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KBOO Radio is a community-powered station in Portland Oregon
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Birding to Change the World (opens the original)
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What does birding have to do with making social change? Actually it can be quite a lot. In her memoir Birding to Change the World, Trish O’Kane describes how she fell in love with birds as an antidote to the posttraumatic stress she suffered after losing her home to Hurr...
Nukes for Needless Energy (opens the original)
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This program aired originally on December 23, 2024 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 a...
The Human Access Project (opens the original)
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This program aired originally on June 22, 2026 The Human Access Project (HAP) was founded in 2010 on the simple belief that Portlanders should be able to swim in their river. Since then the organization has worked on a variety of fronts to transform the Willamette ...
A Future with Data Centers Where Nothing Else Can Grow (opens the original)
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This program aired originally on May 25, 2026 A high tech noxious weed is spreading across Oregon, sucking up electricity and water and giving little back in return, as the landscapes of Washington County and parts of Eastern Oregon have been transformed into mazes of ...
Healing a Wounded River (opens the original)
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This program aired originally on May 4, 2026 The Willamette River begins its course as two forks merge south of Eugene, to form the major river in NW Oregon. From its pristine origins the Willamette flows as a recognizable river through small cities, forests and farmla...
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