Listen Up! Northwest program 75 This week, we look at what happens when you kick organic farming up a notch to biodynamic farming.

* Karl Hann is a biodynamic farmer and egg producer in Abbotsford, BC. He explains his approach to farming in a holistic way. (Jonathan Steinman, Deconstructing Dinner, CJLY – Nelson, British Columbia)

Music by DJ B-Girl. Copy editor: Robbin Block. Host: Yuko Kodama.

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Listen Up! Northwest program 74 This week we look at how arts, music and strategic thinking transform the lives of students and teachers alike.

* The Young Playwrights Program and Festival gives youth the chance to write plays and see their work performed. Learn more about the youth and educators behind its recent season. (Yuko Kodama, KBCS - Seattle, WA)

* Garfield High School's jazz program wins national competitions and has performed at Lincoln Center. Director Clarence Acox speaks about what makes it beat. (Elaine Hayes and Yuko Kodama, KBCS Seattle, WA)

* The Village Free School in Portland offers a program where students create their own curriculum and may even be involved in the contracts with their educators. Julie Sabatier takes you to meet the educators and students at the school. (Julie Sabatier, Destination DIY, Portland, OR)

Music by Blue Scholars, Garfield High School Jazz Band, Andy Combs and DJ B-Girl. Copy editor: Robbin Block.

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In 2002 Howard Zinn recorded this PSA as part of Reclaim the Media's Media and Democracy Radio Features series. Listen or download.

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Listen Up! Northwest program 32 features stories shared by youth about their experiences growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT).

* An audio collage eulogy of people in GLBT communities throughout the world who were victims of hate crimes. (Rebecca Nay and Jacob Anderson Minschall, Portland OR)

* Queer youth talk about their experiences coming out at school and at home, and the issues faced by the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. (Joaquin Uy, Seattle WA)

Music by Northwest artist DJ B-girl

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Listen Up! Northwest: Wildlife features stories on our region's wildlife. Segments include:

* Nature writer Richard Nelson is our guide on the Arctic Coast as we share the ice with 13 polar bears feasting on whale carcasses. (Lisa Busch, KCAW-Sitka)
* Alaskan Native Larry Merculieff has spent half his life in the Pribilov Islands. He explains how wildlife and humans in Northern Alaska are feeling the effects of global warming now. (Robin Carneen, KSVR-Mt Vernon)
* How would it affect environmental policy if wildlife, forests and rivers had rights of their own? We interview author Cormac Cullinan on the rights of nature. (Brad Reed, KYRS-Spokane)

Music by Aja West and the Mackrosoft, Electron Love Theory and DJ B-Girl. Copy editor: Robbin Block. Host: Yuko Kodama.

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Listen Up! Northwest is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

This week, a special feature on hate crimes in Seattle and what some are doing to stop the rising trend (Rosette Royale and Callie Shanafelt, KBCS, Seattle).

Music by Northwest artist DJ B-Girl.

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Listen Up! Northwest is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

In this edition of Listen Up! Northwest, we hear the perspectives and experiences of two Portland women who wear the Sikh turban and one who wears the hijab. (Linda Olson Osterlund, KBOO Portland, OR)

Music by Northwest artist DJ B-Girl.

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Listen Up! Northwest features stories about people's relationship with our environment.

Segments include:
* Native American or First Nations had managed and maintained the forests of the Northwest long before the white settlers arrived. One man strives to restore these practices in SW Oregon forests (Maria Gilardin, The Time of Useable Consciousness Radio)
* Forest Canopies are an important ecosystem which is often overlooked. We learn about how people began to studies these ecosystems more closely (Nag Champa and KAOS, Olympia, WA)
* The tar sands project in Alberta Canada is one of the largest capital projects in the world. The project extracts 1 million barrels of oil a year from its fragile environment for export to the US and Asia. (Mordecai Briemberg, CFRO Vancouver BC)
* What more fitting way to end this show than with a look at how we affect the environment after death. One Portland company specializes in assisting with "green burials" (Julie Sabatier, Destination DIY Portland)

Music by Blue Cranes, Daniel Anderson, Blue Scholars and DJ B-Girl. Copy editor: Robbin Block. Host: Yuko Kodama.

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RTM note: We present an encore presentation of a program originally aired in 2008. We're taking a break to get ready for our next season of shows. We'll be back with new shows at the end of January. Listen Up! Northwest features stories about people's relationship with our environment.! This week, Listen Up! Northwest dives into stories on trash, garbage, waste and "stuff."

Segments include:

* Marine researchers are finding that a lot of the world's plastic trash is collecting in a giant swath of sea 1,000 miles off of the west coast. (Don Wolfe, KBOO Portland)
* The Seattle City Council passed an initiative to charge for disposable bags in supermarkets - but the bag industry is fighting back. (Orli Cotel, Sierra Club Radio)
* What can you do with construction debris? Learn from a someone who's in the business of de-construction as opposed to demolition. (Ryan White, KBOO Portland)
* Don't let food that's perfectly edible go to waste. A look at food rescue (Martha Baskin, KBCS Seattle)
* Annie Leonard on the dubious correlation between stuff and happiness. (Daphne Wysham, Earthbeats)

Music by Aja West and the Mackrosoft, Blue Cranes, Daniel Anderson, and DJ B-Girl. Copy editor: Robbin Block. Host: Yuko Kodama.

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Listen Up! Northwest is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

We listen to stories about the elders who live among us.

David Greenberger interviewed seniors in the Northwest and created monologues based on his conversations. This piece is about the life of one elder from Oregon.
(David Greenberger, Duplex Planet - Saratoga, NY)

Hear how octogenarian Virginia Beavert is working on her doctorate at University of Oregon while passing on the stories and language of her tribe to the next generation.
(Rachael McDonald, KLCC - Eugene, OR)

A parent imparts a subtle gift to his son hoping to improve his son’s ability to survive World War II. (Yuko Kodama, KBCS - Seattle, WA)

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now tells a personal story about her mother's passing
(Yuko Kodama, Reclaim the Media - Seattle, WA)

Music by Blue Cranes, the Correspondents and DJ B-Girl. Copy editor: Robbin Block. Host: Yuko Kodama.

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