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Volcanos, Air Travel, and Climate

Airs at: Mon, 05/03/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Frann Michel, The Well-read Red, explores some surprising connections among volcanic eruptions, air travel, climate change, and the capitalist mode of production.  You can read her remarks by clicking here.   Read more

Getting to a Green Economy

Airs at: Mon, 05/03/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Coal, oil, and nuclear power can be things of the past.  Bill Resnick talks with Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (2007), which is the first analy... Read more

DOES PORTLAND HAVE A FOOD CZAR? (and why we need one)

Airs at: Mon, 05/03/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Portland is the only city in America that has a Food Policy and Programs Office. And while many communities are starting to talk about creating Food Policy Councils, Multnomah County and Portland have had such a council for years. So why is there so much interest in ... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 04/29/10

Airs at: Thu, 04/29/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Clergy Abuse: Can we hold the abusers accountable and heal the community?   Revelations earlier this month implicating Pope Benedict XVI in cover-ups of clergy abuse in Europe are just the latest developments in an issue that is rocking religious institutions to their f... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 04/29/10

Clergy Abuse: Can we hold the abusers accountable and heal the community?   Revelations earlier this month implicating Pope Benedict XVI in cover-ups of clergy abuse in Europe are just the latest developments in an issue that is rocking religious institutions to their fou... Read more

Corporate Climate Killers

Airs at: Thu, 04/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with "news you're not supposed to know." This week the topic is the climate: " The mean concentration of approximately CO2 was at 316 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in 1958, and rose to approximately 369 ppmv in 1998. (Climate Ark)" The Administration, ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 26, 2010

Airs at: Mon, 04/26/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Hosted by Bill Resnick, this program deals with crime in the suites that goes unpunished and crime in the streets that is punished if committed while being black.  We hear from a former federal finance regulator about the snowballing malfeasance in the finance industry; a... Read more

Book Mole: "Solar"

Airs at: Mon, 04/26/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Novelist Ian McEwan is able "to display clearly how brilliant accomplishment in one area of a life can be, and very often is, combined with absurd ineptness (or worse) in other areas."  Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden discusses McEwan's new novel Solar about a man whose person... Read more

Food and Climate Change: Step Up to the Plate, Part 2

Airs at: Thu, 04/22/2010 at 12:00am
  A climate discussion in regards to food with author Anna Lappe, IACP President Scott Givot, Chris Schreiner from Oregon Tilth, the Oregon Environmental Council's Allison Hensey, CleanMetrics President Kumar Venkat, and moderator Steve Cohen from Portland's Bureau of Plann... Read more

Food and Climate Change: Step Up to the Plate, Part 1

Airs at: Thu, 04/22/2010 at 12:00am
A climate discussion in regards to food with author Anna Lappe, IACP President Scott Givot, Chris Schreiner from Oregon Tilth, the Oregon Environmental Council's Allison Hensey, CleanMetrics President Kumar Venkat, and moderator Steve Cohen from Portland's Bureau of Plannin... Read more