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Winds of Change in Appalachia

Airs at: Mon, 03/01/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
When you think of West Virginia you probably think of coal. But as the coal industry dies a slow death Appalachia is now pulled in two different directions. On the one hand natural gas fracking now dominates the Ohio River Valley and countless miles of gas pipelines spread ... Read more

Texas arrogance meets the polar vortex, with disastrous results

Airs at: Wed, 02/24/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
  Today's guest, Mitch Jones, mjones@fwwatch.org, is policy director of Food & Water Watch, which recently released a statement on the Texas power debacle: “The climate change-supercharged deep freeze covering Texas has left millions without power and water. The failure of... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 22, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris Hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes   Motherhood, Work and the Pandemic: Bill Resnick talks with Ursula Ursula McTaggart, teacher of English at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. Ursula McTaggart’s newest book is Guerrillas in the Indu... Read more

Covid, Climate and Children

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
After a week of snow and ice, massive power outages and Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, how do we move ahead to implement the progressive agenda so many of us are craving? While we wait to see—and how to influence—what comes from Washington, DC, there is a lot to a... Read more

Fossil Free Energy Coalition Urges Eugene City Council to Divest from Fracked Gas Reliance

Airs at: Thu, 02/11/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for News In Depth, Evening News
  In 2014, the city of Eugene, Oregon passed a resolution with the primary goals of reducing fossil fuel consumption and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. More than six years later, the city has been unable to meet those goals, and grassroots organizers in Eugene have co... Read more

Is it a New Day in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Now that Joe Biden is president and democrats narrowly control the Senate and the House is it a new day for America, and for Portland? On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk with Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, now the longest serving commissioner, besides Mayor Ted... Read more

Community Energy

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Al Weinrub, the Coordinator of the California Alliance for Community Energy. The CACE’s ambitious goal is no less than demonstrating to this country and the world how to stop global warming by reconstructing the energy system, by building out networks ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 8, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts today’s show, which includes the following segments: Another World is Possible: On our regular segment, Another World Is Possible, Luisa Martinez and Norm Diamond discuss Che Guevara’s Socialism and Man In Cuba. As an essay Che wrote in the 1960s, does... Read more

Jordan Cove LNG After 16 Years

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
For over sixteen years the threat of a massive LNG export terminal at Coos Bay, fed by a 230 mile 36” wide gas pipeline snaking across five counties, loomed over Southern Oregon. Then on January 19, this project received its quite likely death blow, when the Federal Energy ... Read more

Clean Energy and Beyond

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews newly elected Representative Khanh Pham (Oregon Assembly District 46). She’s been an activist leader of the Oregon Just Transition Alliance, that developed its proposal Oregon Needs a Green New Deal, and convened the Oregon Clean Energy Opportunity C... Read more