Environment/Climate

Mondragón: New Economic Model?

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Mondragón is a large and successful set of worker-owned and cooperatively managed enterprises in the Basque region of Spain. Sociologist George Cheney has studied and written about Mondragón for many years, and here he talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how they ... Read more

Between the Covers interview with Temple Grove author Scott Elliot

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between The Covers

The Temple Grove means different things to differnet people. High up in the rain drenched Olympic Penninsula, it's a grove of trees as tall as skyscrapers and as old as nations. And until now it's been off limits to logging. To Paul Granger the Temple Grove is a sanctuary t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 27, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts and shares a reading on exporting fundamentalism; also we hear Gerald Markowitz with Bill Resnick on Biohazards; Iven Hale on the horror of the US incarceration system; and the movie moles Jan and Joe on The Great Gatsby.Resnick and Markowitz on Untested C... Read more

Gerald Markowitz on Untested New Chemicals

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Gerald Markowitz of John Jay College, author of "You Are a Guinea Pig: How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched" as well as numerous other articles and books. They discuss the pervasive use of... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 20th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode and we hear:Bill Resnick talks with Bruce Popdobnik about climate change activismAlan Wieder comments on the Rovina Raids and nonviolent struggle in South AfricaClayton Morgareidge comments on waking up to the amazing existence of this... Read more

Bruce Podobnik on Climate Change Activism

Airs at: Wed, 05/01/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Bruce Podobnik about climate change activism and his research into where people are engaging in it. He notes that protests are increasing globally, radical, and coordinated. They also talk about local, dispersed energy systems.Bruce Podobnik is a soc... Read more

Jennifer Kemp interviews Peace Activist Jim Albertini about RIMPAC Naval Trainings in Hawaii

Airs at: Fri, 05/17/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

KBOO's Jennifer Kemp spoke with Hawaiian peace activist Jim Albertini about RIMPAC naval trainings being conducted in Hawaii. His organizatinon is protesting the naval trainings, because they contaminate Hawaii's oceans with depleted uranium, and because he thinks the money... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 13, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes:Bill Resnick talks with Megan Hise and Shamus Cooke about the People's Budget Project for Portland.Larry Bowlden reviews Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys.Well-read Red Cara Dugas discusses Oregon bills that would r... Read more

Criminalizing Environmental Activism

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Two bills which impose increased penalties on those who take direct action to save trees and endangered species have passed the Oregon House and are on their way to the Senate -- HB 2595 and HB 2596. Well-read Red Cara Dugas explains what's in them, what's wrong with them,... Read more

New information could have impact on May 21 fluoridation vote

Airs at: Thu, 05/02/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

New information has come out this week that could have an impact on the upcoming May twenty-first vote on water fluoridation in Portland.A lab test of the fluoridation compound proposed for Portland’s water supply found high levels of arsenic in the compound. The test was c... Read more