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The Occupy Movement -- People Power vs. Hypocrisy!

Airs at: Thu, 10/13/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know" examines the hypocrisy in criticisms of the Occupy Movement, and the real power being expressed by the movement.  Plus, latest on increasing radiation around Fukushima. Read more

Sandra Steingraber talks about hydro-fracking and how it threatens our air, water and food.

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 The guest is writer and ecologist Sandra Steingraber, author of the groundbreaking book "Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment." Her latest book is "Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis." She... Read more

A backward agenda: Using Solyndra failure to end support for clean energy

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Solyndra, a solar power company that got more than half a billion dollars in loan guarantees from a Department of Energy Recovery Act program, went bankrupt at the beginning of September. The reason why it happened and who’s to blame is still unclear, but that’s not the mai... Read more

EMPIRE OF THE BEETLE Author Andrew Nikiforuk on the Bark Beetle's Seige of North American Forests

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A bug the size of a rice kernel is killing off more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees in North America. Historically bark beetles are not pests. A bark beetle can probably hear the distressed song of a drought stricken tree and for tens of millions of years they have... Read more

Occupy Portland!!! Bob Kelly talks about The Occupation

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today's guest is Bob Kelly, the Communications Representative from Occupy Portland, in to talk about this week's Demonstration. Thursday, October 6, 2011 Noon O'Clock Tom McCall Waterfront Park Under the Burnside Bridge We will Meet at the Waterfront, Ge... Read more

THE DOLLAR LAKE FIRE: LOOKING BACK AT THE FIRE SEASON

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The fires this summer on the northface of Mt. Hood struck a dark chord for many of us who know and love the trails, basins and ridges of this rugged and least-accessible face of the mountain. Yet while we may feel great sadness imagining our favorite places scorched and ... Read more

Francis Moore Lappé: Shifting from "thought-traps" to EcoMind to re-create our world

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2011 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Environmentalist and best-selling author Frances Moore Lappé is interviewed by Michelle Schroeder Fletcher about her new book Ecomind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want. Lappé, author of the best-selling Diet for a Small Planet, and co-founder of the Sm... Read more

Northwest Permaculture Convergence: Finding Common Cause

Airs at: Wed, 09/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Host Sue Supriano speaks with Jan Spencer, organizer of the Northwest Permaculture Convergence, which will be held October 13 - 16 in Portland and the Columbia County Fairgrounds [St. Helens]. The theme is "Finding Common Cause." Jan Spencer has lived in New York, Texas, ... Read more

Democracy Movement comes to U.S.

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know." New tar balls in Gulf. BP now "the boss" there.  Media under-reports severity of Fukushima--nuclear disaster is ongoing. We need to take measures to take care of ourselves. U.S. records highest poverty rate ever.... Read more

Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Portland! Do Something!

Airs at: Thu, 09/29/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the news you're not supposed to know.  This week Theresa is inspired by "Occupy Wall Street!"   Also, new oil sheen in Gulf of Mexico -- oil leaking from giant cracks from BP disaster? Read more