Environment/Climate

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DNC and the Green New Deal

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Marianne Lavelle, a journalist who has the national politics beat on the publication Inside Climate News, an important web source for those concerned with climate change and preventing climate cataclysm and mass death.  They discuss: (a) Democratic P... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 7, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments: Racism—a Public Health Crisis: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Leslie Gregory, a local health practitioner and activist who is at the forefront of the campaign to get racism declared a ... Read more

Buscando America on 09/01/20

Airs at: Tue, 09/01/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
  Escucha una actualización del movimiento en contra de la brutalidad policial en Portland a 95 días de movilizaciones diarias. Hombre es asesinado a tiros en Portland durante violentos enfrentamientos entre partidarios de Trump y BLM. En esta emisión hablamos con el colu... Read more

Drop into the Floating World with Threshold Shift Aug. 29

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
This Saturday, August 29 from 12 - 3am PST, Threshold Shift will be taking you beyond the Pale into the Floating Worlds of the Irish Sea and Panther Creek in the Wind River Watershed.  The show is getting back to it's ecophile roots for what we hope will be a soothing, con... Read more

The Floating World

Airs at: Sat, 08/29/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Sounds from the Irish Sea and Panther Creek   (Show transcription) Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift on KBOO 90.7 FM Portland. I'm your host Nicole Martin and in this quarter's episode we'll be getting back to our roots, our tap roots if you will, featuring long-f... Read more

River of Dreams

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Ursula LeGuin’s story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" describes a utopian city where everyone lives good lives, except for the neglected child chained in a basement. Portland, which prides itself on its progressive attitudes, also has such a metaphorical child: the com... Read more

Animal Tourism is No Vacation For Animals!

Airs at: Fri, 08/28/2020 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
Ever ridden an elephant or camel, swam with dolphins, had a selfie with a bear cub, or taken a horse-drawn carriage ride while visiting another country or city? You may not have realized it, but that activity was almost assuredly the product of animal cruelty. On this week'... Read more

Fire Season in the time of COVID-19 encore presentation

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
THIS PROGRAM ORIGINALLY AIRED ON JULY 13 before the wildfire season had really gotten underway. Now as we are experiencing one of the most intense fire seasons ever, this episode of Locus Focus is more relevant than ever. In a time of global pandemic, this summer's fire sea... Read more

Hot Dams on the Columbia

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Right now salmon are making the miraculous journey from the Pacific Ocean, up the Columbia, to the place each fish was born. All salmon ask for is a river with cool flowing water. But because of the stagnant reservoirs behind dams as well as climate change, the Columbia hea... Read more

Paying the Land

Airs at: Thu, 08/20/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Ten years after Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco returns with yet another masterpiece, Paying the Land.  "A tour de force . . . luminous . . . Joe Sacco's large-scale panels teem with detail, visual and verbal . . . What begins as an exploration of the effects of fracking on... Read more