Environment/Climate

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Just Transitions Portland

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The "Just Transition" is to that new economy necessary to avoid environmental cataclysm, a transition that creates good work and income for all and cleans up the environmental ruination of low income particularly people of color communities. That is, Just Transition mean... Read more

The Sixth Extinction

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, is about the five catastrophic breaks in the history of life on earth and the sixth such catastrophe, which Kolbert maintains is now happening, and which we are already a few hundred years into. This the first of the great exti... Read more

James Howard Kunstler on "The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel"

Airs at: Thu, 07/07/2016 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng welcomes back social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler to talk about his new book, "The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel."  This book completes the story of the quaint upstate New York town of Union Grove, thr... Read more

Peter Neill – Water is Life

Airs at: Tue, 07/05/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Peter Neill is the Director of the World Ocean Observatory. He served as president of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York for twenty years. He edited the literary anthology American Sea Writing. He is the author of The Once and Future Ocean: Notes Toward a New Hy... Read more

BOMB TRAIN IN MOSIER

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On June 3 an oil train derailed in the Columbia Gorge town of Mosier, 70 miles east of Portland. It could have been much worse. The typical Gorge wind could have been blowing but amazingly the air was still that afternoon. If there had been wind there would be no more Mosie... Read more

Water World

Airs at: Fri, 07/01/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Water World
Recap of City Council Public Meeting on Superfund Site a Portland Harbor More info: www.cleanupportlandharbor.org Progress on the Portland Harbor Superfund Site has been slow and steady over the last 16 years. Kristin Yount unravels some of the corporate interests who want... Read more

Water World

Airs at: Fri, 07/01/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Water World
Tonight! Tell City Officials You care about the course of action for the Willamette harbor Clean up. Do you want an unsafe toxic waste dump in Terminal 4? Speak now (until Sept. 6th) or forever hold your peace. When: Thursday, June 30, 2016, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Where: Bauccio... Read more

Water World

Produced for:  Water World
Please join Me, Kristin Yount, for a monthly discussion about water policy and politics. Privatization, assumed and official water rights, ignored treaties, industrial pollution threaten our water supplies. More than ever the health of our aquatic biome must be addressed. O... Read more

Water World

Airs at: Fri, 07/01/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Water World
Today Bob Sallinger joins Kristin Yount on Water World to Re-cap the events at the City sponsored Pubic Hearing regarding the EPA Proposed plan for the clean up of the Portland Harbor.  To read the plan the EPA proposed.  More info at the Portland Harbor Citizen Advisory G... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 27, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes these segments: Desiree Hellegers speaks with activists from the recent Vancouver, WA oil train blockade Denise reads commentary on Brexit as Global Rebellion Laurie Mercier talks with an historian and an ... Read more