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This page has general environmental audio clips. Additional clips within specific eco categories can be found on some of the themed pages listed in the index

Similarly, more health-related audio clips can be found on the Food/Nutrition audio clips page.

Living on Earth

Clearcutting and Chemicals — 04 May 2012 — After clearcutting, timber companies in Oregon spray the land with herbicides to prevent growth of unwanted species---that is, anything but the single tree species they will replant for the next clearcutting cycle. Though companies target the pesticides to their owned acreage, wind drift and water contamination make it inevitable that these chemicals find their way to neighboring land. Residents are worried that the chemicals are affecting their health.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   15:51

11.11 with Simran Singh

The Ecological Crisis and Active Hope — 26 Apr 2012 — The crisis of ecological sustainability unfolding in our world often drives people to one of two extreme positions: hopelessness, that nothing can be done; or denial, that there is no problem. Chris Johnstone says that in-between there lies our best response---"active hope," which involves being clear in defining what we hope for and then playing our role in the process of bringing that about.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   57:55

Sea Change Radio

In the Shadow of the Smokestacks — 24 Apr 2012 — Richmond, California is one of the many communities in America where economic and environmental injustice intersect. The Chevron Richmond Refinery saddles the area with chemical leaks and warnings for residents not to leave their homes. Greg Karras describes the local environment and the fight against the refinery's unnecessarily polluting practices.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:00

NPR

Texas Battling Pollution From Poultry Production — 02 May 2012 — Texas has become the sixth biggest state in poultry production, with some operations processing a million chickens per week. But more chickens and processing mean more waste and pollution.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:42

11.11 with Simran Singh

Addressing Health Issues with Mind-Body-Chakra Work — 03 May 2012 — The most sophisticated tests can't always find the source of a health issue, but there is one authority that always knows---your own body. "We intuitively perceive what we need for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing," explains Marie Manuchehri, a medical intuitive. "The biggest challenge for most of us is learning to trust our inner guidance." Manuchehri, a registered nurse, offers patients instructions to help them tune into your health at a deeper level.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   56:39

Red Ice Radio

Matthew Stein:  How We Got Into This Mess — 19 Apr 2012 — Mat Stein is best know as a guru of doom prepdom and for his warnings of big-ticket collapse scenarios like solar EMPs. But here he gives a very clear-headed summary of how we arrived at this ecological precipice: Fundamentally, the system incentivizes corporations (and politicians and the populace) towards environmental destruction. The logic of the trap is inescapable.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:30

Orion

Nature—False Idyll — 25 Apr 2012 — James MacKinnon reads aloud from his latest essay for Orion, "False Idyll." He says we have subverted our conception of nature to the parts of it we're comfortable with, losing sight of what it truly is.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   22:41

Beyond 50

Bryan Welch:  Beautiful, Abundant, Fair, and Contagious — 12 Apr 2012 — Welch, the head guy at Mother Earth News and a number of other media projects, discusses his thoughts on the best way to go about building the world we want. He notes that the traditional scare tactics of the environmental movement—however well grounded in facts—has not worked. Get people excited about innovative solutions is the only way to make it happen.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   33:49

NPR

Polar Bears, Melting Ice, and Species Preservation — 03 Apr 2012 — Polar bears depend on sea ice, but that habitat is slowly disintegrating. The bears do sometimes hunt on land but cannot feed themselves sufficiently in that environment alone. Zoos are trying to figure out the best way to keep a number of them in captivity—to preserve the gene pool.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:09

Sierra Club Radio

Additional Panther Habitat Protected — 07 Apr 2012 — There are only 100-150 Florida panthers left. A new multi-party agreement will help protect panther habitat and extend their available range of movement.
Download/listen to this segment   6:14
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Living On Earth

The Continuing Plight of the Sage Grouse — 13 Apr 2012 — An update to a story about the Sage Grouse and how an unlikely alliance has come together to protect the bird, without putting it on the federal endangered species list.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:18

Radio EcoShock

The Scandal of the Tar Sands — 10 Apr 2012 — David Schindler, an internationally renowned scientist working in Canada, talks about his team's research into pollution from the tar sands in Canada. Topics include increases in cancer in local Native peoples; heavy metals and toxic polycarbonates being spewed from smoke stacks; and tar-sands companies spending 100 times more on green-sounding marketing than they are on environmental protection.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   31:00

NPR

New Anti-Lice Machine Swaps Hot Air for Pesticides — 09 Apr 2012 — An expert on lice has come up with a new machine that gives a 30-minute treatment of hot air and kills both lice and eggs, avoiding the need for nasty treatments with chemical pesticides.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:03

Free Speech Radio News

In India's Rajasthan State, Villagers Fight Polluting Industries — 05 Apr 2012 — Environmental degradation is a growing concern in modern India. And common people are bearing the brunt of the problem. Some villagers in western India's Rajasthan state recently won a legal case against industries that were polluting their land and water. Neighboring villagers are awaiting justice in a similar case still in court.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:37

Living On Earth

Autism—What Portion Genetic, What Portion Environmental? — 06 Apr 2012 — New research has identified genetic risk factors for children to develop autism. But that still leaves the question of what triggers the onset. Other research suggests a correlation between exposure to chemicals and pollution.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:19

CounterSpin

Don't Fracking Believe It — 06 Apr 2012 — You've heard the gas industry PR—their ads are all over television and public radio. And the message—that gas drilling is a safe, affordable path to energy independence—is being echoed by some pundits. Anti-fracking activists think otherwise, and they're challenging the media-industry line.
Page to download entire show  |  Download/listen to this segment   8:02

Living On Earth

Mining Leads to Personal Poisonings — 13 Apr 2012 — Mining often causes water and air pollution that affects surrounding communities. But there is also a direct pollution component that can affect miners directly, from lead exposure for gold miners in Nigeria to silicosis for miners in South Africa.
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NPR

Mining the Ocean Floor — 02 Apr 2012 — Nautilus Minerals of Australia hopes to develop and expand undersea mining by extracting copper, gold, silver and zinc from the seafloor. Environmentalists are, um, less enthusiastic.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:50

(GP comment:  Gotta love the specious "better than mining it on land" argument.)

NPR

Rising Fuel Prices Driving FedEx to EVs, Biofuels, and NatGas — 02 Apr 2012 — FedEx burns 1.5 billion gallons a year of petroleum-based fuels, which means its bottom line is sensitive to oil price swings. This has the company looking hard at a future of all-electric in-city vehicles, long-haul trucks that run on natural gas, and planes flying on algal fuels.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:32

(GP comment:  Yada yada. This is typical green-energy utopian thinking that cannot succeed in the long run.)

