Environment/Climate

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Better Living Home Garden and Lifestyle Show March 22 - 24, 2013

Better Living Home Garden & Lifestyle Show                                                           Compare, shop, try and buy - sustainable products for your home and garden, eco-chic fashion, electric vehicles, and cutting-edge green technologies. Get tips from experts,... Read more

Political Perspectives on 04/12/13

Airs at: Fri, 04/12/2013 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with Matt Briggs, director of "Deep Green: Solutions to Stop Global Warming Now,”  a good roadmap of the best world-wide solutions of what one person or one city can do to lower their carbon footprint to Net Zero and restore the Natur... Read more

World Pulse

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Bread and Roses
Rachael Maddock-Hughes, Program Director for World Pulsel talks about the impact of this local non-profit on women of the world and shares volunteer opportunities.World Pulse is an action media network powered by women from 190 countries. We believe that when women are hear... Read more

St. John's Residents try to save Sequoia Tree

Airs at: Thu, 02/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
Three local women have taken a stand to protect an old Sequoia tree in Pier Park in St. John’s. Today, they stood in the way of chainsaws despite being threatened with arrest. They are calling for people to come to Pier Park again tomorrow to help support this action. KBOO’... Read more

Arun Gandhi Interview

Airs at: Sun, 03/03/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi.  Since coming to the US in the 80s, Arun has been working to fulfil the legacy of his iconic grandfather.  And whether it's helping people overcome violence against each other or violence against the Earth, he ha... Read more

Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker reads from an article on Truth Dig by Chris Hedges, "The Myth of Human Progress". Hedges predicts massive starvation and misery await us this century if we do not stop climate change, and isolates a certain myth of progress that stymies that action. Read more

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Airs at: Mon, 02/11/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Mary Liz Thomson, the director of Who Bombed Judi Bari?. Judi Bari was an environmental activist, labor organizer and feminist who helped to bridge crucial gaps between how timber workers and radical environmentalists understood each other. She also he... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 11th 2013

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick complete his conversation with Larry Kleinman about immigration reform. Jan Haaken talks with Mary-Liz Thomson, the director of "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" Joe Clement talks with Kristian Williams about community alt... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 28, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode featuring the music of the late Portland bluesman Paul deLay and segments on possibilites for local and democratic control of sustainable energy sources, the mistake of valuing economic "growth," the role of entrapment in the government's war ... Read more

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