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Nadia Telsey is a founder of the women's martial arts movement and and teacher of self empowerment and self defense. She speaks with Oregon Grapevine host, Barbara Dellenback, on the power of listening to all points of view and making positive change through conversations and activism.

A conversation with Cristina Eisenberg, Associate Dean within the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, who occupies a very unique position both at the school and in the world of forest management. As an expert in forestry, but also an expert in indigenous peoples and practices, she writes and teaches about how we can blend both indigenous knowledge and western science to better nurture and protect climate-adapted forests.

A conversation about how climate change is impacting Oregon right now. The economic, public health, social welfare, and environmental crises affecting the state in the present day.

A decade ago, Lane County had the most fatal crashes in the state. As such the County created this new team to align County departments in working toward zero deaths within Lane County's overall transportation system.A decade on, the results are mixed. Lane County is still very high compared to other counties in fatal crashes, but education, enforcement and engineering strategies are beginning to make a difference.

A conversation about the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, and their critical importance to our community and planet. We bust some myths about recycling, better understand the ways we can reuse our stuff and best of all, learn how to reduce what we truly don’t need. It’s not easy, but adherence to the 3R’s will be a huge part of reducing climate change and even improving our lives.

A conversation about the Egan Warming Centers and how we as a community can do better to protect our most vulnerable populations during our worst weather.

A conversation with Katie Brown, the founder of Scorpion Creek Ranch.

On this edition of Oregon On The Record, listeners to the show will hear a lot and hopefully learn a lot about the electrical grid and local provider EWEB. How power is generated and distributed, and where the vulnerabilities are. We also talk about how disrupters like solar and wind will impact the traditional power generation methods like hydroelectric and fossil fuels.

Today on Oregon On The Record, you’re going to hear from two University of Oregon professors who study social media and its impact. Through their study and analysis, they see a very muddled picture of what social media is, what it can do, and what it might become. What’s clear is that it has become a central part of our lives no matter our age, social economic status or political affiliation.

Today, on Oregon on the Record, we talk about Oregon's unique tax kicker, and you'll hear from two voices on polar opposite sides of the kicker. John Charles of the Cascade Policy Institute loves the kicker and believes it must stay, while Daniel Hauser, of the Oregon Center for Public Policy says the kicker is inherently unfair and we should instead spend the money on important social programs. It’s a kicker conversation, on Oregon On the Record.