Environment/Climate

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Movie Moles: "Burning Our Future-Coal in America"

Airs at: Sun, 08/09/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Movie Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris discuss the documentary Burning Our Future: Coal in America, a film about fighting mountain-top removal mining in West Virginia.  It will be out soon on DVD from Iron Weed Films.  For more on these horrendous mining operations, go... Read more

Battle for Seattle Ten Years On

Airs at: Sun, 08/09/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Ten years after the Seattle anti-WTO protests, actions are being planned for this November and December.  Tom Becker reads David Korten's piece from Yes Magazine about the need for ongoing protests against Wall Street's strangle-hold on the Earth.  For more information on ... Read more

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  Every Wednesday from 8:00 am - 9:00 am News & commentary on local, national and international issues - we invite your calls at 503-231-8187 Read more

Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Food

Airs at: Tue, 08/04/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 On Wednesday Morning Talk Radio, Marianne Barisonek hosts, with guests Lisa Weasel, author of the book Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Food and Rick North of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Read more

Who puts the "Bull" into "Bull Run"?!?

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2009 at 5:00pm
 Hosted by: Abe Proctor and Joe Uris, but Joe is still on Vacation   Abe looks at the conundrum shared by the Portland Water Bureau and that segment of the populace which ingests water. Also, wingnut mobs descend upon town hall meetings across the land, intent on stopping t... Read more

Renewable Energy Solutions: Compressed Air Power

Airs at: Tue, 07/28/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Compressed Air Storage:  The Solution to Unreliable Wind and Solar Energy. Host Stephanie Potter speaks with Michael Tobin and Dr. James Mason who discuss solving the problem of wind and solar electricity prodution.   James  Mason has also co-authored an article for Scie... Read more

The July 27 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Sun, 07/26/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This edition of the Old Mole is hosted by Tom Becker (pictured here), and its topics include the global politics of climate change, the history and role of Bitch Magazine, the right to be irate when being arrested, healthcare workers' fight for their own union, and a set of... Read more

Getting Beyond Kyoto: Global Politics & Climate

Airs at: Sun, 07/26/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Oren Langelle,  co-director  of the Global Justice Ecology Project, attended an international conference in Bonn that is preparing for later meetings on a new, post-Kyoto, treaty on combatting climate change.  Unfortunately all the usual suspects were in charge.  Here  he ... Read more

Last Ditch Effort to Prevent Costly Chemical Filtration System -- Portland's Bull Run Water is Already Green and Clean!

Airs at: Tue, 07/21/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Portland's Bull Run Watershed is a natural, low cost and very effective water treatment system. So why are there there plans for a costly chemical filtration plant? How did the corporation Montgomery, Watson, Harza Global influence the decision process? How will it affect l... Read more

Portland's Green Infrastructure

Airs at: Tue, 07/21/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  Why preserving and building new green infrastructure is so important in making our city sustainable. Hosted by: Barbara Bernstein  What is Green Infrastructure? According to Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services it's: "interconnected natural systems and/ or enginee... Read more