Environment/Climate

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350pdx.org LIVE on KBOO Evening News

Airs at: Wed, 06/08/2016 at 6:15pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Grassroots organizers met last night to discuss how to address the transport of crude through the Pacific Northwest. Their meeting comes as a reaction to last Friday's oil train derailment along the Columbia River Gorge. Nick Caleb and Adrianna Voss-Andreae of 350pdx.org... Read more

Bark talks LIVE about Nestle on KBOO News

Airs at: Wed, 06/08/2016 at 6:15pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Despite a recent county ballot measure aimed at keeping the Nestle bottling company from botting water at Oxbow Spring, the city of Cascade Locks has announced that it will be moving forward with its plans to build the bottling plant. Alex Brown, executive director of Ba... Read more

Portland Rising Tide LIVE on KBOO News

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In the wake of the crude oil train derailment along the Columbia River Gorge last Friday, many are calling for grassroots action against crude oil transport. Portland Rising Tide is having a meeting tonight in Portland. They spoke with us LIVE via phone on the KBOO Eveni... Read more

Do We Really Need Assault Weapons?

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  Joe Uris had planned to discuss the future of the TPP trade agreement. In response to the massacre in Orlando, he has changed today's topic to the issues of guns, hate and violence.   Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 6, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode, which features music by Charlie Musselwhite and segments on global trade, psychological survival in the occupied territories, and debates about how to teach about climate change.   Bill Resnick interviews Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch ... Read more

Changing Climate Curriculum

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris and Bill Resnick discuss the Portland Public School District's recent decision to eliminate text books that present climate change denial as a legitimate scientific viewpoint. They refer to Bill Bigelow's recent article about the school board's decisio... Read more

Global Trade in the Election year

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Following the recent release of a report from the US International Trade Commission Concerning the Likely Impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, Bill Resnick talks with Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch about why US trade policy has become a centr... Read more

Trade Policy in the Presidential Election, Israeli and Palestinian Trauma Victims and PPS Bans Climate Change Denial Texts

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch on why US trade policy has become a central issue for both parties. Jan Haaken talks with Judy Roth, an activist with Psychologists for Social Responsibility on her work with Israeli and Palestinian trauma vic... Read more

Patricia Tull, Inhabiting Eden

Airs at: Sun, 06/05/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Patricia Tull is an ordained Presbyterian minister and professor of Hebrew Bible.  She retired from Louisville Theological Seminary where she is A.B. Rhodes Professor Emerita of Old Testament.  She is the author of Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecologic... Read more

Water World

Airs at: Wed, 06/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Kristin Yount will host an update on the state of affairs with the EPA Superfund site at the Willamette Harbor . Kristin is joined by guests Rose Longoria and Dr. Peter deFur. Longoria is the Clean Up Coordinator for the EPA Superfund for the Yakima Nations Fisheries. Dr... Read more