Environment/Climate

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Would a Crisis Benefit Left or Right?

Airs at: Thu, 10/20/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Flashpoints was pre-empted last night for the Presidential Candidate Debate, so we'll hear the latest episode from the series Radio Ecoshock with host Alex Smith. The show asks, "Should we hope for a crisis as a way out?" Alex speaks with Eddie Yuen from Pacifica's "Again... Read more

Bill McKibben on the State of the Climate Movement

Airs at: Thu, 10/20/2016 at 9:00am - 9:30am

Produced for: Presswatch

Host Theresa Mitchell interviews environmental activist and author Bill McKibben about the state of the climate movement and what it takes to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Bill McKibben’s 1989 groundbreaking book, The End of Nature, was the first of his 13 remarkable... Read more

Election 2016: Syndicated Version

Airs at: Sun, 10/16/2016 at 6:30am

Produced for: Beloved Community

This is the syndicated version of the Beloved Community. This is the election episode. I speak with Laurence Leamer author of The President’s Butler, a fictional account of a billionaire who decides to run for president. Afraid of Trump becoming president? Well, don’t b... Read more

Amy Livingstone, Sacred Art and Spiritual Ecology

Airs at: Sun, 10/16/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Amy Livingstone is the proprietor of Sacred Art Studio in Portland. Amy explores the intersection of theology, ancestral ways of knowing, environmentalism, and spiritual ecology. Her work is informed by her love for the earth and engagement with many forms of creative expre... Read more

Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

According to the American Farmland Trust, fifty acres of prime agricultural land are paved over and developed every hour in North America. At the same time the number of farmers is declining while the human population is expected to eclipse eight billion in just over a deca... Read more

The Digital Divide: Host Rabia Yeaman interviews Donald Hoffman

Airs at: Fri, 10/14/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Digital Divide

Rather than as a set of absolute physical principles, reality is best understood as a set of phenomena our brain constructs to guide our behavior. To put it simply: we actively create everything we see, and there is no aspect of reality that does not depend on consciousn... Read more

BRINGING CLIMATE JUSTICE TO THE CLASSROOM

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

THIS PROGRAM WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON MAY 23, 2016 In what may be a first in the nation, the Portland, Oregon school board passed a sweeping “climate justice” resolution that commits the school district to “abandon the use of any adopted text material that is found to... Read more

EXPANDING OIL TRAIN TRAFFIC THROUGH THE COLUMBIA GORGE

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Four months after an oil train derailed and caught fire in the Columbia Gorge town of Mosier, the Wasco County Planning Commission has approved a proposal by Union Pacific to expand its rail facilities through Mosier, at the very site of the derailment in June. According to... Read more

We Are Not Drowning, We Are Fighting! with Marshallese writer Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner

Airs at: Thu, 09/29/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Host Jo Ann Hardesty speaks with Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner,a Marshallese writer and climate justice activist about We Are Not Drowning, We Are Fighting! A Night of Poetry and Conversation, happening Thurs. Sept 29, 7-9pm, at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave (Eli... Read more

Alternative Radio with Chris Williams on Eco-Socialism

Airs at: Wed, 09/28/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

This program from Alternative Radio was pre-empted yesterday for a special Democracy Now broadcast on the Presidential Debates. Chris Williams is an environmental scholar and activist. He is professor of physics and chemistry at Pace University and chair of the science d... Read more