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Floating DVD Project - Strategies of Struggle From Below

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 29/12/2011 - 4:15pm

This is a social project done through the sharing of an experimental documentary and the creation of an interactive space to engage with ideas that aren’t normally disseminated, in which people can connect and discuss experiences and their thoughts about various strategies of struggle. You can browse the site, stream or download the documentary, share your experience, read others’ experiences from around the world and debate ideas.

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Stop Fracking ! mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Thu, 29/12/2011 - 11:25am

http://radio4all.net/responder.php/download/56724/63369/77150/?url=http:...

A mostly musical report of fracking in Australia

Credits: movie excerpt of "Ungrip", Dana Lyons, Wharf Review, Digger Rokwell, Lock The Gate Coalition Song Collective

For more info:

http://lockthegate.org.au/news/display/6019

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Australia

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Green Music

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 20/12/2011 - 5:47pm

Find links to the artists (and some You tube versions) here:
http://www.ecoshock.info/2011/12/green-music-festival.html

Download/listen to full CD Quality version of program (56 MB) here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock11/ES_111221_Show.mp3

Get a faster download (lower quality) version (14 MB) here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock11/ES_111221_Show_LoFi.mp3

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"Change Change" Thistle CANADA

"Dirty Town" Mother Mother CANADA

"My Water's On Fire Tonight" David Holmes & Dean Bekker AUSTRALIA

"Fukushima Song, Talkin End Game" Michael Montecrossa GERMANY

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Climate down in Durban

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 2:44pm

Listen/download http://www.archive.org/download/ES111214/ES_111214_Show_LoFi.mp3

Diplomats from all over the world are returning home after a hard-won agreement in Durban, South Africa.

They agreed to do nothing to save our climate from disaster.

Our governments will talk until 2015, and then maybe do something serious about greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. By then, as Radio Ecoshock listeners know, we will be committed to at least 3 and a half degrees Centigrade hotter world in 2100, than our ancestors knew in 1750. It will only get hotter after that.

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International news and opinion

Tonga and climate change: "Our people are on the line, our cultures are going to disappear"

Submitted by takver on Sat, 10/12/2011 - 6:43pm

One World TV interviewed Sione Taulo Fulivai from the small Pacific Island state of Tonga on the last day of the UN climate negotiations at COP17 in Durban. Small Island states face rising atmospheric and sea surface temperatures, rising sea levels spoiling freshwater reservoirs and agriculture and threatening to innundate their land, and changing rainfall pattens. They are on the frontline of global warming.

Tonga is a nation of 100,000 people with a GDP per capita of US$3711. Tonga and Vanuatu are at the top of a UN list of countries most vulnerable to natural disasters in the Pacific.

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Global/International

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climate change

environment

International news and opinion

Pacific

Tonga

Heat kills gardens & guerrilla planting

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 08/12/2011 - 7:15am

Listen to/download the audio:
http://www.archive.org/download/ES111207Hot/ES_111211_Gardens_24min.mp3

SHOW LINE UP - 24 minutes

1. "Guerrilla Gardening"

How to create an edible landscape on public and private lands. UK "Guerrilla of Love" Chris Tomlinson explains how he secretly plants food, perennials and trees, in waste lands, untended gardens, and even city streets. Fun interview on serious topic, as economy erodes. Try it where you live.

2. "Global Famine Starts in Texas"

Required listening for heat waves in Australia. Your garden may produce nothing.

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Conservationists in tree canopy lead way for tiny Leadbeater’s Possum

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/12/2011 - 8:04am

Conservationists in tree canopy lead way for tiny Leadbeater’s Possum

Logging has been halted today in the Toolangi State Forest, in the Central Highlands just an hour and a half north of Melbourne.

“The forests of the Central Highlands have been decimated by years of unsustainable logging and more recently by bushfire. Any forest left standing must be immediately protected from logging”, said spokesperson for the group, Luke Pavia.

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Conservationists halt logging across Victoria

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/12/2011 - 5:41pm

Media Release 5/12/11

Conservationists Halt Logging Across Victoria

Conservationists are taking action across Victoria today to expose and hold accountable the Baillieu government and Vicforests for the ongoing destruction of threatened species habitats.

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Can agriculture help save the climate?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 02/12/2011 - 5:56am

Building on the work of Australian carbon farming pioneer P.A. Yeomans, and his son Allan's book "Priority One" - there is a race among farmers to capture carbon from the air and sequester it in richer soil.

In 2007, billionaire Richard Branson announced the Virgin Earth Challenge. He offered a 25 million dollar prize to the best method to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, with no harmful impacts.

Out of 2600 submissions, Allan Savory and the Savory Institute survived to the current short-list of 11 technolgies to do it.

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Coastal ecosystems suffer 100 fold decrease in capacity to store carbon

Submitted by takver on Thu, 01/12/2011 - 8:22pm

The carbon sink capacity of urbanized river estuary and coastal environments to mitigate climate change has reduced by 100 fold according to scientists from the University of Technology Sydney. The Scientists used core samples from Botany Bay in Sydney to reconstruct the sedimentation changes in the past 6000 years, highlighting the changes in the ecology. The plant samples in the sedimentation changed as rapid industrialisation occurred around Botany Bay during the 1950s.

"We have effectively gone back in time and monitored carbon capture and storage by coastal ecosystems, finding a 100-fold weakening in the ability of coastal ecosystems to sequester carbon since the time of European settlement. This severely hampered the ability of nature to reset the planet's thermostat." said Dr. Peter Macreadie, University of Technology, Sydney Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

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