You Bet Your Garden

Rain Gardens Improve Water Management and Add Beauty — 07 Apr 2012 — Lynn Steiner talks about how to incorporate rain gardens into your yard to improve water management, reduce runoff pollution, and add beauty to your property. Her book is Rain Gardens—Sustainable Landscaping for a Beautiful Yard and a Healthy World. ~~ Other topics in this show include: volunteer fruit trees from the compost pile; using reeaally old manure; understanding mushroom compost; the toxic problem of "tire mulch."
Download/Listen   52:15
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One Radio Network

Reactive Arthritis, Leaky Gut Syndrome, and the Cure — 09 Apr 2012 — Chronic joint pain is in some cases related to intestinal issues and food sensitivities. Barbara Allan explains how addressing these problems can completely resolve reactive arthritis and improve rheumatoid arthritis symptoms in some cases.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   52:18

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
-- Conquering Arthritis, by Barbara Allan

One Radio Network

Pharmageddon—The Hijacking of Healthcare in America — 09 Apr 2012 — Dr. David Healy explains how pharmaceutical companies have hijacked healthcare in America. In the US, $3 trillion per year is spent on health care, but health outcomes are quite low relative to other modern countries. Worse still, side effects are becoming a leading killer and treating them now takes up 20% of health care expenditures. How did the drug companies capture our doctors and medical care?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:07:56

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
-- Pharmageddon, by David Healy

Corbett Report

Genetic Engineering, Bioethics, and Scientific Hucksterism — 03 Apr 2012 — Jon Rappoport of NoMoreFakeNews.com discusses the academic discipline of bioethics, particularly as it pertains to genetic engineering. Themes include the false debate about money as a determinative tool in life and death situations, the roots of these problems in the eugenics mindset, and the brave new world of genetic pre-selection—for those who can pay.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   31:50

Living On Earth

The Battle Over Antibiotic Use on the Farm — 06 Apr 2012 — Eighty percent of all antibiotics in the US are being used for continual low-dosing of non-sick farm animals. This is helping create super-bugs that taint food and is partly to blame for reduced effectiveness of similar drugs in humans.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:19

Uprising

The Link Between Low-Dose Chemical Exposure and Ill Health — 28 Mar 2012 — Elizabeth Grossman, author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, gives an excellent short summary of the status of chemicals in consumer products, with a focus on endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can have negative effects at doses lower than classic toxicological tests indicate are not harmful. She covers regulations, labeling, and how to avoid chemicals in your life.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   15:52

Connect the Dots

Silent Spring in Your Home—Chemicals in Everyday Consumer Products — 14 Mar 2012 — Robin E. Dodson, a research scientist with the Silent Spring Institute, discusses a new study that reviews the chemical components of everyday consumer products like shampoos, sunscreens, laundry detergents, and cleaners. Many of these products contain hormone disruptors and chemicals linked to asthma.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   54:42

Nutrition Diva

Are Chemicals and Pollution Making Us Fat? — 21 Mar 2012 — Monica Reinagel examines the role that pollution, chemicals, and other environmental toxins are playing in the struggle to keep body weight at healthy levels.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:20

Free Speech Radio News

Pesticide Company Pulls Methyl Iodide from The US Market — 23 Mar 2012 — After years of activism, pesticide watchdog groups have prevailed in the battle to halt the use of toxic methyl iodide on farm fields, including those where a majority of US strawberries are grown. The manufacturer of methyl iodide has suspended all US sales.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:11

Uprising

How Big-Name Conservation Groups Are Selling Out to Corporations — 28 Mar 2012 — Bio-scientist Jonathan Latham delves deeper into the issue of greenwashing among some of the best known groups working on conservation of species and habitat. Are ties to major corporations like Coca Cola, Bank of America, and Monsanto undermining the stated principles of groups like the World Wildlife Fund?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   15:59

You Bet Your Garden

Update on Bats — 24 Mar 2012 — Hazel Barton discusses bats—their voracious pest eating, the latest on white-nose fungus and bat numbers, and how you can help bats by building bat houses. ~~ Other topics in the show include ideas for a basic garden for beginners; solarizing to kill a patch of tough weeds; and tips for growing great carrots.
Download/Listen   52:14
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Living On Earth

The World's Largest Wildlife Conservation Area — 30 Mar 2012 — Eleven countries in the Sahel region of Africa have an initiative to plant a 4,300-mile-long "wall of trees" across the continent, aiming to hold back the sands of the Sahara.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:22

Living On Earth

Packaging Materials from Mushrooms — 23 Mar 2012 — A company is using the roots from mushrooms grown in agricultural waste to grow environmentally friendly packaging material—at a lower cost than petroleum-based packing materials like polystyrene, the recycler's nightmare.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:09

NPR

Process Converts Waste Plastic Into Oil — 19 Mar 2012 — Only 7 percent of plastic waste in the United States is recycled each year. A startup company in Niagara Falls says it can increase that amount and add some domestic oil production back into the US energy mix.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:45

Free Speech Radio News

In Oaxaca, Mining and Murder Pile on Top of Drug Violence — 30 Mar 2012 — Much of the recent international attention on Oaxaca, Mexico has come as a result of the violence from the so-called drug war. But since 2006, indigenous opposition to mining operations has sometimes resulted in a violent push-back, leaving communities fearful as they contend with the environmental effects of the mines.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:56

NPR

Native Alaskans Divided On State's Oil Drilling Debate — 20 Mar 2012 — Shell Oil plans to explore for oil off Alaska's north coast this summer. The native people of Alaska have a big stake in both oil revenue and environmental protection—and that is a source of internal conflict.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:47

(GP comment:  And the lesson here is that it's very hard to get off the oil-banking-warfare teat, even for eco-minded individuals.)

Science Friday

Electric Vehicle Update — 23 Mar 2012 — Though the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf entered the market to fanfare, the battery-powered cars haven't been selling as quickly as hybrid models such as the Toyota Prius. Several industry experts discuss the state of electric car technology, from batteries to charging stations, and what it might take to encourage drivers to make the shift.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:21

Living On Earth

Endocrine Disruptors in Food Containers and Personal Care Products — 16 Mar 2012 — Rather than being directly toxic, endocrine disrupting chemicals mimic hormones and send the body's systems down dark alleys and off high cliffs. They work at very, very low levels, and the are in lots of products.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:16

A Better World

Green Power Roundtable — 05 Mar 2012 — An interesting discussion among energy systems innovators who are using novel, super-high-efficiency components to achieve efficiencies of 90% in wind power.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   55:34

(GP comment:  But will it all integrate and scale? My advice: Hope for the clean-power techno-utopia but prepare for the polluted, constrained-energy future.)

