Environment/Climate

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Chasing Chimeras

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on January 27, 2025 As we confront the existential crisis of climate chaos there are two paths we can take. We can make dramatic changes that meaningfully reduce carbon emissions. Or we can accept the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving cl... Read more

Hydrogen Hype

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on October 7, 2024 Unpredictable and destructive weather events dramatically illustrate how climate chaos is impacting us right now. Yet while there are real solutions that will enable us to stop emitting greenhouse gases, the fossil fuel ... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on December 23, 2024 As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of are more and larger server farms and nuclear power reactors to feed them electricity. Yet that is the plan being hatched by Microsoft, Amazo... Read more

Toxic Avenger with Matt Bors and Fred Harper

Airs at: Thu, 07/10/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Award winning writer Matt Bors and artist Fred Harper team up to breathe new life into the 1980's film franchise The Toxic Avenger.  Based on the satirical movies, animated series, and stage play, The Toxic Avenger blasts into the 21st century, armed only with his tut... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 14, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2025 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: Marxism and Degrowth: Joe Clement talks with local activist and anarchist scholar, Paul Messersmith-Glavin about degrowth broadly and particularly in the work of Japanese Mar... Read more

Marxism and Degrowth

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with local activist and anarchist scholar, Paul Messersmith-Glavin about degrowth broadly and particularly in the work of Japanese Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito. Paul's review of Saito's book "Marx in the Anthropocene: toward the idea of degrowth comm... Read more

Lessons from Nature's Water Management

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Nature has ingenious methods of managing and delivering water in all its phases: precipitation, evaporation, absorption by plants, wetlands, rivers and lakes, and infiltration that recharges groundwater and aquifers. Yet in most urban environments, stormwater is seen as ... Read more

Cow Poop Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on April 7, 2025 Concentrated Animal Feed Operations have been around for a few decades. Basically concentration camps for cattle, pigs and chickens, these factory farms not only torture animals but also are major polluters and a principal... Read more

No Straight Road

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg reviews Rebecca Solnit's  latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.  You can find the book at the Multnomah County Library.  You can find more of Solnit's most recent writing at her site, Meditations in... Read more

Truth Demands

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes.  Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind... Read more