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FOOD FIGHT: What You Need to Know about the Food and Farm Bill with Dan Imhoff

Airs at: Mon, 05/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Why should you care about the Farm Bill if you're not a farmer or live in a farm state? The short answer is: because you eat and the Farm Bill is really about how our food is grown, what kinds of food gets grown and who gets to eat it. Every five years, Congress revisits... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 14th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 05/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick hosts this membership-drive special and we hear:   Bill talk with Lisa Wesal about chemical contaminants Denise Morris talks with David Weismann about the Queer Documentary Film Festival Clayton Morgareidge talks about the limits of taxing the r... Read more

Chemical Contaminants

Airs at: Mon, 05/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick talks with biologist Lisa Wesal about chemical pollution. Read more

Fracking: Interview with author Tom Wilber on new book, Under The Surface

Airs at: Thu, 05/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
Fracking; Shattering subterranean rock to release natural Gas. Clean energy for America or poision to neighboring communities? Join host Linda Olson-Osterlund for a Membership Drive Special. Her guest will be Tom Wilber author of the just released book Under The Surface:... Read more

Host Theresa Mitchell talks about the news, Portland Mayday protests, Oakland Occupy & Persian Gulf

Airs at: Thu, 05/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell talks about the news, Portland Mayday protests and police response, Oakland Police raids on Oakland Occupy, the build up in the Persian Gulf and radioactive contamination in the oceans. Read more

Vertical gardening. Plant of the Month: cucumbers. Honey bee topic this month: swarming.

Airs at: Wed, 05/09/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
t's May, and that means it's prime planting time. Host Glen Andresen and guest Jim Gilbert tackle the topic of planting and growing vegetables vertically. Plant of the Month is cucumbers. And in the What's Happening in the Honey Bee Hive this month, the topic is swarming! ... Read more

Bill Resnick and Judy Barnes on Oregon's Clean Energy Future

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick interviews Judy Barnes, cofounder of Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy, about resistance to coal mining/transporting/burning in Oregon, democratizing energy production, and policy that promotes renewable energy in Oregon. Read more

Bill Resnick and Harvey Wasserman

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick interviews Harvey Wasserman: journalist, green energy activist and critic of nuclear power. They talk about continuing problems with nuclear plants, tactics ordinary people are using to shut them down, the struggle with coal energy, and about his newest book, ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 7th 2012

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole, which is shorter than usual because of membership-drive. We hear about growing concern with and resistance to nuclear energy, ecologically driven energy policy in Oregon, and about labor chauvinism toward China. Bill Resnick interview... Read more

GARBOLOGY: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash - An Interview with author Edward Humes

Airs at: Mon, 05/07/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
What is America's largest export, most prodigious product and greatest legacy? It's our trash. Each of us in on track to toss 102 tons of garbage in the course of our lifetime. Our disposable plastic alone outweighs the entire U.S;. Navy. But we don't like to think about... Read more