GroAction

WasteFarmers—Transforming City Food Waste into Compost and Profit — 05 Mar 2012 — John-Paul Maxfield of WasteFarmers explains how he created a thriving business by turning food scraps into soil.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:22

Living On Earth

Urban Tree Cover Declining — 09 Mar 2012 — A new US Forest Service study shows tree cover in 20 US cities is declining rapidly.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:38

Living On Earth

More Rainforest Falling to Hydro Power — 16 Mar 2012 — The Brazilian government has proposed to re-map the Amazon, removing protection for more than 200,000 acres of rainforest to make way for hydroelectric dams.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:30

Living On Earth

Using Cameras Drones to Fight Deforestation, Poaching, and Habitat Destruction — 16 Mar 2012 — Drones armed with cameras are a new weapon to fight deforestation, animal poaching and habitat destruction. Scientist Lian Pin Koh explains the conservation value of these miniature observation platforms.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:18

Boiling Frogs

Barbara Loe Fisher on US Government Mandatory Vaccination Laws — 24 Feb 2012 — In a free society, one would think that there would be no such thing as forced medical procedures. But more and more, a person who thinks vaccines aren't the right choice for their child faces big problems. Barbara Loe Fisher discusses the extraordinary number of vaccines being given to children these days, statistical benefits vs. individual risks, the influence of Big Pharma, and the coming era of forced vaccinations for all.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   53:19

TED Talks

Atrazine, Chemicals, and The Toxic Baby — Feb 2012 — Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer and scientist Tyrone Hayes discuss the human and species effects of Atrazine, one of the most commonly used agricultural herbicides, which has pronounced hormone-disrupting effects. The evidence of serious problems from just this one chemical—let alone the tens of thousands of other legally registered chemicals used in consumer products, industrial processes, and food production—should have us banging heads.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   17:47

Unwelcome Guests

Anima Mundi — 18 Feb 2012 — The major part of this episode is a radio adaptation of the film Anima Mundi, a film that explores the systemic crisis we face—we know the system is broken and will eventually fail, but we are so depended on it, we think we cannot get rid of it. Meanwhile, the planet's life support systems continue changing in a way that will not be good for humans (and many other species). The remainder of the episode features a Wendell Berry essay on land use and the fallacy of modern farming as a triumph, as well as a short reading from David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years.
REF PAGE:  Go to page
PART 1:  Download/Listen   59:30
PART 2:  Download/Listen   59:30

NPR

Massey Officials Charged In 2010 Coal Mine Blast — 22 Feb 2012 — Federal prosecutors have unveiled more criminal charges in the West Virginia explosion that killed 29 workers. The new charges involve officials at former mine owner Massey Energy who were directly responsible for managing the Upper Big Branch mine.
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(GP comment:  We'll see if the prosecutorial push really goes all the way to Don Blankenship, or whether TPTB will decide they've found a fall guy at level that will satisfy the public's sense of justice.)

Free Speech Radio News

Argentineans Continue Their Protests Against Local Mines — 24 Feb 2012 — In Argentina, several thousand anti-mining protesters shut down traffic in central Buenos Aires as they marched from the Plaza del Congreso to the historic Plaza de May, voicing their opposition to copper and gold mining operations that are contaminating local water and crops.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:54

NPR

Good News/Bad News Bears — 20 Feb 2012 — The good news for black bears is that they have healthy populations that continue to expand in the US. The bad news is that not everyone is happy about bears in the back yard.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:44

Sierra Club Radio

The Caring Vegan vs. The Mindful Carnivore — 18 Feb 2012 — Is it possible that there is a strategy for eating meat that is better for the environment and animal welfare than vegetarianism? Tovar Cerulli, a former vegan, makes the case.
Page to download whole show  |  Listen/download this segment   10:26

Sea Change Radio

Marvels and Miseries—Public Transportation vs. Individual Driving — 14 Feb 2012 — Tom Vanderbilt examines mass transit options and personal vehicles from various angles—convenience, time efficiency, cost efficiency, and enjoyment. There are some surprising observations, and the personal auto does not always come out on top.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:00

TED Talks

Treating Cancer with Electric Fields — Feb 2012 — A new method for treating cancer uses electric fields to interrupt cancer cell division. These "tumor treating fields" block cellular division—which is what cancer cells are up to—without affecting the non-dividing cells of healthy tissues. uses electric fields to interrupt cancer cell division. Compared to surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, the side effects are minimal.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   15:29

NPR

When Does an Environmentalist Become a Terrorist? — 21 Feb 2012 — Marshall Curry, director of the documentary If A Tree Falls—A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, discusses the film and the case of an ELF member who is now in prison. More generally, he discusses how terrorism laws and punishment regimes are being applied to cases of property destruction even though by intention no humans were threatened or harmed.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   13:34

Sea Change Radio

Walmart—Green or Greed? — 07 Feb 2012 — Does Walmart deserve its reputation as a poor employer whose ultra-globalized model is bad for workers and the environment? Or is Walmart turning itself around with recent initiatives to improve its environmental impact by cutting back on energy use and reducing packaging? In part 1, environmental writer Stacy Mitchell offers the negative view of Walmart's sustainability efforts, and in part 2, reporter Marc Gunther opines that the world's problems will have to be solved with corporate giants like Walmart as partners, and their efforts to date are a good start.
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Sierra Club Radio

Obama Protects Grand Canyon Area — 04 Feb 2012 — Fran Hunt from the Sierra Club's Resilient Habitats campaign discusses Obama's decision to protect more than a million acres around the Grand Canyon from mining and other development activities. ~~ Tacked onto the end of this clip are short pieces about clean energy awareness on campus, green cleaning tips, and using kale in winter meals.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   14:22

One Radio Network

Dr. Kenneth Fine on Gluten Intolerance — 31 Jan 2012 — Gluten sensitivity is the process by which the immune system reacts to gluten contained in wheat, barley, rye, and oats. The reaction begins in the intestine but can cause chronic inflammation and other problems in other parts of the body. Dr. Kenneth Fine offers a comprehensive review of gluten, gluten sensitivities, how to be tested, and dietary considerations for avoiding gluten.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   54:59

Quirks and Quarks

This Is Your Brain on Meditation — 28 Jan 2012 — Dr. Judson Brewer explains research showing how meditation affects brain activity. Using MRIs, he studied experienced and novice meditators, and found that meditation did seem to reduce activity in the parts of the brain that are associated with mind wandering and extraneous, often-negative thoughts.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:58

NPR

The 'Morning After' Pill—For When 'Plan A' Fails — 06 Feb 2012 — There are times when a woman's chosen birth control measure fails or, in the heat of the moment, is simply not used. For dealing with the next-day uh-ohs, the most popular brand of emergency contraception is called "Plan B One-Step," and it's available over-the-counter (with proof that you're 17 or older). This clip explains how the product works and how often it's used by women today.
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Living on Earth

Chemicals and Health — 17 Feb 2012 — There are tens of thousands of chemicals in everyday products. Only a fraction of these have been tested for toxicity and health effects in the US. Richard Denison of the Environmental Defense Fund discusses news studies that raise troubling health questions.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   10:04

C-Realm Podcast

"No More Fake News" on Health Issues — 15 Feb 2012 — Jon Rappoport of NoMoreFakeNews discusses the institution of medicine as the religion of the modern age. During 30 years of investigative journalism, Jon has asked questions that few journalists dare to ask. ~~ KMO concludes with a reading of the essay "Introducing the Cultural Psychopomp."
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

