Environment/Climate

Getting Past Apathy

Airs at: Sun, 03/15/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Political activists are often discouraged by public "apathy" about big problems like the environmental crisis. But what lies behind apathy? Psychologists Jan Haaken and Renee Lertzman discuss how activists can relieve the sense of powerlessness that underlies what looks l... Read more

Wake-Free on the Willamette

Airs at: Tue, 03/17/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Why we need to make the Holgate Channel & Ross Island Lagoon wake-free or non-motorized zones - and what that means. Between Ross Island and the east bank of the Willamette lies the Holgate Channel, a patch of natural paradise only a couple miles south of downtown Portland... Read more

Details on the new movement Powershift 09

Airs at: Sun, 03/01/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

Arjun Makhijani on the Nuclear Power Fiasco

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Thirty years ago this country's nuclear program came to a halt after the disasterous accident and meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania. Since then we are still debating how to safely store in perpetuity countless tons of high level radioactive ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 2, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 03/01/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this program focuses on opportunities to shape what's ahead in the Obama years. We hear from labor journalist Sam Pizzigati about the promise of the President's budget proposal; from Environmentalist Mary Wood about what we must do to keep th... Read more

Politics of Climate Change

Airs at: Sun, 03/01/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

To save the planet, what do we have to do and how soon do we have to do it? What can citiizens do to keep the CO2 levels in the atmosphere below the tipping point -- where it might be too late? Enviornmental Law Professor Mary Wood says we must all act now. She talks wit... Read more

Air Cascadia, 2/27/2009

Airs at: Thu, 02/26/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Air Cascadia

Liam Delta hosts. Read more

The Wildearth Guardians Organization Call on President Obama for the Wildlife Services to be Abolished

Airs at: Tue, 02/17/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

climate special part 2

Airs at: Sat, 01/17/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

Democracy & Sustainable Energy

Airs at: Sun, 02/15/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The most sustainable energy is local energy. David Morris of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about why this is so, and how it would generate not only power but participatory democracy. You can read Morris's report Energy Self-R... Read more