Environment/Climate

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Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Joe Clement hosts this last show closing out 2012.  We hear an upbeat assessment of socialism's unheralded (by the left)  successes over the long haul; a review of the great short story writer Alice Munro's latest collection; and a discussion of two movies about fracking, ... Read more

Movie Moles: "Promised Land" and "Gasland"

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement discuss two movies about fracking.  One is the new Gus Van Sant film starring Matt Damon "Promised Land."  The other is a documentary Gasland by Josh Fox. You can watch "Gasland" on line.    Read more

"Idle No More" evening news story Part I

Airs at: Thu, 12/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 The “Idle No More” movement for Indigenous rights, sovereignty and environmental justice that has swept across Canada over the past month is taking root in Oregon and Washington as well.   Well over a hundred people participated in a flashmob at Portland’s ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 24th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
           Tom Becker hosts today's Christmas Eve episode. We hear about the Chinese labor movement, the hypocrisy of Obama's mourning at Newtown, the Portland Solidarity Network, and the limits of consumer culture.   Bill Resnick interviews Eli Friedman about the Chin... Read more

Well-read Red: pathological consumption

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads George Monbiot's essay, republished on Alternet, about the insanity of waste hidden in consumerism and the political barriers to questioning it. Monbiot considers how so many trinkets, disposable goods, planned and perceived obsolesence, are forced upon us ... Read more

Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 Rebroadcast of program originally aired on 3/7/2011 Until World War II, Odessa was one of Europe's great multicultural cities, a place of optimism and light. For nearly a century its colorful street life inspired poets and writers like Alexander Pushkin, Mark Twain and Isaa... Read more

Hypnophobia

  ---> 2nd and 4th Friday nights/Saturday Mornings from Midnight to 3am. Hypnophobia The Hypnophobia collective presents our dear listeners with a variety of noises including: debate, Japanese d-beat, sound collages, hard core, cascadian metal, and whatever else our tiny... Read more

You don't have to be a beekeeper to help honey bees.

Hope you had a chance to listen to the 12/12/12 Dirtbag show--it was the first annual beekeeping edition. Portland author Rosanna Mattingly was one of the guests. She talked about her new book, Honey-Maker: How the Honey Bee Worker Does What She Does. In the book she sugges... Read more

Anti Coal Export Movement Heats Up in the Pacific Northwest

Airs at: Thu, 12/13/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
UN Climate talks in Doha, Quatar ended in Failure this last week. But the bad news didn’t stop local activists. The battle to stop coal exports thru the Pacific Northwest is going strong, gaining strength with each hearing! Join host Linda Olson-Osterlund this for A Deep... Read more

Not much gardening this month, so this month's Dirtbag is the first annual beekeeping edition.

Airs at: Wed, 12/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
You've got to admit that there is not much going on in the garden this month -- which makes it a perfect time to make December's Dirtbag a beekeeping edition! Host Glen Andresen welcomes four guests (Jim is off this month so he can meet with the governor) for the full hour ... Read more