Democracy Now

The Politics of Fracking and Water Contamination — 02 Feb 2012 — As citizens in areas affected by natural gas fracking find more and more water contamination, both the president and a majority in congress seem intent on still more fracking. Interviewees here include Gasland filmmaker Josh Fox, who was handcuffed and arrested in early February as he attempted to film a congressional hearing on the controversial drilling technique, as well as Wyoming farmer John Fenton, who already has more than two dozen gas wells on his property.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   27:07

NPR

Upstart Car Service Butts Heads With D.C.'s Taxis — 31 Jan 2012 — A new service called Uber lets you request a car from a mobile phone and pay for it by credit card. It's available in several cities, including D.C. But the service is finding a roadblock to success—the D.C. cab commission.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:10

WNYC / The Leonard Lopate Show

The State of Fresh Water Around the Globe — 25 Jan 2012 — Upmanu Lall of the Columbia Water Center and Sandra Postel of the Global Water Policy Project discuss the state of fresh water around the globe. Topics include desalination, regional differences in freshwater availability, energy's relationship to water, and externalized costs of water use.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   40:15

NPR

Pythons Blamed For Everglade's Disappearing Animals — 31 Jan 2012 — The Florida Everglades are infested with Burmese pythons, which are not native to the area. Scientists have discovered the pythons are having a devastating impact on the populations of local wildlife.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:30

Living On Earth

New Transportation Bill—Trying to Sustain the Unsustainable — 03 Feb 2012 — The proposed US legislation would encourage private companies to build toll roads alongside federal highways, cut Amtrak subsidies and pay for infrastructure with money from new oil drilling. Past transportation bills have supported bicycling and walking infrastructure, but this one threatens both.
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Part 2:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:27

GP comment:  Apparently they did not get the memo—The Auto Age has peaked.

Orion Magazine

The Planet's Going Down—Are You Ready to Fight? — 19 Jan 2012 — We find ourselves in an outrageously beautiful and weird place where we can appreciate the conceptual beauty of the planet but seem incapable of acting in ways that preserve it. The vast majority of environmentalists are "market-based environmentalists," attempting to minimize their damage in a system that is utterly destructive and doomed to self-annihilation. That's not going to be good enough. Panelists include Paul Kingsnorth, Lierre Keith, and David Abram.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:04:13

Beyond 50

Naomi Call:  Fountain of Youth Exercises — 20 Jan 2012 — Naomi Call discusses the secrets of aging gracefully. She draws upon the wisdom of yoga, chi practitioners and indigenous people, melding mind-body practice with nutrition.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   37:27

Sea Change Radio

The US Chamber of Commerce—The Nation's Top Pollution Advocacy Group — 17 Jan 2012 — What is the United States Chamber of Commerce? Many Americans hold the misconception that it's a government agency. It's not. Rather, it's the most significant lobbying group in the United States, and it's almost always a formidable foe of environmental protections. Environmental ethicist Philip Cafaro explains the role that the Chamber plays in promoting constant growth, and how that premise inherently contradicts environmental sustainability.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:00

NPR

Cleaner Air in L.A. Port Comes at a Cost To Truckers — 18 Jan 2012 — Big rigs coming into the port of Los Angeles have been one of the most significant sources of air pollution in California for many years. But now new emissions standards have cut down on air pollution from the trucks. But truckers aren't happy with how much of the cost has been put on them.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:57

New Recycling Company Springs From Old Mattresses — 18 Jan 2012 — Old mattresses are among the worst kinds of household waste—most recycling companies won't touch them, and landfills would rather not have them either. But a new business in Nashville that started as a college project hopes to move mattress recycling into the mainstream.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:48

Sea Change Radio

Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity — 11 Jan 2012 — Ecologist Eric Berlow discusses how understanding the complexity of a system can point to a simple key that will unlock a solution to fixing a problem in the system. This can apply to many things in the world, including ecosystems.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:59

NPR

Labs Size Up New Guidelines For Rodent Cages — 16 Jan 2012 — Scientists do experiments with millions of rats and mice each year, to study everything from heart disease to cancer and diabetes. Recently, some new recommendations about how to house female lab rodents and their babies caused an uproar.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:47

(GP comment:  True to form, NPR avoids any discussion of the real animal welfare issue—whether it is moral for us to use other species in a way that inflicts intentional, chronic harm on them.)

NPR

Fracking Fingered in Ohio Earthquakes — 03 Jan 2012 — Seismologist John Armbruster explains the evidence that natural-gas fracking in Ohio has led to the earthquakes there. He says the injection of waste water from the fracking process created pressure on nearby faults, and he expects the quakes to continue—even after the process is stopped.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:21

Living On Earth

Fracking Wastewater Found in Pennsylvania Rivers — 06 Jan 2012 — Bromide has been found in Pennsylvania rivers, a likely side-effect of hydraulic fracturing during natural gas operations in the Marcellus Shale.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:33

New Recommendations for Lead Levels in Children — 06 Jan 2012 — An advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended a substantially lower standard for blood lead levels in children.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:33

Quirks and Quarks

Polar Bears and Sea Ice — 17 Dec 2011 — The greatest symbol of the Arctic is the polar bear. Its sheer size, its power, and its majestic bearing are emblems of the vastness, remoteness, and ruggedness of the frozen north. But the polar bear is in trouble—serious trouble. Dr. Ian Stirling discusses the iconic animal's habits, hunting techniques, and habitat, and ponders polar bears' uncertain future in a warming world.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   18:25

Quirks and Quarks

Anti-Mosquito Bedding—From Waaaaaay Long Ago — 10 Dec 2011 — The oldest known bedding used by humans was recently found by archaeologists at a site north of Durban in South Africa. The bedding is 77,000 years old and comprised of stems and leaves of sedges, rushes and grasses that have insecticidal properties.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:24

You Not-So-Dirty Rat — 10 Dec 2011 — A new study suggests that it's time to re-evaluate our prejudices against the rat. It turns out they are empathetic, sensitive, and altruistic—at least to other rats.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   10:06

The Natural Nurse

Kelly Dorfman:  What's Eating Your Child? — 07 Nov 2011 — Dorfman discusses problem eaters, bad nutrition, and sleep disorders, drawing a direct connection to childhood health and behavior problems. She explains how to gradually work your child back to good habits, good health, more happiness, and better school performance.
Download/Listen   45:23

Living On Earth

Feeding a Growing Population — 21 Oct 2011 — As the world's population closes in on 7 billion, Janet Ranganathan of the World Resources Institute discusses strategies to sustainably feed the growing number of hungry humans. Her three-step plan is: reestablish agro-forestry practices in developing countries, improve degraded land, and reduce food waste. Her solutions do not include high dependence on chemical inputs or patented high-tech seeds.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:36

