Environment/Climate

Earth Day Special: Grounding Waters Mentorship and the Blueprint Foundation

Airs at: Thu, 04/22/2021 at 8:30am - 9:00am
  The Blueprint Foundation is a small organization dedicated to introducing Portland's Black and Brown students to careers in environmental science and green infrastructure. KBOO's Nick Campigli spoke with Blueprint's Program Director Jason Stroman and Executive Director D... Read more

Upcoming panel: "Protecting Mother Earth: The history, legacy, and possibilities as experienced by Native Americans"

Airs at: Mon, 04/12/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  On Wednesday, April 14th at 6 p.m., the Oregon Community Rights Network and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund are hosting a webinar entitled, “Protecting Mother Earth: The history, legacy and possibilities as experienced by Native Americans.” KBOO's Althea ... Read more

Celebrating the Thin Green Line: KBOO's Special Earth Day Webinar

Produced for:  Locus Focus
For two decades communities across the Pacific Northwest have been inundated with proposals to build mega coal, oil and fracked gas terminals and pipelines from Coos Bay to the Salish Sea. And for two decades these communities have risen up to stop these projects. Now most ... Read more

Will the Biden administration stand up for Native sovereignty and against the fossil fuel industry?

Airs at: Wed, 04/14/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
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Will the Biden administration stand up for Native sovereignty and against the fossil fuel industry

Airs at: Wed, 04/14/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
      https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2021/despite-promises-to-listen-to-tribes-and-fight-climate-change-biden-administration-allows-oil-to-continue?fbclid=IwAR1GxLuhVREvcuN-5_nUTvPg7RoE1wTFiUoFVjRBTwiXn2qPDWlVYbiZDcs Read more

Old-Time Earth Day

Airs at: Thu, 04/22/2021 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Tune in to KBOO early on Earth Day for Old-Time Earth Day. Rise When the Rooster Crows will celebrate Earth Day with traditional North American music, its roots, branches, and beyond. Artists in this episode include Molsky's Mountain Drifters; Bela Fleck & Abigail Washbu... Read more

Appalachian Tree-Sit Taken Down by Police After Nearly Three Years

Airs at: Fri, 04/09/2021 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Featuring the Climate Front Lines podcast from Truthout. Today we go to the Yellow Finch blockade near Elliston, Virginia, a tree-sit that prevented construction of the embattled Mountain Valley Pipeline for a whopping 932 days until police finally extracted two protesters ... Read more

The Myth of Small Safe Nukes

Airs at: Mon, 04/12/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In 1980, Oregonians passed a ballot measure prohibiting the siting of any new nuclear power plants until there is an operating federal repository for high-level nuclear waste. The law also requires a vote before any future nuclear facility is approved. Forty years later sti... Read more

An Earth Day Musical Special

Airs at: Thu, 04/22/2021 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  The show will feature songs that focus our attention on the beauty of our planet and the threat that climate change poses to our very existence Read more

Stopping Line 3

Airs at: Mon, 04/05/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On his first day in office Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline. That was great news. But that’s not the only fossil fuel pipeline that needs to be stopped. Here in Oregon people are still trying to stop for good the nearly dead Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, while ... Read more