Environment/Climate

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Democracy Now Special: 2019 Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice

Airs at: Fri, 11/08/2019 at 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for: 
Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman and former EPA official Mustafa Ali will co-moderate the first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, Tom Steyer, Marianne Williamson and other presidential candidates will take part in the f... Read more

Dammed To Extinction Part Two

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For centuries, three unique pods of orcas have hunted chinook salmon along the northwestern Pacific coast. Yet wild chinook salmon here are increasingly scarce. The orcas are going hungry, their numbers dwindling along with their primary source of food. Extinction looms for... Read more

Cowlitz Activists Protecting Water and Land

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Desiree Hellegers speaks with Cowlitz tribal Chair Bill Iyall about the status of the fights against the proposed Crystal Geyser water plant and mining in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, with additional perspective from Cowlitz activist Teri Graves. Cowlitz Indian... Read more

New Deal lessons for the Green New Deal

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick continues his conversation from last week with Marty Hart- Lansberg on the Green New Deal and the lessons of the Roosevelt New Deal that started, haltingly in the 1930s and never pulled the US out of the Great Depression, which only ended with the great mobi... Read more

Tracing the Desire Line: A Memoir in Essays by Melissa Matthewson

Airs at: Fri, 11/08/2019 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Melissa Matthewson, author of the new book Tracing the Desire Line: A Memoir in Essays from Split Lip Press. Melissa is the author of a collaborative chapbook, (un)learning, with Andrea Beltran from Artifact Press. And her essays have appeared in G... Read more

The Amazon & the Health of the Planet

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This year the world watched with alarm as the Amazon Rainforest burned. While news coverage of those fires has receded as attention shifts to the fires of impeachment, the Amazon is still burning. For many people around the world it is hard to fathom rainforests on fire, ye... Read more

024 Climate Change: Weather Extremes and Rising Sea Levels

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am
Produced for:  Prescription for Justice
Guest Kristina Dahl, PhD, senior climate scientist for the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and lead author of Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days, Union of Concerned Scientists, 2019. Novembe... Read more

023 Climate Change: Causes, Costs, Consequences, and Call to Action

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am
Produced for:  Prescription for Justice
This episode reviews the evidence for the ecologically-disastrous human-caused global warming occurring since the advent of industrialization; the health, environmental, and economic consequences of global warming; weather extremes, rising sea levels, changing patterns of i... Read more

Getting to a Green New Deal

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with economist Marty Hart-Landsberg about the Green New Deal and what can be learned from Roosevelt's New Deal that started, haltingly in the 1930s and gained steam after World War II.  This is the first part of a two-part interview; Part 2 will be on nex... Read more

United Nations Sunday conference on climate justice promises insights

Airs at: Fri, 10/25/2019 at 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  This Sunday, the First Unitarian Church will be hosting the United Nations Sunday, a conference on climate justice. One of the panelists, Shannon McClure, sat down with KBOO’s Althea Billings to tell us more about the event, her experience with climate justice and how a... Read more