Energy/Natural Resources

Kalama Methanol and the Chinese Connection

Airs at: Mon, 02/04/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
In 2014, a Chinese-backed company, Northwest Innovation Works, announced that it planned to build the world's largest methanol refinery in Kalama, Washington. This methanol would be shipped to China where it would be processed into olefins to make plastic. Five years later ... Read more

Green New Deal: a Green Party vision

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Howie Hawkins, New York gubinatorial candidate for the Green party, about the renewed political agitation for a Green New Deal within and without the party. Read more

Palm Oil - A Climate Disaster

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
In the mid-2000s, Western nations, led by the United States, began drafting environmental laws that encouraged the use of vegetable oil in fuels. But this ambitious move to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and curb global warming, had unforeseen consequences. Warnings that t... Read more

Nutritional Wisdom with Fred Provenza

Airs at: Fri, 01/11/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Beloved Community
  John Shuck speaks with professor emeritus Fred Provenza of Utah State University about nutrition, our bodies, the falsness of factory farming and the nutrition industry, and the importance of love on this unique journey to Earth. His book is called Nourishment: What Anim... Read more

Jordan Cove, The Third Time Around

Airs at: Mon, 01/14/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
For more than 14 years, southern Oregon communities have been fighting a proposal to build a 229-mile Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline that would cross more than 400 rivers and streams on its way across Southern Oregon and the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal at the Po... Read more

Preventing Nuclear Apocalypse

Airs at: Tue, 01/08/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  You may know Apocalypse as a Marvel Comics supervillain. It is a word of Greek origin, meaning the catastrophic final destruction of the world. The use of nuclear weapons would be apocalyptic. It is difficult to imagine extinction. Understandably, most people would rathe... Read more

Gitdimt’en threatened with RCMP invasion; sub.Media’s JR on Madness

Airs at: Sun, 12/30/2018 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/04/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for The Final Straw Radio
This week we feature two segments, the first on anti-pipeline resistance at the Gidimt’en Camp in Canada and second with JR from sub.Media about Mental Wellness and the recent Trouble episode on the subject. First Nations Pipeline Resistance in so-called BC First up, we’l... Read more

Opening the Penultimate Trump Time Capsule

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Two years ago, shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, Eric de Place with Sightline Institute wrote to his friends and colleagues: "I want you to write down your predictions for the future. It’s conventional wisdom that the Trump presidency will yield unusual even... Read more

TFSR: Support the NoDAPL Prisoners!: A chat with Jess and Olive

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 4:00pm - Fri, 12/28/2018 at 5:00pm
Produced for The Final Straw Radio
This week, we’re excited to share the voices of Jess and Olive, who both did legal support, and do prisoner solidarity with the folks facing Federal prison time from the struggle at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline. This episode was heavily edited for radio,... Read more

Nutritional Wisdom with Fred Provenza

Airs at: Tue, 01/08/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
  This is the final episode of Progressive Spirit. I say my goodbyes after seven years of weekly programs that always have been available for free to the public.  In this final episode, I speak with professor emeritus Fred Provenza of Utah State University. We talk about ... Read more