Environment/Climate

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Green Strategies

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What is the best path towards climate justice?  Will market solutions work?  Can global warming be effectively halted as long as capital rules the world?  Author and environmental activist Brian Tokar talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about these issues.   Brian Tokar ... Read more

Thomas Linzey speech at Community Rights PDX anti-GMO campaign event in Portland, Sept. 2013

Airs at: Fri, 10/18/2013 at 12:00am
The speaker is one of the main proponents of a growing movement to curtail the "rights" and destructive practices of corporations at a local, grassroots level. Linzey started the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in Pennsylvania working for clients trying to stop f... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 21 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this two-hour membership-drive special that focuses on the environment and various social struggles that link up with it (note that pitch-breaks accounts for about 40 minutes of the programming otherwise excised).  Mark Hertsgaard talks about his new book "... Read more

Working in the Environmental Movement

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Part 5 of the Old Mole's two-hour special on climate change features labor historian and political activist Norm Diamond in a round table discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. They focus on how those whose political vision radical social change can best work within e... Read more

Labor Environmentalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part 4 of the Old Mole's special two-hour program on climate change, host Iven Hale talks with labor historian and long-time Portland writer, activist, and Old Mole contributor Norm Diamond about work that Norm did to develop the field of labor environmentalism at a time... Read more

Local Energy for Democracy

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part 3 of the Old Mole's two-hour special program on climate change, we turn to who will own and control the new forms of carbon-free energy. John Farrell is the Directory of Democratic Energy at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and has written widely on how indiv... Read more

Eliminating Fossil Fuels

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part Two of the Old Mole two-hour special on climate change, Mark Jacobson discusses fast-track models for converting energy production to non-fossil fuels within 15-30 years. Jacobson teaches civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and has collaborat... Read more

Climate Report: Hot!

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part One of the Old Mole two-hour special on confronting climate change, Bill Resnick talks with Mark Hertsgaard about the latest scientific findings about how and why the climate is changing and what the consequences will likely be. Hertsgaard is a journalist who has b... Read more

Indigenous People's Day

Best wishes on Indigenous People's Day. Well, that's one name for it. The US Federal government still recognizes it as Columbus Day, as does Google's Holiday calendar, and the State of Oregon ignores the whole question. But the old history that proposes that Columbus "... Read more

Catastrophic Climate Breakdown

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is quite conservative and yet carries the shattering message that "it's as bad as we thought." So says UK journalist George Monbiot in an article in The Guardian, read here by Old Mole Tom Becker. Read more