Quick Start to Keeping
Kurrent
Our lives are busy. Keeping
Kurrent is the place where you can listen to short, reasonably in depth
interviews and presentations about a variety of issues, ideas and trends
are helpful to you. You are invited to take a quick look some of the broad
issues we cover by clicking on the items listed below. Or, you can also
examine the details for each category by checking the statements on the
right hand side of this page.
in Portland,
Oregon
in Seattle,
Washington
and in San
Francisco, California
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Also, here are several
types of programs that occurred during the 6th and 7th Seasons which started
in September 2003 and ended in September 2005.
Environmental
Issues
Environmental Resources
Center
For American Progress - Issues they cover: energy and the environment,
national security, domestic and economy, and media and culture.
The
American Directory of Environment organizations with contact information.
The focus is on transportation.
Clean Water Action empowers
people to take action to protect America's waters.
Earth
Island Institute Founded by environmentalist David Brower, EII fosters
the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support
in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration
of the global environment.
Progressive
Christians Uniting - Progressive Christians Uniting is committed to
equipping individuals and congregations for the work of transforming society
through the radically inclusive gospel of Jesus Christ.
Hawk sitting
in tree next to Host's Oregon home.
Greenpeace
USA - Uses nonviolent direct action and creative communication to
expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are
essential to a green and peaceful future.
Environmental
Defense -Works to stop environmental pollution by encouraging business,
labor, government, and citizen groups to cooperate and identify practical
policies to protect the environment.
League
of Conservation Voters (LCV) - Serves as the political voice for members
of environmental groups by educating citizens about the environmental
voting records of Members of Congress.
Green
Thumb Environmental Club - Green Thumb is dedicated to educating its
members and the greater community about local and regional environmental
issues. We also practice environmental activism and advocate positive
change such as recycling programs, species protection, environmental regulations,
etc. Green Thumb meets weekly on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM in room 106 of the
student center.
EcoFuture
- believes people can meet all their real needs while still preserving
the health and beauty of this planet for future generations. There is
a list of more environmental
organizations.
AllConferences.Com
-AllConferences.Com is a directory focusing on conferences, conventions,
trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events and business meetings. We are
dedicated to providing our end users with links to high-quality, informative
web sites, which is why we hand-pick each site we link to. By doing this,
we are creating a unique search directory that will better serve users
looking for specific information on conference or event information; while
at the same time provide services to the conference organizers.
Sustainable
Travel International - Promoting responsible travel and ecotourism,
supporting sustainable development, and helping travelers and travel providers
protect the cultures and environments they visit.
Columbia
Land Trust - a private, nonprofit organization, was founded in 1990.
We're dedicated to conserving signature landscapes and vital habitat together
with the landowners and communities of the Columbia River region.
The
International Ecotourism Society (TIES) promotes responsible travel
to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being
of local people by:
- creating an international
network of individuals, institutions and the tourism industry;
- educating tourists and
tourism professionals;
- and influencing the tourism
industry, public institutions and donors to integrate the principles
of ecotourism into their operations and policies.
Designing for Sustainability
Sandra Soksen appeared on Keeping
Kurrent and talked about planned communities and the Findhorn Foundation.
She owns and operates Village of Vision and designs communities or homes
around Sustainable principles. You can find out more about her at the
Village of Vision website.
Page last changed January
20, 2009
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SPIRIT OF THE RIVER
On Saturday, October
3, 2009
The Columbia Riverkeeper is
sponsoring a special event which will feature Robin Coby. He wrote Spirit
of the River in which he tells how he canoed from the headwaters of
the Columbia River to the mouth of the Pacific Ocean.
The event is a fund raiser for
the Columbia Riverkeeper and support for the opposition to liquefied Natural
Gas (LNG).
Poets, dancers & writers
will perform at the event. There will be a display of fine art.
Help support the Riverkeeper
efforts and enjoy the festivity. You can purchase tickets at Lucy's Books
(Astoria) or Paper Clip (Seaside). The tickets are each $20. You can also
purchase tickets on-line at www.columbiariverkeeper.org.
Bridge Across the Columbia
at Astoria, Oregon
The
Great Flood in the Columbia Gorge
During
2007, Keeping Kurrent's Host interviewed geologist
Terry Tolan. He helped
explore ancient and current geologic history of
the Columbia gorge. We Learned about the great floods that came down from
Montana during during
a glacial period some
15,000 years ago. You can hear one hour of his interview. Go to the audio
program page and select "Ancient Columbia River Floods"
part 1 and 2.
Photo
from "Columbia River Gorge: Geology, Myth & Legend" - Migin - You can
find out more about this book at his web
site.
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Temperatures are Changing
Sightline, an
environmental organization, located in Washington state shows that temperatures
have been increasing between 1950 and 2003. Check your area to see what
changes are coming. Ask yourself, will this change create differences
in plant types and availability of water? Find out more about Sightline
on their web site, www.sightline.org.
Find out more
about renewable energy at The Renewable
Energy Atlas of the West.
Making electric
cars that replace internal combustion driven cars.
If you want
to explore how electric cars will become the predominant form of transportation
in one country you need to learn about Shai Agassi. He has been busy implementing
a plan to create charging stations (charging batteries and even changing
batteries) for electric cars. He has convinced the Israeli government
as well as investors to help him build these stations before 2010. These
stations would serve the entire country. Nissan and Renault plan to build
electric cars that can be used here. Israelis will help themselves and
their country save billions of dollars. It will also eliminate dependency
in foreign oil. Isn't this a familiar theme?
If you want
to find out more about Shai Agassi you can look at his
blog at: http://shaiagassi.typepad.com/the_long_tailpipe/alternative_energy/.
You can find
out what Nissan is planning to do by turning to a number of news articles.
Here's one article at Breitbart.com.
You can also find out more about Renault's electric car by reading an
article in autobloggreen.com.
Carlos Ghosn
of The Nissan Motor Company beside the new Nissan electric car that will
be sold in Israel. This was taken at the annual shareholder meeting. Photo
source is Tree Hugger.
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This
is the Nenana river and it is located immediately adjacent to Denali National
Park and Preserve and passes by the McKinley Village where the Host had
an overnight stay. The river is glacier fed. There was a sign saying that
a Grizzly bear had recently been seen immediately by this property. Beautiful
and dangerous.