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Autonorama

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The auto industry is promising that high tech-driving will deliver us from crashes, congestion and carbon emissions. Today the panacea is autonomous vehicles, but this vision is the latest in a long history of illusory futuramas that the auto industry has invented to get mo... Read more

COP 26

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Climate change is accelerating, relentlessly, making human life much less comfortable and indeed, say the climate scientists, threatening to produce the 6th Great Extinction including all the higher apes. As Joe Biden and others said in advance, the 26th annual Conference o... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 22, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Sharon Grant hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: COP 26: Climate change is accelerating, relentlessly, making human life much less comfortable and indeed, say the climate scientists, threatening to produce the 6th Great Extinction ... Read more

Environmental Justice for Cully Neighborhood

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Cully neighborhood in NE Portland is one of Portland’s most racially diverse neighborhoods, with many children and families, and it’s a haven for urban farmers. But it is also home for some of Portland’s most polluting industries. Recently the Owens-Brockway glass recyc... Read more

The Dems and Democratic Reform

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Luke Savage discuss what’s happened to the Democratic Party after Biden defeated Trump by the slimmest of margins and the Democrats came to control the Congress. This raised great hopes on the left, especially when Biden proposed several trillion dollar pla... Read more

The Great Lie

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
U.S. Investor Owned Utilities including PGE and Pacific Power were informed by their researchers and independent scientists as early as 1968 that burning fossil fuels could generate global warming disaster. The Utilities cooperated with their fossil fuel industry partners t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 8, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Mole, which includes the following segments: The Great Lie: U.S. Investor Owned Utilities including PGE and Pacific Power were informed by their researchers and independent scientists as early as 1968 that burning fossil fuels could gen... Read more

COP26-Watch

Airs at: Wed, 11/03/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Today's guest is long-time climate activist and writer Patrick Mazza. Patrick was a member of the Delta 5, which conducted an oil train tripod blockade at BNSF Everett Delta Yard in 2014, and was able to argue the first climate civil disobedience necessity defense in ... Read more

Power

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on September 20, 2021 Pollution, overconsumption, resource depletion, habitat destruction, overpopulation have all led to our current climate crisis. And power is at the core of the problems confronting humanity. How have human beings—one s... Read more

Local and Global Stakes in the Vancouver Port Commissioner Election

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers talks with Cager Clabaugh, President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 4 in Vancouver, WASHINGTON, about the local and global stakes in the Vancouver Port Commissioner race, where the incumbent, Eric LaBrant, who has a long-time reco... Read more