Environment/Climate

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Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker reads from an article on Truth Dig by Chris Hedges, "The Myth of Human Progress". Hedges predicts massive starvation and misery await us this century if we do not stop climate change, and isolates a certain myth of progress that stymies that action. Read more

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Airs at: Mon, 02/11/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Mary Liz Thomson, the director of Who Bombed Judi Bari?. Judi Bari was an environmental activist, labor organizer and feminist who helped to bridge crucial gaps between how timber workers and radical environmentalists understood each other. She also he... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 11th 2013

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick complete his conversation with Larry Kleinman about immigration reform. Jan Haaken talks with Mary-Liz Thomson, the director of "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" Joe Clement talks with Kristian Williams about community alt... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 28, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode featuring the music of the late Portland bluesman Paul deLay and segments on possibilites for local and democratic control of sustainable energy sources, the mistake of valuing economic "growth," the role of entrapment in the government's war ... Read more

Well-Read Red: What's Wrong with America?

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from Dave Lindorff's article "What's wrong with America?: The real enemy is growth." Read more

John Farrell on Local Energy Self Reliance with Bill Resnick

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with John Farrell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance about local control of energy, the value of democratic control and participatory society, and how the economics of energy has changed in recent years to make this more feasible as well, especially... Read more

Portland Premire of the film WHO BOMBED JUDI BARI? Feb 13, 7pm and 9:15pm

KBOO is a proud sponsor of the Portland premire of Who Bombed Judi Bari When:     Feb. 13, 2013 Where:     Clinton Street Theatre, 2522 SE Clinton, Portland For More Information:     whobombedjudibari.com         Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole Variety Hour.  Topics include  How Obama fails to realize MLK's vision; “Django Unchained,” the new Quentin Tarantino movie set in the south before the civil war;   Gun violence and the gun control deba... Read more

What Would a Sustainable Economy Look Like?

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
It is clear that human activity is gradually destroying our planet and that ever rising standards of living in the industrialized and industrializing nations is not sustainable.  But what would a sustainable economy look like?  Tom Becker reads from David Korten's piece "Wh... Read more

Digital Divide: Wade Davis, Juliane Assange Update, Ram Dass

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said his work "will not be cowed," as he promised the whistle-blowing site would release a million more documents.               In a speech from a balcony at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, he said the files to be published in 2013 would ... Read more