A Weekly Radio Program
Where to Listen
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- KSOW Cottage Grove
Articles
- Obama Will Face Bush Legacy on Environment
- Paradise Lost on Maldives' Rubbish Island
- Getting renewable power to the people
- The Energy Challenge: No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in Passive Houses
- Burning Coal at Home Is Making a Comeback
- Romm Posts New Study on "Staggering" Costs of New Nukes
- The climate engineers
- Trading Foreign Oil For Foreign Electric Car Parts? [huge quantities of cobalt needed for lithium-ion batteries]
- Using Solar Roofs To Power Hybrids
- Climate Change Threatens Pacific, Arctic Conflicts
- Writer of 1970s 'Ecotopia' Makes a Comeback in the Green Era
- Obama: Listen to Iraqi Opinion
- Obama Faces Hungry Nuclear Industry
- Clear Consensus: 60 Experts Agree On Top Three Nuclear Non-Proliferation Priorities for Obama
- Forecast 2030: Oil Use Flat, Hybrids Ascendant
- A Hypocrite as Our Diplomat in Chief
- Obama Left With Little Time to Curb Global Warming
- Too Late? Why Scientists Say We Should Expect the Worst
- James L. Jones' Energy Views Worry Some Environmentalists
- Gore has Obama's ear on climate change
- Tell Barack Obama the Truth - The Whole Truth by James Hansen
- Environmentalists Wary of Obama's Interior Pick
- Has the Arctic Melt Passed the Point of No Return?
- US Agency Posts 'Most Wanted' List for Eco Crimes
- Al Gore Calls for Tougher Global Limit on CO2 Levels
- Organic Consumers Association: Vilsack Not 'Change We Can Believe In'
- President for 60 More Days, Bush Tearing Apart Protection for America's Wilderness
- Companies Could Buy Areas of Rainforest in Return for Being Allowed to Pollute
- Forest Groups Caution Poznan Outcomes will Cause Havoc to Forests and Indigenous Peoples
- The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America's Schools (USA Today special report)
- Dropping the bomb - how to ban nukes and save the planet (New Internationalist special issue)
- Solar car completes first-ever round-the-world trip
- Victims of Global Warming Could Sue Oil and Power Companies
- Cyberspace Has Buried Its Head in a Cesspit of Climate Change Gibberish: planted deniers drive a blinkered fiction
- U.S. Weapons at War 2008: Beyond the Bush Legacy (New America Foundation report)
- Debunking the Myths About Nuclear Power
- Lucrative Palm Oil Crop Putting Red Apes in Danger
- Panel Criticizes US Effort on Nanomaterial Risks
- The new Gulf War syndrome - U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are being exposed to toxic chemicals that pose serious health risks
- NF3: The Greenhouse Gas That Nobody Knew
- Experts: Half World Faces Water Shortage by 2080
- National Intelligence Council Report: Sun Setting on The American Century
- Death Bloom of Plankton A Warning on Warming
- Antiwar Groups Fear Barack Obama May Create Hawkish Cabinet
- Biofuels Industry Pressures EPA To Ignore Rainforest Destruction
- Great big ozone hole this year - not as bad news as it sounds
- Ten-Year Probe Reveals Oceans in Peril
- Internet Revolution That Elected Obama Could Save Earth: Gore
- Brown Clouds Melting Glaciers, Darkening Cities Across Asia
- Biofuels Industry Pressures EPA To Ignore Rainforest Destruction
- EPA Employed Suspect Chemical Industry Lab to Declare Perchlorate Safe
- The Climate for Change
- Rising Methane Levels Are Cause For Concern
- Gates Calls Nuke Capability Critical to Deterrence, Reassuring Allies
- Oceans Passing Critical CO2 Threshold
- Forest Protection Plan Could Displace Millions, say Campaigners
- Climate Change Juggernaut on the Horizon, UN Talks Told
- Potent Greenhouse Gas More Prevalent in Atmosphere than Previously Assumed
- Solar thermal projects gather steam -- and opposition
- In 'Eat Local' Movement, Cuba Is Years Ahead
- Zimbabwe: Extinction Looms in a Paradise Lost to Guns, Greed and Hunger
- Russia Warns of Missile Deployment
- Massive Shift to Clean Energy Could Start Tomorrow
- Why Cancer's Gaining on Us
- Worst Forms of Pollution Killing Millions
- Going beyond climate change
- U.S. could create 4.2 million green jobs by 2038 - study
- Traffic noise not just an annoyance - it's a health hazard
- Drastic cuts in greenhouse gases needed by 2010
- Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change
- Worse Than Carbon Dioxide; 'Methane Chimneys' As Climate Bombs
- 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 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
- Cellphone use potentially risky for kids, teens: health agency
- Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks
- Tumors and Cell Phone Use: What the Science Says (Study)
- Light Pollution (National Geographic cover story)
- Articles by Dr. Caldicott
Links
- International Energy Agency 'Blocking Global Switch to Renewables
- 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.