Australian scientist James Watson, who is influential globally, gives us the bad news: since the 1990’s on planet Earth we just lost 10 percent of the wilderness. Then Canadian author & teacher Peter Denton takes us deep into our role as possibilities in …
LEARN MORETHE 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 …
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 …
Radio Ecoshock interview with Alex Smith, February 11, 2011 When 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 …
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 …
How to make buildings that use 10% of current energy needs. Here is a bonanza of links you want for this Radio Ecoshock special on Passivhaus and Net Zero construction, including two free workshops. The full workshop by Guido Wimmers on Passivhaus, held …
NOTE: A FULL BLOG WITH ALL THE LINKS WILL BE POSTED THURSDAY APRIL 1ST Unless you are a farmer or one of the last rugged outdoors adventurers, 90 percent of your time on Earth is spent inside buildings. We are snails who don’t …
FST746RWSN87 Attics, basements, and garages are loaded with the plunder of past shopping. Some people rent storage lockers just to hold all their extra stuff. Dumps are filling up with brand new items, never used, but tossed out. There’s even a TV show …
I tossed this recording of “Greening Portland” into a small line at the bottom of last week’s Radio Ecoshock blog, thinking maybe a few people would be interested. To my shock, over 400 people downloaded it within two days! I didn’t know that …