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James Howard Kunstler on "The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel"

Airs at: Thu, 07/07/2016 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

Host Per Fagereng welcomes back social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler to talk about his new book, "The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel." This book completes the story of the quaint upstate New York town of Union Grove, thr... Read more

Peter Neill – Water is Life

Airs at: Tue, 07/05/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Peter Neill is the Director of the World Ocean Observatory. He served as president of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York for twenty years. He edited the literary anthology American Sea Writing. He is the author of The Once and Future Ocean: Notes Toward a New Hy... Read more

BOMB TRAIN IN MOSIER

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

On June 3 an oil train derailed in the Columbia Gorge town of Mosier, 70 miles east of Portland. It could have been much worse. The typical Gorge wind could have been blowing but amazingly the air was still that afternoon. If there had been wind there would be no more Mosie... Read more

Water World

Airs at: Fri, 07/01/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Water World

Recap of City Council Public Meeting on Superfund Site a Portland Harbor More info: www.cleanupportlandharbor.org Progress on the Portland Harbor Superfund Site has been slow and steady over the last 16 years. Kristin Yount unravels some of the corporate interests who want... Read more

Dreamer Julio Molina on Current Immigration Issues and Karl Grossman on the Solar Powered Space Capsule

Airs at: Thu, 06/30/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Today on Flashpoints Dreamer Julio Molina speaks out about Obama's immigration program and the Supreme Court decision on immigration and anti-nuclear activist Karl Grossman discusses the first solar powered space capsule headed for Jupiter. Read more

Water World

Produced for: Water World

Please join Me, Kristin Yount, for a monthly discussion about water policy and politics. Privatization, assumed and official water rights, ignored treaties, industrial pollution threaten our water supplies. More than ever the health of our aquatic biome must be addressed. O... Read more

Water World

Airs at: Fri, 07/01/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Water World

Today Bob Sallinger joins Kristin Yount on Water World to Re-cap the events at the City sponsored Pubic Hearing regarding the EPA Proposed plan for the clean up of the Portland Harbor. To read the plan the EPA proposed. More info at the Portland Harbor Citizen Advisory G... Read more

Update on Mosier Oil Train Derailment

Airs at: Thu, 06/23/2016 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

A preliminary report from a federal agency investigating the oil train derailment near Mosier, Oregon, has shed some light on the causes of the accident, placing the blame on Union Pacific. Despite this, the rail giant recently announced it would continue shipping crude th... Read more

News In Depth on 06/21/16

Airs at: Tue, 06/21/2016 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: News In Depth

The End of Polar Ice (and of the world as we know it....)

Airs at: Wed, 06/22/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Wadhams, professor of Ocean Physics and head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge, U.K., is the world's foremost Arctic expert. In more ordinary times, he's done his public speaking at conferences, in the lecture hall, or at the occasional press c... Read more