Energy/Natural Resources

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SEEDing Renewable Energy

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Oregon is behind California and many other places in responding to climate change, but a program called Community Energy, enacted by the legislature last year, might provide a start towards meaningful action, if the Public Utility Commission writes rules that make that p... Read more

Growing Food...Empowering Communities...Changing Lives

Airs at: Thu, 03/23/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Jo Ann Hardesty speaks to Barbara Bernstein, producer of the new documentary Gaining Ground. GAINING GROUND presents the personal stories of farmers and activists confronting the challenges of feeding their local communities sustainably grown food. The documentary inter... Read more

Refinery Town

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In 2012 a massive fire ripped through the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending a towering plume of toxic smoke into the air over Richmond, California.  For over a hundred years, Richmond was a classic company town, whose politics, economy and environment were defined by Chevr... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 13, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show, and we hear: 1. Part 2 of Desiree Hellegers's interview with Ramón Ramírez of PCUN about immigrant farm workers in the age of Trump. 2. The Old Mole Action Calendar 3. Clayton explains why it's worth working for socialism when you don't... Read more

"Russia Did It!" and the new McCarthyism

Airs at: Thu, 03/16/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per Fagereng welcomes back Robert Parry to discuss the ongoing Russia obsession in the U.S. media. -from Consortium News: When ‘Disinformation’ Is Truth.....The anti-Russian McCarthyism that has spread out from the United States to encompass the European Union, Canada a... Read more

An Indigenous Economic Model: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The existing economic system in most countries is a kind of state capitalism. It produces enormous inequalities. Its extraction practices are environmentally destructive. Perhaps indigenous models provide a viable alternative. Chief Seattle was a Susquamish chief in what... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 13, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge will be our host and we will hear -- More about the impact of ICE raids in Woodburn and how US foreign policy drives immigration How to overcome disempowering skepticism about a better world Providing medical help to marginalized communities How prog... Read more

The War on Science

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Trump administration has launched an all-out war on independent science, environmental safeguards, and facts. Leading this attack on science are industry insiders who now occupy positions of power at the EPA, Department of Energy, and other critical federal agencies. In... Read more

Living in the Maelstrom of the First 100 Days

Airs at: Fri, 03/10/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Just before the inauguration, we were able to talk with Linda Tirado, author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America. During the interview, she suggested that it would be important for people to keep truth diaries, so we will notice when goalposts get moved, and have ... Read more

Lincoln County Aerial Spray Ban Measure on May Ballot

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A group in Lincoln County, Oregon, has put a measure on the May ballot that would ban aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. Lincoln County Community Rights wrote Measure 21-177, which also includes language reinforcing the rights of the community—that is, Lincoln Co... Read more