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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

Spotted Owls and Wildfire

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
    This program was originally broadcast on November 28, 2022   The Northern Spotted Owl is the quintessential canary in the coal-mine for older forest ecosystems. It was listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act in 1992 because of widespread logging of it... Read more

Tiffany Lethabo King on The Black Shoals [with bront velez]

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for For The Wild
  This week For The Wild Podcast presents Part Two of a two-part conversation between guest host bront velez and Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King. Circumferencing Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King's book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, bront and Tiffany e... Read more

Stopping Zenith Once and For All

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Ever since last summer, when the city of Portland denied Zenith Energy the Land Use Compatibility (LUCS) statement to expand their oil train operastions in Northwest Portland, it looked like Zenith might actually be forced to shut down. But then to the amazement and dismay ... Read more

The Black Shoals, Part 1

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for For The Wild
  This week For The Wild Podcast presents Part One of a two-part conversation between brontë velez and Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King. Circumferencing Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King’s book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, brontë and Tiffany explore sa... Read more

Healing the World's Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for EcoJustice Radio
  The UN has classified at least 40% of the Earth's land as degraded. That figure is estimated to be somewhere between 1 billion, even up to 6 billion hectares of degraded land. Much if not most of this degradation can be attributed to human activity, particularly that of ... Read more

Making sense of the war in Ukraine, with Medea Benjamin

Airs at: Wed, 12/14/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
    Though it's easy for most of us in the United States to not pay close attention to what's happening in Ukraine, the consequences of the war raging there are massive and far-reaching. If you really want to know what led up to the war and what the possiblities are for e... Read more

Protecting Mother Earth: Peehee Muhuh (Thacker Pass) to All Our Relations

Airs at: Thu, 12/08/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for American Indian Airwaves
  Part 1 The People of the Red Mountain are an Indigenous led grassroot organization comprised of Paiute & Shoshone peoples, surrounding Indigenous nations, and supporters working to protect Peehee Muhuh (Thacker Pass) from the possible construction of the Thacker Pass Lit... Read more

GTN Xpress Fracked Gas Pipeline Expansion

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Last month the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed GTN XPress fracked gas pipeline expansion. The project, which would significantly increase the flow of fracked gas through the Northwest, fac... Read more

My Father Knew A World War When He Saw it

Airs at: Tue, 12/06/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Earth Riot Radio
  The evil of Hitler and Hirohito was clear. In 2022, the investor class is openly reaping profits from toxic gasses and it is killing everyone. Every day the celebrity billionaires are in the news, unchallenged.   The Earth is the radical today. The Earth is doing things ... Read more