Environment/Climate

This Land Is Our Land

Airs at: Sat, 03/31/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: Threshold Shift

Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift. I am your host Nicole Martin. We have weathered the winter and now we are back on the air for every fifth Saturday of the year bringing you more long-form soundscape immersion. On this our first episode of 2018, we have a very spe... Read more

The Thin Green Line in 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This program originally aired on January 15, 2018. Donald Trump is targeting the Pacific Northwest for accelerated fossil fuel development. He brought the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay back from the dead, designating it as the highest priority site for LNG develop... Read more

Disaster Preparedness at KBOO

Would you like to be part of KBOO's Disaster Prep committee to help KBOO develop a plan for disasters? Join KBOO’s Disaster Preparedness and safety committee! Our next quarterly meeting will take place Thursday March 22nd from noon to 1:30 pm at KBOO – 20 Southeast 8th Aven... Read more

Redefining Tacoma

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Tacoma, Washington is one of the few cities in the Northwest where there is a long legacy of heavy industrial contamination. The fossil fuel industry plays a big role in the local economy, but Tacoma residents have also begun to fight back against further fossil fuel develo... Read more

Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Currently the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest are in a struggle with worldwide multinational corporations that want to take over their lands for oil extraction, commercial palm oil, commercial agriculture, mining, and other massively destructive enterprises. ... Read more

Saving Tarboo Creek

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

When Scott Freeman and his family decided to transform a damaged creek in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula from a drainage ditch back into a stream that could again nurture salmon, they knew the task would be formidable and the rewards plentiful. In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott... Read more

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 meet, ... 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 Ki... 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 disease... 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