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HOW FORESTED RIPARIAN ZONES KEEP STREAMS HEALTHY

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For a long time we've known that streams shaded by riparian forests provide healthier habitat for salmon and other wildlife. A new study led by Daniel Sobota at Oregon State University confirms that riparian zone forests not only provide streams with needed shade to supp... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Mole, featuring a discussion of how oil prices are driven up by speculators, a commentary on the theft of education from the poor, a review of the politics of "The Lorax," and a report on attempts by wealthy liberal donors to buy a p... Read more

Private gains, public losses. Abe and Joe look at Portland's biogas boondoggle.

Airs at: Tue, 03/13/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris We appologize for the technical difficulties with our Air Signal this morning.  If you missed today's show, you can listen to it here.    Why not take our food waste and turn it into a source of energy? That's the idea behind biogas, and the impetus f... Read more

Movie Moles: "The Lorax"

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Move Moles Iven Hale and Joe Clement take up The Lorax, the CGI film based on the Dr. Seuss children's book.  How do the politics of the movie add to or fall short of those of the book? Read more

HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION: A REGIONAL NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
We're marking the anniversary of the nuclear castrophe at the Fukushima Nuclear Complex in Japan by looking at a potential nuclear nightmare much closer to home. For nearly 70 years the Hanford Reservation - birthplace of the Plutonium bomb that devastated Nagasaki - ha... Read more

THE VIEW FROM OAKS BOTTOM - with Portland Parks & Recreation Ecologist Mark Wilson

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The city of Portland is noted for its proximity to outstanding natural areas—Mt. Hood, the Columbia Gorge, Oregon's North Coast. But Portland is also a great place to live because of the abundance of natural areas within the city itself. On this episode of Locus Focus we... Read more

Presswatch -3/1/12 -- Fukushima radiation in PDX, Protesters expose American Legislative Exhange Council

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Andrew Breitbart, lies and corporate rule. Radioactive iodine levels in Portland after Fukushima. Fukushima cesium levels.  Radioactive sea water.  Occupy Protests on 2/29 against American Legislative Exchange Council -- ALEC.  Read more

Awake in the World with Michael Stone

Airs at: Tue, 02/21/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
How do we live a balanced life in unbalanced times? Michael Stone is a yoga teacher, Buddhist and psychotherapist who believes spiritual practices such as yoga are not about escaping reality but about living in the present and with that awareness engaging our communities an... Read more

Occupy, Greece, Student Loans, Fukishima and listener calls.

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
The most dangerous thing about occupy, the situation in Greece, defaulting on student loans, radioactive contamination from Fukishima found in the ocean & listener calls. Read more

Mary Fetch and Kerry Ayers Palanuk from TriMet talk about our Public Transport System.

Airs at: Tue, 02/28/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   Government agencies everywhere are struggling to do more with less, and TriMet is no exception. Abe and Joe are joined in studio by TriMet's Mary Fetch and Kerry Ayers Palanuk to discuss the transit agency's forthcoming service cuts ... Read more