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Tuesday Night! Oct 9 Hear and There: A KBOO 50th Celebration of the Environment and Sound

Produced for Threshold Shift
  KBOO Celebrates its 50 Years of Sound, Science and Environmental Awareness In a Unique Immersive Sound and Site Collaboration with OMSI Tuesday October 9, 7:30PM OMSI’s Kendall Planetarium In honor of KBOO and OMSI's long-standing commitment to education and environment... Read more

Writing for Animals

Airs at: Thu, 10/04/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  Essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing... Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely at how... Read more

TONIGHT 9 pm: Elephant Path Film and Elephant Bai Soundscape

Produced for Threshold Shift
Portland filmmaker Todd McGrain's EcoFilm Festival Best Feature winning film, Elephant Path/Njaia Njoku, will be having an encore showing tonight at 9pm as the wrap up to the Portland EcoFilm Festival. Mr. McGrain also worked with Bill McQuay, the recent guest host of this ... Read more

Insectuality: The Radio Show

Airs at: Sat, 09/29/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Threshold Shift
The Press Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--09-24-2018 In Pursuit of Science and Sound:  A Cornell Lab of Ornithology Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellow will be the subject of a three-part series on KBOO radio while the sounds, which are the focus of that research, are feat... Read more

Insectuality: The Sequel

Produced for Threshold Shift
  Bill McQuay is guest spotting an entire Threshold Shift long-form episode bringing us brand new radio stories focusing on the all-women research team from Dartmouth College, Laurel Symes and Hannah ter Hofstede. We'll be going deep into the rain forests of Barro Colorado... Read more

The View from Base Camp

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for Evening News
    One Portland organization is using a little known environmental law to fight logging around Mt. Hood. Earlier this month, 175 volunteers with the non-profit Bark camped out in the newest proposed timber sale in Mt. Hood National Forest as part of their annual Summer B... Read more

STOP ANIMAL EXPLOITATION NOW!

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Voices for the Animals
Host Dab Steadman talks with Michael Budkie, co-founder & director of SAEN- Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!     SAEN’s mission is to end animal experiments through cutting-edge investigations, hard-hitting media exposes and public pressure. You’ll hear how SAEN finds facts a... Read more

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
From honey bees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers, miners, leafcutters and masons, bees have long been central to our harvests, our mythologies and our very existence. But for the past decade, resounding alarm about dwindling bee populations has often seemed to drown out... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Robert Michael Pyle

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for News In Depth
What do three Magdalenas – a woman, a mountain, and an elusive butterfly – all have in common? That’s part of the mystery in the first novel from award-winning naturalist Robert Michael Pyle: Magdalena Mountain, from Counterpoint Press. Bob grew up in the high country of C... Read more

OMSI & KBOO--Insectuality: Love Songs and Death Dances in the Panamanian Rain Forest

Produced for Threshold Shift
  This Wednesday, at OMSI the planetarium, doors will open at 7:45 PM to allow seating for the 8:00 PM immersive experience of Insectuality, a collaboration between Echo Collector Events, KBOO's Threshold Shift, and OMSI. This is a short form program (20 minutes) that will... Read more