Environment/Climate

Protecting the Wild Side of Mt. Hood

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Since the 1970s, Mt. Hood Meadows has made multiple attempts to site a destination resort on the North side of Mt. Hood. Local citizens, conservation groups, recreation clubs and communities around Mt. Hood have repeatedly opposed these efforts. After decades of dispute, Co... Read more

Living With a Small Environmental Footprint

Airs at: Wed, 05/30/2018 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Communism and the Environment

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 28, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole: Building a Healthy Neighborhood in Cully: Bill Resnick interviews Carolina Iraheta and Tony DeFalco of the organization Verde. Civilization and Our Discontents: Clayton Morgareidge comments about how the comforts of modern li... Read more

Mount St. Helens @38

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Every May 18, I spend time remembering the eruption of Mt. St. Helens that day in 1980. But this year I had the opportunity to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the eruption by hiking the Hummocks Trail in the blast zone on the mountain’s north face with Pacific Northwest... Read more

Communism and the Environment

This podcast explores practical steps to save the environment through self-reform, as well as living in a society where everybody shares. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016576237876 Read more

Western States vs. Wolves

Airs at: Mon, 05/14/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife issued its first order and permit to kill up to 4 wolves this year in early April, after wolves in Eastern Oregon’s newest wolf pack, the Pine Creek Pack, killed three calves and injured four more in Baker County. This kill order was g... Read more

CAFOS on the Columbia

Airs at: Mon, 05/21/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Last year thousands of Columbia Riverkeeper members and others called on Governor Brown and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to protect the Columbia River and rural communities from factory farm pollution. They didn’t listen. In March of 2017, Oregon gave the ... Read more

Oil Spills at the Dams

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Late this past winter, the Army Corps of Engineers spilled about 474 gallons of turbine oil into the Columbia River at The Dalles Dam. This is not the first time that dam turbine oil has spilled into the river. Oil spills occur on a routine basis at Columbia and Snake river... Read more

Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann

Airs at: Thu, 04/26/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann, author of Carbon Ideologies, a new two-volume work about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. The first volume – No Immediate Danger – is now available. And the second volume – No Good Alternative – go... Read more

Silent Spring 56 Years Later

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

A devastating expose of the harmful effects of synthetic pesticides, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was an unlikely bestseller when published in the fall of 1962. Immersing herself in a dauntingly wide-ranging body of technical and scientific evidence, Carson turned a series... Read more