Environment/Climate

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Foreign Policy in the Obama Years

Airs at: Sun, 12/21/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Where will US foreign policy go under Obama?  How might it impact the poorer nations of the world.  Sarah Anderson,  Director of the Global Economic Project at the Institute for Policy Studies,  provides her insights in this conversation with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.   Read more

Vestas Wind Turbine Company

Airs at: Tue, 12/09/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Portland Mayor-elect Sam Adams announced last week that the world's largest wind turbine company would be relocating to Portland. But some local media said he was jumping the gun. The Portland Tribune warned Adams to avoid making the same mistake as former Mayor Vera Katz, ... Read more

eWaste and "Green" Energy

Airs at: Wed, 12/17/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Digital Divide
This month, the Digital Divide looks at the environment and what technology is doing to help or harm it.  We speak with a pioneering nonprofit that is battling the growing amount of eWaste and talk to a justice organization on just how green many of the next generation ener... Read more

PDX Electric Vehicle Enthusiasts

Airs at: Wed, 11/01/2006 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
In November 2006, Stephanie Potter visited with the Portland Chapter of the Oregon Electic Vehicle Association,  a non-profit association of electric vehicle enthusiasts who promote electric vehicle education and encourage their safe construction and use.  This show aired d... Read more

Columbia Ecovillage: Can Community Trump Hard Times?

Airs at: Wed, 12/03/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
       Can community trump economic hard times?    Founders Joe & Pam Lietch, and Marilee Dea discuss NE Portland's newly forming Columbia Ecovillage.  Community members plan to care for their 3+ acre "food forest," while cultivating supportive relationships with each other... Read more

Bridging the Cultural Divide in Oregon's Environmental Movement

Airs at: Wed, 12/10/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Oregon environmentalists can point to many hard-won victories to preserve ecological diversity. But they've been less successful promoting diversity within their own ranks. The result has been a cultural divide that leaves people of color not just outside the mainstream env... Read more

Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining

Airs at: Tue, 12/09/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Hosted by Barbara Bernstein with Mine safety & health and environmental expert Jack Spadaro. The Bush administration continues issuing midnight regulations that will help destroy the earth as we know it. This past week they issued a new rule that loosens restrictions on how... Read more

Rain Gardens and Storm Water Management

Airs at: Mon, 12/08/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
 Host Glen Andresen welcomes Candace Stoughton, East Multnomah Soil and Conservation District rain garden specialist,  to discuss the possibility of using edible plants in a rain garden. Candace works on urban conservation issues with a current focus on sustainable stormwat... Read more

Oregon Parks

Airs at: Sun, 11/30/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The U.S. National Park system has a backlog of maintenance and repairs that will cost at least $8 billion, and Oregon’s 10 park units are a part of it. There is a push to get it all done by 2016 for the parks 100-year birthday. The National Parks conservation Association sa... Read more

Converting the economy to Peace

Airs at: Sun, 11/30/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The government  is about to spend billions to stimulate the economy.   What should they spend it on?  What can be learned from the post-coldwar period of the 1990s about that?  The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with economist Ann Markusen. Read more