Where to Listen
- KPFT Houston
- Free Radio Santa Cruz
- KFCF Fresno
- KYRS Spokane
- WRFU Urbana
- WMBR Cambridge
- KBOO Portland
- WCRS LP Columbus
- KSOW Cottage Grove
Articles
- Obama's Potential Green Team
- Obama's Green Jobs Revolution
- Russia Warns of Missile Deployment
- Medvedev to Deploy Missiles in Obama's 'First Test'
- Climate Change Is 'Faster and More Extreme' Than Feared
- Massive Shift to Clean Energy Could Start Tomorrow
- Gates Calls For Modernization of US Nuclear Weapons
- Why Cancer's Gaining on Us
- Worst Forms of Pollution Killing Millions
- Russia plans major military reform
- Going beyond climate change
- Missile defense in Poland a frivolous move
- U.S. could create 4.2 million green jobs by 2038 - study
- Traffic noise not just an annoyance - it's a health hazard
- Pay-to-protect forest plan gets cautious welcome
- Californians have higher levels of flame-retardant PBDEs in their blood
- Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end
- UK government: rainforests are weapon against global warming
- Forest conservation can fight climate change and poverty
- Indigenous people demand greater say in using forests to fight global warming
- Global warming threatens tropics
- Battle for the Amazon
- Brazilian officials face charges over Amazon destruction caused by logging
- Drastic cuts in greenhouse gases needed by 2010
- Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change
- Anti-coal activists find ally in climate scientist
- World food crisis at critical juncture
- Worse Than Carbon Dioxide; 'Methane Chimneys' As Climate Bombs
- Mission Creep: U.S. Military Presence Worldwide (Mother Jones magazine special investigation)
- Old growth forests are carbon sinks for centuries, helping offset emissions
- Creating a backyard vegetable garden
- Electronic Smog 'Is Disrupting Nature On A Massive Scale
- The Long-Ignored Ocean Emergency And What Can Be Done To Address It
- The Impending Threat of Spiral Development [of U.S. Missile Defense]
- Meet the Nuclear Power Lobby
- Earth Near Tipping Point
- Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming
- Germany warns citizens to avoid using Wi-Fi
- Heavy Cell Phone Use Linked To Cancer, Study Suggests
- Mobile Phones and Brain Tumors - A Public Health Concern
- Silicon Light Bulbs to Compete with Fluorescent Bulbs
- A Closer Look at Compact Fluorescents - The Environmental Benefit versus Health Impact
- Lights at Night Are Linked to Breast Cancer
- Articles by Dr. Caldicott
Links
- Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
- Reuters Environmental News
- Friends of the Earth
- Prince's Rainforests Project
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
- ClimateDenial.org
- Rainforest Action Network
- Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Environmental News Network
- Earth Island Journal
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Center for Defense Information
- Beyond Nuclear
- E Magazine
- Common Dreams
- Truthout - Environmental
- Living on Earth radio show
- EarthBeat Radio
- Ecoshock
- Flashpoints
- Democracy Now
- Gar Smith
- Guardian
- Independent
- Worldwatch Institute
- Greenpeace
- TUC Radio
- Huffington Post Green
- Mongabay
About Us
If You Love This Planet with Dr. Helen Caldicott delivers an hour each week of in-depth discussion about urgent planetary survival issues such as global warming, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, deforestation, toxic pollution, ozone depletion, hunger and poverty, and species extinction. Each program features one major topic, allowing for an extended conversation with our guest or guests. Clips of lectures by Dr. Caldicott are also part of the mix.
If You Love This Planet endeavors to bring the human, animal and plant health aspects of all environmental issues into sharp focus.
Host
Helen Caldicott, M.D.
Nobel Peace Prize-nominated pediatrician Helen Caldicott, M.D. is the host of If You Love This Planet. For over 35 years, Dr. Caldicott has helped galvanize awareness of the risks of nuclear technology and global environmental collapse. Her work with Physicians for Social Responsibility organized thousands of doctors to teach the public about the medical implications of nuclear war and nuclear power. She helped motivate the U.S. public to demand a nuclear freeze initiative in the 1980s. Dr. Caldicott has written seven books about nuclear and ecological issues. She has received the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Most recently, Dr. Caldicott was president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank (now Beyond Nuclear).
Dr. Caldicott has had a high profile in American radio since the late 1970s, with her speeches and interviews played frequently on national airwaves. From 1995 to 1997, she hosted a weekly radio talk show on WBAI in New York City. She hosted the 13-part series, A Passion for Survival (2002) and a six-part radio series based on her book, The New Nuclear Danger (2004) for Pacifica Radio.
To read a detailed biography of Dr. Caldicott, click here. See the announcement in The New York Times about Dr. Caldicott winning the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize here.
Producers
Jasmin Williams
Jasmin Williams is If You Love This Planet's Australian producer and editor. With an extensive background in media work, she produced and edited a public affairs program for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 2001-2005. Ms. Williams handles the engineering and technical aspects of all If You Love This Planet recordings.
Scott Powell
Scott Powell is If You Love This Planet's U.S. producer. He has worked with Dr. Caldicott as a researcher, video producer, event organizer and fundraiser since 1991. He wrote the appendices and did extensive research for her book The New Nuclear Danger (2001 / 2004) and produced a six-part Pacifica Radio series of the same name, hosted by Dr. Caldicott. He is presently working as a researcher for Dr. Caldicott as she prepares a new edition of her book If You Love This Planet (to be published in 2009).
Amanda Bellerby
Amanda Bellerby manages publicity and outreach for If You Love This Planet. She has been an independent radio producer for the past nine years. She hosted the public affairs program, The Indyradio Hour, on KZYX. Amanda is now environmental producer for Flashpoints, an award-winning, daily, investigative news program on Pacifica station KPFA, and she produces a weekly, syndicated best-of Flashpoints edition. She has also worked as a research assistant and publicist for writer/activist Dr. Michael Parenti.
Note to Stations
If You Love This Planet is available at no cost. Please contact co-producer/publicist Amanda Bellerby for more details and a demo CD, by writing ambellerby@gmail.com.
Supporters
We gratefully acknowledge our wonderful donors who make this show possible:
- Wade Greene / Rockefeller Foundation
- John and Chara Haas
- Carolyn Kleefeld
- Mitchell Lichtenstein
- Crea Lintilhac
- Park Foundation
- Bonnie Raitt
Contact Us
To contact us, you can write to info@ifyoulovethisplanet.org.