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WTO - What It Really Costs

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The WTO works  to protect large corporations from having to bear the real costs of their production -- forcing the rest of us to pay with our health and the quality of our lives.  Magrete Strand of the Sierra Club and the Blue Green Alliance explains how it works in this co... Read more

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In these end days of peak oil, the Canadian province of Alberta is on a mission to replace Saudi Arabia as the world's major source of petroleum. The once pristine boreal forests of Northern Alberta are being transformed into gigantic pit mines as energy companies rush to e... Read more

Nuclear Power - Carbon-free Energy for the Future or Still Just a Bad Idea?

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A couple months ago, Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein leaped at the opportunity to interview Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog creator and innovative futurist. But Stewart has changed his views on some key things since the heady days of the late 1960s and early 70s, when... Read more

The Yes Men Fix The World

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Host Linda Olson Osterlund speaks with one of the Yes Men. The Yes Men often pose as powerful people as a form of protest.  Their new movie “The Yes Men Fix the World” is showing at Cinema 21 this week. Read more

Cap & Trade 101

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Cap-and-trade systems are being touted across the country as the most likely way to reduce carbon emissions and they have been in practice in Europe for several years. But cap-and-trade is controversial in the eyes of some envrironmentalists—who see carbon trading as a form... Read more

Hanford Still Radioactive, Part II

Airs at: Wed, 11/11/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The Hanford nuclear site: Still Radioactive after all these yearsJoin KBOO's Chris Andreae and David Rosenfeld as they take you on a virtual tour of the world's first large-scale nuclear reactor, located just four hours from Portland, in Richland Washington.  Then hear a ta... Read more

Hanford Still Radioactive After All These Years

Airs at: Wed, 11/11/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
This is Part 1 of a two-part special.  You can listen to Part 2 here. Join KBOO's Chris Andreae and David Rosenfeld as they take you on a virtual tour of the world's first large-scale nuclear reactor, located just four hours from Portland, in Richland Washington.  Then hear ... Read more

John Perkins and Hoodwinked Live in Studio

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Author and former "economic hit man" John Perkins joins Abe and Joe for a look behind the mirror at the coporations who have made America into history's first truly global empire. Perkins examines why global financial markets collapsed, ... Read more

Political Perspectives on 11/18/09

Airs at: Wed, 11/18/2009 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Global Warming: Part 3 Marianne Barisonek hosts. Her guest is journalist Steven Faris, author of "Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change." CD-2096 Read more

WHAT IS PLAN B 4.0

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, has come out with a new book PLAN B 4.0: MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION. This plan for how we can (and must) cut global emissions by 80% by the year 2020, suggests existing technologies and know-how that will accomplis... Read more