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Making Local Energy

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Howie Hawkins as the Green Party candidate took 41% of the vote for mayor of Syracuse, New York last November.  One of his main issues is public utilities and generating green energy locally, and he talks about the politics of that in this conversation with the Old Mole's ... Read more

Doug Fine - Can a Digital Age Human live without petroleum?

Airs at: Wed, 01/27/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Radiozine
 Host Erik Jorgensen interviews reporter Doug Fine, a speaker at “Today's Transportation Choices”  at the Portland International Auto Show on Thursday morning, January 28 As a young freelancer, Fine reported for the Washington Post, Salon, U.S. News and World Report, Sierra... Read more

A Pivotal Moment

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
What does population growth have to do with climate change? We hear from what the connections are from Laurie Mazur, who has edited a new book called A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge. In this collection of essays, the authors concur that... Read more

Richard Heinberg: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2006 at 12:00am
Richard Heinberg speaking at the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon, on January 20, 2006. Read more

OPEN LINES discussion on Supreme Court ruling regarding campaign finance limits and...

Airs at: Thu, 01/21/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
OPEN LINES discussion on Supreme Court ruling regarding campaign finance limits and other current issues on the top KBOO Listeners' minds....Join co-hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza every Thursday morning as they bring you informative guests and lively discussions about t... Read more

The History of Haiti and its subordination by Colonial Powers, like the good ol' US of A

Airs at: Tue, 01/19/2010 at 12:00am
 Abe and Joe take a brief tour through the bloody history of Haiti, and discuss the obligations that the developed world has -- or should have -- toward the undeveloped world. The calamity in Haiti has made one thing abundantly clear -- when a nation has been at the busin... Read more

Mountaintop Removal Mining

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Many Portlander's think that we get most of our electricity from the Bonneville hydro system, but in fact 40% comes from burning coal, much of it mined by blasting the top off a mountain in Kirk, West Virginia. This week on Locus Focus, guest Judy Bonds, co-director for Coa... Read more

"Oh, I Believe in Yesterday"... 2009 Ends the 2000's Decade... Here is a look into our past

It doesn't matter what you call the last decade, "Zeros", "Nils", "Oh-Oh's", "Oughts", "Oughties", or "Naughties", 2000-2009 defied our predictions and perceptions of life on this planet and forced us to examine our future way of existing. The 21st century spent more intere... Read more

Life & Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2010 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 to... Read more

Learn about new classes offered thru Portland's "Urban Growth Bounty;" also, what's growing in the Ukraine

Airs at: Wed, 01/13/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for The Dirtbag
 Glen Andreson  talks to Steve Cohen of Portland's  Bureau of Planning and Sustainability about a classes being offered through Urban Growth Bounty.  Jim Gilbert talks about his travels to the Nakita Botanical Gardens in the Ukraine, and the olives, pineapple and almonds he... Read more