Environment/Climate

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Living with Mega Wildfire Realities

Airs at: Mon, 08/16/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Now that we’re in the midst of another mega fire season, we’re still feeling the impacts of last year’s unprecedented season of fire intensity, the like of which we have rarely seen. How do we cope with this new reality of climate chaos-induced wild fires and have we learne... Read more

Thirty Years in the Streets of Portland! The Activist Photography of Bette Lee

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bette Lee Photo Giveaway!   If you’ve been to a protest during the past three decades, you’ve probably seen Bette Lee, the short, slight woman behind the camera, always in the thick of things, documenting the resistance that Portland is famous for. From the 1990 march to... Read more

Portland's Hottest Spots

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As the infamous Heat Dome peaked over Portland on June 28, Vivek Shandas, a professor at Portland State University, drove around the city using a thermal camera to measure the temperature in neighborhoods from the Pearl District to Gresham. He found that the hottest spot wa... Read more

Buscando America on 08/03/21

Airs at: Tue, 08/03/2021 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este episodio festejamos el cumpleaños de Isabel Allende con fragmentos del libro Paula, un libro extraordinario, en donde Isabel Allende abre su carazón y nos da a conocer el sufrimiento del tiempo en que su hija estuvo enferma. Conversamos con el columnista del Sierra ... Read more

Left and the Law: Climate Lawsuits

Airs at: Mon, 08/02/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In their Left and the Law segment today, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker take up the recent wave of lawsuits filed by cities and states against the oil industry in the US based on the industry's damage to communities and covering up their own scientific data on the lethal thre... Read more

The Gap: Billionaire Space Boys and Mental Health at the Olympics

Airs at: Fri, 07/30/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  The Gap
  On this episode of the Gap, Tammy and Althea discuss the billionaire space race between Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. Would you believe that the richest men in the world are a little tone deaf when it comes to the monetary and environmental cost of their frivolous ende... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 2, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 08/02/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: End Clean and Safe Bill Resnick talks with Kaitlyn Dey, a community organizer challenging the city's policies of sweeping, harassing and criminalizing the homeless, including the current campaign "End Clean and Save" that would... Read more

Oregon's Most Hopeful Legislative Session in Years

Airs at: Mon, 08/02/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On July 27, Governor  Kate Brown signed Oregon's 100 percent clean energy bill into law. This law requires Oregon energy companies to provide their customers with 100 percent clean electricity by 2040, an ambitious deadline matched only by the state of New York. This comes ... Read more

Forest fires: myths, realities, politics and unknowns

Airs at: Wed, 07/28/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  As this summer demonstrates, forest fires are burning earlier, hotter and much bigger.    yHost Paul Roland's guests are Matthew Koehler, longtime grassroots activist and currently Communications Manager with WildEarth Guardians and Chad Hanson, Director and Principal ... Read more

Union-busting at Voodoo Doughnuts

Airs at: Mon, 07/26/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
When the fatal heatwave hit Portland a month ago, workers at Voodoo Doughnuts walked off the job when indoor temperatures soared into the 90s with no effective air conditioning. Several were fired. Joe Clement talks with a Doughnut Workers United rank-and-file organizer abo... Read more