Environment/Climate

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Interview with Audubon Society regarding West Hayden Island Development

Airs at: Wed, 07/28/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
West Hayden Island, 800 acres of undeveloped land that currently serves priamarily used as natural habitat. Now the City of Portland is proposing to annex the property and develop 300 acres to expand the Port of Portland. Environmentalists like Bob Sallinger, of the Audubon... Read more

Controversial Plan to Annex & Develop West Hayden Island

Airs at: Wed, 07/28/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
West Hayden Island, 800 acres of undeveloped land that currently serves priamarily used as natural habitat. Now the City of Portland is proposing to annex the property and develop 300 acres to expand the Port of Portland. Environmentalists like Bob Sallinger, of the Audubon... Read more

Queer Culture on Out Loud Radio

Airs at: Tue, 07/27/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
Tonight's show features live music from Play/Start. At the start of the show, they play Leave It. Next Carla welcomes Janette and Holli, from the Urban Farm Collective. Their updates include how to get involved in their gardens, an invite to their weekly barter market, and ... Read more

From Greed to Green

Airs at: Tue, 07/27/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Charles Derber about his book "From Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy." Derber says, if the relatively mainstream, working-class Boston suburb where he lives can get excited about implamenting green technology and polici... Read more

PLUTONIUM WASTE AT THE HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION REVISITED

Airs at: Mon, 07/26/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Restarting America's nuclear power industry is frequently suggested as a means of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. But advocates of this back to the future scenario should study Robert Alvarez's recent report showing that the amount of plutonium buried at the Hanford Nu... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 07/22/2010

Airs at: Thu, 07/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
This week on Voices from the Edge, Jo Ann and Dave ask the question "Are the good guys ahead?" Local progressive may be feeling a bit down over the direction of local and state politics lately. City Hall seems more disconnected than ever from the world in which most Portlan... Read more

Latest on BP Oil Spill Reveals Culture that Disregarded Safety

Airs at: Thu, 07/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 KBOO’s environmental reporter, JACOB ANDERSON-MINSHALL, gives an update on the bp oil spill and the latest revelations about the company’s business practices,which put fast oil above safety and environmental regulations. Read more

Oppenheimer Biotechnology talks about solutions for the Gulf Oil Spill

Airs at: Wed, 07/21/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
We spoke with Jen Neve, President and Chief Scientist for Oppenheimer Biotechnology, about solutions for cleaning the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion three months ago.  Oppenheimer Biotechnology specializes in a cleaning tec... Read more

July 19 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/19/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Frann Michel (pictured here), this program is about climate change, science fiction, and science fiction about climate change, but it is not about the illusion that climate change is itself science fiction.  This is a show that should be heard from beginning to en... Read more

Surviving on a Volatile Earth

Airs at: Mon, 07/19/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Can technology address the problems posed by climate change?   Environmental journalist Dianne Dumanoski is the author of The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth, and here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick abo... Read more