Environment/Climate

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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 h... 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, G... 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 a... 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... 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, Texa... 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 ev... 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

Positively Revolting on 09-30-11 Permaculture -getting skills to build our world in balance

Airs at: Fri, 09/30/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Permaculture! Getting skills to build our world in balance. NW Permaculture Convergence 10/14 - 16 Matt Bibeau will join Ani and Lyn to talk about permaculture.  What is it, and why is it important?  How can permaculture help us in these interesting times in which we fi... Read more

Emma Marris on her book "Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World."

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Gene Bradley speaks with Emma Marris, author of "Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World."  In her book Marris interviews leading scientists and environmentalists and visits imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. She contends th... Read more

OUR DYING PLANET - An interview with ecologist Peter Sale

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet, a potential eradication being caused by us. Human activities are creating enormous changes on this planet which sustains us, and the alarming plight of coral reefs is just one... Read more