Environment/Climate

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Our Backyard: Drill Baby, Drill!

Airs at: Tue, 09/16/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Our Backyard
Our Backyard, KBOO's locally produced environmental series. This edition: The US House passes an energy bill allowing off-shore drilling .... sorta. Republicans and Democrats do kabuki politics with energy policy. Read more

Carnivore Extinction: Why should we care?

Airs at: Wed, 09/10/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
On the Sept 10 Radiozine, Host Melinda Bernerts asks, "How does the extinction of the world's large predators such as lions affect us?" She talks with wildlife journalist William Stolzenberg about what the loss of top carnivores means to cities like Portland.  Read more

Wes Jackson: Prairie Ecology-Model for Agriculture

Airs at: Wed, 09/10/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
On the Sept 5 Radiozine, Bruce Silverman interviews Wes Jackson, botanist, geneticist, proponent of using prairie ecology as the model for agriculture, and director of The Land Institute. He has edited a new book of essays called The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustai... Read more

Our Backyard: Undamming the Klamath

Airs at: Tue, 09/09/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Our Backyard
Our Backyard, KBOOs locally produced environmental series. This edition: The efforts to undam the Klamath River and Derrick Jensen comes to Oregon for a Deep Green workshop.Links:Undamming the Klamath - http://www.klamathriver.org/Events.html#pdoaDerrick Jensen Deep Green ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 8, 2008

Airs at: Tue, 09/09/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Luz María Gordillo, this show deals with issues affecting Mexican-Americans as well as immigration.  We also learn about saving the planet, our city, and our neighborhoods by changing the way we landscape and garden in our yards.  You can hear the whole show by cl... Read more

City Gardens

Airs at: Wed, 09/10/2008 at 9:46am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
How can our gardens contribute to saving the planet?  One neighborhood at a time!  Alissa Hartman and Dreya Mancini offer tutorials on sustainable landscaping, and they talk with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about their work.  Read more

Five reasons to be frightened of Sarah Palin

 1) She's a global warming denier.2)  She thinks that God likes pipelines,  (h/t Juan Cole)3) She has a whole lot in common with fundamentalists from other parts of the world.4) She's a liar.5) She believes the war in Iraq is God's work.And there's more, believe me. I didn'... Read more

Our Backyard: Oregon front group attacks environmentalists

Airs at: Tue, 09/02/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Our Backyard
Our Backyard: KBOO's locally produced enviromental series. A right-wing organization front group ( http://www.freedomworks.org/ ) is using radio ads to attack Oregon environmentalists. The Oregon League of Conservation Voters ( http://olcvblog.typepad.com/olcvblog/2008/08/... Read more

Joe and Abe Talk Radio - Sept 2

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2008 at 5:00pm
 Host Joe Uris opens the lines for some political topics, starting with the police actions at the Republican National Convention, and a live interview with Will from Rising Tide, who is on the streets in Minneapolis.  We get an update on the Liquid Natural Gas debacle from ... Read more

Disappearing Rice Paddies

Airs at: Sun, 08/31/2008 at 5:00pm
Special Labor Day Documentary: Disappearing Rice PaddiesHalf the world's population depends on rice for their staple food, and it is one of the most politically sensitive of agricultural commodities. In South-East Asia, where people have farmed rice paddies for thousands of... Read more