Environment/Climate

The Nation's Largest Oil-By-Rail Terminal Meets its Maker

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

For four and a half years community and climate activists, health care workers, teachers, longshoremen and first responders in the Portland-Vancouver region have been working hard to stop the largest oil-by-rail terminal in North America, from being built at the Port of Va... Read more

Presswatch on 02/01/18

Airs at: Thu, 02/01/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

The State of the Whiteness address was a calculated piece of apartheid engineering--I'll provide details on how it was done. Also: Fracking comes to the Oregon forests and waterways, and the war in Afghanistan is morally unsupportable. Call in with your comments and quest... Read more

Two Minutes to Doomsday, with guest Robert Hunziker

Airs at: Wed, 01/31/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

"Not since 1953, when the U.S. and the Soviets exploded thermonuclear bombs, has the world been such a powder keg! Only recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward 30 seconds. It now registers two minutes to midnight." From Rober... Read more

Greenwashing and Global Climate Justice

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with John Foran about corporate greenwashing and what must and can be done to save the planet. John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Foran is currently working on a book, Taking Power or (Re)Making Power: M... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 29th 2018

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole Greenwashing and Global Climate Justice: Bill Resnick talks to John Foran about corporate greenwashing and what must and can be done to save the planet. John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of Califo... Read more

The Plot to Loot America's Public Lands

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Last week, the bulk of the National Parks Service advisory board resigned en masse in condemnation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's abject indifference to climate change and the department's massive roll back of protections for public lands. This comes on top of the Trump... Read more

Press**Watch for January 25th, 2018

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

[[[[SIMULCAST ON PERISCOPE ....LIVE VIDEO @kboopresswatch on Twitter--and possibly on Facebook as well at Theresa Mitchell.]]]] Join KBOO today--because the revolution will be broadcast on community-owned nonprofit radio! TODAY'S TOPIC: The climate emergency has begun a... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 15, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this Martin Luther King day. In addition to the songs of Woody Guthrie and Bill's comments about them, we hear: California fires, floods, mudslides, loss of life. But California will recover. Probably not Puerto Rico and many undeveloped countries. Bal... Read more

Turning Countries Into S-holes

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker reads an article about Donald Trumps explicative remarks about marginalized countries: "The US Role in Turning Countires into S-Holes" on Z-net. Read more

Climate Change, Disaster Capitalism, Recovery and Inequality

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 8:45am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with John Foran about how inequality shapes climate change and the fall-out of natural disasters, from Santa Barbara to Puerto Rico and beyond. Read more