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More than three decades ago Urban Naturalist Mike Houck coined the term Greenfrastructure to describe the important role that urban green spaces play in providing climate resilience. Green infrastructure emphasizes the importance of viewing our parks, forests, wetlands a... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments on immigration: Growing up Undocumented: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living... Read more

Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Frann Michel discuss the 1983 film El Norte. Directed and co-written by Gregory Nava, El Norte is an award winning, independent epic US film, notable for centering the experiences of two indigenous Mayan migrants from Guatemala as they move... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that migrants to the US, largely from the global south, are Americanized in ways that obscure the settler-colonialism that this country was founded on and that we have yet to reckon with. Our Well Read Red, Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts fro... Read more

Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper... Read more

  Join long time KBOO hosts Celeste Carey and PDX Biologic for a 5-hour special of converging musical styles, narratives and creative expressions in Black music. Read more

Hey now, Phil G here. THis week on Grateful Dead and Friends I am delighted to share with you the 50th anniversary remaster release of Robert Hunter's second album, Tiger Rose.  This is my favorite of all of Hunter's solo work, it features support from Jerry Garcia, Donn... Read more

It’s time again for my annual all-women’s Swing ‘n’ Country show! March is a great month to celebrate the accomplishments of women in country music and I’ll be bringing you an all-new episode jam-packed with great women singers, songwriters and players. We’ll explore the... Read more

I'm having a difficult time deciding on a description of this particular episode. At least not without sounded pretentious. Having said that, I suppose there is no way to avoid it.  Music, is often like a heartbeat. A pulse. I think that is what draws us towards or attr... Read more