One Radio Network

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The Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Pollution — 20 Oct 2011 — Magda Havas comments on the following questions and more.... What are the health effects of cell phones and home internet routers? Do the heavy-duty wireless routers being installed in schools pose a health threat to teachers and students? What can be done to combat the increasing electronic miasma in which we're forced to live?
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Radio EcoShock

7 Billion + Energy Workshop — 19 Oct 2011 — (1) Robert Walker of the Population Institute discusses the world with 7 billion people. When we hit 6 billion people—just 12 years ago in 1999!—the economy and hopes for climate action were much brighter. ~~ (2) Bill Kemp offers an audio version of a home energy workshop.
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Oil and the Dirty Lying Bastards — 12 Oct 2011 — Topics include... Resistance to gas fracking ~~ An unreported panic expedition to the Arctic to measure "methane torches" ~~ A new film calls the oil industry "Dirty Lying Bastards" ~~ Peter F. Sale on coral collapse and the current mass extinction of species.
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One Radio Network

Dr. Sherry Rogers on the Sins of Western Medicine — 12 Sep 2011 — On the question of whether pharmaceuticals are a blessing for fixing health or a scourge for their rampant side effects, Dr. Rogers comes down firmly on the side of "scourge." And she cites the research to prove it.
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

Peter F. Sale:  Our Dying Planet and the Shootout at the Not-OK Coral — 12 Sep 2011 — Sale discusses the converging ecological and resource crises that will combine to change life as we know it. He gives an in-depth review of the problems affecting coral, a poster child for global ecological abuses.
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Awakening To Conscious Co-Creation

Ayurveda and the Golden Oasis of Healing — 24 Aug 2011 — Dr. Jayanath Abeywickrama is the main Ayurvedic physician of Rankema Ayurveda Centre in Sri Lanka and possesses rare and valuable knowledge of traditional medicine. With proper training and practice, the Ayurvedic diagnosis and medicine, combined with mediation and mental intention, offers strong healing power and other capabilities.
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Democracy Now

Can Civil Disobedience Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline? — 23 Aug 2011 — Environmental activists protesting at the White House have been arrested as they called on the Obama administration to reject a permit for the 1700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project, which would deliver Canada tar sands oil to refineries in Texas, calling instead for a focus on developing clean energy.
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NPR

Energy Dept. Panel Wants Answers On Fracking — 11 Aug 2011 — A US Department of Energy panel hopes new recommendations—if implemented—will restore the public's trust in hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" for natural gas.  (GP comment:  The role of DOE and EPA these days is largely that of protecting and promoting industry, not regulating it—hence the effort here to convince the public there's no problem rather than going after an extraction technology that obviously pollutes groundwater. Both agencies are captured.
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C-Realm Podcast

Biochar Revisited + Kinder, Gentler Capital Markets — 10 Aug 2011 — (1) Albert Bates and Carolyn Hoagland discuss soil bio-structures and the use of biochar, including refutation of the criticisms among some greens of biochar. (2) Kevin Jones talks about using appropriate technology and kinder/gentler capital markets as tools for improving the human condition.
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NPR

Water Wars at Lake Tahoe — 26 Jul 2011 — California, Nevada, developers, and environmentalists are at odds on how to best protect the pristine waters of Lake Tahoe.  (Who would have every guessed?!! --GP)
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Radio EcoShock

Stop Signs—Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social, and Ecological Decay — 06 Jul 2011 — Yves Engler discusses the North American addiction to private automobiles, how this has been fostered at every turn by the "car bunch," and how we can move towards transportation solutions that are sustainable and that will heal the psycho-social damage wrought be the Auto Age.
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Gary Null Show

Chemtrails, Nanotechnology and Human Health — 07 Jul 2011 — Rosalind Peterson and Dr. Hildegarde Staninger discuss the scientific evidence for the health impacts of chemtrails and nanotechnology. Topics include biological monitoring, xenobiotics, Morgellons Disease, experimental weather modification programs, and geo-engineering.
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Living On Earth

War's Toll on Afghanistan's Environment — 08 Jul 2011 — From the Soviet occupation to the US invasion, 30 years of war in Afghanistan have devastated the country's environment and infrastructure, from the water canals to the air quality to the latent radiation from US munitions.
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

Jeffrey Smith:  Looking for the 5% Tipping Point on Frankenfood — 16 Jun 2011 — Jeffrey Smith provides his typically excellent update on the latest findings on the dangers of genetically modified (GM) food. For instance, Bt toxin from GM corn is showing up in the blood of women and fetuses, casting serious doubt on Monsanto's health safety claims. Meanwhile, the US congress is tussling over an amendment that would prohibit the FDA from approving genetically engineered salmon. Smith thinks that if just 5% of US consumers begin to shun foods with GM ingredients, all processed-food manufacturers will quickly eliminate GMOs from their products.
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Democracy Now

Formaldehyde and Styrene Finally Added to Official Toxics List — 14 Jun 2011 — The US Department of Health and Human Services has added formaldehyde to a list of known carcinogens, despite years of lobbying by the chemical industry. Formaldehyde is found in plastics and often used in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons. Also now listed as toxic is styrene, which is used in boats, bathtubs and in disposable foam plastic cups and plates.
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Living On Earth

FDA Slaps New Regulations on Sunscreen — 17 Jun 2011 — The Food and Drug Administration has finally released the sunscreen regulations it has been promising for 33 years, but the Environmental Working Group thinks the regulations fall short.
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

Suppressed Technology and Energy-Medicine Treatments — 09 Jun 2011 — Roger Tolces talks about energy medicine treatments—the applications, success rates, his personal experience, and how the technologies are being suppressed by the government. He discussed Royal Rife's technology, which has been used for cancer treatments. The machines work by using specific frequencies to eliminate different types of pathogens, which are the root cause of many health problems.
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Sierra Club Radio

The Yes Men:  Coal Cares (Uh Huh) — 28 May 2011 — Activist group The Yes Men recently set up a spoof web site to bring light to the human health impacts wrought by the mining and processing operations of Peabody Coal. When the company complained that they were being singled out, The Yes Men did the only logical thing—they expanded the focus of truth on all coal companies.
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Guns and Butter

Forward to Energy Breakthroughs or Down the Energy Rabbit Hole? — 08 Jun 2011 — Dr. Steven Jones discusses scientific research into instances of man-made earthquakes; HAARP; fusion-based energy technologies; new kinds of dynamic energy.
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Living On Earth

Plusses and Minuses of Canada's oil Pipeline — 10 Jun 2011 — Canada has oil reserves second in size only to Saudi Arabia. But obtaining this oil—mostly from dirty tar sands—and then transporting it to the US can cause numerous environmental problems.
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Germany Says No to Nuclear Power — 03 Jun 2011 — Germany plans to be free of nuclear power by the end of the decade. This would make them the biggest world power commit to such a goal. The country hopes to make up the energy gap through efficiency and renewables, but it also could make them more dependent on fossil fuels.
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Democracy Now

