Recovery Zone KBOO Radio

 

In 2014, here in Portland, Peace in Schools launched the first for-credit
high school mindfulness course in the nation. Five years later, eight schools
have partnered with the program to establish mindfulness courses, and new
courses are being offered to adults, especial...

Fix the Court was created to take the Supreme Court of the United States to
task for its lack of accountability and transparency, and proposes reforms
that include term limits and cameras in the court. Executive Director Gabe
Roth, will discuss the work of his organization,...

 

Oregon Walks is a nonprofit, membership-based advocacy organization dedicated
to promoting walking and making the conditions for walking in Oregon safe,
convenient and attractive. Host Carolyn Campbell  speaks with  several
members of the organization, including Inna Lev...

 

Humanity has been referred to as a "desert-making species," but by
partnering with the beaver we could reverse that trend, according to Ben
Goldfarb, author of Eager, The Surprising, Secret Lives of Beavers and Why
They Matter, and Steven Murschel, an educator with the B...

 

Fungi have often gotten a bad rap or been neglected, but for Radical
Mycologists the potential value in human/mushroom interactions are
unlimited, and their investigations embrace mycology through science, art,
philosophy, sociology, religion ancient history. Peter McCoy...

 

The U.S. has less than 5% of the world’s population, but almost half the
world's civilian-owned guns. We also have one of the highest rates of death
by firearm in the developed world. Gun death rates in Oregon are even greater
than the national averages, and most are sui...