Interviews from Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith talking to Australian Julian Crib and Assoc Prof Tim Garret on his work, “Thermodynamics of Civilisation Growth”.
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez from Democracy Now interviewed Eduardo Galeano after his book “Mirrors” was realeased in 2009. It is based on the fact that “everybody has something to say that deserves to be heard, perhaps even celebrated” Eduardo Galeano proves to be one of the great minds and wordsmiths alive today, very much alive. See also his conversation below in Placa Catalunya, Barcelona where he describes the “new world that is waiting to be born”.
The Extraenvironmentalists interview Helena Norberg Hodge about her film, The Economics of Happiness. All in the “Words” section.
More north of England stand up comedy from John Cooper Clark. Hit the “Humour” button.
The easiest way of determining the truth of the “greenhouse effect” is the loss of ice at the North and South Poles. It is now beyond doubt that ice loss is occuring faster than most scientists had contemplated in the I.P.C.C. reports. In the midst of the financial crisis the environmental crisis continues, and as Susan George remarks, we can always come back and fix a financial crisis, and environmental crisis is permanent. The following films bear witness to the scale of ice loss, and brings back the reality of the environmental crisis that we stand to leave as a legacy for the future. The ease with which trillions of dollars are found to band aid an economic system that must change in the near future is a sad endictment on current values.
No place like home. 