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The whole communities radio project began as a joint project of KBOO Community Radio, the Media Project and the Coalition for a Livable Future. With funding from Sound Partners for Community Health, Whole Communities Radio was a series of radio programs on KBOO-FM, community workshops, public forums and an evening of entertainment, that helped Portland area communities envision an environment where walking, bicycling and other outdoor physical activity are an integral part of daily life. The whole communities radio project was active from 2005 - 2007 but its mission continues to live on, each week on KBOO on LOCUS FOCUS, a program that explores many areas of environmental concern.

You can contact us at (503) 235-5036 or   mediapro@spiritone.com

 
What's Happening on Locus Focus?
feed-in-tarrif

Monday, February 22nd at 10:15 AM

DEMOCRATIZING THE ENERGY GRID

 

Oregon is about to institute a new incentive for households to power themselves using alternative energy sources like solar and wind. This method is called Feed-in Tarriff and is already in place in much of Germany as well as Vermont. Mark Pengilly and Judy Barnes, with Oregonians for Renewable Energy, join Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein for a discussion about how feed-in tarrif can help democratize the energy grid. They'll talk about what feed-in tariffs are all about and they where fit into an overall renewable energy policy that moves us toward a sustainable solution to climate change and helps accomplish the switch from a fossil-fuel-based economy.

Judy Barnes and Mark Pengilly are with Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy, a project of the Alliance for Democracy. They are helping design and support adoption of Feed-In Tariff policies for Oregon that produce good social, economic and environmental outcomes at reasonable costs.

 

 

 

RADIO DOCUMENTARIES BY BARBARA BERNSTEIN

heavy weather

HEAVY WEATHER, a new radio documentary by Barbara Bernstein, explores the connections between increasing extreme weather and our changing climate and landscapes. It presents solutions that are community driven, based on decisions we make to change the ways we live and travel. Changes that actually can improve our quality of life and lighten the burden for future generations.

Listen to Heavy Weather

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In mid July of 2002 a series of lightning strikes ignited a number of small fires in some very remote mountainous areas of SW Oregon. The fires merged into what became known as the Biscuit Fire, the largest fire that year in North America, burning across an area the size of Rhode Island.

SCULPTED BY FIRE takes us on a journey into a landscape that for thousands of years has been shaped by fire. But now these wildlands of the West are at the epicenter of a political conflagration.

You can hear SCULPTED BY FIRE on the web and learn more about the Biscuit Fire and the role that wildfire plays in protecting forest health. http://mediaprojectonline.org/sculptedbyfire.html
Urban Green

URBAN GREEN, a new radio documentary by Barbara Bernstein, looks at how our connection to the place where we live is strengthened by eating locally grown food and learning to relate to the watershed we live in, as we search for the ribbons of green in the city that connect us to the natural world. Click on the picture above to listen to Urban Green.

Salmonlands


Without the salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it. Salmonlands takes us on a journey into the land of salmon, why they are so significant to the culture and community of the Pacific Northwest, and what it will take to keep them from disappearing.

The Whole Communities Radio Project presents Salmonlands. Click on the picture above to listen to this radio documentary.