[cma-l] Quality Climate Radio Programme available - FREE

Mon Jun 30 11:49:39 BST 2008

Dear CMA member,
Climate Radio is producing a new series of weekly programmes during the
July-September period.

If you would like to join the dozen or more stations that are already
broadcasting these programmes - please contact: phil at switch-off.co.uk

Further information about these programmes in the form of a recent press
release follows

Best wishes,

Phil England
www.climateradio.co.uk

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 *Press Release: 18 June 2008*

*Resonance 104.4 FM in partnership with Climate Radio is proud to announce a
new series of... *

*The Two Degrees Show*

The campaigning climate change bulletin returns with a new season of weekly
half-hour programmes running through July to September. Previous series have
featured a roll call of environmental movers and shakers including David
Miliband, George Monbiot, Caroline Lucas, Rob Hopkins, Chris Goodall and
Mark Lynas.

The new series of this highly regarded, agenda setting programme starts on
Thursday 3rd July at 7:30pm (repeated Monday 7th July at 1pm) with an update
on the science and will continue with an argument for moratoriums on
biofuels and new coal projects, coverage of the 2008 Camp for Climate
Action, and interrogations of the environmental representatives of each of
the four main political parties.

*For more information contact Phil England on 020 8376 2460 or
phil at switch-off.co.uk*

*The Two Degrees Show **is broadcast, webcast, podcast and archived:*

·         Broadcast on Thursdays, 7:30-8pm

·         Repeated on Mondays, 1-1:30pm

·         Broadcast in central London by Resonance104.4FM

·         Webcast worldwide by ResonanceFM at www.resonancefm.com

·         Podcast by iTunes (search for "Climate Radio"); *The
Ecologist*magazine at
www.theecologist.org; and ResonanceFM at
http://feeds.feedburner.com/climateradio

·         Archived by Climate Outreach and Information Network (part of the
Stop Climate Chaos coalition) at www.climateradio.co.uk

*Also syndicated in the UK and internationally:*

·         Syndicated across the US via the Pacifica Network's Audioport
facility www.audioport.org

·         Syndicated globally through The A-Infos Radio Project at
www.radio4all.net

·         Rebroadcast in the UK by a dozen or so community radio stations

*About The Two Degrees Show:*

·         *The Two Degrees Show* takes its name from the emerging consensus
amongst scientists and policy makers, that two degrees centigrade of average
global warming is the threshold we must not cross if we are to avoid
catastrophic levels of global warming.

·         *The Two Degrees* *Show* is researched, hosted, narrated and
produced by journalist and ResonanceFM co-founder, Phil England.

·         The programmes are supported the Polden Puckham Charitable Trust

*Background Information: *

Journalist Phil England has produced 35 hours of programming for ResonanceFM
on climate change from 2003 to the present. As a writer, his work has been
published in The Independent, The Herald, The Ecologist, New
Internationalist, Variant and The Wire. His radio programmes have earned a
reputation for tackling the critical topics in the climate change debate
through informed interviews with experts. The full archive of programmes can
be found at www.climateradio.co.uk

* *

*Previous Climate Radio programmes have included (2006-2007):*

·         An interview with *George Monbiot* about his book "Heat: How To
Stop The Planet Burning". Why the UK needs to cut CO2 by 90% by 2030 and how
we can do it.

·         A look at *carbon rationing *with Mayer Hillman and Richard
Starkey

   - An interview with Professor John Schellnhuber - the newly appointed *chief
   advisor to the German government on climate change *

·         A look at the massive (and successful!) civil society campaign for
a *Climate Change Bill* with *David Miliband *(then Environment Secretary)
Martyn Williams, Senior Parliamentary Campaigner with Friends of the Earth.

·         *Caroline Lucas MEP* assessing EU action on Climate Change

·         On-the-spot reports from the 2006 & 2007 *Camp* *for Climate
Action*

·         An interview with *Rob Hopkins *founder of the *Transition
Town *phenomenon
that is sweeping the nation

·         An exploration of *carbon trading *including a look at the
shocking impact on communities in India of projects funded by the Kyoto
Protocol's *Clean Development Mechanism *in an interview with a Bengali
community activist

·         Coverage of the *UN talks* on climate change in Nairobi in news,
analysis and on the spot coverage from experts

·         Two programmes looking at the massive potential of *organic
farming *to help with climate stabilisation including an interview with Soil
Association Chair and Green & Black's chocolate founder Craig Sams and
assessment by independent experts from the IPCC and DEFRA

·         Stewart Wallis, Executive Director of the *New Economics *Foundation
on why we need to focus on Well Being rather than GDP if we are to stabilise
the climate

·         An interview with Phil Thornhill, national co-ordinator of
Campaign Against Climate Change on organising demonstrations in 50 countries
ahead of the UN climate talks

·         Coverage of the RSA *No Way Back?* conference on *ecology and the
arts*

·         An exploration of the potential of *decentralised energy*production

·         *Low-carbon pioneer *Donnachadh McCarthy - whose carbon footprint
is one seventeenth of the average European household's - took us on a tour
of his South London terraced house and explained how he does it

*Interviewees featured in earlier programmes (2003-2005) include: *

   - David Griggs - Meteorological Office Hadley Centre director
   - Elliot Morley MP - (at the time) Minister responsible for the UK's
   Climate Change Programme
   - Peter Ainsworth MP - Environment Audit Committee chair (at the time)
   - Karen Buck MP - Minister for Aviation (at the time)
   - Norman Baker MP - Liberal Democrat environment spokesman (at the time)
   - John Gummer MP - Conservative environment spokesman
   - Michael Meacher MP - Former Environment Minister
   - Aubrey Meyer - Contraction & Convergence pioneer
   - Authors: Greg Palast and Mark Lynas
   - Allan Jones - London Climate Change Agency director (formerly of Woking
   Council)
   - *Plus reps from:* Royal Society, RCEP, Greenpeace, Friends of the
   Earth, Tyndall Centre, Camden council, International Climate Change
   Taskforce, NEF, Policy Studies Institute, Stop Stansted Airport, BioPower
   Network and the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre

Examples of Phil England's current affairs work include:

   - George Monbiot vs. James Lovelock:
   http://www.variant.randomstate.org/pdfs/issue28/Hope28.pdf
   - Blair's Wars:
   http://www.variant.randomstate.org/pdfs/issue21/blairswars.pdf
   - Climate Change Prognosis and Courses of Action
   - http://www.variant.randomstate.org/pdfs/issue17/17pengland.pdf
   - New Labour's Arms Trade:
   http://www.variant.randomstate.org/pdfs/issue13/England.pdf
   - Degraded Capability:
   http://www.variant.randomstate.org/pdfs/issue11/Phil_Englan.pdf

-- 
Chris Weaver
Production Manager
Resonance104.4FM
resonancefm.com
+44 (0)207 407 1210
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