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Old Growth Forests, Wildfire and Climate Chaos

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Even though there are no large fires burning close to Portland this summer, you can still smell the smoke from all the megafires burning from British Columbia to Northern California. This is the new reality we are facing, a confluence of climate chaos, exacerbated by loggin... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 3, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Rural Organizing Project: To commemorate ROP’s 30 years of outstanding political work in rural Oregon, Norm Diamond talks with Sidra Pierson of the ROP staff. They discuss ROP’s hist... Read more

The Film Changing the Narrative Around Wildfire - 'Elemental' Director, Trip Jennings

Airs at: Wed, 09/28/2022 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Coast Range Radio
  Fire is, and always has been, a permanent part of our western landscapes and ecosystems, but the debate and policy prescriptions around how to protect our communities is shockingly disconnected from the science and and on the ground reality. Thats why Ive asked the dire... Read more

Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration with Elizabeth Azzuz

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  EcoJustice Radio
  Native peoples have used the tool of fire as medicine. Fire was understood to be a spirit, a healer and sacred in its own right. Traditional Native controlled burning, called cultural fire, utilizes ancient agro-forestry practices, technology developed through time by th... Read more

Wild By Design

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Growing Greener
  Fostering wildlife and native plants "making our landscapes contributors to the local ecosystem" has become a goal of so many gardeners. In her new book, Wild By Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration, Laura J. Martin traces how this became so. Introducing a remarkab... Read more

Indigenous reoccupation site in BC, Canada - The people's resistance to the Coastal Gasoline pipeline.

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Activist Radio
  Sleydo (Molly Wickham), spokesperson for the Gidimt'en checkpoint on Wetʼsuwetʼen lands and resident of the Cas Yikh (grizzly house), an Indigenous reoccupation site in the province of British Columbia, Canada, since 2014, talks about her people's resistance to the Coast... Read more

NW Natural's Real Agenda

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In recent years scientists have discovered that methane gas is 85 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Yet the so-called natural gas industry (a euphemistic term for methane) has doubled down on promoting its product as a bridge fuel to ... Read more

The Trail that Almost Wasn't - Kentucky Falls

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2022 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beyond Your Front Door
  Kentucky Falls Trail in the Central Coast Range of Oregon paved the way for a number of the coast range trails we enjoy today, but did you know it was a trail that almost didn't happen? Learn the incredible history of one of the Siuslaw National Forest's most important ... Read more

Power Grid Shut Down in US colony Puerto Rico; Rights violation for those fleeing violence and poverty

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on the Show: A major storm shuts down the electricity grid in Puerto Rico. Vulture capitalists and a corporate Junta are largly to blame for the repeated failure of the power grid. We’ll feature a special report from the storm-torn US colony. Also, are two border g... Read more

David Korten - "Our Planetary Existential Crisis"

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Our planet and humankind are in danger. The warnings coming from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres could not be more unambiguous. He says we are heading towards an unlivable world. We are on a fast track to climate disaster. Major cities under water. Unprecedented he... Read more