Environment/Climate

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The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 12, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 10/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
October 12 is Indigenous People's Day -- formerly known as "Columbus Day." The show, hosted this week by Tom Becker, features an interview about native Americans joining forces with white ranchers to deal with climate change issues that affect them all. We also hear other i... Read more

Native People and Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 10/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Zoltán Grossman, Professor of Geography and Native Studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, discusses some ongoing alliances between Native Americans and rural whites in organizing on behalf of the environment to halt mining companies, the XL pipeline, and develop... Read more

Welcome To the New Planet

Airs at: Mon, 10/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker reads from "Welcome to a New Planet: Climate Change ‘Tipping Points’ and the Fate of the Earth" by Michael T. Klare. Klare dismisses the belief that climate change will proceed in a slow, linear progression but rather is likely to proceed by sudden catastrophic ... Read more

Kansas Evironmentalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Bob Dixson, the mayor of Greensberg, Kansas,  a small, white, Republican-voting farming town.  After a tornado devastated 95% of the city, they decided to rebuild to be a carbon free city using only renewable energy -- a small wind farm that fed into... Read more

Exorcise Monsanto with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir

Airs at: Wed, 10/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Listen to the glorious birdsong of The Stop Shopping Choir. Join the citizen weed pulling brigade. Exorcise the devil Monsanto from Portland's public parks. Invite your friends to hear our sultry-singing-activists. Watch what happened when we exorcised Monsanto from Chicag... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 5, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show. It features up-to-date versions of old labor songs by Joe Uehlein and the U-Liners, which you can hear by listening to the whole show (use the play button below). Joe is also the first guest on the show, and he'll be singing and speaking about ... Read more

Labor and the Climate

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Uehlein talks with Bill Resnick about building a labor-environmental movement to curb global warming and save the planet. Uehlein's music is featured in the full length version of this episode of the Old Mole. He will be speaking and playing his music this Saturday, Oct... Read more

Aerial Spraying violations: Applebee Aviation license suspended

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Regulators from two state agencies have fined an aerial spraying company a total of almost ten thousand dollars. Applebee Aviation has been fined by the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration eighty eight hundred dollars and the state Department of Agriculture... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:  Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary ... Read more

Thirsty for Justice: The Struggle for the Human Right to Water

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Like the residents of Hood River County opposed to a planned Nestle water bottling plant in Cascade Locks, local activists in Mount Shasta, just south of the Oregon border, are trying to stop a Crystal Geyser bottling operation from opening in their community. A growing mov... Read more