Environment/Climate

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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

Resisting Google in the Gorge

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Since the construction of a Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon in 2006, the city has become a magnet for data centers looking for tax breaks, and cheap energy and water to power and cool them. Beginning in 2021, with representation from the Reporters Committee for Fre... Read more

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Eco-Disasters in Japanese Film. Japan has rich traditions of filmmaking and of approaching films as commentary on daily life. But Japanese cinema also offers rich commentary on ecological crises. Jan Haaken talks with University of Oregon professor Rachel DeNitto about her ... Read more

The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
More than a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions produced around the world today come from the simple steps of growing, catching, processing, transporting, and cooking food—and then dealing with leftovers. This alarming statistic motivated ecologist Mark J. Easter to dra... Read more

Criminalizing Solidarity

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Historian Rachel Ida Buff talks with Frann Michel about connections between attacks on encampments in support of Palestine and encampments of houseless people, as well as attacks on other forms of collective solidarity and the commons, including migrant caravans and wate... Read more

Sailing for Peace

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Please join us on Monday, January 6th at 6:30 pm for Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio as we talk with Helen Jacard about the Golden Rule and the important role it has had inspiring non violent civil disobedience and peace education regarding the abolition of nuclear ... Read more

The Best, the Worst & Most Interesting of Times

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
It's the time of year again when we look back at the past year and ahead to the new with Eric de Place, with Salish Strategies in Seattle. As the impending next Trump administration looms ever nearer, we talk about productive ways we can prepare for that unknown, and look a... Read more

Radio Tales for te Road

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Today, January 20, is a day that many of us have been dreading since the election. As we hurtle into the unknown Trumpian future, we really don’t know what’s in store, just how much we should be afraid, or how to muster a movement that will stand up to everything we fear fr... Read more

The Corporate Roots of Climate Change

Airs at: Thu, 12/26/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
New documents show how a deceptive PR strategy pioneered in 1950s California first exposed the risk of climate change and then helped the industry deny it.  Read more

"That Vegan Show" Travel Edition

Airs at: Fri, 12/27/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  That Vegan Show
Join me as I interview, Rebecca Gade Sawicki, the founder of the vegan travel company, Veggies Abroad, in what feels like an around the world tour in under an hour! In an effort to align her career with her ethics, Rebecca left her 15-year career in 2021 in order to start t... Read more