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The Institute for Health and the Built Environment at the University of Oregon is on the cutting edge of making sure healthy microbes are in our buildings. Co-Director Mark Fretz speaks with Oregon Grapevine host, Barbara Dellenback, about the connection between buildings and nature. What is beyond framing and windows? He emphasizes the importance of fresh air and light to our health.

Community and Senior Centers are places where people can gather and learn and have fun. Zane Wheeler of Eugene's Campbell Center speaks with Oregon Grapevine host, Barbara Dellenback, about the importance of getting out and about to mental and physical health.

On this edition we talk with Dr. Ken Pendleton of the U of O about what the arrest of the Portland Trailblazers coach may mean for gambling in America. And we say goodbye to retiring Travel Lane County's Andy Vobora.

We talk with Oregon Contemporary Executive and Artistic Director Blake Shell and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Executive Director Alison Dennis about their collaboration after Oregon Contemporary lost promised funding from the National Endowment For The Arts. Its a story of how local organizations need each other now more than ever in the shadow of shaky federal funding.

For Giving Tuesday we talk with Public Radio stations and entities impacted by the congressional defunding of public media. We talk with Luke Burbank of Live Wire radio, Jack Harris and Mari Bergeron of KMUN in Astoria and Sue Matters of KWSO on the Warm Springs Reservation.

As the craft beer industry matures, we hear from one of the state’s top breweries. Ninkasi Co-Founder Jamie Floyd takes us on a tour of the brewery to talk about what goes into making beer and the state of his industry.

We talk with Sheryl Balthrop of the Eugene Mission and Tim Black about the Egan Warming Centers. Two institutions providing shelter and so much more.

On this edition we talk with Lauren Kessler, a local author who produced a special series on hunger for Lookout Eugene-Springfield. Kessler is a multi-book author and also a long-time volunteer for Food For Lane County's dining room.

On this edition we talk with Carolyn Stein, Executive Director of Food For Lane County. The organization provided more than eight million pounds of food last year, but the need remains high.

On this edition we talk with Allie Yee, Interim Executive Director for Partners For A Hunger Free Oregon. She talks about their work to advocate for better food equity and for more food assistance in the state.