Climate Radio is proud to host a new series of weekly radio shows produced for Resonance FM by climate change activists Ben Stewart and Joss Garman. The programme discusses environmental current affairs with guests from politics, civil society and the media. Ben Stewart is the media director of Greenpeace UK and one of the six activists famously acquitted after damaging Kingsnorth coal power station in a landmark court case whose defence was described by The New York Times as “one of the ideas that changed the world.” Joss Garman was one of the founders of the climate action group, Plane Stupid, and is now a climate campaigner for Greenpeace. He was listed by The Guardian as “one of the fifty people who could save the planet.” Each programme lasts 30 minutes.
Graham Thompson and Joss Garman talk to award winning journalist Johann Hari about whether US green groups went bad and Diane Abbott about whether the environment is an issue in the Labour leadership contest.
Joss Garman and Ben Stewart speak to Will Straw of Left Foot Forward and David Babbs of 38 degrees to discuss how blogging and online campaigns could transform the way the environmental community and the broader progressive movement works.
In the third episode of Deep Fried Planet, Joss Garman discusses subsidies to big oil and big coal, and cuts to clean energy budgets. Joining him this week are Sarah Jayne-Clifton from Friends of the Earth and Colin Hines from the Green New Deal group.
“This week Joss Garman and guest presenter Graham Thompson discuss recent direct actions in Aberdeen and London.
“Joss speaks to Dan Glass and Tilly Gifford of the Climate 9, a group of activists currently on trial in Scotland for an action taken at Aberdeen airport. The group closed down the taxi way in order to reduce the total number of emissions from flights that day. Their decision to cease their protest was controversially based on a false police report that they were endangering the life of a new born awaiting air transfer.
“Also on this week is James Marriot of Platform London. James discusses his part in the recent protest at the Tate Britain calling for an end to BP’s sponsorship of the arts. Marroitt discusses how corporations like BP use sponsorship packages in order to obtain “social license to operate” or in other words, to distract the public from the environmentally detrimental activities that drive their profits.”
“TodayDeep Fried Planet premieres on Resonance FM. Presented by long time environmental activists Ben Stewart and Joss Garman, this is the first in a weekly series of discussions about current environmental affairs.
“Stewart and Garman discuss the BP oil spill – “America’s worst environmental disaster in history” with Joseph Romm and Duncan Exley. Romm is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for American Progress, Assistant Secretary of state for Energy in the Clinton Administration and once described by Time magazine as the web’s most influential climate blogger. Exley is Director of FairPensions, an organization that lobbies to promote ethical pensions investment in the UK.
“As BP’s share price tumbles, should your pension fund be disinvesting in fossil fuels altogether as they increasingly turn into potential liabilities? How will the BP spill effects Obama’s attempts at clean energy reform, and how might it impact the power of the Republican Tea Party movement?”
