Environment/Climate

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Old Mole Variety Hour for September 22, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
As "world leaders" meet at the UN to discuss climate change and 400 thousand march for action in New York and here in Portland, today's Old Mole, hosted by Tom Becker, discuss the prospects for change the leaders ignore: action from the grass roots.  Here are links to the s... Read more

A People's Movement Assembly in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Inspired by the World Social Forum in Port Alegre, Brazil in 2005, community organizing movements have formed around the world and throughout the US.  One of them is the Pacific Nortwest Social Forum which will be holding a People's Movement Assembly here in Portland this w... Read more

Climate and the Logic of Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Some liberal economists have suggested that stopping climate change is an easy fix: it would be good for the economy, and we have the technology.  But that ignores the political question of who controls the policy making institutions, as Rob Urie argues in this article from... Read more

Report from Flood Wall Street

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sunday's big Climate Change March was followed up on Monday with a more militant action, Flood Wall Street at which a hundred arrests were made.  In this Old Mole exclusive, Jan Haaken talks in real time with Diana Rempe, a Portland community psychologist, as she walks in t... Read more

Climate Change and the United Nations

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What are governments doing, and not doing, about climate change, and what can we expect from the UN Summit Conference on Climate Change this week?  Janet Redman, who studies and writes about climate policy at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks with the Old Mole's Bill ... Read more

Paul Evans Interview

Airs at: Sun, 09/21/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Paul Evans is a Working Families and Democratic candidate. He is running for Oregon State Representative in District 20. He talks with Don Merrill about how as a candidate for both parties he has to sometimes walk the line between ideologies, the need to return the police... Read more

William Dalton Interview

Airs at: Wed, 09/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
William Dalton is a Democrat and Working Party candidate for Oregon House District 19. He talked with Don Merrill about his passion for providing mental health services and how those skills will translate if he becomes a legislator, why he won his last shot at the legislat... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 15

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and Pat O'Herron discuss the relationship between climate change and public health. Frann Michel reads a Well-read Red commentary on "culinary capitalism". Larry Bowlden reviews Sarah Paretsky's 'Bleeding ... Read more

Pat O'Herron on Climate Change and Public Health

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Pat O'Herron about climate change and public health. They consider how changing weather patterns, rising oceans, acidification and desertification, as well as pollution, change the conditions for illness and death. They address collapse in both "the ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 8, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/08/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this edition of the Old Mole with a focus on the aftermath of the police killing of  Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.  Also on the show are pieces on agriculture and climate change and liberation from working on the clock.  It's all held together with Iv... Read more