Massey Declared in Violation of Mining Laws, But Coal Juggernaut Grinds On — 23 May 2011 — An independent state probe in West Virginia has concluded that mining giant Massey Energy was responsible for the April 2010 explosion that killed 29 underground coal mining workers. J. Davitt McAteer, who oversaw the probe and is a former top federal mine safety official, discusses the findings. ~~ Robert Kennedy, Jr. and filmmaker Bill Haney discuss the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining across Appalachia, the war on unions by the coal companies, and the myth of "coal jobs."
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Radio EcoShock

Fracking Myths and Climate Capitalism — 20 May 2011 — (1) Richard Heinberg sticks a pin in the fracking natural gas bubble. (2) In Climate Capitalism, Hunter Lovins offers a new business approach to climate change.
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Earthbeat Radio

Chevron (Texaco) Found Guilt on Ecuador Legacy Pollution — 20 May 2011 — An Ecuadorian court has found Chevron-Texaco guilt of massive, health-damaging pollution, but the company has stated that it will never pay.
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Farm Pollution and Erosion, Fence-to-Fence — 20 May 2011 — Ethanol mandates are driving US farmers to plan fence-to-fence. That's putting corn in a lot of areas that are unsuitable, leading to erosion and pollution issues.
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Coast To Coast

Can We Power the Planet with 100% Renewable Energy? — 07 May 2011 — Can our energy supply be 100% renewables by 2050? Mark Jacobson lays out the case that wind, solar, hydro, and other renewable energy technologies—combined with conversion of the vehicle fleet to plug-in electric—can do the job.
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Science Friday

Revenge of the Electric Car — 29 Apr 2011 — In 2006, Chris Paine made the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? to expose the shortsightedness and corruption at the heart of Detroit's move away from electric vehicles. But oil prices, the Prius, public interest, and the successes of plug-in start-ups like Tesla Motors have caused a resurgence in the fortunes of electric vehicles. Paine talks about his new film, Revenge of the Electric Car.
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Unwelcome Guests

Homo Toxicus—Human Casualties of The Chemical War — 30 Apr 2011 — As the drive for corporate profit maximization has risen, so has the toxification of the global environment, with related health impacts mounting. Rather than solving the problem, government regulation merely makes it legal for corporations to pollute. The first part of the show is a radio adaptation of the film Homo Toxicus, which discusses the body burden of chemical contaminants. Following that is a clip from the film Poison Fire, about the ecocidal and genocidal practices of Shell Oil in Nigeria.
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Gary Null Show

Jeffrey Smith:  We've Handed Monsanto the Keys to Our Food Supply — 02 May 2011 — (1) Gary reviews new health news, including exercise as a key factor in recovering from depression; and how vitamin E improves recovery from non-alcoholic fatty-liver disease. ~~ (2) Guest Jeffrey Smith recounts the history and health problems associated with GMO food, as well as how insider politics and "career assassination" have played an essential part in the continued success of dangerous GMO crops.
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Democracy Now

The Deep Doo-Doo of Deepwater Horizon, One Year Later — 20 Apr 2011 — A set of stories discussing the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, including... ~~ Carl Safina: "A Sea in Flames" ~~ Voices from the Gulf: "One year later, we're in the same situation as last year." ~~ Deepwater drilling resumes despite unclear impact of BP spill. ~~ Death toll from BP spill still rising as residents die from spill-related illnesses.
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Fresh Air

Our 'Toxic' Love-Hate Relationship With Plastics — 22 Apr 2011 — Plastic has become ubiquitous in modern industrial society—in far more than just the obvious ways. Though this has provided many benefits in terms of product selection, cost reduction, and convenience, it has also given rise to a flood of toxic chemicals in the environment and in us.
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Living On Earth

Humanure in Haiti — 08 Apr 2011 — Even before the devastating earthquake, many Haitians "did their business" in unsanitary latrines. Composting toilets are now being installed in a pilot program, eliminating the smell, the danger of pathogens, the water pollution, and in the long run creating a fertilizer that, once made sanitary through the high-temperature composting process, can be applied to crops.  (GP comment:  While most Westerners shrink at the thought of deficating in anything but a flush toilet, a properly built and managed composting toilet is a fine solution that can be integrated into a house at whatever level of aesthetics you desire. I know this from personal experience! --Mark)
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Related GP articles:
-- The Resilient Household, pt1
-- The Resilient Household, pt2

The Wringer

Hypothyroid—Or Wilson's Temperature Syndrome? — 27 Mar 2011 — Do you have many of the symptoms of "low thyroid"—but the tests say that your thyroid levels are fine? Consider the possibility of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome.
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Fresh Air

The Worldwide 'Thirst' For Clean Drinking Water — 11 Apr 2011 — Charles Fishman, author of Thirst, showers us with interesting facts about the fresh, potable water we use copiously every day.  (GP comment:  This is good as far as it goes, but it gives little or no treatment of important issues like agricultural use, the high percentage of freshwater that is polluted, and diminishing fossil aquifers.)
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Earthbeat Radio

Fukushima Information Fiasco + Obama's Nuclear Connections + The Billionaire Push for Coal in Wyoming + A Halt to Cap and Trade? — 29 Mar 2011 — The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has quietly doubled what it considers "safe" exposure levels to nuclear radiation, and the US EPA has begun testing milk for radiation contamination.. ~~ How is spent fuel handled in the US? Are safety claims for nuclear energy bogus? ~~ Some of President Obama's closest advisers, staffers, and fundraisers have close ties to the nuclear industry. ~~ The US has opened up huge swaths of public land in Wyoming to coal mining in a deal for billionaires. ~~ A California court has put the kibosh on cap and trade in the state.
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Nuke Debate + New Gulf Oil Spill + Stronger Coal Regs — 22 Mar 2011 — The quantities of spent nuclear fuel stored at power plants in the US is even greater than at the Fukushima plant. ~~ Greg Palast reveals that TEPCO has been contracted to help build two nuclear power plants in Texas. ~~ A debate over America's nuclear industry between Arjun Makhijani and a nuclear industry defender. ~~ The US Coast Guard is investigating reports of new oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico from a spill about 30 miles offshore. ~~ The EPA is setting a national standard for mercury pollution from power plants.
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One Radio Network

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Herbalist Chris Gussa — 24 Mar 2011— Gussa covers a wide variety of useful herbs, as well as the best way to make tinctures.
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The BP Oil Disaster Continues—What Is Really Going on in the Gulf? — 31 Mar 2011— A class action suit, for one thing.
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Beyond 50

Ayurvedic Medicine:  Proper Exercise—A Pillar of Health — 25 Mar 2011 — Richard Hayne explains how Ayurvedic medicine specifies that the ultimate mind-body coordination is to be so in touch with one's body that disease becomes an impossibility.
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TED

