Environment/Climate

CAFOS IN OREGON

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Oregon is already home to one of the nation’s largest industrial-scale dairy operations. Located near Boardman, Threemile Canyon Farms houses 70,000 cows and is a major source of ammonia and other pollution emissions. On March 31, despite unprecedented public opposition, th... Read more

Digest by Gregory Pardlo

Airs at: Thu, 06/29/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Gregory Pardlo's Digest, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry "He explores what is American, what is African American, what is the Other, what is city, what is suburban, what is personal and what is persona. Digest offers a changing, rich landscape of verse, both haunting... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 15, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this membership drive edition of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. Nick Buxton talks about his book on how corporations and the military are dealing with climate change. 2. Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken, our Left and the Law experts, review the good, the bad... Read more

The Corporate-Military Approach to Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Activist and writer Nick Buxton talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the military and corporations are dealing with climate change -- recognizing its reality but protecting only their own interests. Buxton is co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the... Read more

David Barsamian joins Abe & Joe LIVE FROM KBOO!

Airs at: Tue, 05/16/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

Abe & Joe are joined in-studio by KBOO favorite David Barsamian during the Spring Membership Drive. Call in with your support at (877) 500-5266. Call in with your questions at (503) 231-8187 One of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, Da... Read more

Interview: Mercy Corps' South Sudan Director

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: News In Depth

The United Nations on Monday declared that 1 million children have fled from conflict and famine in South Sudan. According to a joint press release from the UN Children’s Fund and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, another million children are displaced within the coun... Read more

NO ONE EATS ALONE

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

In today's fast-paced, fast-food world we all seem to be eating alone, all the time - whether it's at our desks or in the car. And as much as we feel cut off from our friends and families, we certainly feel even more disconnected from all the other people in our vast foodsc... Read more

Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

Airs at: Thu, 05/25/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Chicago Reader, The Week, and Publishers Weekly. "Supremely literary, distinctly unusual . . . VanderMeer’s deep talent for worldbuilding takes him into realms more remini... Read more

A GREAT ARIDNESS

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brin... Read more

Answering the Call of the Soul in Times of Trouble and Disorder

Airs at: Fri, 05/05/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

We are so very pleased to once again have author, mythologist and storyteller Micheal Meade as our guest on Positively Revolting. To say the times we live in are topsy turvy nightmare is an understatement, they are troubling and sometimes energizing, staying grounde... Read more