Environment/Climate

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Ice and The Storms

Airs at: Thu, 12/15/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Retreating sea ice is probably affecting your weather right now. The truth about sea ice from long-time Arctic expert Dr. Don Perovich. Which hemisphere is getting stormier and why? Professor Tiffany Shaw, leader of new science of storms explains. Plus global climate an... Read more

The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team

Airs at: Thu, 12/15/2022 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beyond Your Front Door
  Finding a dead bird on the beach might not be pleasant, but tracking those birds can provide a wealth of important information about the health of our marine and coastal environment - and that information can lead to positive changes. You might be surprised to learn that... Read more

Interview with Katmeow Garcia

Airs at: Wed, 12/14/2022 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Conducted by Charles Shambry, current volunteer and member of KBOO's Board of Directors. -- KatMeow García is a bilingual Media Educator and Manager of Media Education at Open Signal, a media arts center in Portland, where she oversees the media education programs. She ... Read more

The Black Shoals, Part 1

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  For The Wild
  This week For The Wild Podcast presents Part One of a two-part conversation between brontë velez and Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King. Circumferencing Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King’s book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, brontë and Tiffany explore sa... Read more

Healing the World's Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  EcoJustice Radio
  The UN has classified at least 40% of the Earth's land as degraded. That figure is estimated to be somewhere between 1 billion, even up to 6 billion hectares of degraded land. Much if not most of this degradation can be attributed to human activity, particularly that of ... Read more

The New McCarthyism Vs. Radical Beauty

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  Emerging from violent censorship, Angela Davis' teaching and Nina Simone's song "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" lead off our new effort at "Green Showbiz". These women's beliefs in Peace and Freedom and Beauty and Community and the Earth ...These are flight paths to Int... Read more

Making sense of the war in Ukraine, with Medea Benjamin

Airs at: Wed, 12/14/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Though it's easy for most of us in the United States to not pay close attention to what's happening in Ukraine, the consequences of the war raging there are massive and far-reaching. If you really want to know what led up to the war and what the possiblities are for e... Read more

The Dangers of National Nostalgia

Airs at: Fri, 12/09/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Keeping Democracy Alive
  Of all the motivations for war, nostalgia is at the top. Restoring lost glory. We see it not only in Putin's Russia, but in many former empires. Nostalgia is a factor in racist nationalist bloodletting everywhere. On this show, History Professor Lawrence Wittner talks ab... Read more

Protecting Mother Earth: Peehee Muhuh (Thacker Pass) to All Our Relations

Airs at: Thu, 12/08/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  American Indian Airwaves
  Part 1 The People of the Red Mountain are an Indigenous led grassroot organization comprised of Paiute & Shoshone peoples, surrounding Indigenous nations, and supporters working to protect Peehee Muhuh (Thacker Pass) from the possible construction of the Thacker Pass Lit... Read more

Sorry For The Disruption

Airs at: Thu, 12/08/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Truly green energy is not easy. I'ts even harder deep in the Amazon. Trials and tributaries from Dr. Emilio Moran, lead author of "Advancing convergence research: Renewable energy solutions for off-grid communities". Then, sustainability expert Dr. Jem Bendell apologizes... Read more