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ABOUT A MOUNTAIN

Airs at: Mon, 05/31/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In recent years a wide range of voices has been promoting nuclear energy as the solution to climate change. While it’s true that the actual nuclear processes within reactors produce no carbon emissions, nuclear boosterism overlooks a number of serious issues with nuclear... Read more

Michael Dawson: Carmageddon? Or a rational public discourse?

Airs at: Wed, 05/26/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
Even as oil gushes into the Gulf of Mexico from a  deep water drilling accident, new drilling is being planned off Alaska's arctic coast this July. But neither ecological disasters, oil wars, nor tens of thousands of annual auto fatalities  have so far dampened our enthusia... Read more

Press**Watch: War gusher!

Airs at: Thu, 05/20/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know:"  There's trouble in the pipeline.  New analysis of the BP gusher video shows that the Gulf of Mexico is being poisoned at the rate of four million gallons of sludge per day, and the National Oceanic and Atmospher... Read more

PressWatch: watch the gusher live during "top kill"

use this link: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0526/bp-begins-top-kill-method-plug-gusher/ The reason that BP is trying 'containment' or 'top kill' is that they want to be able to profit from the thousands of feet of hole that they've already produced.  They know it has oil--we ... Read more

Mark Lakeman and Matt Bebow from City Repair talk about Urban Sustainability

Airs at: Tue, 05/25/2010 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today, Mark Lakeman and Matt Bebow from City Repair talk about Urban Sustainability.   Read more

FOOD SCRAP RECYCLING COMING TO YOUR CURBSIDE

Airs at: Mon, 05/24/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
How much of your garbage is composed of food scraps? According to analysis in the Portland Recycles! Plan the average Portland household disposes of 1,326 pounds of garbage per year of which 75% could be recycled or composted instead of winding up as landfill. We can ... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 5/20/10

Airs at: Thu, 05/20/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Oregon Primary Election 2010 About the program… Join co-hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza every Thursday morning as they bring you informative guests and lively discussions about the issues that are important to you and your community. Every week, Voices from the Edge... Read more

Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim: "We are all water-babies."

Airs at: Wed, 05/19/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Stephanie Potter hosts a discussion of the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers weaving a world that works. Her guests are Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim and Linda Neale of the Earth and Spirit Council.   Carol Hart's documentary on the 13 indigenous grandmothers "For the... Read more

Gulf coast oil disaster: One month later

Airs at: Thu, 05/20/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
And now, we go to KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg for the latest on the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and grassroots efforts to hold British Petroleum—and others—responsible. One month ago today, an oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico experienced an explosion of unknown... Read more

Oil spill health effect

Airs at: Thu, 05/20/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
In addition to being one of the world’s largest environmental disasters in history, the Deepwater Horizon oil gush also poses a significant threat to public health. KBOO’s David Nochumson spoke with Ellen-Marie Whelan, a Health Policy Analyst with the Center for American Pr... Read more