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Coming to Our Animal Senses

Airs at: Fri, 01/06/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  Animals experience the world differently. There are insects that can see ultraviolet light, while some snakes can hunt in the dark thanks to their ability to sense infrared. Such differences are not restricted to vision: Elephants can hear subsonic sounds, birds navigate... Read more

Stephen Harrod Buhner on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part 1

Airs at: Wed, 12/28/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  For The Wild
  Originally aired in February of 2015, this weeks interview is a mosaic of mind-shattering insights from Earth-poet-philosopher Stephen Harrod Buhner. Stephen is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian studies, described as a bardic naturalist, he is the award-... Read more

The KOTA Foundation for Elephants

Airs at: Fri, 12/23/2022 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
  Debbie Ethell is a conservation research scientist as well as the Executive Director of The KOTA Foundation for Elephants which she founded in 2015. She is a featured speaker at the International Free the Elephants Conference & Film Festival in Portland this April . KOTA... Read more

Coast Range Association's 2022 in review and California's Tribal Marine Stewards Network

Airs at: Fri, 12/23/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Coast Range Radio
  First half hour:  2022, like the last several years, has been quite a ride! And we at the Coast Range Association have been hard at work all year, providing the kind of inter-sectional analysis that no other organization brings to western Oregon and the coast. So as we... Read more

UC Academics on Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2022 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
UAW 2865 stewards, Cyn Huang and Keith Brower Brown, lay out the power and complexities of the five week strike of 48,000 academic workers at the ten University of California campuses.  This job action is the largest of any in the United States in 2022 and the largest ever ... Read more

The Poly-Crisis: What Is Really Going On?

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  "Avoiding A Ghastly Future" - panel with Paul Ehrlich, Bill Rees and Nate Hagens. But first, American neurosurgeon Ann-Christine Duhaime: "Minding the Climate - How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis."   12-16-2022     Read more

Susanne Rust: Tracking The Gray Whale

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2022 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Sea Change Radio
  Gray whales are dying in record numbers - over 400 have washed up on West Coast shores since 2019. And yet, scientists aren't quite sure why. With all the man-made problems affecting ocean ecosystems, it's hard to point to just one cause. But scientists do know that thes... Read more

"That Vegan Show" Interviews with Eilan and Katie

Airs at: Fri, 12/23/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  That Vegan Show
Interview of Avalon Microsanctuary (Portland, OR) and Dolly`s Dream Home Rabbit Rescue (St. Louis, MO) This show will focus on rabbit rescue and care, with special guests Katie from Dolly`s Dream Home Rescue, and Eilan from Avalon Microsanctuary. Since I have been followin... Read more

Alexander Zaitchik and Emile Torres on Effective Altruism + Longtermism

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Sea Change Radio
  Part 1: As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried's, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the spheres of business, politics and philanthropy. Bankman-Fried was one of the largest donors to and a huge proponent... Read more

Grace Under Pressure

Airs at: Sun, 12/25/2022 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
John Baldoni is a global leadership educator, certified Master Corporate Executive Coach, and author of 16 books that have been translated into ten languages. In 2021, the International Federation of Learning and Development named John a World-Class Mentor and selected him... Read more