Environment/Climate

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GTN Xpress: The Latest Fracked Gas Assault on Southern Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
After a 17 year battle, communities across Southern Oregon (and the rest of the region) finally defeated the massive Jordan Cove LNG Export terminal proposed for Coos Bay. But not long after that victory a new fracked gas behemoth threatens the region again. Gas Transmissio... Read more

Your Body Is Partly Plastic. So Is Everything Else.

Airs at: Thu, 12/29/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Wired science journalist Matt Simon on his new book, A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies. Also, Julian Cribb, author and science hunter: the 10 game-ending threats to humanity.    11-03-2022         Read more

Stephen Harrod Buhner on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part 1

Airs at: Wed, 12/28/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  For The Wild
  Originally aired in February of 2015, this weeks interview is a mosaic of mind-shattering insights from Earth-poet-philosopher Stephen Harrod Buhner. Stephen is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian studies, described as a bardic naturalist, he is the award-... Read more

Deep Love, Fabulous Unknown

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  We have this task, find the fabulous unknown in the ecosystem you love and make your body a part of that ecosystem. Are you facing a forest? An alpine meadow? A wetlands? High Plains Desert? That is your great grift here at the turn of the year. Now close your eyes, your... Read more

Coast Range Association's 2022 in review and California's Tribal Marine Stewards Network

Airs at: Fri, 12/23/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Coast Range Radio
  First half hour:  2022, like the last several years, has been quite a ride! And we at the Coast Range Association have been hard at work all year, providing the kind of inter-sectional analysis that no other organization brings to western Oregon and the coast. So as we... Read more

Once a Braided River

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program was originally broadcast on October 24, 2022 For thousands of years the north reach of the Willamette River, near its confluence with the Columbia, was a braided river of shallow channels and islands rich in biodiversity. That was until European settlers cam... Read more

The Poly-Crisis: What Is Really Going On?

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  "Avoiding A Ghastly Future" - panel with Paul Ehrlich, Bill Rees and Nate Hagens. But first, American neurosurgeon Ann-Christine Duhaime: "Minding the Climate - How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis."   12-16-2022     Read more

Susanne Rust: Tracking The Gray Whale

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2022 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Sea Change Radio
  Gray whales are dying in record numbers - over 400 have washed up on West Coast shores since 2019. And yet, scientists aren't quite sure why. With all the man-made problems affecting ocean ecosystems, it's hard to point to just one cause. But scientists do know that thes... Read more

Justice—No Hate

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
When jobs and small businesses in a hard-working white community were being destroyed by corporate pollution, many residents blamed recent immigrants instead – even bringing in the Ku Klux Klan who provoked a campaign of violence against the new arrivals. Writer and photogr... Read more

Music Wizards

Airs at: Wed, 12/21/2022 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  If life in these times is a Dangerous Ride then some of us have the instinct to take it fast with the Radio Loud. Life for us in the risk-it-all 21st Century. Everybody in an official capacity is a pirate. The Good are low-balling it and the Worst are healed and focused... Read more