If You Love This Planet

Dr. Helen Caldicott

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

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Contact Us

To contact us, you can write to info@ifyoulovethisplanet.org.