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Sir Nicholas Stern leftface Richard Bell: Stern Stern on Climate Change at 
Senate Hearing
(Articles, 13 February 2007 Climate Change Politics)
Climate report author Sir Nicholas Stern lays down the law at a U.S. Senate hearing: the costs of inaction on climate 
change will be far higher than the costs of acting today. No more excuses.

Invisible Giant Deconstructing Dinner: Agri-Business Exposed I (Cargill Part 
I)
(Interviews, 8 February 2007 Deconstructing Dinner)
The Agri-Business Exposed Series on Deconstructing Dinner will explore the major agricultural companies whose names are 
rarely heard by the eating public. Part I and II of the series will take a look at agricultural giant Cargill.

Water The Reality Report: The Importance of Water
(Interviews, 15 January 2007 Water)
This week's guest on the Reality Report is Dr. Peter Gleick, President and co-founder of the Pacific Institute for 
Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, based in Oakland, CA. The show discusses how water is intricately 
connected to energy, climate and social systems, how changes in one part ripple through others.

Capitol Hill Richard Bell: Polar Bears on Parade
(Articles, 7 February 2007 Climate Change)
Are polar bears going to save the world from global warming? At a Senate committee hearing today on the effects of 
global warming on wildlife, the fate of polar bears seized center stage.

BBC BBC: Farming, supermarkets and the end of cheap oil
(Articles, 27 January 2007 Food Oil Relocalization)
Should we all be preparing for a life without supermarkets? There's a growing school of thought that argues that the way 
we shop and the way supermarkets organise their food supplies just won't be possible once the era of cheap oil comes to 
an end.

Bart Anderson The Reality Report: Bart Anderson of Energy Bulletin
(Interviews, 7 February 2007 Oil Climate Change)
The Reality Report interviews Bart Anderson a co-editor of Energy Bulletin, an on-line source for news and commentary 
related to energy, society and the environment. Bart is a trained journalist now specializing in media coverage and the 
cultural response to peak oil and global warming. This show is a news round-up and discussion of how the press is 
dealing with issues such as peak oil, rising energy and commodity prices, climate change and the social ramifications.

PM48 Peak Moment: A Defining Moment in Human History
(Interviews, 29 January 2007 Climate Change Relocalization Globalization Local Culture Corporatism Democracy Resource 
Depletion Fiscal Policy and Dollar Hegemony Peak Moment Television)
The planet is rapidly confronting us with limits to the exploitative, dominator system of the past 5000 years. David 
Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, and more recently The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, 
implores us to replace the old dominator-control stories with new stories -- affirming life values of cooperation, 
community and interdependence. Episode 48.

PM47 Peak Moment: The San Francisco Peak Oil Resolution
(Interviews, 29 January 2007 Energy Oil Politics Democracy City Structure and 
Design Peak Moment Television)
San Francisco is the first American city to formally address the challenges of oil depletion. Dennis Brumm and Allyse 
Heartwell recount how members of SF Oil Awareness envisioned, wrote and presented to the San Francisco Board of 
Supervisors a Peak Oil resolution, which was passed unanimously in April 2006. They explore next steps: public hearings 
and plans to create a task force to assess the city's energy vulnerability. Episode 47.

Richard Heinberg 2006 Richard Heinberg: Five Axioms of Sustainability
(Articles, 4 February 2007 Renewables Resource Depletion)
My aim in this essay is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published 
definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (based on a review of the literature) to help clarify the 
characteristics of a durable society.

Wally Satzewich Deconstructing Dinner: Farming in the City I
(Interviews, 31 August 2006 Food Security Relocalization Local Food 
Deconstructing Dinner)
As current farming practices are proving to be unsustainable in the long-term, urban agriculture is looked upon by many 
as being a critical shift that needs to take place if we are to ensure a sufficient level of food security in the near 
and distant future.

Limits to Growth co-author on climate change
(Lectures, 2 February 2007 Climate Change Resource Depletion Population)
If climate change sparks a global collapse this century, future historians are unlikely to acknowledge what caused it, 
says Norwegian scholar Jorgen Randers.

Dale Alan Pfeiffer on Eating Fossil Fuels
(Interviews, 20 November 2006 Oil)
Kellia Ramares of Radio Internet Story Exchange talks to author Dale Alan 
Pfeiffer about his book Eating Fossil Fuels.

Top Energy Scientists Agree, Bush Wrong on Alternative Fuels
(Articles, 1 February 2007 Oil Renewables Politics)
"...witnesses from three of America’s premier energy research institutions cast grave doubt on the feasibility of 
reaching President Bush’s State of the Union goal of manufacturing 35 billion gallons a year of alternative fuels by 
2017." Post Carbon Institute Communications Director Richard Bell reports.

State Of The Union: The Danger of a Few Little Words
(Articles, 25 January 2007 Oil Climate Change Politics)
Richard Bell, Communications Director for Post Carbon Institute, responds to President Bush's State of the Union 
Address. The article is followed by the energy sections of the 2006 and 2007 State of the Union Addresses.

Deconstructing Dinner: Thought for Food
(Interviews, 18 January 2007 Food Security Relocalization Local Food 
Deconstructing Dinner)
Global supplies of grain at dangerously low levels. Biofuels. The farm income crisis. Corporate consolidation in the 
agriculture and food sectors. Absurd amounts of wasted food. Freeganism. Dumpster Diving. Food Miles. Is local food the 
most environmentally friendly food? A potluck of ideas to explore on this broadcast of Deconstructing Dinner. Inspired 
by the “Thought for Food” issue of the University of Waterloo’s Alternatives Journal.

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