Environment/Climate

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June 14 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This edition of the Mole is hosted by Tom Becker, and its topics include the future of Social Security, Israel's  impunity from the law, problems of the prison system and what can be done about them, and the havoc wreaked upon the forests and the people by Texaco-Chevron in... Read more

Ecuador v Chevron: in Court and on Screen

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Investigative film maker Joe Berlinger talks with the Old Mole's Wendy Webb about his new film Crude. The film details the Amazon oil disaster that is the subject of the largest environmental law suit in history.  Berlinger has made many award-winning documentary films.   Read more

Voices from the Edge on 06/17/2010

Airs at: Thu, 06/17/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
About the program… Join co-hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza every Thursday morning as they bring you informative guests and lively discussions about the issues that are important to you and your community. Every week, Voices from the Edge provides KBOO listeners a place ... Read more

A VIEW FROM THE BOTTOMS: RESHAPING PORTLAND'S REMNANT WETLAND

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As you follow the lower Willamette River through the city of Portland you see mostly hardened banks, sea walls and industrial sites that line both shores of the river. But along the east bank of the river, just a few miles south of downtown Portland, you come across a st... Read more

Michael Ruppert discusses how to survive peak oil

Airs at: Thu, 06/17/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per Fagereng hosts a special hour-long call-in show with Mike Ruppert, author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil and A Presidential Energy Policy. Mike is also the publisher/editor of From The Wilderness, a newsletter... Read more

David Helvarg reflects on the state of our seas and our links to the natural world

Airs at: Mon, 06/14/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with environmental journalist David Helvarg. He is the founder and president of the marine conservation lobbying organization Blue Frontier Campaign, a part of the Seaweed rebellion, which arose from his second book Blue Fronti... Read more

Future of Boardman

Airs at: Wed, 06/16/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
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Voices from the Edge on 06/10/2010

Airs at: Thu, 06/10/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
"A Conversation with The Fire Frashour Campaign" Should Portland Police officers Ronald Frashour, Chris Humphreys and others involved in the death of Portland residents in recent years be fired immediately? Should mandatory arbitration be removed from the Portland Police A... Read more

Duff Badgley from Climate SOS on the Myth of Clean Biomass Energy

Airs at: Mon, 06/14/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Hosted by Chris Andreae   The recent rash of biomass projects emerging from the ashes of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest have been characterized as "carbon-sequestration", "clean energy" and even "sustainable". Climate SOS's Duff Badgley, former Green Party c... Read more

Sandra Steingraber and Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

Airs at: Mon, 06/14/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
 Hosted by Dr. David Naimon   Poet, biologist and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, uses all three kinds of experience to investigate the links between cancer and environmental toxins.  She discusses the new updated edition of her classic book Living Downstream: An Ecol... Read more