Ols Mole Variety Hour April 4th, 2016

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KBOO

Program::

Old Mole Variety Hour

Air date:

Mon, 04/04/2016 - 9:00am to 10:00am

Climate Change, Environmental Movement, Climate justice, Distributed Energy

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes

Bill Resnick interviews Joseph Goodman of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Goodman works in "distributed energy," in which cities combine small solar panel and small wind turbine installations (on homes, schools, offices, right of ways, and more) with smallish utility scale plants to meet the city's energy needs. This array would replace corporate big plant big grid big cost systems as favored by the Investor Owned Utilities. Even if the IOUs decided to go to all sun and wind, distributed energy systems would be far cheaper, more reliable, quicker to install, easy to repair, reduce greenhouse gases faster, and create more jobs than the IOU system. The IOUs like PGE and Pacific Power are doing all they can to stop distributed energy. Bill and Joseph Goodman discuss distributed energy and how it could come to Portland.
Laurie Mercier talks with Cindy Wiesner, National Coordinator of Grassroots Global Justice http://ggjalliance.org/ about GGJA and its work, the Our Power campaign, and in particular linking climate justice organizing with other movements, and why this is important. Wiesner will speak in Vancouver (WA) on Friday April 8^th, at Washington State University Vancouver Center for Social & Environmental Justice’s conference, “Environmental and Climate Justice Practices.” Wiesner’s presentation, “Frontline Communities at COP21 and Beyond,” at 2:30 p.m., is free and open to the public. http://events.vancouver.wsu.edu/environmental-and-climate-justice-practices
Desiree Hellegers interviews sociologist Rik Scarce, author of the landmark study "Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement" about the history and future of radical environmental organizing, and about his new book on "Creating Sustainable Communities: Lessons from the Hudson River Region. Scarce is speaking on "Trajectories of Injustice: Three Decades of Radicalism Environmentalism," on April 8, at WSU Vancouver.