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Guest Jerry Shroyer talks fruit tree grafting and host Glen Andresen talks composting.

Airs at: Wed, 03/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for The Dirtbag
It's time for grafting fruit trees, and veteran fruit tree grafter Jerry Shroyer with the Home Orchard Society will join host Glen Andresen and guest Jim Gilbert to talk about the big Fruit Propagation Fair that is scheduled to take place this Saturday, March 17 at the C... Read more

Fighting a Tar Sands Company's Claims to Private Land

Airs at: Fri, 03/09/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Julia Trigg Crawford, a Texas landowner and farmer who isn’t letting the foreign tar sands company claim eminent domain rights to her land without putting up a fight. Two weeks ago Ms. Crawford launched a Change.org petition to protect he... Read more

BEAUTIFUL & ABUNDANT: BUILDING THE WORLD WE WANT

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
No one understands the fundamental realities of life on earth better than the farmer. The farmer understands that each habitat can support a certain number of living things sustainably, and to exceed natural limits creates lasting damage. Farmers have been the engineers ... Read more

Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility and the medical hazards of the nuclear age.

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Dr. John Pearson of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility on the medical hazards of the nuclear age. Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is the U.S. affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nu... Read more

Coal Exports and the Future of the Columbia Gorge

Airs at: Thu, 03/22/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for A Deeper Look
Coal Trains rolling down The Columbia Gorge. Mile and a half  long open coal trains, not 1 a day not even just 10 a day but up to 60 a day, carrying the worlds dirtiest form of energy to huge coal export terminals at St. Helens, Longview and other points along the Orego... Read more

HOW FORESTED RIPARIAN ZONES KEEP STREAMS HEALTHY

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
For a long time we've known that streams shaded by riparian forests provide healthier habitat for salmon and other wildlife. A new study led by Daniel Sobota at Oregon State University confirms that riparian zone forests not only provide streams with needed shade to supp... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Mole, featuring a discussion of how oil prices are driven up by speculators, a commentary on the theft of education from the poor, a review of the politics of "The Lorax," and a report on attempts by wealthy liberal donors to buy a p... Read more

Private gains, public losses. Abe and Joe look at Portland's biogas boondoggle.

Airs at: Tue, 03/13/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris We appologize for the technical difficulties with our Air Signal this morning.  If you missed today's show, you can listen to it here.    Why not take our food waste and turn it into a source of energy? That's the idea behind biogas, and the impetus f... Read more

Movie Moles: "The Lorax"

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Move Moles Iven Hale and Joe Clement take up The Lorax, the CGI film based on the Dr. Seuss children's book.  How do the politics of the movie add to or fall short of those of the book? Read more

HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION: A REGIONAL NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
We're marking the anniversary of the nuclear castrophe at the Fukushima Nuclear Complex in Japan by looking at a potential nuclear nightmare much closer to home. For nearly 70 years the Hanford Reservation - birthplace of the Plutonium bomb that devastated Nagasaki - ha... Read more