National Radio Project

It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee?

From coffee farmers in Colombia to the trash produced by your single-cup coffee machine, Making Contact andGreen Grid Radio team up to count the costs of your morning cup o’joe.

On last week’s show we brought you to Idaho and Montana, where hundreds of trucks were routed to haul gigantic mining equipment to the Tar Sands oil fields of Alberta Canada, but an alliance of citizens and community groups was able to block the transport through environmentally sensitive land.

This week we continue the saga of the megaloads heading to the Tar Sands through the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies. We also follow two more tendrils of the Tar Sands project stretching from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia.

This is the second of a two part special, on the growing resistance to the tar sands, produced by Barbara Bernstein.

Listen the the first part here.

Featuring:

• Kevin Lewis, Idaho Rivers United conservation director
• Linwood Laughy, writer & historian
• Borg Hendrickson, Clearwater Country co-author
• Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent author
• Bob Skinner, Canada School of Energy and the Environment interim director
• Annick Smith, A River Runs Through It co-producer
• Bob Gentry, environmental attorney
• Steven Hawley, Recovering a Lost River author
• David James Duncan, The Heart of the Monster co-author
• Zack Porter, All Against The Haul executive director
• Steve Seninger, University of Montana economist
• Spider McKnight, All Against the Haul communications specialist

The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. And the potential environmental consequences have brought together citizens from across borders, to fight its rippling effects.

This is the first of a two part special, on the growing resistance to the tar sands, produced by Barbara Bernstein.

Featuring:

• Kevin Lewis, Idaho Rivers United conservation director
• Linwood Laughy, writer & historian
• Borg Hendrickson, Clearwater Country co-author
• Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent author
• Bob Skinner, Canada School of Energy and the Environment interim director
• Annick Smith, A River Runs Through It co-producer
• Bob Gentry, environmental attorney
• Steven Hawley, Recovering a Lost River author
• David James Duncan, The Heart of the Monster co-author
• Zack Porter, All Against The Haul executive director
• Steve Seninger, University of Montana economist
• Spider McKnight, All Against the Haul communications specialist

We follow Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez as she shows us the reality of farm workers' lives in the United States and Mexico. Dr. Lopez founded the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville, California.

Featuring:   

• Dr. Ann Aurelia Lopez, founder and director of the Center for Farmworker Families 
• Women farmworkers