Environment/Climate

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THE EAST SIDE BIG PIPE PROJECT

Airs at: Mon, 12/20/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For the past several years Portland's Environmental Services has been involved in the largest and most expensive public works project in the city's history: the Big Pipe. Since 2006 Rosie, the enormous tunnel boring machine, has been drilling a tunnel deep underground al... Read more

Black Farmers Settlement with USDA; Food Safety Modernization Act; Interview with the Curious Cook Harold McGee

Airs at: Sun, 12/19/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Food Show
President Obama just signed into law a $1.15 billion settlement with thousands of black farmers who were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. So we began the show with an update from John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmer... Read more

The Death of the New Deal - or - Obama's Tax Cut "Compromise"

Airs at: Tue, 12/14/2010 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris. Join Abe and Joe as we mourn the death of the New Deal. President Obama's  tax cut "compromise" spells out, in painful detail, the final death of the idea of liberalism as a governing philosophy. Obama was elected at the head of a po... Read more

TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD

Airs at: Mon, 12/13/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The rallying cry: "Save the rainforests" means to most people tropical rainforests in the Amazon or Borneo. But there is another class of rainforests that is just as unique and important to protect: temperate and boreal rainforests. These rainforests, like their tropical... Read more

Fen Montaigne, author of "Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica."

Airs at: Mon, 12/13/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Fen Montaigne, author of "Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica." Journalist and author Fen Montaigne discusses the beauty of Antarctica, the lives of the Adelie penguins and the details of the work of scientist Bil... Read more

The Dirtbag on 12/08/10

Airs at: Wed, 12/08/2010 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
Host Glen Andresen and guest Jim Gilbert welcome OSU Extension Horticulturist Weston Miller to talk about the OSU Master Gardener program (and the Organic Master Gardener program, too) and its emphasis on sustainable gardening. And for the second half, Harriet Fasenfest ... Read more

Neighborhoods Versus Cell Phone Towers

Airs at: Tue, 12/07/2010 at 12:00am
 Host Joe Uris invites concerned NE Portland Neighborhood Activists Susan Prows and Steve Cole in to talk about Cell Phone Towers in Portland.  Many city residents are opposed to the towers, and to the less-than-transparent methods being used to place them. See RespectPD... Read more

What does Last Month's Election Mean for Northwest Climate Policy?

Airs at: Mon, 12/06/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
It's conventional wisdom that the new more heavily GOP configuration in Congress spells bad news for climate policy. There's some truth in that, but this week on Locus Focus we look at a more positive side to the story. In what has appeared to be an overall hostile polit... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 12/02/10 - The Arrest of Mohamed Osman Mohamud

Airs at: Thu, 12/02/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
What's the fallout from the Mohamed Osman Mohamud incident? The Nov. 26 arrest of 19 year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud for allegedly attempting to detonate a bomb during the Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Pioneer Courthouse Square raises troubling legal, political, soci... Read more

Steven Johnson on "Where Good Ideas Come From"

Airs at: Fri, 10/08/2010 at 12:00am
Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with writer Steven Johnson, bestselling author of "Everything Bad Is Good for You." They discuss his new book, "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation," which looks at what sparks our great ideas?  He also s... Read more