Economy

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Another Bad Idea for the Columbia River Ecosystem

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Houston-based company, NEXT Renewables LLC Oregon is proposing to construct a major new refinery at Port Westward, near Clatskanie, on the Columbia. This project would immediately become one of Oregon’s top greenhouse gas polluters. The refinery would be one of the larg... Read more

Hydrogen Hype

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Hurricane Helene dramatically illustrates how climate chaos is impacting us right now. Yet while there are real solutions that will enable us to stop emitting greenhouse gases, the fossil fuel industry continues to promote a menagerie of false solutions that do not actually... Read more

Boeing Machinists on Strike - Week Two

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2024 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
A Boeing worker, gives us an in depth analysis and the current mood on the eleventh day of 32,000 Boeing Machinists on strike. Read more

Why Portland's Economic Opportunity Analysis is so Important

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For decades powerful corporate industries have set the stage for much of the city’s development along the  lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers through a little known process known as the Economic Opportunity Analysis, or EOA. Currently the Bureau of Planning and Sustainabi... Read more

Vadim Mozyrsky Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Vadim Mozyrsky has been through it.  As a relatively recent addition to Portland, he's worked hard to involve himself in causes he cares about, while also building name recognition.  Now, as he competes for the District 1 seat on the Multnomah County Commission against Megh... Read more

Randall Wyatt, Taking Ownership PDX

Airs at: Thu, 09/19/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest is Randall Wyatt, founder and director of Taking Ownership PDX. They help renovate and revive Black-owned homes that have requested their help, with an emphasis on enabling Black homeowners to age in place, generate wealth and simultaneously deter predatory invest... Read more

Economic Degrowth, with Rachel Cheeseman

Airs at: Wed, 09/18/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
    Guest: Rachel Cheeseman     ------ Host: Grace Growing Medicine Reed    ------   Rachel and Grace discuss what it means to embrace economic degrowth, and the dynamics of a spiritualized economy and capitalism.   ----       Read more

Forests and climate over profits! Guests Alex Budd and Brenna Bell of the Pacific NW Forest Climate Alliance

Airs at: Wed, 09/18/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  From the Pacific NW Forest Climate Alliance: Protecting Forests for the Climate Book Talk & Discussion -- Wednesday September 18th at 6pm What role can the temperate rainforests of the PNW play in alleviating climate change, what challenges do they face as we confront t... Read more

Forests Over Profits

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Wall Street investors driving the climate crisis and big timber corporations clearcutting PNW forests are coming to Portland for the annual “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference---now called “Canopy”---September 24-26. These big polluters hope to stall real climate act... Read more

Boeing Machinists on Strike

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Host Jamie Partridge interviews six striking workers on days one and two of the strike at the Boeing manufacturing plant and paint shop in Portland, Oregon. Read more