Host Lisa Loving speaks with Sandra Steingraber, internationally recognized
authority on environmental links to cancer and reproductive health, about the
new edition of her contemporary classic, "Living Downstream: An Ecologist's
Personal Investigation of Cancer and the...
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Laurie Mercier speaks with Les Leopold, co-founder and director of The Labor
Institute, consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance, which brings together trade
unions and environmental organizations, and author most recently of the book
The Looting of America: How Wall Street's...
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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