Environment/Climate

Community Coalition Demands Minority Input on Superfund Cleanup

Airs at: Fri, 04/08/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

The Portland Harbor community coalition led by Groudworks, a local agency working for environmental social justice delivered a letter to the city government today. The Coalition wants more effort on the city’s part to include marginalized communities when they write their ... Read more

East Portland Kids Call for Bus Passes

Airs at: Fri, 04/08/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Students in East Portland are missing classes because they can’t afford the bus. That’s the conclusion of a study by the Youth Environmental Justice Alliance and OPAL looking at how young people’s access to public transportation affects their ability to succeed at school an... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for April 4, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes music by Diamanda Galas, Tuneyards, and these segments on environmental justice, sustainable communities, and the need for intersectional organizing to save the planet and each other: Bill Resnick interviews J... Read more

Radical Environmental Organizing

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

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: ... Read more

Linking Climate Justice and Other Movements

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier talks with Cindy Wiesner, National Coordinator of Grassroots Global Justice 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 ... Read more

Distributed Energy

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

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 pl... Read more

Giant walnut tree axed at new Beaverton high school

Airs at: Tue, 03/29/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

The newest high school in the Beaverton School District – South Cooper Mountain – is currently under construction, with plans to open in September 2017. The development plans called for keeping the giant walnut tree at the edge of the site, on the corner of Southwest 175... Read more

Guest Karen Coulter (Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project) on defending eastside forests

Airs at: Wed, 03/23/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Our guest today is Karen Coulter, who has dedicated herself tor over two decades to protecting native forest ecosystems on the east side of the Cascades with her organization, the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. Host Paul Roland has crossed paths with her numerous tim... Read more

Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 by Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 04/21/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin’s new collection of poems (2010–2014) seeks meaning in an ever-connected world. In part evocative of Neruda’s Odes to Common Things and Mary Oliver’s poetic guides to the natural world, Le Guin’s latest give voice to objects that may not s... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 21, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this show, and we hear -- 1. Jack Metsgar, talking with Bill Resnick, explains that it's not white working class men who are voting for Trump so much as men with college degrees. 2. Joe Clement reads from a book by Andrew Sayers's explaining the im... Read more