Environment/Climate

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The Northwest’s Looming Biomass Threat

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Woody biomass has become the fossil-fuel industry’s renewable, green savior but this source of energy is fraught with problems. British energy giant Drax has proposed building a wood biomass processing and export facility in Longview, Washington, that would use one million ... Read more

Keeping It Real, with Lisa Loving on 12/28/23

Airs at: Thu, 12/28/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Lisa's guests are Malcolm and Mirabai Hoover from Black Futures Farm. Their mission is to heal the connection between Black people and the land by cultivating a healthy place for the Black community to gather in joy. Find out more about them online here. Read more

PDX Progressive Talk Radio - December 2023

Airs at: Wed, 12/27/2023 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
This month I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing the Democratic Party of Clackamas County(DPCC) Chair, Cris Waller. We had a lot of fun and I really enjoyed our discussion. Below is her bio and I've added some images for you to aww over too :) We talked about All thi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 1, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 01/01/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this New Year’s episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Just, Orderly and Equitable: The United Nations agency, the UNFCCC  (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change( has been charged with developing a plan to stop r... Read more

Just, Orderly and Equitable

Airs at: Mon, 01/01/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The United Nations agency, the UNFCCC  (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change( has been charged with developing a plan to stop runaway global heating and also getting all the 208 so nations on earth to get committed to the plan. No other organization can pos... Read more

Movie Moles: How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The film How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022, by Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer, Jordan Sjol, Daniel Garber) is loosely inspired by Andreas Malm's 2021 book of the same title. The book is not an instruction manual, and does not actually call for blowing up pipelines, but doe... Read more

Interview with Northwest VEG

Airs at: Fri, 12/22/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  That Vegan Show
  End the year right by listening to "That Vegan Show" as we learn about the influence NW Veg has had on the Portland Community for the last 20 years! Board President, Keith Iding, and former President, Peter Spendelow, join me to tell us all about NW Veg's work following ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 25, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and includes these segments:   Campus Free Speech Controversies On December 5th a US Congressional committee grilled three prominent university presidents—Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania (who has since resigned)... Read more

Salmonlands

Airs at: Mon, 01/01/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on September 4, 2023 Without the Salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it. Yet since 1991, most of the salmon runs in the Northwest have been listed as threatened or endangered. In 2005, I produced a documentary called Salmo... Read more

Forests Over Profits

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This past September the World Forestry Center sponsored an annual conference called “Who Will Own the Forests,” attended by the most notorious representatives in the Wall Street timber industry. There they schemed on perfecting the financialization of forest ecosystems, exp... Read more