Environment/Climate

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Bill McKibben Interview

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Journalist, activist and environmentalist Bill McKibben has been writing and warning about the effects of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere for more than a decade.  In this interview with Don Merrill, he talks about the Draw the Line campaign, his love for public radio, ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 26 August 2013

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which addresses popular deceptions and misconceptions about Social Security, money in politics, safety and policing, and climate change.Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman about Social SecurityClayton Morgareidge reads from an... Read more

Terracide

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Terracide: the knowing destruction of the planet earth in the pursuit of profit. Tom Becker reads from Tom Engelhardt's essay on the fossil fuel industry as the biggest criminal enterprise in history. Read more

A comparison of Hanford and Fukishima Daichi nuclear issues

Airs at: Thu, 08/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Tom Carpenter is the Executive Director of Hanford Challenge, a non profit dedicated to the clean up of the Hanford Nuclear site in Washington state. Paul Gunter is an International Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, an organization that is working to eliminate nuclear weapons a... Read more

Presswatch

Airs at: Fri, 08/16/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell discuss abortion, abortion protesting and aborthion rights Read more

Health Effects of Wireless Technology or ElectroMagnetic Hyper-Sensitivity

Airs at: Tue, 08/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Digital Divide
On the Digital Divide we'll be talking with professor Martin Pall, and researcher Merry Callahan about the health effects of Wireless Technology or ElectroMagnetic Hyper-Sensitivity, (EMS).  As wireless technology becomes even more integrated into our daily lives through ph... Read more

Utopia and Daily Life

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Utopias and dystupias are frequent themes in science fiction.  Gerry Canavan is a scholar of the utopian imagination, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the interplay between politics and utopia in history and in daily life.  Canavan teaches cultur... Read more

Nuclear Issues in our Nuclear Age

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosted by Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey.Today's Guests are Artists Kerry Davis, Anna Daedalus, and Yukiyo Kawano, along with Activist, Chuck Johnson.  Kerry, Anna, and Yukiyo are artists and will talk about their exhibit at the Nikkei Legacy Center and Chuck Johnson will ... Read more

White Castle Tree-Sit Aims to Block Southern Oregon Timber Sale

Airs at: Thu, 08/01/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
As federal lawmakers advance legislation that would increase timber harvests across the nation, including in Oregon, the environmentalist group Cascadia Forest Defenders continues a tree-sit and blockade on proposed timber sale land in southern Oregon. Occupiers with the Wh... Read more

Surfrider Portland Summer Soiree Preview [audio-tag-title-raw]

Airs at: Wed, 07/24/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
This program highlights the upcoming KBOO co-sponsored event with an interview of Pete Stauffer, Ocean Programs manager for Surfrider Foundation by Ross Freeman Levin.On thursday, July 25th the Portland Chapter of Surfrider Foundation is hosting the Oregon Summer Soiree at ... Read more