Environment/Climate

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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

An Indigenous People's History: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 02/27/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The history of the U.S. is one of settler colonialism. The state was established on the basis of white male supremacy, slavery, land theft and genocide. “From sea to shining sea” the Native nations were decimated and dispossessed. The survivors herded into concentration ... Read more

Meltdown in the Arctic: Humanity Beware?

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  What happens in the Arctic has an out-sized impact on the overall global climate. And right now, it's looking very, very bad.  December of last year was the warmest on record in  the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest levels of Arctic sea ice... Read more

GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a surc... Read more