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Vertical gardening. Plant of the Month: cucumbers. Honey bee topic this month: swarming.

Airs at: Wed, 05/09/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for The Dirtbag
t's May, and that means it's prime planting time. Host Glen Andresen and guest Jim Gilbert tackle the topic of planting and growing vegetables vertically. Plant of the Month is cucumbers. And in the What's Happening in the Honey Bee Hive this month, the topic is swarming! ... Read more

Bill Resnick and Judy Barnes on Oregon's Clean Energy Future

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick interviews Judy Barnes, cofounder of Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy, about resistance to coal mining/transporting/burning in Oregon, democratizing energy production, and policy that promotes renewable energy in Oregon. Read more

Bill Resnick and Harvey Wasserman

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick interviews Harvey Wasserman: journalist, green energy activist and critic of nuclear power. They talk about continuing problems with nuclear plants, tactics ordinary people are using to shut them down, the struggle with coal energy, and about his newest book, ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 7th 2012

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole, which is shorter than usual because of membership-drive. We hear about growing concern with and resistance to nuclear energy, ecologically driven energy policy in Oregon, and about labor chauvinism toward China. Bill Resnick interview... Read more

GARBOLOGY: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash - An Interview with author Edward Humes

Airs at: Mon, 05/07/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
What is America's largest export, most prodigious product and greatest legacy? It's our trash. Each of us in on track to toss 102 tons of garbage in the course of our lifetime. Our disposable plastic alone outweighs the entire U.S;. Navy. But we don't like to think about... Read more

Groups Petition For Endangered Woodpecker

Airs at: Fri, 05/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
On Wednesday, four conservation groups sought federal protections for the black-backed woodpecker under the Endangered Species Act. The John Muir Project, Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance fi... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 05-03-12 Blowing the lid off BP and other corporate criminals with Greg Palast

Airs at: Thu, 05/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
Blowing the lid off BP and other corporate criminals with Greg Palast Last month, award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast uncovered new evidence of a corporate-government cover-up in the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout that destroyed lives and the environment i... Read more

Dine' (Navajo) and Hopi people say proposed water settlement sells them down the river

Hopi and Dine' (Navajo) people are banning together to oppose SB 2109 and HB 4067 that support a proposed water rights settlement that they say sells them down the river. http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/14/little-colorado-water-rights-bill-met-with-protests... Read more

Sustainable Urban Agriculture and the Village Market

Airs at: Wed, 05/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving The Village Market at New Columbia in North Portland celebrates its first birthday May 28. Our guest is Program Manager Mychal Tetteh on the victories and challenges of the nonprofit grocery store -- and its sister organization, Village Gardens, whic... Read more

Klamath Wildlife Refuges -- for the birds?

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Radiozine
Most of the lakes and marshes of the Klamath Basin were "reclaimed" and drained for agriculture nearly 100 years ago--only 20% remain, but the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex on the Oregon/California border, is still the most important waterfowl habitat on th... Read more