Environment/Climate

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Western States vs. Wolves

Airs at: Mon, 05/14/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife issued its first order and permit to kill up to 4 wolves this year in early April, after wolves in Eastern Oregon’s newest wolf pack, the Pine Creek Pack, killed three calves and injured four more in Baker County. This kill order was g... Read more

CAFOS on the Columbia

Airs at: Mon, 05/21/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last year thousands of Columbia Riverkeeper members and others called on Governor Brown and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to protect the Columbia River and rural communities from factory farm pollution. They didn’t listen. In March of 2017, Oregon gave the ... Read more

Silent Spring 56 Years Later

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A devastating expose of the harmful effects of synthetic pesticides, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was an unlikely bestseller when published in the fall of 1962. Immersing herself in a dauntingly wide-ranging body of technical and scientific evidence, Carson turned a series... Read more

Oil Spills at the Dams

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Late this past winter, the Army Corps of Engineers spilled about 474 gallons of turbine oil into the Columbia River at The Dalles Dam. This is not the first time that dam turbine oil has spilled into the river. Oil spills occur on a routine basis at Columbia and Snake river... Read more

Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann

Airs at: Thu, 04/26/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann, author of Carbon Ideologies, a new two-volume work about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. The first volume – No Immediate Danger – is now available. And the second volume – No Good Alternative – go... Read more

Just Transition

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In the struggle to prevent massive fossil fuel projects from transforming Northwest communities into centers for oil, coal and fracked gas facilities, proponents of these projects claim these terminals, refineries and production facilities will create much needed jobs. Whil... Read more

Happy Earth Day from Threshold Shift

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
The mountains are calling...   Happy Earth Day, everyone! In honor of KBOO's 24-hour Earth Day soundscape history I am inviting you to check out the Threshold Shift archive where you can hear sounds from all over the world...from Papua New Guinea, to Madagascar, to the Ce... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 9th, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This Episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour is hosted by Denise Morris and includes Bill Resnick talk with Chuck Collins is an author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Go... Read more

Columbia County: Agriculture vs. Industry

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Port Westward, owned and operated by the Port of St. Helens, is ground zero for a string of controversial fossil fuel developments, including fracked gas, coal, and oil terminals. The Port recently announced plans to renew a lease option with Northwest Innovation Works to b... Read more

An Idiot's Field Guide to US Public and Tribal Land Management

Airs at: Sat, 03/31/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  To make some of this information easier to get to (less scrolling than on the episode page) here it is in a hopefully more digestible format. You can hear a somewhat impromptu interview about these topics here. All opinions expressed were my own. For clarification, there... Read more