Environment/Climate

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Barbara Ford on Positively Revolting

Airs at: Fri, 03/09/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Join our conversation as we welcome Barbara Ford back into the studio.  Barbara is a an activist, therapist, facilitator, singer, and artist.   She has worked with the reknowned deep ecologist Joanna Macy.  Barbara works from a place where the heart, spirit, and mind mee... Read more

Monsanto finally brought to court to face the scientific evidence on harm caused by glyphosate

Airs at: Wed, 03/07/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Guest Carey Gillam is a long-time investigative journalist and currently Research Director with U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit organization working for transparency and accountability in our nation’s food system. Her most recent book is Whitewash: The Story of a Weed... Read more

Children & Environmental Toxins

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
  More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood dise... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Andrew Still and Brian Campbell on Crop Diversity

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
A few weeks ago, we had Dr. Neeraja Havaligi in the KBOO studios to talk about crop diversity. Neeraja is currently teaching a class on that topic at the Portland Underground Grad School (aka PUGS). Crop diversity is an important subject, and one that might be critical to... Read more

An Indigenous People's History: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 02/27/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The history of the U.S. is one of settler colonialism. The state was established on the basis of white male supremacy, slavery, land theft and genocide. “From sea to shining sea” the Native nations were decimated and dispossessed. The survivors herded into concentrati... Read more

Meltdown in the Arctic: Humanity Beware?

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  What happens in the Arctic has an out-sized impact on the overall global climate. And right now, it's looking very, very bad.  December of last year was the warmest on record in  the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest levels of Arctic sea ... Read more

GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a s... Read more

Progressive parking policies urged by Portlanders for Parking Reform

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
  Portlanders for Parking Reform (PPR) is a grassroots advocacy group focused on implementing progressive parking policies to encourage more affordable housing, increase use of alternative transportation modes, and take action on climate change. Policy victories have in... Read more

The LNG Terminal that Refuses to Die

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Before oil and coal project proposals started popping up in communities across the Pacific Northwest, plans to build Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminals were emerging along the coastline from Oregon to British Columbia. And now that nearly every proposed oil and coal term... Read more

The Hanford Reservation: A Ticking Time Bomb of Contamination

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River in eastern Washington, is the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere. Clean up of its innumerous leaking tanks and unlined pits of radioactive waste has been moving at a glacial pace for forty ye... Read more