Environment/Climate

Climate Action Festival this Saturday

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Two organizers of the upcoming Climate Action Festival, Tamara Staton and Barbara Ford, talk with Old Mole Bill Resnick about the family-friendly festival coming to the Portland Colliseum this Saturday, September 24. For details, check out Moving Planet Portland's F... Read more

Local Power

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

How can we break down the monopoly power of big energy companies and encourage the development of locally produced wind and sun electical power? Bill Resnick continues his discussion, begun last week, with energy expert John Farrell. Read more

World Population Hits 7 Billion - A Conversation with William Ryerson

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

The United Nations is predicting that world population will reach 7 billion on October 31, 2011. Despite evidence that adding 225,000 more people every day to our population is stressing out the world—evinced by soaring food and gas prices and water shortages—the envi... Read more

Ben Ross, co-author of THE POLLUTERS, on the chemical industry's impacts on health and environment

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

Roberta Hall of Health and Health Care Forum hosts a conversation with Ben Ross, co-author of "The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment", which examines the history of the chemical industry's impacts on health and the environment. Benjamin Ross a... Read more

Positively Revolting on 09/16/11

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

With so many urgent situations, what's your priority for the US? Avoid letting fear be your guide. As a nation we are ignoring the very real threats of climate change, a collapsing economy & humanitarian / basic support programs, and never ending wars at home and abro... Read more

Backbone Campaign: Organize to oppose tar sands pipeline

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg speaks with Bill Moyer and Jay Marx of the Backbone Campaign about their organizing efforts to oppose the tar sands pipeline from Alberta Canada to the Gulf Coast. Read more

Fukushima--what are we all breathing now? And 9/11--what really happened?

Airs at: Thu, 09/08/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

September 8, 2011 Presswatch: Theresa Mitchell with the news you're not supposed to know. Heated oceans -- largest migration of marine species in 2 million years. Update on the atmospheric radiactive strontium and cesium from Fukushima. Reflections on 9/11 and what rea... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 12th

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick speaks with John Farrell about decentralized energy production. Clayton Morgareidge reads Doug Hendwood's essay "Headless Chickens" Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review "On The Waterfront". ... Read more

Democratic Energy Production

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick and John Farrell talk about the importance of decentralization to realizing the potential and sustainability of alternative energy sources like wind and solar. Read more

An American in Japan: Current conditions in Fukushima

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Steven Thompson, an American living in Japan, who is working on issues related to the radiation coming from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant. Thompson recently visited the area surrounding Fukushima. He will talk about current conditi... Read more