Can technology address the problems posed by climate change?
Environmental journalist Dianne Dumanoski is the author of The End of the
Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile
Earth, and here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick abo...
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Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is about a plot to remake a mind --
but do the film makers give viewers' minds enough to go on? Our Movie Moles
Denise Morris and Wendy Webb ask whether this film is up to its appointed
task.
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Hosted by Frann Michel (pictured here), this program is about climate change,
science fiction, and science fiction about climate change, but it is not
about the illusion that climate change is itself science fiction. This is a
show that should be heard from beginning to en...
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Linking the pieces of this program about climate change are several songs by
Ella Fitzgerald, together with commentary by host Frann Michel on
the basic issues and concepts of climate change,
how climate change and other global disasters have played in works of
sc...
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When Marx was writing his grim analyses of Capitalism 150 years ago, workers
did not have much if any autonomy. The labor movement gave workers the
leverage to determine some of the terms of their livelihood, and since the
1970s progressive management theory has given more ...
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Our Movie Moles, Jan Haaken and Brooke Jacobson, talk about hillbilly
stereotypes, meth culture and gender in a very recent coming-of-age
crime-thriller, "Winter's Bone," Directed by Deborah Granik.
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Bill interviews James Workman - author of "Heart of Dryness: How the Last
Bushman Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanant Drought" - about
fostering community through water-conservation, but specifically as he
learned it studying African aborigines.
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Jan Haaken interviews environmental engineer and former guest, Richard
Heymann, about the changing situation in the gulf and what makes this spill
and how it's being handled different from others.
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Today's show ran the gamut from water conservation to oily devastation to the
double-edge of postmodern autonomy, with a final romp by our Movie Moles
through the Ozarks. Our host, Clayton Morgareidge, selected some bluegrass
music to accent the plight of those who just wan...
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Bill Resick talks with Chuck Sheketoff of the Oregon Center for Public Policy
about the great recession in Oregon and the looming cuts in social services.
What can and should be done? Sheketoff is one of the founders of the OCPP
where you can keep up with state issues fro...
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