Friday, April 27, 2012

Trends


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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 17 -- April 27, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #217, May 1, 2012

Trends
Botox for men
In brief

In places seriously, in places tongue-in-cheek, we take a look at some current trends. Important ones include the decline of suburbs and the increasing wealth of the plutocrats.

But let's not neglect Botox for men ("brotox"), celebrity vegetarianism, women NOT dyeing their hair, special-interest magazines, exploring power plants while naked.... Contributors include J.H. Kunstler, George Carlin, Paul Krassner, provincial newspapers, and singer David Rovics.

Notes, credits, & links

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "What, me worry?") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.
Paul Krassner

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • May 8 -- Jeff Cohen on Corporate News Media
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Peak Oil, Peak Natural Gas, Peak Electricity...


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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 15-16 -- Friday the 13th, 2012

This fortnight in New World Notes, radio program #215-216, April 17 & 24, 2012

Peak Oil, Peak Natural Gas,
Peak Electricity:
Why 'More of the Same' is Not an Option

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In brief

It's not just oil. With growing demand and declining supplies, all forms of energy will soon become very expensive.

No alternative sources can produce as much energy as we are now obtaining from oil and natural gas--both of which are in decline. Some proposed alternatives (hydrogen, ethanol) are pipe-dreams.

Is this the end of The American Way of Life? Probably. Several experts lucidly explain what's happpening and what we have to do.

Experts speaking here include several petroleum scientists and engineers, ecologist Richard Heinberg, urban planners James Howard Kunstler and Peter Calthorpe, energy investment broker Matthew Simmons, political analyst Michael Ruppert, and journalist Barrie Zwicker (narrator).

For this two-part broadcast, I condensed and adapted the 2004 documentary film, The End of Suburbia.


Notes, credits, & links

More on Peak Oil: http://aspo-usa.com/

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "aegis") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview:
Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Below: No known or forseeable technology can produce as much power, as cheaply, as oil and natural gas have been able to. Can expensive power and prosperity co-exist?

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • May 1 -- Trends
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