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Earth Day Special Programming

  On Monday, April 22nd, KBOO Community Radio celebrates Earth Day with special programming devoted to everything Mother Earth, ecological justice, environmental awareness, climate activism and animal rights advocacy. Either poetic and imaginative, or highly researched and... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 1, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Episode Audio: Download or listen to this episode here Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: New Forms of Democracy-Part Two: In part two of their discussion, Bill Resnick interviews Eleanor Finley, an anthropologist, who ... Read more

Chiquita Bananas and Climate Justice

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Click here to listen or download segment audio   Chiquita Bananas and Climate Justice: On June 12 Democracy Now aired a segment on a legal victory for Colombian agricultural workers against Chiquita. After years of legal wrangling, the banana giant was ordered to pay $... Read more

WRR: Rob Wallace on Bird Flu in Context

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Download or listen to this segment here In this Well-Read Red, we hear summary of and excerpts from a post by Rob Wallace titled "Whether Bird Flu is on the March Misses the Point," shared by Frann Michel. Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist at the Agroecology and... Read more

Saving America's Wild Horses

Airs at: Fri, 07/26/2024 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
  They're a symbol of freedom and their protection is mandated by federal law--but America's wild horses are being cruelly mismanaged by the very government agency charged with making sure they are safe. On this edition of Voices For The Animals, Michele Coppola talks with... Read more

The Mountain Valley Pipeline

Airs at: Mon, 06/10/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
According to the fossil fuel industry, the Mountain Valley Pipeline is recognized as a critical infrastructure project, essential for our nation’s energy security and energy reliability. But for communities from West Virginia to Southern Virginia this 300 mile-long pipeline... Read more

Natural Happiness

Airs at: Sun, 06/02/2024 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Alan Heeks is a conservationist, social entrepreneur and author of Natural Happiness: Use Organic Gardening Skills to Cultivate Yourself. Alan runs workshops on developing personal resilience using organic gardening parallels to help people handle the stresses of modern lif... Read more

Animal Issues Update: The Latest On EATS, Wolves, and Animal Shelters

Airs at: Fri, 05/24/2024 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
  This month we'll revisit some of the most urgent animal welfare issues featured on VFTA recently. We'll talk about what's happening with: the federal EATS Act, which threatens to undo even the small gains made to improve conditions for food animals in the US the conti... Read more

"That Vegan Show" Animal Law Episode

Airs at: Fri, 05/24/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  That Vegan Show
  An inspirational and highly informative interview with the recent board co-directors of The Lewis & Clark Law School Animal Legal Defense Fund. The Animal Legal Defense Fund files high-impact lawsuits to protect animals from harm, provides free legal assistance and train... Read more

Whiplash weather! Time to plant…everything.

Produced for:  The Dirtbag
Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert are back in the studio for another live show. And so we go from winter to spring to summer in four days. What does this mean for weeding, planting, and watering? We tackle all of these tasks on the air…and you should, too, in your... Read more