Environment/Climate

Threshold Shift + KBOO + OMSI = Ultrasonic Good Time

Produced for: Threshold Shift

Event: OMSI After Dark: Good Vibrations, 700-1100 PM August 29th, 2018 Where: OMSI 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214 Tickets: www.omsi.edu Location & Time of Soundscape: OMSI Planetarium, 8 PM ONE SHOWING ONLY, capacity 186 Insectuality: Ultrasonic Love Songs ... Read more

Portland Fruit Tree Project and a Master Gardner Answers Your Questions about Fall Gardening

Airs at: Wed, 08/08/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Dirtbag

On this encore presentation of The Dirg Bag Gene Bradley fills in as host for Glen Andresen, who is on break. Gene's guests will be Bob Hatton, program director of the Portland Fruit Tree Project, who will talk about their work in Portland, and Weston Miller, OSU Extens... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 6, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, with the following segments: 1. Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization talks with Bill Resnick about the massive WWII-size commitment necessary to deal adequately with climate change. 2. Joe Clement inter... Read more

Enslaved by Capital

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The abolition of chattel slavery, the Civil Rights movement, and the Women's movement, partial and inadequate as they are, leave untouched a kind of slavery that is pervasive and nearly invisible. Clayton Morgareidge explains how we are all enslaved by the domination of lif... Read more

The Only Way to Save the Earth from Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization. They advocate a World War II type great mobilization, here and around the world, to vastly reduce, or even eliminate, greenhouse gas emissions starting today. The group has just won Climate Emergen... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 6, 2018

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole and we will hear-- What it will really take to deal seriously with climate change How an IWW union in New York is organizing restaurant workers What we can learn from Antonio Gramsci How capitalism enslaves us all Read more

Tacoma on the Front Lines

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This program originally aired on June 25, 2018 According to Sightline Institute Tacoma, Washington is the major frontline community in the fight to stop fossil fuel development in the Northwest. After vehemently rejecting a proposal to build the world's largest methanol ... Read more

Pacific Northwest in the Tar Sands Crosshairs

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This program was originally broadcast on June 18, 2018. It seems likely that the Canadian province of Alberta—home to a massive tar sands industry that produces some of the globe’s dirtiest and most polluting oil—has put the Pacific Northwest in its crosshairs. The provi... Read more

Mount St. Helens @38

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This program originally aired on May 28, 2018 Every May 18, I spend time remembering the eruption of Mt. St. Helens that day in 1980. But this year I had the opportunity to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the eruption by hiking the Hummocks Trail in the blast zone o... Read more

Fire and Naturally Emerging Young Forests

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This program originally aired on July 2, 2018 As this year’s fire season gets off to a roaring start we are still absorbing the impact and lessons learned from last seasons megafire in the Columbia River Gorge. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at post-fire natural re... Read more