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Movie Moles: "The Lorax"

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Move Moles Iven Hale and Joe Clement take up The Lorax, the CGI film based on the Dr. Seuss children's book.  How do the politics of the movie add to or fall short of those of the book? Read more

HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION: A REGIONAL NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
We're marking the anniversary of the nuclear castrophe at the Fukushima Nuclear Complex in Japan by looking at a potential nuclear nightmare much closer to home. For nearly 70 years the Hanford Reservation - birthplace of the Plutonium bomb that devastated Nagasaki - ha... Read more

THE VIEW FROM OAKS BOTTOM - with Portland Parks & Recreation Ecologist Mark Wilson

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The city of Portland is noted for its proximity to outstanding natural areas—Mt. Hood, the Columbia Gorge, Oregon's North Coast. But Portland is also a great place to live because of the abundance of natural areas within the city itself. On this episode of Locus Focus we... Read more

Presswatch -3/1/12 -- Fukushima radiation in PDX, Protesters expose American Legislative Exhange Council

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Andrew Breitbart, lies and corporate rule. Radioactive iodine levels in Portland after Fukushima. Fukushima cesium levels.  Radioactive sea water.  Occupy Protests on 2/29 against American Legislative Exchange Council -- ALEC.  Read more

Awake in the World with Michael Stone

Airs at: Tue, 02/21/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
How do we live a balanced life in unbalanced times? Michael Stone is a yoga teacher, Buddhist and psychotherapist who believes spiritual practices such as yoga are not about escaping reality but about living in the present and with that awareness engaging our communities an... Read more

Occupy, Greece, Student Loans, Fukishima and listener calls.

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
The most dangerous thing about occupy, the situation in Greece, defaulting on student loans, radioactive contamination from Fukishima found in the ocean & listener calls. Read more

Mary Fetch and Kerry Ayers Palanuk from TriMet talk about our Public Transport System.

Airs at: Tue, 02/28/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   Government agencies everywhere are struggling to do more with less, and TriMet is no exception. Abe and Joe are joined in studio by TriMet's Mary Fetch and Kerry Ayers Palanuk to discuss the transit agency's forthcoming service cuts ... Read more

Positively Revolting on 02-24-12 Updates from the Mt. Hood National Forest; what's happening in our public lands?

Airs at: Fri, 02/24/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Ani and Lyn talk with Olivia Schmidt, the Program Director at Bark, Defenders of Mt. Hood National Forest. Find out what's happening with the Jazz timber sale. Hear about Bark's recent legal victory which will enforce the doubling of "no-cut buffer zones", in current timbe... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode of The Mole, featuring a discussion of desertification and music about water from Satori Men's Chorus, as well as an interview with the author of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and t... Read more

Encroaching Deserts

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Burkhard Bilger about his New Yorker article "The Great Oasis": What can be done to halt the encroachment of deserts on land where people live and food is grown? They emphasize the effective grassroots movements that are most successful. Read more