Transition Sheffield - Discussion Forum

Posted: **Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:27 pm**

This thread is somewhere where we can link to some of the great peak oil, climate change and related audio shows out there...

To kick it off:

Tradio's Transition podcasts
http://www.traydio.com/UserConsole/Port ... s_PageNo=1

Posted: **Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:43 pm**

Radio Ecoshock dot net and Radio Ecoshock dot org - new show once a week, many interesting guests and recordings of speeches.

Global Public Media is great for audio and video. Some great Colin Campbell interviews on there that eloquently explain peak oil. Also the Reality Report with Jason Bradford is good, the one with Jay Hanson is very good.

Posted: **Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:03 pm**

Just listened to an old but brilliant talk by Paul Watson called Saving Our Oceans in the speeches section of Radio Ecoshock.

It covers lots of interesting stuff: his run ins with the law the 3 laws of ecology, saving a baby versus saving a species of bacteria, the media, his hope for the future and a lot of other stuff.

I read his book Ocean Warrior a while ago which is also a great and riveting read.

Posted: **Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:03 pm**

There's a bunch of interesting talks at Feasta, an Irish site founded by Richard Douthwaite an economist and writer with a special interest in climate and energy issues and local economic development.

Much of the material are movies in Quicktime format but some are MP3's too.

One entitled Peak Oil: The End of Economic Growth? by Charles Hall sound's interesting.

There's also several speakers from their Food Conference in 2005 including Richard Heinberg and David Holmgrem.

Posted: **Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:37 pm**

This even was held a year ago, I have listened to most of the talks, it's really excellent stuff:

IFG Teach-In: Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis"

"Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource Depletion & Extinction"

Held September 14-16, 2007, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

http://ifg.org/programs/Energy/TripleCrisis/

The link on their site to the listing of audio / video presentations is currently broken, but you can get it here:

http://ifg.org/programs//Energy/triple_ ... /index.htm

The Rob Hopkins presentation is here:

Video: http://ifg.org/programs//Energy/triple_ ... 3rob-v.htm
Audio: http://ifg.org/programs//Energy/triple_ ... 3rob-a.htm

Posted: **Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:48 pm**

Rob Hopkins has written a report of the Soil Association conference and they have audio of the Transition: Food and Farming in 21st century Britain conference available, which has some good stuff and some not so good (H Benn...), but it's not that long, well worth listening to.

Also the audio from their one last year One Planet Agriculture: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future looks good, I haven't listened to this yet.

Posted: **Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:12 pm**

chris wrote:This even was held a year ago, I have listened to most of the talks, it's really excellent stuff:

IFG Teach-In: Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis"

"Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource Depletion & Extinction"

Held September 14-16, 2007, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

http://ifg.org/programs/Energy/TripleCrisis/

The link on their site to the listing of audio / video presentations is currently broken, but you can get it here:

http://ifg.org/programs//Energy/triple_ ... /index.htm

The latest Unwelcome Guests show contains several speeches from the IFG Triple Crisis conference, starting about 20mins in:

Unwelcome Guests #441 - Irreconcilable Interests: Capitalism and the Triple Crisis

Capitalism is based on a 17th century assumption, that there exists an endless supply of materials, commodities, and labor that can and should be marshaled to create continual economic growth. It has led to the dangerous destruction of our ecosystem and is on a collision course with climate change because the remedies required to preserve the ecosystem necessitate decreasing as well as different practices of consumption and production. From the ecological perspective less is more, it is prudent and responsible, in fact urgently necessary. From the capitalist point of view, it is a disaster , a severe decrease in economic activity, a reversal of economic growth, a depression.

As long as we remain within the system and logic of capitalism, we can neither make human needs a priority, nor take the necessary steps to avert a crisis of mass extinction of our species and most others that is caused by the pollution from our wasteful industrial societies, which are increasing in size each year, driven by the imperatives of growth. Every proposal for dealing with our ecological situation seems to be accepted or rejected based on it's ability to generate profit rather than results.

Bottom line, the right wingers are correct - what's good for the environment is bad for profits. Confronting that is a first step in having a real discussion. However, the health of our ecosphere is not negotiable, it is a prerequisite for life itself - to chose capitalism over the ecosphere is to chose death.

http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/30744

Lyn Gerry's Unwelcome Guests is a superb, weekly, two hour show from Watkins Glen, NY, the archive, of over 440 shows, is amazing, loads of good listening here:

http://radio4all.net/index.php/series/Unwelcome+Guests

Posted: **Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:35 pm**

Earlier in the year Maria Gilardin's TUC Radio had two 1/2 hour shows based on the IFG audio:

Dr. Hermann Ott, Mary Anne Hitt, Jutta Kill and Dr. Arjun Makhijani
CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS
False Solutions to Peak Oil and Climate Change

In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource depletion & extinction. http://www.ifg.org/

Several Panel meetings addressed the many false solutions to the climate crisis that may be accelerating the danger rather than alleviating it. Coal for example is now promoted as a substitute for oil and promises for the capture of the carbon are made that are not yet possible with current technologies and may never be available on a large scale.

LOWBAND VERSION of H. Ott & M.A. Hitt: http://www.tucradio.org/2008_03_12_Ott_Hitt.mp3
LOWBAND VERSION of Jutta Kill & Dr. Arjun Makhijani http://www.tucradio.org/A313jutta_arjun.mp3

http://www.tucradio.org/new.html

And she also has an archive of IFG audio going back to the WTO in Seattle, 1999:

http://www.tucradio.org/ifg.html

Her archive on The Environment & Climate Change has loads of good stuff:

http://tucradio.org/environment.html

Her latest shows are listed here (she does a 1/2 hour show a week):

http://www.tucradio.org/new.html

And, although not directly related to Transition I especially like the Michael Parenti archive:

http://www.tucradio.org/parenti.html

(Some links on her site are broken but it's easy to manually fix them.)

Posted: **Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:59 pm**

This show is great and it's from the UK:

Climate Radio

Welcome to the Climate Radio archive hosted by COIN. Climate Radio productions are the independent initiative of journalist Phil England and represent some of the best informed and challenging views on climate change. These show are pertinent, accessible and authoritative and go beyond the platitudes and confusion that dominates mainstream debate. All the features on Climate Radio were first broadcast on Resonance FM.

Most programmes are 30 minute dispatches. The exceptions are the Clear Spot shows are 90 minutes; and The Climate Camp Debate and George Monbiot Live In Oxford which are both 60 minutes. The most recent programmes can be found at the top of this page.

http://coinet.org.uk/discussion/climate_radio

3 shows that Phil has done on Transition Towns:

Low Carbon Show #5: Transition Towns 5 June 2007
One Planet Agriculture #4: Transition Towns 24 April 2007
Two Degrees #18: Transition Towns 6 March 2007

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:37 am**

I'm about to listen to this:

Techno-wonderland or Collapse: Two visions of the US' future

Series: Equal Time

Subtitle: Interview with William Halal and Dmitry Orlov

Summary: Is the present financial collapse a blip on the road to a high-tech future full of quantum computers, smart robots, and space tourism, or are we seeing the beginning of the collapse of the US empire, leading to shortages of basic goods, breakdown of government services, and breakup of the United States? Or could both happen at the same time?

http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/31822

Transition Sheffield - Discussion Forum

Internet Radio Shows

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Saving Our Oceans

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IFG Teach-In: Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis"

Soil Association

Lyn Gerry's Unwelcome Guests

TUC Radio: Time of Useful Consciousness

Climate Radio: The 300-350 Show

Techno-wonderland or Collapse: Two visions of the US' future