Environment/Climate

Old Mole Variety Hour November 26, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about Wal-Mart and the workers organizing against it on Black Friday. Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips talking & singing about blaming & dumping the bosses. The movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel disc... Read more

World Bank Warns Globe Could be Cooked by 2060: Where’s the News?

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker reads from Dave Lindorff's analysis of the World Bank's recent report on the likelihood of catastrophic global warming, and of the failures of the mainstream press to report on it except in the business section Read more

Idaho group appeals Forest Service decision to allow exploratory drilling for gold

Airs at: Tue, 11/20/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Normal 0 On Friday, the Idaho Conservation League appealed a Forest Service decision approving exploratory drilling by the Vancouver, B-C-based Midas Gold Corporation in central western Idaho. KBOO’s Paul Roland has more. Read more

Terry Tempest Williams on her book "When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice"

Airs at: Wed, 11/07/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Unedited and uninterrupted version of host Kathleen Stephenson speaking with Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist, author and fierce advocate for freedom of speech. Terry Tempest Williams shows us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matter... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 5th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this pre-election day Old Mole. We hear: Bill resnick talk with Kathleen Tierney about social inequalities and natural disaster. Alan Wieder Reviews "Howard Zinn: a life on the left" Bill, Alan and Frann Michel have a roundtable on elect... Read more

Social Inequality and Natural Disasters

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Kathleen Tierney of the University of Colorado at Boulder's Natural Hazard's Center. They discuss how inequalities become apparent under conditions of natural disaster. The interview is cut short and Bill wraps up the last couple minutes. Read more

Movie Moles review Maquilapolis

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary Maquilapolis (2006), its collaborative production and innovative style, and its presentation of the struggles and modest triumphs of Tijuana factory workers and community environmental activists in the years since NA... Read more

The effects of fluoridating chemicals on the environment and especially on salmon.

Airs at: Tue, 10/09/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Special Programming: Public Affairs

Normal 0 On September 12th Portland city council voted 5-0 to add fluoridating chemicals to our Bull Run water. This is a highly contentious issue that Portland citizens have already rejected three times at the polls and a recent survey shows ¾ of Portlanders opposed... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 24 September 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode and reads a selection from the work of Chris Hedges about the implications of environmental and economic collapse. Bill Resnick talks with Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau of Why Hunger? about how neoliberalism contributes to hunger and organic ag... Read more