Energy/Natural Resources

Opposition to Lincoln County Spray Ban Measure Gears Up

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

The last several years have seen a number of contentious local ballot measures in Oregon’s rural counties, around the use of pesticides and genetically modified organisms. Nearly all of these measures have inspired record-breaking campaign donations for county me... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 27, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel hosts this episode, which features these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Jaimes Valdez of NW SEED about renewable energy Frann shares the Old Mole Activist Calendar Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Colm Tóibín's novel Brooklyn Desiree Hellegers talks with... Read more

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