Environment/Climate

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Working in the Environmental Movement

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Part 5 of the Old Mole's two-hour special on climate change features labor historian and political activist Norm Diamond in a round table discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. They focus on how those whose political vision radical social change can best work within e... Read more

Labor Environmentalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part 4 of the Old Mole's special two-hour program on climate change, host Iven Hale talks with labor historian and long-time Portland writer, activist, and Old Mole contributor Norm Diamond about work that Norm did to develop the field of labor environmentalism at a time... Read more

Local Energy for Democracy

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part 3 of the Old Mole's two-hour special program on climate change, we turn to who will own and control the new forms of carbon-free energy. John Farrell is the Directory of Democratic Energy at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and has written widely on how indiv... Read more

Eliminating Fossil Fuels

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part Two of the Old Mole two-hour special on climate change, Mark Jacobson discusses fast-track models for converting energy production to non-fossil fuels within 15-30 years. Jacobson teaches civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and has collaborat... Read more

Climate Report: Hot!

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part One of the Old Mole two-hour special on confronting climate change, Bill Resnick talks with Mark Hertsgaard about the latest scientific findings about how and why the climate is changing and what the consequences will likely be. Hertsgaard is a journalist who has b... Read more

Indigenous People's Day

Best wishes on Indigenous People's Day. Well, that's one name for it. The US Federal government still recognizes it as Columbus Day, as does Google's Holiday calendar, and the State of Oregon ignores the whole question. But the old history that proposes that Columbus "... Read more

Catastrophic Climate Breakdown

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is quite conservative and yet carries the shattering message that "it's as bad as we thought." So says UK journalist George Monbiot in an article in The Guardian, read here by Old Mole Tom Becker. Read more

Bill McKibben Interview

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Journalist, activist and environmentalist Bill McKibben has been writing and warning about the effects of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere for more than a decade.  In this interview with Don Merrill, he talks about the Draw the Line campaign, his love for public radio, ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 26 August 2013

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which addresses popular deceptions and misconceptions about Social Security, money in politics, safety and policing, and climate change.Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman about Social SecurityClayton Morgareidge reads from an... Read more

Terracide

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Terracide: the knowing destruction of the planet earth in the pursuit of profit. Tom Becker reads from Tom Engelhardt's essay on the fossil fuel industry as the biggest criminal enterprise in history. Read more