Energy/Natural Resources

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Libraries as Grammar Schools of the Commons

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of libraries, examining the material context of social attacks on them and the utopian potential of their sharing ethos.  We hear audio from Mariame Kaba on the podcast Death Panel speaking to how librarie... Read more

Activists again take to the trees to stop forest destruction in southern Oregon

Airs at: Wed, 04/03/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    From a press release on Monday, April 1: This morning, community activists set up a tree sit occupation in old growth trees slated to be logged outside of Wolf Creek in Southern Oregon, protesting the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Poor Windy project and, mo... Read more

International Uranium Film Festival

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In its 13th year, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF), which is based in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, comes to Portland as part of its multi-city US tour.  From Hiroshima, the Manhattan Project, Fukushima and everything in between, where Oppenheimer dared not go, these... Read more

Jurie Lewis Meadowlands Community Urban Mini Farm and Erika Ironwood Craft and Cauldron

Airs at: Thu, 03/28/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guests are Jurie Lewis from Meadowlands Community Urban Mini Farm and Erika Ironwood of Craft and Cauldron, who is a Wildcrafting Educator & Herbalist. They hold events inviting people to learn more about the plants growing around us. Jurie and Erika don’t go overboard... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 1, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse: How I Learned to Breathe Through the Apocalypse is a serial play/web series written and performed by Desiree Hellegers, and directed and p... Read more

False Climate Solutions

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Environmental Industry Complex is not seeking funds for solar and wind power that could provide sufficient energy to power an ecological society. Instead they are getting funds for research and testing of stuff like (allegedly safe) nuclear power, carbon sequestration, ... Read more

Earth's Greatest Enemy, with Abby Martin

Airs at: Wed, 03/27/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Independent journalist and documentarian Abby Martin discusses Earth's Greatest Enemy, an upcoming feature length documentary that examines one of the largest polluters and contributors to global climate change in the world: the United States military,l and why the milit... Read more

Adventures Along the Hydrogen Rainbow

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
We need to decarbonize as swiftly as possible and the most direct path is through electrification. We can make most of the electricity we need through proven green technologies like solar, wind and geothermal, yet the fossil fuel industry is hyping hydrogen as its preferred... Read more

The Great Unraveling, or the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown, with Richard Heinberg

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Today's guest, Richard Heinberg, is senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, a think tank based in Corvallis, Oregon, which provides information and analysis on climate change, energy scarcity, and other issues related to sustainability and long term community resilie... Read more

Portland's Climate Villains

Airs at: Mon, 03/25/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on February 12, 2024   The environment and the climate are having a rough ride at Portland City Council and in the backrooms of the Oregon State Capitol. Less than a day before a hearing on a housing regulatory reform package, Portland City... Read more