Environment/Climate

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A New Path to Dam Removal

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
For decades tribal nations and salmon advocates have been working every avenue to take down the four dams on the Lower Snake River. These dams provide a modicum of electricity, negligible passage for shipping and some irrigation water for farmers. But mostly they kill salmo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 13, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Juneteenth: Sarah Chivers speaks with Karen Morrison, a Black leader and educator in Vancouver with the non-profit "Odyssey World International Education Services." She is coord... Read more

Conflict, Democracy and Global Warming, Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
The dangers of human extinction have greatly increased over the last year. For one the Ukrainian struggle has intensified, with both sides threatening to use “battlefield” nukes. Second tensions between the U.S. and China have intensified with China militantly insisting on ... Read more

Columbia Riverkeeper Begins a New Chapter

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
For over twenty years Columbia Riverkeeper has been a major voice in protecting the mighty Columbia River. In that time Riverkeeper has worked on many fronts to enforce environmental laws to stop illegal pollution, protect salmon habitat, and challenge harmful fossil fuel t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 6, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts today's episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Germany, Energy and Democracy: Europe, especially Germany, depends on Russia for its natural gas and oil for electric power, heating and cooling, and transport. With Russia's invasi... Read more

Conflict, Democracy and Global Warming, Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Germany, Energy Transition and Democracy: Europe, especially Germany, depends on Russia for its natural gas and oil for electric power, heating and cooling, and transport. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Germany, Europe’s wealthiest country and political leader, has comm... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 30, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Girl of Venezuela: Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Can humanity survive climate change? In his profoundly important essay “World War II Lessons for a Green New Deal,”  Martin Ha... Read more

Can humanity survive climate change?

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
In his profoundly important essay “World War II Lessons for a Green New Deal,”  Martin Hart-Landsberg shows the way. In rich detail he describes the planning and politics of transformation, when the Roosevelt Administration took control of the U.S. state and from 1941 to 19... Read more

A Nuclear Comeback?

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
After the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in 1979, it looked like the nuclear industry’s halcyon days were over. The Chernobyl and Fukishima disasters drove home even more starkly just how dangerous nuclear power is. But in recent years there has been a gr... Read more

Buscando America on 05/24/22

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2022 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
Desde Alemania, vía Radio Amilcingo, escucha una conversación sobre el proyecto Unser Aller Wald, un lugar muy especial que se levantó entre los árboles de un bosque nativo para protegerlo de la mina a cielo abierto Garzweiler que busca talar el bosque para extraer carbón. ... Read more