Environment/Climate

Green Collar Jobs

Airs at: Sun, 10/05/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The Apollo Alliance has an affordable plan to restart the economy with plenty of living-wage jobs cleaning up our environment and keeping it clean. Kate Gordon, co-director of the Apollo Alliance, talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. Read more

Our Intimate Connections to Trees

Airs at: Thu, 10/02/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Recovery Zone

On the Oct 2 Recovery Zone, the focus is on trees and the host of reasons they are so critical to our lives. Host Stephanie Potter speaks with pioneering forest canopy researcher Nalini Nadkarni abour her recent book Between Earth & Sky: our intimate connections to trees. ... Read more

Antonia Juhasz on The Tyranny of Oil

Airs at: Tue, 09/30/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Locus Focus

Per Fagereng and Sue Supriano host this program starting off our special Peak Oil Day programs. His guests include analyst, author and activist Antonia Juhasz, whose new book is "The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry - And What We Must Do to Stop It." Read more

Dr. Helen Caldicott and Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer

Airs at: Sun, 09/28/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Earthwatch

Today, Kathleen Stephenson talks with Dr. Helen Caldicott, who has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. She'l... Read more

Thor Hanson: Eco-tourism & the Uganda Mountain Gorilla

Airs at: Wed, 09/17/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

On the Thursday Radioazine for September 18, Stephanie Potter spoke with Thor Hanson, author of The Impenetrable Forest, My Gorilla Years in Uganda. Hanson lived in a remote village at the Edge of Bwindi Impenetrable forest , working with local trackers to create an eco... Read more

Our Backyard: Drill Baby, Drill!

Airs at: Tue, 09/16/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Our Backyard

Our Backyard, KBOO's locally produced environmental series. This edition: The US House passes an energy bill allowing off-shore drilling .... sorta. Republicans and Democrats do kabuki politics with energy policy. Read more

Carnivore Extinction: Why should we care?

Airs at: Wed, 09/10/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

On the Sept 10 Radiozine, Host Melinda Bernerts asks, "How does the extinction of the world's large predators such as lions affect us?" She talks with wildlife journalist William Stolzenberg about what the loss of top carnivores means to cities like Portland. Read more

Wes Jackson: Prairie Ecology-Model for Agriculture

Airs at: Wed, 09/10/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

On the Sept 5 Radiozine, Bruce Silverman interviews Wes Jackson, botanist, geneticist, proponent of using prairie ecology as the model for agriculture, and director of The Land Institute. He has edited a new book of essays called The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustai... Read more

Our Backyard: Undamming the Klamath

Airs at: Tue, 09/09/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Our Backyard

Our Backyard, KBOOs locally produced environmental series. This edition: The efforts to undam the Klamath River and Derrick Jensen comes to Oregon for a Deep Green workshop.Links:Undamming the Klamath - http://www.klamathriver.org/Events.html#pdoaDerrick Jensen Deep Green ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 8, 2008

Airs at: Tue, 09/09/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Luz María Gordillo, this show deals with issues affecting Mexican-Americans as well as immigration. We also learn about saving the planet, our city, and our neighborhoods by changing the way we landscape and garden in our yards. You can hear the whole show by cl... Read more