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On October 16 Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute,

was scheduled to come on this show to talk about a controversy that was

raging over how to reach a 100% renewable future. Richard lives in Santa Rosa

and when I contacted him a week before the show ...

For a while it seemed like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge had been saved

from oil rigs. But since Trump was elected every bad idea we thought we'd

blocked is back in play. After decades of bipartisan support for protecting

one of the last pristine, untouched wild place...

Wildfire, like actors in a Greek drama, has two opposing faces: one of

destruction and another of rejuvenation. In recent years there has been a

growing appreciation of wildfire’s regenerative function in forest ecology,

but the increase in large, intensely hot “megafires” ...

News media brought the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”—the famous

swirling gyre of plastic pollution in the ocean—into the public

consciousness. But when Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with

his wife, Anna Cummins, and set out to study the world’s oceans with

...

As the world continues to take unnerving and unpredictable twists and turns,

we check in again with Sightline Institute's Eric de Place, to gain some

perspective on the craziness that abounds. We'll do a mash up everything

that's frightening and confusing us - unprecedented...

This past week a fifteen year old boy from Vancouver, WA was charged with

five misdemeanor counts for starting the Eagle Creek Fire on September 2. Now

that the fire is mostly contained and the alleged culprit will be brought to

trial, attention is focusing on post-fire rec...

Five weeks ago a massive fire roared through the western half of the Columbia

River Gorge, while hundreds of thousands of acres burned across the rest of

Oregon, and more than another million in Montana. This week massive wildfires

erupted across far more populated areas in...

As some federal legislators move to stifle salmon recovery and science,

Columbia Riverkeeper recently released new research on how the Snake River

dams affect water temperature and salmon migration. In 2015, hot water killed

250,000 sockeye salmon in the Columbia River basi...

This program was initially broadcast on September 11, 9 days after the Eagle

Creek Fire was started. There has been much progress in containing the fire

since then, returning evacuated residents to their homes and reopening I84,

but much of this program is still relevant, a...

As an increasing number pathogens that infect humans, animals and plants are

developing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides, while farmers spray more

pesticides and doctors prescribe more antibiotics, the diseases and

infections continue unabated.

On this episode of L...