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GARDEN OF WONDERS

Airs at: Mon, 08/30/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As students return to school this fall in Portland, many of them will also be returning to harvest vegetables from gardens they planted last spring. School gardens are becoming a feature of a growing number of schools in the Portland area. . . and around the country. In... Read more

Anti LNG Pipeline Activists Across Oregon

Airs at: Wed, 08/18/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Currently, there are two proposed Liquefied Natural Gas pipelines, both of which  would run from Astoria through farmlands of Western Oregon east through the Mount Hood national Forest to connect with an existing pipeline that runs from Canada to California.  Tonight on Cir... Read more

PDX 2 Gulf Coast

Airs at: Wed, 08/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Evan Tenenbaum spoke with Mike Rosen from the group PDX 2 GULF COAST. Listen to the full interview here. Read more

The Floods in Pakistan.

Airs at: Tue, 08/24/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Frann Michel surveys the news, blogs and scientific agencies to make sense of the unusual floods that have been happening in Pakistan. She makes the case for understanding these natural disasters as social phenomena. Read more

Organic Agriculture Can Feed The World

Airs at: Mon, 08/23/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill interviews Catherine Badgley about her research into the comparative outputs of organic and conventional agriculture. In an article she wrote with seven other colleagues, "Organic Agriculture and the Global Food Supply," she makes the case for organic agriculture feedi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 23rd

Airs at: Mon, 08/23/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today's show, hosted by Denise Morris on the left, is about organic agriculture, the social conditions of otherwise natural disasters, plus reviews of Pat Barker's WWI-novel "Ghost Road" and the buddy-cop film "The Other Guys." Below are links to the individual segments: 1.... Read more

flooding in Pakistan

For the Old Mole Variety Hour August 23, 2010. The well-read red has been reading about the floods in Pakistan, which UN officials have called the worst disaster in decades. But as is usual these days, this purportedly natural disaster has some very human causes, and the p... Read more

Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World

Airs at: Wed, 08/18/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Stan Cox, Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer). In his enlightening study, Cox looks at the consequences of air-conditioning on our environment and on our ... Read more

August 16 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker hosts this program dealing with the fight to protect net neutrality from the big media corporations; understanding personal traumas in the context of the politics of terror; the fake crisis in Social Security; Native American thinking about sustainability; and t... Read more

Native Perspectives on Sustainability

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Dave Hall, environmental activist and PSU teacher, talks with Jan Haaken about his project,  Native Perspectives on Sustainability.  His earlier interview on this topic is here.  Dave and Jan discuss how indigenous leaders understand the concepts and practices that can kee... Read more