Environment/Climate

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The Only Way to Save the Earth from Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization.  They advocate a World War II type great mobilization, here and around the world, to vastly reduce, or even eliminate, greenhouse gas emissions starting today. The group has just won Climate Emergen... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 6, 2018

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole and we will hear-- What it will really take to deal seriously with climate change How an IWW union in New York is organizing restaurant workers What we can learn from Antonio Gramsci How capitalism enslaves us all   Read more

Tacoma on the Front Lines

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on June 25, 2018 According to Sightline Institute Tacoma, Washington is the major frontline community in the fight to stop fossil fuel development in the Northwest. After vehemently rejecting a proposal to build the world's largest methanol ... Read more

Pacific Northwest in the Tar Sands Crosshairs

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program was originally broadcast on June 18, 2018. It seems likely that the Canadian province of Alberta—home to a massive tar sands industry that produces some of the globe’s dirtiest and most polluting oil—has put the Pacific Northwest in its crosshairs. The provi... Read more

Mount St. Helens @38

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on May 28, 2018 Every May 18, I spend time remembering the eruption of Mt. St. Helens that day in 1980. But this year I had the opportunity to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the eruption by hiking the Hummocks Trail in the blast zone o... Read more

Fire and Naturally Emerging Young Forests

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This program originally aired on July 2, 2018 As this year’s fire season gets off to a roaring start we are still absorbing the impact and lessons learned from last seasons megafire in the Columbia River Gorge. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at post-fire natural re... Read more

From Shrinking Bears Ears, Approving Pipelines and Pocahontas: What Trump Means to Indian Country

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  What is the scope of the threat Trump poses to Indian Country and what do Native Americans have at stake in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections?    Native American Portland-based journalist Jacqueline Keeler leads a discussion with Native American leaders from across th... Read more

The Green Burial Guidebook by Elizabeth Fournier

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
  Emily Young talks to author Elizabeth Fournier about her new book The Green Burial Guidebook. Funeral expenses in the United States average more than $10,000. And every year conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and metals, as well as millions o... Read more

Clean Power to the People

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews Jessica Tovar, an organizer with the Local Clean Energy Alliance in California, about how California cities and counties are taking over the electric energy systems from the privately held Investor Owned Utilities such as PGE, and with new democra... Read more

Human Rights: Fracking and Climate Change with Sandra Steingraber

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last May the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an internationally recognized Civil Society public opinion tribunal functioning independently of state authorities, held a special session in Corvallis, Oregon, on the human rights impacts of fracking and climate change On this epi... Read more