Environment/Climate

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 19, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 10/19/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken hosts this episode of the Old Mole, with music by Woody Guthrie and local Portland groups. Follow the links below for individual segments and more information, or click on the play button to hear the whole show. Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Sen... Read more

Columbia Riverkeeper: Saving the NW and Planet

Airs at: Mon, 10/19/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Desiree Hellegers talks with Dan Serres of Columbia Riverkeeper about the fossil fuel struggle. They discuss the disastrous effects of the planned Liquified Natural Gas Export Terminals and the need to stand up to the oil companies. They mention the successful citizen ... Read more

Robin Hahnel on the Next System

Airs at: Mon, 10/19/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Robin Hahnel, who teaches (an emeritus of American U now at PSU), writes, speaks, and is deeply engaged in grass roots struggles towards building that other possible necessary world, that democratic and sustainable alternative. His books include ... Read more

Laurie Dameron on “What Can I Do?” Spaceship Earth

Airs at: Wed, 09/30/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

We speak with musician Laurie Dameron about her Multimedia Environmental Concerts tour, which includes an October 4th presentation at Mississippi Pizza in Portland. Laurie's presentation, “What Can I Do?” Spaceship Earth features the photography of John Fielder, Karl Sny... Read more

Indigenous struggle on the Columbia (N'chee-wana) River

Airs at: Wed, 10/14/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Host Paul Roland interviews longtime Native treaty/cultural rights and economic development activist Wilbur Slockish, Jr. Slockish was imprisoned for three years for selling fish from his ancestral river in the infamous "Salmon Scam" undercover operation in the 1980's.... Read more

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 othe... 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 deve... 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 catastroph... 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 i... 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 Chi... Read more