Weird Science—"The Island of Dr. Moreau" is No Longer Fiction — Mar 2011 — Paul Root Wolpe says it's time to question bioengineering, citing numerous ethical and moral quandaries that are largely being ignored as scientists delve ever deeper into the realm of engineered animal hybrids and cybernetic control of animals.
(GP comment:  (1) Just because we can doesn't mean we should. (2) Though the visuals for this program do help, the audio is sufficient to give you an idea of just what a circus freak show university science has become.)
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The Wringer (via A-Infos Radio Project)

GE Sugar Beets, Alfalfa and Salmon—Frankenfoods On Your Menu — 16 Mar 2011 — Jaydee Hanson provides an excellent update on the status of the various genetically engineered food crops and how they are coming to dominate the US food supply.
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Democracy Now

"It's Already as Bad as Chernobyl" — 18 Mar 2011 — After an update on the latest news from the site of the Japanese nuclear crisis, three experts/commentators discuss the status of nuclear power: Philip White of the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo; Dr. Ira Helfand of Physicians for Social Responsibility; and longtime consumer advocate and corruption fighter Ralph Nader.
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One Radio Network

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Clay, Not KI — 17 Mar 2011 — Two natural health experts—(1) Mark Sircus; (2) Michael King—discuss the most effective ways to deal with radiation exposure. Internal and external use of absorptive clays is a top choice.
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Gary Null Show

Beyond Potassium Iodide—But Not Corruption — 16 Mar 2011 — (1) Gary offers (an almost overwhelming) list of natural substances that can help mitigate radiation exposure. ~~ (2) Harvey Wasserman discusses US nuclear energy in the context of the Japan situation. ~~ (3) Greg Palast discusses the official corruption and lying that has masked the true dangers of the nuclear industry.
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Radio EcoShock

Japan—Twilight of the Nuclear Gods — 18 Mar 2011 — Developing news from a chain of reactor fires, explosions, radiation. Segments include Nicole Foss of The Automatic Earth, Shawn Patrick of Greenpeace, and alternative news clips. What does it mean for aging American reactors? For Canada, Europe? Segments on government information withholding in Japan, the larger risk of spent fuel ponds, and the same old reactor types in America.
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Why You Should Think More About the Water You Drink — 10 Mar 2011 — Winston Kao discusses the importance of proper water biochemistry to health; issues with standard municipal treated water; how to maintain proper pH and mineral balance in your water and food intake; and which water filters and brand-name waters meet his exacting standards.
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Living On Earth

Chemical Review — 11 Mar 2011 — Thousands of scientists from various disciplines have written an open letter in the journal Science calling for tougher reviews of endocrine disrupting chemicals. Mere toxicology testing is no longer adequate to assess the human health impacts of these chemicals.
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Sierra Club Radio

Moby Duck:  Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale... — 05 Mar 2011 — Donovan Hohn talks about how a lost cargo of plastic bath toys helped oceanographers understand more about ocean currents—and how plastic pollutes the seas.
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Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
Moby-Duck:  The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea ... and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools who went in search of them

Radio EcoShock

Wicked Problems — 03 Mar 2011 — Problems like climate, energy, and economy cannot be solved by normal science. Guest voices include Thomas Homer-Dixon, Jerome Ravetz, and Valerie Brown, Eben Moglen.
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Peak Trouble — 25 Feb 2011 — News of unstable oil supplies, climate chaos, banking, and teetering regimes brings the question: Are we ready, personally, for difficult times? Jeremy Leggett comments on Saudi supplies, EU dependency on Libyan oil, connections to arms trade, world energy, and the solar future. ~~ Carolyn Baker discusses her new book Navigating the Coming Chaos—A Handbook for Inner Transition.
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Science Friday

Study Says Cell Phone Radiation Does Affect Brain — 25 Feb 2011 — There is a change in the brain, but the exact health effect is unclear.
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Political Analysis

Solartopia—A Green-Powered Earth — 22 Feb 2011 — Harvey Wasserman contrasts the still-alive nuclear expansion vs. a "solartopia"—a vast expansion of alternative energy, especially distributed solar.
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Related resources:
-- Solar Energy Books
-- Article on Home Solar

On the Green Front

An Environmentalist Wakes Up to Peak Oil — 09 Feb 2011 — After hearing two presentations on peak oil, green media maven Betsy Rosenberg finds herself shocked into the realization that energy issues are not just about building more solar panels and hybrid cars. She interviews Asher Miller, executive director of The Post Carbon Institute, who talks about the twin national debts—in money and energy.
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An Environmentalist Wakes Up to Peak Oil, Part 2 — 16 Feb 2011 — Andre Angelantoni, president of Post Peak Living Institute, shares his views about the coming eco shock and why he believes we should all be preparing for a tougher future NOW. Author John De Graaf generally agrees but stresses the importance of downtime.
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Related resources:
More Peak Oil/Resilience MP3 downloads

Radio EcoShock

Population Overload — 11 Feb 2011 — Three voices with solutions for the population crisis:  Lisa Hymas of Grist.org on GINKs—Green-Inclined, No Kids. ~~ Clinical psychologist Ellen Walker—the good and the bad of going child-free. ~~ Plus the grand-daddy of the whole population movement, Paul Erhlich, author of the classic book The Population Bomb.
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Hope for the Chronically Ill — 03 Feb 2011 — Steven Hines, an advanced naturopathic doctor and researcher, discusses the origins of many of today's common health complaints and suggests solutions. Topics include digestive enzymes (standard and systemic); Lyme pathogens and related issues; GMO-contaminated food as a source of disease; measured approaches to probiotics; hidden infections and how to fight them; how fungal infections can be mistaken for cancer.  (This is a tour-de-force of valuable information. --GP)
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Dr. William Wong

Intense Massage Not a Good Idea — 08 Dec 2010 — Dr. Wong answers listener questions, including:  bad massage leads to "man trouble"; regimen to prevent hair loss; bad Chinese food leads to bowel trouble; heavy strength training instead of calcium for bone density; internal and external yeast infections.
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Radio EcoShock

Rapid Population Decline—or Bust! — 04 Feb 2011 — The population of Egypt doubled since 1980. Mexico, India too. Dr. Jack Alpert says it is time for extreme measures, before civilization falls. With three responses by Rex Weyler of Greenpeace fame, Dr. Bill Rees (co-inventor of the "ecological footprint"), and ecologist Vandy Savage.
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Natural News

Suzanne Humphries:  The Entire Vaccine Industry Needs to Be Questioned — 02 Feb 2011 — Some of Dr. Humphries' issues include: Why she became concerned about vaccines after noticing kidney failure in patients who had recently received vaccines; why vaccines are often contaminated with unknown viral strains; and why a new effort is needed to scientifically assess whether vaccines are really safe or effective.
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The Colbert Report

Vaccines and Carpet-Bombing — 01 Feb 2011 — For a glimpse of the other side of the vaccine debate, we offer Stephen Colbert interviewing vaccine cheerleader Paul Offit.
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TED Talks

Jill Bolte Taylor:  My Stroke of Insight — 2009 — Who better than a neuroanatomist to take advantage of her own stroke-in-progress as a learning experience, a chance to deepen scientific understanding.  (Funny and interesting! --GP)
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VACCINES . . .
PROTECTING PEOPLE OR PROFITS?

