For the Old Mole Variety Hour
May 10, 2010
There are two kinds of disasters. There are the fast,
sudden disasters that are visible in real time and pile up bodies and rubble
or flooded buildings in the blink of an eye, and that are captured in
spectacular TV f...
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Hosted by Kathleen Stephenson
Northwest author Kurt Hoelting discusses his journey, which he details
in The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local
Life. Hoelting, a Zen wilderness guide, traded in his car and air
transportation for a kayak, a...
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Activist and author Ted Glick talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about
what can be done and what is being done to prevent our climate crisis from
turning catastrophic. There is some good news here. Ted Glick is the
policy director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Ne...
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Several years ago Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein was walking in Forest
Park when a young boy came running by, his eyes gleaming half in glee, half
in terror. He was being pursued by his older brother and as he passed, he
called out, "I feel like I'm in a video game."...
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About the program…
Join co-hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza every Thursday morning as they
bring you informative guests and lively discussions about the issues that
are important to you and your community. Every week, Voices from the Edge
provides KBOO listeners a pla...
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Host Lisa Loving speaks with Sandra Steingraber, internationally recognized
authority on environmental links to cancer and reproductive health, about the
new edition of her contemporary classic, "Living Downstream: An Ecologist's
Personal Investigation of Cancer and the...
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Laurie Mercier speaks with Les Leopold, co-founder and director of The Labor
Institute, consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance, which brings together trade
unions and environmental organizations, and author most recently of the book
The Looting of America: How Wall Street's...
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Frann Michel, The Well-read Red, explores some surprising connections among
volcanic eruptions, air travel, climate change, and the capitalist mode of
production. You can read her remarks by clicking here.
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Coal, oil, and nuclear power can be things of the past. Bill Resnick
talks with Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research and author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap
for U.S. Energy Policy (2007), which is the first analy...
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Portland is the only city in America that has a Food Policy and Programs
Office. And while many communities are starting to talk about creating Food
Policy Councils, Multnomah County and Portland have had such a council for
years. So why is there so much interest in ...
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