Environment/Climate

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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 fe... 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:... 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 ... 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 o... 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; an... 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 ... Read more

Hatchery Fish Threatening Endangered Salmon

Airs at: Wed, 08/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Federal scientists recently released a report indicating that hatchery fish are threatening endangered salmon in the Columbia River Basin.  KBOO environmental reporter Jacob Anderson-Minshall talks to the State of the Salmon director about the new findings and what they ... Read more

Sierra Club Sues the EPA

Airs at: Tue, 08/10/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's environmental reporter talks to a Sierra Club attorney about why the organization is suing the EPA. Although the Sierra Club joined forest and paper industry groups in filing suit over the "tailoring rule" the environmental organization isn't siding with industry.... Read more