Environment/Climate

Siletz River Ecosystem Intervenes in Lawsuit against Aerial Pesticide Ban

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

On Monday July 24, the Siletz River Ecosystem filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against Lincoln County along Oregon’s coast. The lawsuit was brought by Rex Capri of Newport and Wakefield Farms of Eddyville, who dispute the legality of a ballot measure b... Read more

Fighting Goliath

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. On this episode of Locus Focus we present FIGHTING GOLIATH, produced and broadcast in 2014. The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on e... Read more

Sculpted By Fire

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. This week we present Sculpted By Fire, produced and initially broadcast in 2007. In mid July of 2002 a series of lightning strikes ignited a number of sm... Read more

Salmonlands

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. This week we present SALMONLANDS, produced in 2005. Without the Salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it. Yet since 1991, most of the sa... Read more

RIVERS THAT WERE

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries, beginning with RIVERS THAT WERE, produced in 2002, at a time when no one would have imagined that coal and oil trains would threaten the Columbia River ... Read more

KALAMA METHANOL REFINERY UPDATE

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

As the fossil fuel industry targets the Pacific NW for massive fossil fuel development, communities across the region have drawn a thin green line of resistance. Most of these proposals are being vehemently opposed, but on either side of the Lower Columbia River, the lar... Read more

Naomi Klein in conversation with Jo Ann Hardesty

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Naomi Klein joins Jo Ann Hardesty in a wide ranging and engaging discussion. Recorded in Beaverton at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing. “This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover... Read more

An Indigenous Economic Model: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 07/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The existing economic system in most countries is a kind of state capitalism. It produces enormous inequalities. Its extraction practices are environmentally destructive. Perhaps indigenous models provide a viable alternative. Chief Seattle was a Susquamish chief in w... Read more

Portland's Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Ban Hits an Obstacle

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

On July 19, 2017 the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) ruled that Portland’s Fossil Fuel Terminal Zoning Amendments, passed unanimously in December of 2016, is inconsistent with the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Portland’s fossil fuel policy intended to... Read more

At what point will it be an "Uninhabitable Earth"?? Journalist Robert Hunziker discusses the controversial 'New York' magazine article

Airs at: Wed, 07/19/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Opening song: "To Be or Not To Be?" by Danbert Nobacon and The Axis of Dissent: https://danbertnobacon-axis.bandcamp.com/track/to-be-or-not-to-be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdb_8gUht5c A recent article by David Wallace-Wells for New York magazine, "The Uninha... Read more