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Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Eco-Disasters in Japanese Film. Japan has rich traditions of filmmaking and of approaching films as commentary on daily life. But Japanese cinema also offers rich commentary on ecological crises. Jan Haaken talks with University of Oregon professor Rachel DiNitto about h... Read more

Rebroadcast: Common Ground Puts Common Ownership of Land on the Agenda

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest is Jeff Strang from Common Ground OR/WA, talking about land ownership, wealth control, and taxes. He’s talking about a policy strategy for Oregon like in Alaska, where residents get money every year through a tax on the oil industry – except in Oregon it would ... Read more

The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
More than a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions produced around the world today come from the simple steps of growing, catching, processing, transporting, and cooking food—and then dealing with leftovers. This alarming statistic motivated ecologist Mark J. Easter to ... Read more

Oil For Kisses ep 44 - VOICE YOUR DISGUST

Airs at: Sat, 01/04/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Oil For Kisses
With this month's presidential administration taking charge yet again, I saw it fit to thematically address this worrisome scenario with the show this month. For OFK #44, I'm joined by longtime friend Jesse Novak to explore protest music of varying sorts over the past se... Read more

The Best, the Worst & Most Interesting of Times

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
It's the time of year again when we look back at the past year and ahead to the new with Eric de Place, with Salish Strategies in Seattle. As the impending next Trump administration looms ever nearer, we talk about productive ways we can prepare for that unknown, and loo... Read more

Providence Caregivers Ready to Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Richard Botterill and Kim Martin, rank-and-file leaders in the Oregon Nurses Association, give us a blow-by-blow lead up to the biggest-yet, possible Providence Health strike, involving over 5,000 caregivers in eight hospitals and six clinics across Oregon. Read more

The Corporate Roots of Climate Change

Airs at: Thu, 12/26/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
New documents show how a deceptive PR strategy pioneered in 1950s California first exposed the risk of climate change and then helped the industry deny it.  Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Our scheduled guest for today's show called in sick this morning so we are repeating the Locus Focus episode that aired last week on December 16. As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of are more and larger server farms and nuclear pow... Read more

Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As we confront the existential crisis of climate chaos there are two paths we can take. We can make dramatic changes that meaningfully reduce carbon emissions. Or we can accept the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving climate solutions—renewable diesel, hydrogen, renewabl... Read more

Stopping Zenith Energy Once and For All

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in 2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant... Read more