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Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration with Elizabeth Azzuz

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  EcoJustice Radio
  Native peoples have used the tool of fire as medicine. Fire was understood to be a spirit, a healer and sacred in its own right. Traditional Native controlled burning, called cultural fire, utilizes ancient agro-forestry practices, technology developed through time by th... Read more

Wild By Design

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Growing Greener
  Fostering wildlife and native plants "making our landscapes contributors to the local ecosystem" has become a goal of so many gardeners. In her new book, Wild By Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration, Laura J. Martin traces how this became so. Introducing a remarkab... Read more

Indigenous reoccupation site in BC, Canada - The people's resistance to the Coastal Gasoline pipeline.

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Activist Radio
  Sleydo (Molly Wickham), spokesperson for the Gidimt'en checkpoint on Wetʼsuwetʼen lands and resident of the Cas Yikh (grizzly house), an Indigenous reoccupation site in the province of British Columbia, Canada, since 2014, talks about her people's resistance to the Coast... Read more

NW Natural's Real Agenda

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In recent years scientists have discovered that methane gas is 85 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Yet the so-called natural gas industry (a euphemistic term for methane) has doubled down on promoting its product as a bridge fuel to ... Read more

The Trail that Almost Wasn't - Kentucky Falls

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2022 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beyond Your Front Door
  Kentucky Falls Trail in the Central Coast Range of Oregon paved the way for a number of the coast range trails we enjoy today, but did you know it was a trail that almost didn't happen? Learn the incredible history of one of the Siuslaw National Forest's most important ... Read more

Power Grid Shut Down in US colony Puerto Rico; Rights violation for those fleeing violence and poverty

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on the Show: A major storm shuts down the electricity grid in Puerto Rico. Vulture capitalists and a corporate Junta are largly to blame for the repeated failure of the power grid. We’ll feature a special report from the storm-torn US colony. Also, are two border g... Read more

David Korten - "Our Planetary Existential Crisis"

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Our planet and humankind are in danger. The warnings coming from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres could not be more unambiguous. He says we are heading towards an unlivable world. We are on a fast track to climate disaster. Major cities under water. Unprecedented he... Read more

Walking - Slow Down, Wake Up & Connect at 1-3 miles per hour, with Jonathon Stalls

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  The Magical Mystery Tour
  Jonathon Stalls spent 242 days walking across the United States in 2010 and has continued to walk alongside thousands of people for thousands of miles. He describes himself as a Walking Artist. He advocates and organizes for racial, economic & social justice, identifying... Read more

Seeding Innovation

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  With Good Reason
  Founders of a new Innovation Hub in a farming region hope it will also help reverse economic hardship and population decline. Plus: Some days at work were super productive, while other days are a bust. Here are 5 kinds of workdays and how they affect our creativity. Also... Read more

Fighting for Mature and Old Growth Forests with Lauren Anderson; Going Deep on Floating Offshore Wind Energy with Shannon Souza And Joe Leibezeit

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Coast Range Radio
  8:00-8:30AM Fighting for Mature and Old Growth Forests with Lauren Anderson Preserving mature and old growth forests across the US is a critical piece of the puzzle in fighting climate change, and on Earth Day of this year, President Biden issued an executive order to "... Read more