Environment/Climate

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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

THE CLIMATE CRISIS AT THE END OF YOUR FORK: An Interview with Anna Lappe

Airs at: Mon, 06/14/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
When we talk about the primary causes of climate change, the food we eat and how it's produced does not usually come to forefront of the discussion. Yet agriculture is responsible for nearly a third of the greenhouse gas emissions which are at the root of the climate cri... Read more

Shahid Buttar Bill or Rights Defense Committee and Bed Bugs in Portland, Oregon on the Digital Divide June 2010

Airs at: Fri, 06/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Digital Divide
Hosted by: Dave DeAngelis, Rabia Yeaman Digital Divide for June 2010 Tune in to the Digital Divide this Friday, June 11, 2010. Dave DeAngeles speaks with Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee regarding the ever increasing domestic surveillance techniques. ... Read more

Stop the Slaughtering of the Dolphins Action Event

Airs at: Thu, 06/10/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
There was an action event held on Thursday, June 10th to stop the annual slaughtering on dolphins.  There were petitions to be signed which will be sent to the government in Japan, the United States government, and the International Whaling Commission.  With the legislation... Read more

June 7 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Thu, 06/10/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by new Mole Joe Clement (pictured here), this  show is part of  KBOO's special all-day programing about the Gulf oil disaster.   We hear from Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil, who argues that deep water oil drilling is just one of the many "extreme" technologie... Read more

Stop the Slaughtering of Dolphins Action Event

Airs at: Wed, 06/09/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
There is an action event being held on Thursday, June 10th at the Someday Lounge in dowtown Portland in response to the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.  KBOO's James Dixon brings us the story... Read more

Impact of Oil Spills on Coastal and Wetland habitats

Airs at: Mon, 06/07/2010 at 12:00am
Part of the day-long special programming on the Gulf oil disaster, this hour long forum examined the impact of oil spills on coastal and wetland habitats.  Hosted by Jacob Anderson-Minshall, the forum began with Tracy Chapman's Rape of the Earth and featured: Normal ... Read more

Press**Watch: SEABED LEAKING OIL

It's worse.  check this link:   Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL): Andrea we’re looking into something new right now, that there’s reports of oil that’s seeping up from the seabed… which would indicate, if that’s true, that the well casing itself is actually pierced… underneath t... Read more

Oil in the Progressive Narrative

Airs at: Mon, 06/07/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Clayton Morgareidge discusses what kind of new left narrative might counter the right wing "free-enterprise" story and show up the gulf oil disaster as a crime.  You can read this commentary and find links to sources here.   Read more