Energy/Natural Resources

EXPANDING OIL TRAIN TRAFFIC THROUGH THE COLUMBIA GORGE

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Four months after an oil train derailed and caught fire in the Columbia Gorge town of Mosier, the Wasco County Planning Commission has approved a proposal by Union Pacific to expand its rail facilities through Mosier, at the very site of the derailment in June. According to... Read more

Alternative Radio with Chris Williams on Eco-Socialism

Airs at: Wed, 09/28/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  This program from Alternative Radio was pre-empted yesterday for a special Democracy Now broadcast on the Presidential Debates. Chris Williams is an environmental scholar and activist. He is professor of physics and chemistry at Pace University and chair of the science d... Read more

STOPPING LNG IN CLATSOP COUNTY

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Originally Broadcast on August 1, 2016 For twelve years residents of Clatsop County (in the NW corner of Oregon) battled proposals to build massive Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminals near the mouth of the Columbia River. On April 15, 2016, the last of these proposals wa... Read more

Aurora Levins-Morales, nationally known Puerto Rican-Jewish feminist, author and activist

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Host Dennis Bernstein devotes the entire show to an interview with Aurora Levins-Morales, nationally known Puerto Rican-Jewish feminist, author and activist, who is planning to travel the US in her mobile radio station, talking about the confluence of ecology, health and... Read more

Indigenous Activist Tom Goldtooth on More Arrests in North Dakota and Excerpts from Greg Palast's New Film

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Today on Flashpoints: More arrests in North Dakota in defense of mother Earth. We'll speak with Tom Goldtooth, a Native American environmental activist. And we air excerpts of the documentary film by Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.   Read more

Our Renewable Future Part Two

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
What will society look like when we rely solely on renewable energy? What will it take to realize this transformation? On this episode of Locus Focus we continue last month's discussion with Richard Heinberg, author of Our Renewable Future, about the challenges facing us as... Read more

Special Program

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2016 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Ali Sharif on Permaculture in Latin America and Africa and Maurice Carney and Harvey Wasserman on Racism, Environmentalism, and Ending War

Airs at: Fri, 09/02/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We speak with permaculture expert Ali Sharif who has thirty years of permaculture field experience in 6 countries.  After taking his Permaculture Design course in the USA in 1984, Bill Mollison, the "father of permaculture," instructed Ali Sharif to take permaculture to... Read more

Winona LaDuke on Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline; Also the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and Armed Struggle in the Philippines

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on a Flashpoints...indigenous activist Winona Laduke provides an update of the ongoing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline on the land of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, then we go to the situation in Brazil where president Dilma Rousseff was impeached today... Read more

Old Mole Variety August 29th 2016

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris host this episode of the Old Mole which includes Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Shannon Executive Director Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. Shannon joins the Old Mole to talk about Fair trade and the Campaign to stop the TPP. Bill Resnick interviews Joseph... Read more