Host Bruce Silverman produced this series of programs to inform us about what needs changing in our community, our nation and our world. Today he looks at W.A.G.E.S. Women housecleaners in San Francisco have created their own cooperatively-owned cleaning companies.

Members of the Northwest Film Center's Silver Screen Club review more than 20 films in the 2008 Portland International Film Festival, running through February 24th.

Bruce Silverman talks with the Tool Library Coordinator at the North Portland Tool Library.

Bruce Silverman interviews Kathleen Hower, executive director of Global Links, about their work getting medical supplies to places where there are shortages.

Bruce Silverman presents another installment in his
"Answers Series." The topic is Hippo Water Rollers. Dirty water is the
number one cause of death and disease in the world. But many people
have to travel far to get clean water, and water is heavy to carry.
We'll hear about two ingenious, low-tech inventions to solve the
problem. 

Bruce Silverman presents another episode in his series of Answers.  In this episode he tells us about a logging operation that recovers logs from under water. 

Bruce Silverman hosts another installment of his occasional Answers Series. He speaks with Chris Luginbuhl of the International Dark Sky Association, www.darksky.org. 

Edward's Dam in Maine was removed to help migrating fish.  Now after a few years the project has proved to be a success. 

Bruce Silverman interviews Sean Casten of Recycled Energy Development, a company that is making electricity from heat that was previously being wasted by going up factory smokestacks.

Host Bruce Silverman explores the new world of obituaries where the bad is being reported right along with the good deeds of the dead. He speaks with two obituary writers.

Drills are endangered primates living in Nigeria and Cameroon in West Africa. Two Portlanders have spent the last twenty years there trying to save this species, and they've had some success. Liza Gadsby is interviewed by KBOO's Bruce Silverman.

 Bruce Silverman and Kate Welch interview farmer Dave Brown about Mustard Seed Farms.

Janine Blaeloch of the Western Lands Project talks about questionable practices in use when agencies such as the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, and members of Congress, transfer ownership of public lands to private hands.

 Host Bruce Silverman interviews Alissa Hamilton, author of "Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice."

Alissa Hamilton is a Food and Society Policy Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She lives in Toronto.