Environment/Climate

Fred Kirschenmann: Building Community Through Sustainable Farming

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Oregon is touted as one of the epicenters for the local food movement. As if to reinforce its credentials, there have been food related conferences up and down the Willamette Valley since the year began. Coming up on April 16 is one more conference, this time at the Univers... Read more

Voices from the Edge 03-24-11 Oregon Legislature

Airs at: Thu, 03/24/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

This week, Jo Ann and Dave give us updates on what's happening in the Oregon Legislature. Jo Ann Bowman is a former state legislator, former executive director of Oregon Action, and a long-time leader in the struggle for racial and economic justice. Dave Mazzais a free... Read more

Food Justice Conference Part One

Airs at: Fri, 03/25/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

The local food movement has become a palatable force. In Portland alone there are now 40 farmers markets. Raising backyard chickens has become fashionable and growing numbers of people are planting vegetable gardens or joining CSAs. But what about all the people who feel th... Read more

Damaged nuclear reactors in Japan--a hazard here in the NW?

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

The damaged nuclear reactors in Japan are leaking radioactive material. Does this pose a health hazard here in the Pacific Northwest? If we had a similar earthquake, would we be subjected to high levels of radioactive fallout? Dr. Rudi Nussbaum and Lloyd Marbet will join ho... Read more

Cooking up new ways to save money, energy and forests, in Nepal, and throughout the world

Airs at: Wed, 03/23/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Recovery Zone

Host Stephanie Potter speaks with Sanu Kaji Shrestha of FoST-- Foundation for Sustainable Technologies which trains people in the use of sustainable technologies that save money, save energy and save the environment. His recent honor was the Science and Technology Pr... Read more

Partnering with Nature: the Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth

Airs at: Sun, 03/20/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Pathways

Today on Pathways we are visiting with Catriona MacGregor, author of Partnering with Nature: the Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth. It just won a "Best Books Award" from USA Book News. Catriona is an authority on global environmental trends. For over twenty years, sh... Read more

March 21 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show which features anti-nuke activist Harvey Wasserman, a movie about Palestinian immigrants, a dark vision of our civilization's decline, and a discussion of why our current economic system cares little about creating jobs. For informatio... Read more

The Heavy Haul: Fighting Goliath

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

While we worry about melting nuclear reactor cores and fuel rods in Japan, another environmental crisis is brewing closer to home. On this episode of Locus Focus we find out why the Alberta Tar Sands endanger the world and how its industrialized tentacles are trying to cree... Read more

Voices from the Edge 03-17-11 A new look at Oregon's Measure 11 and its impacts

Airs at: Thu, 03/17/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

A new look at Oregon's Measure 11 and its impacts Kevin Mannix promised voters in 1994 that his Ballot Measure 11 establishing minimum mandatory sentences would create certainty in Oregon's criminal justice system. While the measure tripled the state's prison populatio... Read more

Nuke disaster worsens

Airs at: Thu, 03/17/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Al Jazeera reported this morning that the Japanese Prime Minister had been heard shouting at the head of TEPCO, the nuclear power corporation in Japan, ""What the hell is going on?!" And surely the world echoes with his question. Who developed Japanese nuclear power? W... Read more