Environment/Climate

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Ongoing Protests by Cascade Forest Defenders in Coos County

Airs at: Thu, 07/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
  Two groups of environmental activists have launched a series of blockades and tree-sits in Coos county’s Elliott State Forest to impede logging in the area.   KBOO’s Ren Green spoke with Jason Gonzales, spokesperson for the Cascadia Forest Defenders, for an update on the ... Read more

Voices from the Edge 07-21-11 Columbia River Crossing

Airs at: Thu, 07/21/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
This week on Voices from the Edge, host Jo Ann Boman asks, "Can Oregon afford the Columbia River Crossing?" Jo Ann Bowman is a former state legislator, former executive director of Oregon Action and past board president of Portland Community Media as well as a long-time... Read more

Gerry Pollet of Heart of America NW joins Abe to discuss the latest on the Hanford nuclear site

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation.   Since its birth during the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has left a toxic legacy in its wake, from displaced populations to groundwater contamination to radiation in the Columbia River. Now, the U.S ... Read more

More Talk Radio 07/18/2011

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey comment on various topics including: our dependence on technology, re-purposing job skills to adapt to the emerging green economy, and same sex marriage. Read more

A Market Abolitionist Argues for Cap-&-Trade

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill and Robin Hahnel start by talking about why he opposes markets when central to economic systems, advocating participatory economic planning, even in the case of so-called market-socialism, which Bill succinctly c competetively extracting profits to work. Robin points o... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 25th

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts today show and we hear: Bill talks with market-abolitionist Robin Hahnel about cap-&-trade Larry Bowlden Reviews Maggie O'Farrell's "The Hand That First Held Mine". Joe Clement and Donald Joughin review Captain America. Tom reads Paul... Read more

Gala Miller from the Columbia Springs Environmental Resource Center

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck Today, Paul talks to Gala Miller from the Columbia Springs Environmental Resource Center       Read more

SOLWEST FAIR - Renewable Energy Action in Eastern Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Portland might consider itself the hub of the sustainable movement but every summer in Grant County, Oregon, a major event takes place to rival anything in our urban center. On this episode of Locus Focus we'll learn about the SolWest Fair that takes place every summer ... Read more

Conservatism: the gnawing fear that someone, somewhere, might be having a good time.

Airs at: Tue, 07/19/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is still on vacation.   In the 2010 elections, the GOP snatched up statehouses and state legislatures across the country. Predictably, an onslaught of regressive legislation has ensued -- againstwomen, against minorities, against the envi... Read more

A CATASTROPHIC CONVERGENCE: The Oil Spill in the Yellowstone River & the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On July 1 an ExxonMobil oil pipeline running under the Yellowstone River near Billings, MT ruptured, dumping massive amounts of oil into the river. Critics of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline—that would carry oil from the Tar Sands pits of Alberta to refineries along th... Read more