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Coos River Estuary Intervenes in Jordan Cove FERC Proceedings

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
On Wednesday, the Coos River Estuary filed a motion to intervene in the permitting process for the Jordan Cove Energy Project. The motion was filed as part of proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. Jordan Cove is a proposed terminal for lique... Read more

The Green Reaper

Airs at: Thu, 11/02/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Elizabeth Fournier is the inspirational author of The Green Reaper - Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician. Her compassion for those who pass over and for their families is a true testament of who she is in this world: pure love. She is also following her heart by supporting famil... Read more

The Final Frontier Episode

Airs at: Fri, 10/27/2017 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  Hello and welcome to the final episode of Threshold Shift. I am your host, Nicole Martin. You have allowed us to take you around the globe across four continents and to the dark waters of the Arctic; from tiny Yellow Island in the San Juans all the way to Papua New Guine... Read more

The Echo Episode: Sound and Collecting It

Airs at: Fri, 10/20/2017 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
If you missed our last long-form piece this Wednesday be sure to check it out on the special page. So this week, in our penultimate episode, I'd like to allow our minds to wander a bit and envision ourselves as echo collectors. I know the series has focused quite a bit on t... Read more

Big Hunger, Big Chicken, Big Moment

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
This week my guests discuss big problems regarding food. How can we work toward healthy food and enough food for everyone? Maryn McKenna is a journalist who writes about science, food, and disease. Like Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA. But that’s not the end of it. We’v... Read more

Lincoln County Aerial Spray Ban in Court

Airs at: Thu, 10/12/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In May, voters in Lincoln County, Oregon, which stretches along the coast from Lincoln City to Yachats, approved a measure banning the aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. The new ordinance was almost immediately the subject of a lawsuit brought against the county... Read more

Sound Documentation, Preservation and Advocacy

Airs at: Fri, 10/13/2017 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  "What did I have to offer a world that was forgetting? My memory! How could my memory help? By offering comparisons! By telling the young what once was. By considering our losses! I found the more I remembered, the more I could remember! Millions of things." --The Old M... Read more

News from the Boo Interview

Airs at: Wed, 10/04/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Mic Crenshaw, KBOO's station co-manager, was kind enough to interview me for the weekly News from the BOO feature that he curates along with Delphine Criscenzo. Stay tuned for the transcript.  Read more

Chris Ransford: God and the Mathematics of Infinity

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
What can mathematics tell us about God? According to todays guest, physicist and mathematician, H Chris Ransford, mathematics can tell us quite a bit about the classic attributes of an infinite God who is all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-powerful. The logic and beauty of ma... Read more

Sound Ecology: Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
One of the major threads of this project is an attempt to connect us as listeners to our ears and our lives a little bit more. A literal threshold shift is when your hearing perception changes while moving between environments with drastically different volume levels. Most ... Read more