Energy/Natural Resources

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A New Path to Dam Removal

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For decades tribal nations and salmon advocates have been working every avenue to take down the four dams on the Lower Snake River. These dams provide a modicum of electricity, negligible passage for shipping and some irrigation water for farmers. But mostly they kill sa... Read more

Columbia Riverkeeper Begins a New Chapter

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For over twenty years Columbia Riverkeeper has been a major voice in protecting the mighty Columbia River. In that time Riverkeeper has worked on many fronts to enforce environmental laws to stop illegal pollution, protect salmon habitat, and challenge harmful fossil fue... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 6, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts today's episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Germany, Energy and Democracy: Europe, especially Germany, depends on Russia for its natural gas and oil for electric power, heating and cooling, and transport. With Russia's inv... Read more

Conflict, Democracy and Global Warming, Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Germany, Energy Transition and Democracy: Europe, especially Germany, depends on Russia for its natural gas and oil for electric power, heating and cooling, and transport. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Germany, Europe’s wealthiest country and political leader, has c... Read more

Portland's CEI Hub

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As you drive along St. Helens Road in NW Portland, to the west rise the West Hills and Forest Park. But to the east you see a landscape diametrically opposed to the verdant scene acorss the highway. What is in those tank farms that go on and on, bordered by railroad trac... Read more

Conversation with Tony Rodrigues

Airs at: Fri, 05/27/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
Join Ender Black on a conversation with Tony Rodrigues, a man who served many years as a laborer in corporate and government-sanctioned classified space programs, and who has full remembrance of his experience. This is important to note, because the set of technologies u... Read more

A Nuclear Comeback?

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
After the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in 1979, it looked like the nuclear industry’s halcyon days were over. The Chernobyl and Fukishima disasters drove home even more starkly just how dangerous nuclear power is. But in recent years there has been a... Read more

Buscando America on 05/24/22

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2022 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Desde Alemania, vía Radio Amilcingo, escucha una conversación sobre el proyecto Unser Aller Wald, un lugar muy especial que se levantó entre los árboles de un bosque nativo para protegerlo de la mina a cielo abierto Garzweiler que busca talar el bosque para extraer carbó... Read more

Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine. Can the U.S. retain domination of the world economy, its trade structures, its financial system, its money flows, its politics, and what sustains all of it, military domination too? Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine cr... Read more

Global Student Climate Strikes

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    In this fourth year of global Student Climate Strikes, Portland youth have organized a local day of action on Friday May 20th. Jan Haaken talks with oganizers Rozzell Medina, Ella Rae Woodland, Adah Crandall about the event, including the Climate Festival following... Read more