Environment/Climate

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Kansas Evironmentalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Bob Dixson, the mayor of Greensberg, Kansas,  a small, white, Republican-voting farming town.  After a tornado devastated 95% of the city, they decided to rebuild to be a carbon free city using only renewable energy -- a small wind farm that fed into... Read more

Exorcise Monsanto with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir

Airs at: Wed, 10/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Listen to the glorious birdsong of The Stop Shopping Choir. Join the citizen weed pulling brigade. Exorcise the devil Monsanto from Portland's public parks. Invite your friends to hear our sultry-singing-activists. Watch what happened when we exorcised Monsanto from Chicag... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 5, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show. It features up-to-date versions of old labor songs by Joe Uehlein and the U-Liners, which you can hear by listening to the whole show (use the play button below). Joe is also the first guest on the show, and he'll be singing and speaking about ... Read more

Labor and the Climate

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Uehlein talks with Bill Resnick about building a labor-environmental movement to curb global warming and save the planet. Uehlein's music is featured in the full length version of this episode of the Old Mole. He will be speaking and playing his music this Saturday, Oct... Read more

Aerial Spraying violations: Applebee Aviation license suspended

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Regulators from two state agencies have fined an aerial spraying company a total of almost ten thousand dollars. Applebee Aviation has been fined by the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration eighty eight hundred dollars and the state Department of Agriculture... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:  Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary ... Read more

Thirsty for Justice: The Struggle for the Human Right to Water

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Like the residents of Hood River County opposed to a planned Nestle water bottling plant in Cascade Locks, local activists in Mount Shasta, just south of the Oregon border, are trying to stop a Crystal Geyser bottling operation from opening in their community. A growing mov... Read more

KILLING CORMORANTS ON THE COLUMBIA

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
Dab Steadman talks with Bob Sallinger, Conservation Director at the Audubon Society of Portland, about the government plan to kill a huge number of double-crested cormorants on East Sand Island in the mouth of the Columbia River.     In June 2014, the  Army Corps of Enginee... Read more

Communities fight back against corporate water takeovers

Airs at: Fri, 09/25/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
On Wednesday evening in Hood River, the Local Water Alliance launched the Hood River County Water Protection Measure, a ballot initiative that would ban corporate water bottling facilities in the county. A large crowd filled the Springhouse Cellar Winery to hear speakers, wa... Read more

Taking on a corporate behemoth

Airs at: Sun, 09/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Guest Aurora del Val of Local Water Alliance announces new ballot measure to ban commercial water bottling facilities in Hood River County, which was launched Wednesday, September 23 in Hood River. Nestle is one of the biggest food and beverage companies in the world, and ... Read more