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December 27 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/27/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Laurie Mercier hosts this show featuring live music from Wobble Wobble, singers of labor songs.  Also on the program,  Bill Resnick talks with climate expert Daphne Wysham about responses to climate change that enrich the poluters and Frann Michel explores the ups and down... Read more

Volunteer Non-Profits: How do YOU Give Back to the Community?

Airs at: Wed, 12/29/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Talk Radio
Hosted by Lisa Loving How do you give back to the community? Today on KBOO Talk Radio, my guests are Steven Beaudoin of the PHAME Academy and Leapin' Louie Lichtenstein of Clowns Without Borders We'll talk about these two Organizations, how they help the Communities they ... Read more

Profits and Climate: Rewarding the culprits or Saving the Planet

Airs at: Mon, 12/27/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 As the Earth's climate becomes increasingly unstable, the US government is responding with measures that reward the profit-making corporations that caused the problem.  Bill Resnick talks with Daphne Wysham from the Institute for Policy Studies about cap and trade and carb... Read more

Out with the old, in with the new: 2011 In Review

Airs at: Tue, 12/28/2010 at 12:00am
With Joe on vacation, Abe reflects on the wreckage of another year gone by, and looks forward to the year to come. But it's not all about the host, oh no! Listeners will have the chance to comment about which events from 2010 they thought were the most significant, and what... Read more

Voices from the Edge 12-23-10 Who Was Good & Who Was Bad in 2010?

Airs at: Thu, 12/23/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
    It's that time of year when Jo Ann and Dave review which of our public figures deserve a gift in their stocking and which deserve a lump of coal. They'll also be asking listerners to share their holiday list of candidates. Will it include Senator John McCain for ... Read more

Janet Unruh on "Recycle Everything: Why We Must, How We Can"

Airs at: Wed, 12/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
We've all heard of peak oil, but what about peak hafnium, or peak terbium? Hafnium, which is important in computer chips, could be depleted by 2017, and terbium, used in florescent light bulbs, by 2012. Most other ores are also in decline.  One solution is to recycle these ... Read more

THE EAST SIDE BIG PIPE PROJECT

Airs at: Mon, 12/20/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For the past several years Portland's Environmental Services has been involved in the largest and most expensive public works project in the city's history: the Big Pipe. Since 2006 Rosie, the enormous tunnel boring machine, has been drilling a tunnel deep underground along... Read more

Black Farmers Settlement with USDA; Food Safety Modernization Act; Interview with the Curious Cook Harold McGee

Airs at: Sun, 12/19/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Food Show
President Obama just signed into law a $1.15 billion settlement with thousands of black farmers who were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. So we began the show with an update from John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers A... Read more

The Death of the New Deal - or - Obama's Tax Cut "Compromise"

Airs at: Tue, 12/14/2010 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris. Join Abe and Joe as we mourn the death of the New Deal. President Obama's  tax cut "compromise" spells out, in painful detail, the final death of the idea of liberalism as a governing philosophy. Obama was elected at the head of a popul... Read more

TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD

Airs at: Mon, 12/13/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The rallying cry: "Save the rainforests" means to most people tropical rainforests in the Amazon or Borneo. But there is another class of rainforests that is just as unique and important to protect: temperate and boreal rainforests. These rainforests, like their tropical co... Read more