Environment/Climate

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The Left and the Law

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss recent judgements in a case brought by Chevron in a NYC Federal court against environmental lawyer Steven Donziger who represented indigenous Ecuadorans in their suit against Chevron for environmental d... Read more

COP 26

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Climate change is accelerating, relentlessly, making human life much less comfortable and indeed, say the climate scientists, threatening to produce the 6th Great Extinction including all the higher apes. As Joe Biden and others said in advance, the 26th annual Conference o... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 22, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2021 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: COP 26: Climate change is accelerating, relentlessly, making human life much less comfortable and indeed, say the climate scientists, threatening to produce the 6th Great Extinction ... Read more

Resisting illegal post-fire logging in Breitenbush watershed

Airs at: Wed, 11/17/2021 at 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Today's guest is Sam Crop, Coalitions director for the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance. On Tuesday, November 15, ommunity organizers defied a closure order and are occupying a road leading to public forest slated for clearcutting in the Willamette National For... Read more

Pandemic Impacts PDX Food Scene & Factory Farm Biogas

Airs at: Wed, 11/17/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
How is the Portland food scene weathering the COVID19 pandemic, racial justice protests, the climate crisis, and workers calling out sexism and oppressive behavior? Alex Frane from Eater PDX joins the Food Show to discuss what’s been happening in the world of restaurants an... Read more

Why Hanford Does Not Need Anymore Nukes

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on October 18, 2021 The Hanford Reservation is one of the most polluted places in the world. For over 40 years, the United States produced plutonium there for nuclear weapons, and released hundreds of billions of gallons of liquid chemical a... Read more

RadioZine: Rabia Yeaman interviews author John Shirley about his new book Stormland

Airs at: Fri, 11/12/2021 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Today host Rabia Yeaman will speak with musician, screenwriter and author John Shirley about his newest novel Stormland which describes the southeast portion of the U.S. as being in a perpetual state of hurricanes, flooding, storms, and occasional lulls. They call this area... Read more

Environmental Justice for Cully Neighborhood

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Cully neighborhood in NE Portland is one of Portland’s most racially diverse neighborhoods, with many children and families, and it’s a haven for urban farmers. But it is also home for some of Portland’s most polluting industries. Recently the Owens-Brockway glass recyc... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 15, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Monster Who Came up the River: Native peoples hold rich traditions of storytelling, passed on by elders from one generation to the next. These stories speak of resilience, w... Read more

The Thin Green Line

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
November is National Native American Heritage Month. Today, Jan Haaken talks with Cathy Sampson-Kruse, a member of the Waluulapum Band, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, about an upcoming benefit screening of  "NECESSITY Part II: Rails, Rivers & the Th... Read more