Radio Ecoshock Show

Series produced by Alex Smith

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Weekly one hour program on the environment, Peak Oil, energy solutions in a hard economy. Interviews with, and speech excerpt from, top scientists, authors, and activists. Fourth year on the air, syndicated to over 20 stations, in the U.S. and Canada. Intended audience is the English-speaking world.

Radio-ready pro grade audio. Burn it and run it, for a weekly program, late-night slots, or occasional fill-in. Long shelf-life for each show.

Contains no station ID's of FCC-provoking language. Often has a music tail that can be cut, if you wish to insert your own station ID's. Or just run it.


26 Pieces

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Dark Conspiracies of the Gulf
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Dr. Jack Alpert
Rumors, myth, and conspiracy pour out of the Gulf Gusher. Alex investigates. Plus Stanford Research's Jack Alpert explains "time blindness" - why w...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
HEAT STROKE: When Heat Kills
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Radio Ecoshock
Scientists predict more deadly heat waves. Now they have found the upper limit our bodies tolerate - and we'll get there if we don't stop our emiss...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2010
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 2
Is Humanity Unsustainable?
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Dr. William Rees
The co-inventor of "the ecological footprint" now calls for a planned contraction of the economy, to save the biosphere and promote world fairness....

  • Added: Jun 14, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
The Coming Greenhouse World
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Dr. Melanie Lenart
We are drilling, mining, and burning our way to a horrible climate shift. Can Gaia save us? Dr. Melanie Lenart, U of Arizona on her book "Life in t...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: May 23, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Degrowth - Planned Contraction
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Rex Weyler
1st North American Degrowth Conference April 2010, Vancouver. Intro by Rex Weyler. Tom Walker on Barcelona Conf. Overview of peak fossil fuels by A...

  • Added: May 13, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
Gulf Spill Special
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Richard Heinberg
Riki Ott, marine biologist, fisherwoman, spill expert, reports from New Orleans. Antonia Juhasz, Global Exchange, on BP & D.C. lobby. Peak Oil guru...

  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
From Occupied Earth
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Nikolas Kozloff
Nikolas Kozloff on South America eco-news (Venezuela, Boliva) & drying of Amazon. Dr. Deirdre Barrett of Harvard, author of "Supernormal Stimuli," ...

  • Added: May 02, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
Black Carbon Vs. Climate & Health
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Tami Bond
Up to half of warming & Arctic ice melt comes from smog by cook stoves, diesels & forest fires. Interview with expert Dr. Tami Bond. Summary of Tes...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Back to the Land!
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Severine Fleming
Aging farmers, a threatened food system & desire for good food are driving a new wave of local growing. Severine Fleming of Greenhorns talks young ...

Bought by 'The Sea', KVMR, and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Unknown Climate
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: David W. Orr
Can we predict it? Unknown tipping points, with Dr. Alan Hastings. Dr. David Orr, author of "Down to the Wire: confronting climate collapse." Plus ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
Gimme (Low Energy) Shelter
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Guido Wimmers
Special on super low-energy building. Architect Guido Wimmers on "Passivhaus" (Canada's first); Tom Pittsley on solar mass windows (sun heat in Mas...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
Dark Optimism
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Shaun Chamberlin
How do we handle Peak Oil AND climate change? Shaun Chamberlin from UK Transition Towns, energy writer Kurt Cobb, plus Heinberg on renewable hope, ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
Navigating the slump...and coming out whole.
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Carolyn Baker
The triple threat: economy, climate, Peak Oil. Kurt Cobb on navigating collapse. Carolyn Baker on psychological strength confronting chaos. Graham ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2010
  • Length: 52:58
Our Product Is Doubt
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton "Requiem for a Species, Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change." Stanford's Prof. Stephen Schneider on death threats, & from S...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
Expecting Collapse
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Dmitri Orlov
It's the new hot meme: we are going down. Interview with Dmitry Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse", and John Michael Greer, "The Long Descent"...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
On The Road to Extinction
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Mark Pagani
Scientists worry climate shift could lead to 6th mass extinction. New science from the past & the present. Interview with Yale's Mark Pagani, paper...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hot Climate Activism
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Ted Nace
Ted Nace, author of "Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal" - how 90 coal plants were stopped. Gavin Edwards, climate campaign...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
Buying Into A Dying World
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Erik Assadourian
Interview Erik Assadourian on Worldwatch State of the World 2010 Report (transforming cultures from consumerism to sustainability). Then David Satt...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2010
  • Length: 53:05
Toward the Collapse
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Dr. Tim Garrett Utah U.
Must the economy fail, to save the climate & biosphere? Should we help kick it over? Utah U. Prof Tim Garrett figures climate catastrophe is unstop...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Feb 06, 2010
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 1
Climate in the Sixth Extinction
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Dr. Jonathan Patz
Interview with Dr. Jonathan Patz - physician & expert on health impacts of climate change. Already deadly, & not just in the developing world. Plus...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2010
  • Length: 54:00

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