Environment/Climate

Jason Levin is a Pacific Green candidate vying for Oregon's Governor. He talked with Don Merrill about why he believes politics is a mud pit, how he says Oregon media and corporate interests are excluding him from debates by not donating to his campaign and why he says his... Read more

As "world leaders" meet at the UN to discuss climate change and 400 thousand march for action in New York and here in Portland, today's Old Mole, hosted by Tom Becker, discuss the prospects for change the leaders ignore: action from the grass roots.  Here are links to the s... Read more

Some liberal economists have suggested that stopping climate change is an easy fix: it would be good for the economy, and we have the technology.  But that ignores the political question of who controls the policy making institutions, as Rob Urie argues in this article from... Read more

What are governments doing, and not doing, about climate change, and what can we expect from the UN Summit Conference on Climate Change this week?  Janet Redman, who studies and writes about climate policy at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks with the Old Mole's Bill ... Read more