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Part 2 of a Series on Reclaiming the Willamette River

Airs at: Wed, 08/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Reclaiming the Willamette River Part 2: Unrocking the Bowl. Rememberall the pals you made at the Big Float across the Willamette River? Well now we're going back to the river's edge on Saturday, Aug. 25 and building a beach. Our guests today are W... Read more

Tiny House Ontario Interview and cats on youtube watching cats, yes, on youtube, x infinity.

This month's Digital Divide features an interview with blogger and small house dweller, Laura Moreland, who keeps tinyhouseontario.wordpress.com. The blog features her experiences building and living in 108 sq. feet in Ontario Canada. Listen to the audio here: http://kboo.f... Read more

Tiny House Ontario on the August 2012 Digital Divide

Airs at: Fri, 08/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Digital Divide
Technology writer Rabia Yeaman interviews blogger Laura Moreland who writes about her experience building and living in a 108 sq. foot home without running water or electricity. Her blog Tiny House Ontario describes her daily life living in a very small space with little am... Read more

Alternative news, analysis, humor, and transgender politics.

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell gives the Headlines and takes listener calls and discusses domestic and global political issues. Read more

Population growth, environment: affected by women's empowerment, access to family planning services

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
Seven billion humans are alive today, up from one billion in 1900, and the environment is taking a beating. What's next? Nine-plus billion by 2050? Eleven billion? But what happens to these numbers if we educate and empower women? If we provide family planning services? Wha... Read more

William deBuys on "The West in Flames"

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with William deBuys about his recent article on TomDispatch.com "The Oxygen Planet Struts Its Stuff: Not a “Perfect Storm” But the New Norm in the American West." William deBuys, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of seven books, most re... Read more

American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Eric Rutkow about his new book American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation. The book tells the story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation’s history. Eric R... Read more

Hood River Development

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Developer Robert Naito and Friends of Hood River co-attorney Brent Foster are on opposite sides of a proposed development on the Columbia River.  Both men talked with KBOO's Don Merrill about the Hood River Waterfront from their individual perspectives. Read more

Oregon Oysters & Ocean Acidification: CO2 Turns Seas Corrosive

Airs at: Thu, 07/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
Oregon Oysters! So Popular on Summer Menus! At risk from Carbon Dioxide in the waters off our coast! Ocean Acidification is damaging sea life across the globe, now it’s putting the future of Oregon fisheries at risk. Host, Linda Olson-Osterlund on A Deeper Look is joine... Read more

TEN YEARS AFTER THE BISCUIT FIRE: A RETROSPECTIVE IN A SUMMER OF FIRE

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
TEN YEARS AFTER THE BISCUIT FIRE: A RETROSPECTIVE IN A SUMMER OF FIRE In mid July of 2002 a series of lightning strikes ignited a number of small fires in some very remote mountainous areas of SW Oregon. The fires merged into what became known as the Biscuit Fire, the larg... Read more