Environment/Climate

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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 27, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 12/27/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole. In his Intro, Norm comments on some of important events in history that we commemorate as this year ends: The Blair Mountain uprising of 1921, Arab Spring, and more. The show continues with the following segments: Climate... Read more

Damnation Spring

Airs at: Mon, 12/27/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
For generations, the Pacific Northwest has seen our forests and our labor exploited by wealthy outside interests who extract our wealth and then move on, leaving behind environmental destruction, unemployment, and struggling communities. Today on the Old Mole, writer and ph... Read more

Climate Insurgency

Airs at: Mon, 12/27/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Jeremey Brecher who wrote the book Climate Insurgency, a Strategy for Survival. Brecher begins by noting that the economies of major nations continue to increase their greenhouse gas emissions with no credible plan to reduce them. Then Brecher delivers... Read more

Reflections on a Trying Year

Airs at: Mon, 12/27/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A year ago, we let go of 2020 with the hopes for a much better 2021. And 2021 started out promising, for the first five days. Then came the Capitol Insurrection, the Republican surrender to total Trumpism, record-breaking weather disasters, disastrous fires and two new surg... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 20, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 12/20/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Sharon Grant hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Climate Insurgency: Bill Resnick interviews Jeremy Brecher, a writer and activist, who cofounded the Labor Network for Sustainability and wrote the book Climate Insurgency, a Strateg... Read more

Climate Insurgency

Airs at: Mon, 12/20/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Jeremy Brecher, a writer and activist, who cofounded the Labor Network for Sustainability and wrote the book Climate Insurgency, a Strategy for Survival. It envisions mass global nonviolent action to force the mobilization of all resources as did the... Read more

Port Westward: The Last Hope for a Methanol Refinery in the NW

Airs at: Mon, 12/20/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last June, the long embattled methanol refinery that was proposed for the Port of Kalama, Washington, was finally defeated. Northwest Innovation Works, the Chinese-backed company behind this project, originally proposed to build three of the world's largest methaol refineri... Read more

"Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival," with the author, Richard Heinberg

Airs at: Wed, 12/15/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and author of 13 previous books, has appeared numerous times on KBOO. His new book, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival, is a sweeping and in-depth investigation of the workings of power in the na... Read more

Jordan Cove's Definitive Demise

Airs at: Mon, 12/13/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For the past 17 years, people across Southern Oregon have lived with the threat of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal proposed for Coos Bay, and its companion Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, a 36” pipeline that would have traversed 230 miles of Southern Oregon. On December... Read more

Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 12/09/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we we pay tribute to arguably Oregon’s greatest writer, Ursula K. Le Guin. I’m sure Ken Kesey would have loved to arm wrestle her for the title, but I think he’d lose. Ursula was not only a brilliant and prolific author, but an activist for the environment ... Read more