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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: 1.... 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 p... 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 our ... 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; and t... 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 kee... 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 mea... 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.  I... Read more

THE BP OIL DISASTER: APPROACHING THE AFTERMATH

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Now that oil has more or less stopped hemorrhaging from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, the mainstream media is reporting on a government study that claims that 75% of the oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico is gone. Only, that's not what the report actually said, and... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 08/12/2010

Airs at: Fri, 08/13/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
This week Mayor Adams and other officials announced support for an "iconic" ten-lane bridge across the Columbia River. What does the community really need? Dave and JoAnne talked with members of the Third Bridge Now project about an alternative, they say relieves traffic con... Read more

Climate Crisis: Get mad, then get busy!

Airs at: Thu, 08/12/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Presswatch
 Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know."  Global warming remains controversial.   Why???  The planet is experiencing record heat.  Phytoplankton (a huge source of oxygen) reduced by 40% since 1950.  Australian scientists look at ten indicators showing ... Read more