The Gary Null Show — 10 Jan 2011
Gary Null and Dr. Andrew Wakefield discuss the collusion between the mainstream medical profession and the mainstream media to use any means necessary to dispute claims that vaccines are unsafe or that there is evidence of connections between disease development and vaccination.

Also in this clip, investigative journalist Alex Abella discusses the secretive and central role the RAND Corporation has played—and continues to play—in US affairs.

Download/Listen   55:09

Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
Andrew Wakefield book:
Callous Disregard:  Autism and Vaccines—The Truth Behind a Tragedy
Alex Abella book:
Soldiers of Reason:  The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire

Related Gary Null movie: "Vaccine Nation"
-- Watch online for free
-- Check out DVD on Amazon.com

               

Beyond 50

David Berceli:  The Trauma Release Process — 31 Dec 2010 — Berceli explains his theory that psychological trauma causes not only chronic emotional problems but can also be responsible for chronic physical ailments. A series of specific "trauma release exercises" has proven very effective at lifting the emotional weight from patients and at relieving the physical symptoms as well.
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Related videos:
Healing Videos:  Trauma Releasing Exercises  (watch free)

Gary Null Show

Devra Davis:  Data on Cell Phone Radiation is Conclusive — 11 Jan 2011 — Researcher and journalist Devra Davis reviews the numerous studies that have all concluded that cell phones held close to the body for extended periods damage DNA and can lead to cancer. She also recounts the various guerilla tactics used by the industry to refute the studies and to stigmatize the researchers that performed them.
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Science Friday

The Grid—First Repair, Then a Brain Transplant — 14 Jan 2011 — A recent article in IEEE Spectrum claims that our electrical grid has been getting less reliable. What can be done to make it better?  (GP comment:  A pretty good overall analysis, but he laughably suggests that a new "public-private partnership" is the solution. Good god, man—that's what we were supposed to get under deregulation. Instead, the shareholders got rich, grid upgrades and maintenance got ignored, and the public got a sub-par grid. It's time to identify the privatization hawkers as the snake-oil salesmen they truly are.)
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Science Friday

The Earth's Magnetic Poles Are Shifting — 14 Jan 2011 — A somewhat wonky discussion of the science of magnetic pole shifts—without the apocalyptic pole-shift predictions sometimes offered.
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Living On Earth

Do Environmental Regulations Really Kill Jobs? — 21 Jan 2011 — Should the phrase "tough environmental regulations" just be rewritten as "job-killing bureaucratic burden"?
      (GP comment:  Perhaps having more red tape is not even the right question. What if we just make the penalties under current regulations far more odious than they are now? If a company flout the law, then zero its shareholders' profits for three years. Or if a company really screws up, then put it out of business. Such penalties are applied to people; why not corporations? The current approach to federal regulatory enforcement often sees a company get fined, say, $5 million when it made $10 million in profits doing the bad thing. The ridiculousness and corrupt collusion of such an arrangement should be obvious to everyone.)
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The Visionary Activist Show

The United States of Gasland — 27 Jan 2011 — Josh Fox, producer/director of the Academy Award nominated documentary GasLand, discusses the pandemic of "fracking" for natural gas that is ruining water supplies across the nation.  (Fox is the first half of the MP3.)
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Related resources:
-- GaslandGasLand DVD  (on Amazon.com)
-- GasLand trailer

The Colbert Report

Sherry Turkle's Tweet:  "Give Technology the Bird!" — 17 Jan 2011 — Sherry Turkle doesn't want to get rid of technology, but she thinks it's time to put it in its place. She says we're investing ourselves so deeply in technological communications that we're forgetting the benefits of interpersonal communication and suffering from techno-overload. Stephen Colbert just wants another free iPhone.
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Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
Alone Together:  Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Max Keiser

Turmoil in Energy Markets and the Eco-Eco Disaster of 2011 — (On the Edge, Press TV) — 14 Jan 2011 — Gregor Macdonald discusses steeply falling oil production in the North Sea and in Mexico's Cantarell field; how currency valuations have become unhinged from previously useful metrics; how valuations in monetary liquidity, oil prices, and stock markets compare. ~~ Is nature being ironic as biblical floods in Australia—likely driven by human-induced climate change—take off-line 75% of Aussie coal fields?
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Living On Earth

A Low-Energy Technology To Boost Desalination Efficiency — 14 Jan 2011 — A new method of using waste heat from power plants can make desalination more cost-effective.  (GP comment:  Good report, except that it fails to compare costs for this process vs. normal fresh water generation, and it does not discuss the local dead zones caused by salty discharges.)
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Chris Martenson

Combating Peak Oil with Wind and Smarter Electric Power — 08 Jan 2011 — Willett Kempton reviews the status of wind, solar, and energy storage technologies, with an eye on how we can better utilize these technologies to become part of the baseload electric supply and eventually help replace some portion of liquid fuels use as well.
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Living On Earth

WikiLeaks Green — 07 Jan 2011 — The WikiLeaks documents offer insights into the corrupt inner workings of he US government on issues like GMOs, climate change, and whaling. All this has inspired a new "Enviro-WikiLeaks" operation.
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TED Women

Naomi Klein:  Addicted to Risk — Jan 2011 — Klein draws a careful thread through Rachel Carson's message about pesticides, the Gulf disaster, the ludicrous bank bailouts, our collective desire to dominate nature, our delusional denial of tough issues like peak oil and climate change, and the general tendency to take on excessive risk.
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Earthbeat Radio

Can Obama Out-Clever Bush? — 25 Jan 2011 — The Obama administration has offered a seemingly positive step on scientific integrity, but are they just trying to outclever the public and continue the repressive Bush-era policies? ~~ Debate:  Is carbon capture an area worth exploring, or is it just a delaying tactic to promote more coal burning? ~~ Learn how some everyday food and household products could be contributing to rainforest destruction.
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Gary Null Show

Health News and Update on Deepwater Horizon — 26 Jan 2011 — Gary's health news covers natural solutions to PMS; the impact of particulate pollution on health; and the importance of eating TWELVE servings of fruits and vegetables a day. ~~ Oil industry insider Bob Cavnar summarizes the lessons learned form the Deepwater Horizon disaster—only to inform us that those lessons learned are being ignored by those in charge.
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Fresh Air

Techno-Waste—A Global E-tastrophe — 21 Dec 2010 — When old TVs, computers, cell phones, iPods and other electronics end up in landfills, the toxic metals and flame retardants they contain can cause environmental problems. But e-waste recycling is usually far less green than is sounds.
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Dangers from Electromagnetic Fields — 24 Nov 2010 — Arthur Firstenburg offers a fascinating review of where things stand regarding the sea of radiation we live in, with a focus on cell phones and wifi.
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