Wednesday Talk Radio

With both federal and international action on global warming either in political gridlock or painfully slow, citizens and municipilaties are taking matters into their own hands. A rule proposed by the Washington Department of Ecology to limit carbon pollution will have a pu... Read more

Beckwith was scheduled to be on last week's program, but due to a misunderstanding, he only was able to be on for the last 20 minutes. So we brought him back for the full hour.  He is a physicist, engineer, and now a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. He is i... Read more

To those willing and able to come to grips with the vast and accelerating changes happening to our global climatic system, the tendency to despair or to just turn it all off can be ever present. And there are those, like Conservation Biologist, social critic (and certified ... Read more

Wadhams, professor of Ocean Physics and head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge, U.K., is the world's foremost Arctic expert. In more ordinary times, he's done his public speaking at conferences, in the lecture hall, or at the occasional press c... Read more

Way back in 1958, a group of Quaker anti-nuclear weapons activists sailed the Golden Rule towards the Marshall Islands to protest atmospheric nuclear testing, which both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were then engaged in. Radiation was turning up in cows' and human milk. Th... Read more

Three community mental health activists join host Paul Roland to talk about a series of "Truth & Reconciliation" events in Portland organized by the MOMS Movement, Rethinking Psychiatry and the Icarus Project. The Wednesday, May 25 event will be an opportunity for people wh... Read more

Scheduled guest Ralph Nader had to cancel at the last minute, but luckily Sam Husseini of Institute for Public Accuracy (http://www.accuracy.org/) agreed to step into the breach. And the fact that he has been critical of Nader makes it even more timely! His new project is V... Read more

 As a delegation of Indigenous Lumad activists arrives in Portland, the Philippines just got through a national election, which apparently brought Rodrigo Duterte into power as President. The coincidence is significant, as Duterte has been the mayor of Davao City, the larg... Read more