humanity. We know for a certainty, if we keep on burning it all, our planet will become hot, …
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. Today you’ll hear two green broadcasters meet on air. Matt and Alex ask how cities can work in the climate energy crunch. Should you get out – and what can we learn from the back-to-the-land movement of the late …
This is Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. The bad news just keeps on coming. Just as America began to recognize torture, swine flu wipes away the slate. Everybody just wants to talk about pandemic. We know pandemics will come. More than half the …
American cities in decay. Refugees not from New Orleans after Katrina. This is a different kind of Hurricane. A trifecta of climate change, high oil prices and the real estate bubble leaves abandoned holes from Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and beyond. I’m Alex Smith, …
The banks are doing great. The stock market is up 25 percent. Happy Days Are Here Again! Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the White Star Titanic. We are not sinking, there are plenty of lifeboats, please go back to an evening of fine …
You have just heard rioting hit the central banks of London during the G20 conference, set to Dirty Town from Mother Mother. This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith. The world is quietly burning with discontent as corporate schemes go bad. Industry and …
Some big icons like General Motors go crash, but most of it just goes quietly, with little announcement. I’m talking about all the small shops going dark, the once-famous magazines gone and hardly remembered. Just a couple of years ago, I wished I’d …
Radio Ecoshock moves from Washington and Wall Street all the way to tent city. We’ll hear from the homeless – and from the new breed of independent citizen reporters who will replace the dying newspapers and gutted TV newsrooms. The financial news is …
In last week’s Radio Ecoshock Show, we talked with Professor Michael T. Klare, about the looming possibility of social instability or riots, even here in North America. Can’t happen here? There was a riot in downtown Montreal, Canada on March 15th. The march …