Energy/Natural Resources

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Earth Day Special Programming

  On Monday, April 22nd, KBOO Community Radio celebrates Earth Day with special programming devoted to everything Mother Earth, ecological justice, environmental awareness, climate activism and animal rights advocacy. Either poetic and imaginative, or highly researched and... Read more

Make Portland Green Again

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Twenty years ago Portland was internationally known as the model of a green city. But for past several years, Portland's green veneer has been chipping away, in large part because of who populated the city commission. But that is all about to change as a new form of city go... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of are more and larger server farms and nuclear power reactors to feed them electricity. Yet that is the plan being hatched by Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants. Amazon is eyeing Eastern Oregon... Read more

PGE Wants to Clearcut in Forest Park

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Portland General Electric (PGE) has submitted a proposal to the city of Portland to update and expand their power grid infrastructure. The proposal, known as the Harborton Reliability Project, would upgrade one existing power line, and clearcut nearly five acres of forest i... Read more

Remembering Bob Sallinger

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On this episode of Locus Focus we honor Oregon Environment Icon Bob Sallinger, who died on October 30. For over 30 years Bob has been a regional fixture advocating and fighting to protect our rivers, wildlife, forests and communities from environmental and social degradatio... Read more

Stopping Zenith Energy Once and For All

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in 2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant Di... Read more

Unpacking November 5

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
 What the hell just happened? The guests are Ani Haines and Teresa Mitchell. We’re unpacking the future. Read more

Striking Back at Northwest Natural

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Northwest Natural, Oregon's largest fracked gas utility, has been doing its best for several years to delay the region's move to full electrification. But in the past few months the company is getting its comeuppance in the form of an expanded lawsuit from Multnomah County,... Read more

Protecting and Strengthening Our Democracy

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In the next week or so we will find out whether or not the United States will remain a democracy. The suspense and stress cannot be more intense. But on the day before Election Day we will try to cut through the anxiety and focus on how we must protect and strengthen our de... Read more

False Promises of the “Nuclear Renaissance”

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker take up the current push by Amazon, Google and Microsoft to unite BIg Tech and Small Nuclear to satisfy their corporations' voracious appetites for electricity.  Business journals herald this new deployment of nu... Read more