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20,000 Comments on Logging Plan: Carbon Gas and Fantasy Profits

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
 The Bureau of Land Management in Oregon has been swamped with more than 20,000 public comments about its “Western Oregon Plan Revision”, or 'Whopper - W-O-P-R. The plan would allow logging on all of the Bureau of Land Management's land holdings in Oregon. Although the pu... Read more

Is Dam Removal or Restoration Better:Saving Jobs, Salmon and the Klamath River

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
      A plan for the removal of four dams on the klamath River was announced on Tuesday.  This plan follows two years of closed-door negotiations between farmers, Indian tribes, fishermen, conservation groups and government agencies battling over scarce water and fish pro... Read more

Steelworkers protest hazardous imports

Airs at: Wed, 01/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
 On Wednesday, January 16, the local branch of the steelworkers union led a coalition of groups that marched on  Senator Gordon Smith’s Portland office. The protestors called on the Senator to take action on the problem of imports that are hazardous to our health.    Read more

0116 Our Backyard

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Our Backyard
The latest edition of Our Backyard, the locally produced environmental series by Edison Carder. This addition: Owens Corning's plan to manufacture rigid foam insulation in Gresham. Read more

Peak Oil, Debt and the Economy

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Per Fagereng hosts talk radio this morning with special guest, Kurt Liebezeit, a local Peak Oil Activist. Listen to Per and Kurt discus Peak Oil and the Economy, while fielding questions, opinions, and discussions with our listening audience. Read more

People Rise Up - News Wrap

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  People Rise Up
A news wrap today.  Stories broadcast under fair use included: For Sale:  West's deadly nuclear secrets Iraq war has ground forces stretched thin Judges dismiss suit seeking damages for Guantanamo torture US officer cleared of Abu Ghraib abuse Microsoft seeks patent for off... Read more

BLM-Bush "Whopper" would Whack our Woods

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
On Wednesday, January 9, Stephanie Potter spoke with Sean Stevens of Oregon Wild about Bush's "compromise" with the timber industry:  The Western Oregon Plan Revision or "Whopper."  Stevens describes how this plan would decimate old growth forests and salmon habitat on BLM ... Read more

Gray To Green - Storm Water Management

Airs at: Tue, 01/08/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Host Barbara Bernstein invites Portland city officials onto her show to discuss the city's storm water management systems. Her guests today are Dean Marriott, Director of the Bureau of Environmental Services, and Lisa Libby, Sam Adams' Senior Environmental Policy Director.... Read more

Bill Bradbury on Cliimate Change

Airs at: Mon, 01/14/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Since participating in the first "Inconvenient Truth" workshop with Al Gore, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury has been traveling around the state giving presentations based on Al Gore's book. This talk was recorded at the BPA GSA Auditorium on December 13th. It's par... Read more

Even More FREE or Cheap Gardening Supplies

Airs at: Sun, 01/13/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
Host Glen Andreson continues last month's theme of gardening on the cheap. Find even more sources of FREE or very cheap gardening supplies, especially small perennial fruits, fruit trees, compost materials, mulches, and fertilizers. Read more