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Standing Rock: Lessons Learned

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the second of a two-part segment featuring audio from 350pdx Northwest Neighborhood's February 2 forum on Standing Rock: Lessons Learned, Maya Jarrod, community organizer with 350pdx, provides an overview of fossil fuel struggles in the Pacific Northwest. Part 1 aired Mo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 20th 2017

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes    Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone continue their interview on fascism and Trumpism. In the second part today they discuss how Trump and our warrior politicians and forces can manufacture a threat to thi... Read more

What Happens to the EPA Now?

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On February 17 the U.S. Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new EPA administrator. This is a man who denies climate change is real. As the attorney general of Oklahoma he sued the EPA fourteen times, while using talking points written by energy lobbyists to publicly attack... Read more

Farming that returns carbon to soil benefits climate, oceans, and oxygen levels

Airs at: Wed, 02/22/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
What does industrial agriculture have to do with the air that we breathe?  Plenty, according to author and environmentalist John Roulac. Stripping carbon from soil results in ocean acidification, which combined with runoff of aricultural pollutants, has contributed to a 40 ... Read more

THE NATURE FIX: WHY NATURE MAKES US HAPPIER, HEALTHIER, AND MORE CREATIVE

Airs at: Wed, 02/15/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  On the final day of KBOO's Winter Membership Drive Paul Roland welcomes Florence Williams to the studio to discuss her new book The Nature Fix.   "For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks an... Read more

FIGHTING TRUMP'S FOSSIL FUEL AGENDA ON THE LOCAL LEVEL

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
It's hard not to be disheartened by the news everyday coming from the Trump-occupied White House. But one way to stay energized is to resist at the local level. As the Trump Administration's federal policies look to favor the fossil fuel industry, state and local authority... Read more

Embedded & Arrested at Standing Rock

Airs at: Fri, 02/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Jenni Monet took to Medium.com and wrote: "The morning after I was bonded out of the Morton County jail, I took to Twitter and posted a detail that I only could have known from actually being on the inside. “#MniWiconi is inscribed everywhere,” I tweeted. And it’s true.... Read more

Community Energy and Its Opponents

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Rebecca Claassen discuss community energy and how we can outmaneuver Trump to build operating models for clean sun and wind energy, electrified mass transit, agro-ecological farming, conservation of energy and much more. Then, in a continuation of last week... Read more

Trump's Incoherent Energy Policy

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
There are a lot of things that are inconceivable about Donald Trump, but the incoherence of his energy policy is especially mind boggling. He’s likely to wind up angering a lot of his key supporters in the fossil fuel industry, because some of his moves, such as resuscitati... Read more

Under-reported Stories, Fake News & Environmental Racism

Airs at: Wed, 02/01/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Guest co-hosts Nolan Higdon and Desiree McSwain, and senior correspondent Michael Levitin, open the program with a discussion about several recent under-reported stories. Then the talk turns to "fake news," as Chase Palmieri and Jared Fesler explain their web site -- Tri... Read more