Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Eric Rutkow about his new book American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation. The book tells the story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.

Eric Rutkow reads at Powell's on Burnside on Monday, 7/30, at 7:30PM and at the Hoyt Arboretum at 4000 SW Fairview Boulevard on Tuesday, 7/31, at 6pm. 

-> Jules Boykoff talks from London with Bill Resnick about the Olympics and the corporatization of sport.

-> The Left & The Law with Jan Haaken & Mike Snedeker discuss the latest shooting in Colorado and media narratives about such events.

-> Movie Moles Iven Hale and Joe Clement review The Dark Knight Rises.

A NEW URBAN FOOD ZONING CODE FOR PORTLAND

Portland has long been a center of ad-hoc urban agriculture. For many decades, Portlanders have grown vegetables in their backyards. Over the past 30 plus years, community gardens have sprung up where people without adequate yard space can also garden. And now an increasing number of folks are raising livestock in town as well. The City of Portland has supported in theory this booming movement of farmers' markets, community gardens, backyard farming, community supported agriculture and food buying clubs. But zoning code regulations have not kept pace and in many cases are cumbersome or contradictory.

Today Roberta Hall hosts a two-part Health and Health Care Forum.

In part one we hear Marie Long, a neurosurgeon who did volunteer medical work at Tribuvan Hospital, Nepal, and developed a project to prevent neurological diseases that have afflicted some Nepali people.

At 11:30 in part two the guest is Nancy Sullivan, a registered dietitian who uses nontraditional methods to understand and help clients with gastrointestinal problems. In this conversation we talk about difficulties in interpreting symptoms and problems that can arise with fad diets and with additives in commercially prepared foods.

Mental Illness, Institutionalization, and the Trauma of ReEntry

Karen James interviews a psychiatric nurse practitioner about how her loved one's lack of mental health treatment, institutionalization and the trauma of re-entry has led to a lifetime of incarceration.

A Fred Frith special, 8:00 pm - midnight

Experimental composer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and innovator with roots in rock, classical, and experimental  music, Fred Frith has appeared on over 400 albums--many of which he has produced.;

From 8:00 - 10:00 pm, we will focus on Fred Frith's early work with Henry Cow, Art Bears, and other bands, from 1968 to 1990. From 10:00 pm - midnight, DJ What The(?!?!) ... will play Fred's post-1990 work.