Environment/Climate

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, especia... 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 de... 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 ... 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 wou... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 7, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier hosts this episode exploring education, environmental news, the monstrosity of capitalism, gun violence, and Idle No More. You can contact the moles at oldmolevarietyhour < at > gmail.com, follow us on Facebook, and find out more about the show on our main p... Read more

Idle No More: democratic resistance

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick interviews Jacob Devaney about Idle No More, started by four indigenous Canadian women in resistance to government and corporate attempts to take land and rights from first nations people to pursue tar sands exploitation and other planet-destroying project... Read more

Eco News of 2012

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier talks with Stefanie Penn Spear of the environmental news website Ecowatch.org about the big stories of the past year. These include increasing recognition of human-caused climate change, toxins in consumer products, the dangers of fracking (including min... Read more

HURRICANE SANDY, SEA LEVEL RISE AND THE WORLD WE NOW LIVE IN

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

The storm surge generated by Hurricane Sandy, flooding significant areas across Greater New York and New Jersey, demonstrated that the specter of climate change and the disasters it will wreak are now upon us. As the Northeast engages in a slow recovery from the storm's ... Read more