Environment/Climate

Talal Jabari's "Full Signal" - The Dangers of Cell Phone Technology

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

With the world-wide use of cell phones at 3.5 billion, and an ever-growing number of cellular antennas, do we need to re-examine the costs and benefits of this new technology? In his one-hour documentary "Full Signal," Talal Jabari explores the health effects and effo... Read more

What the Heck is a Green Bridge?

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Oregon has set ambitious goals for reducing our carbon emissions by 2020. But if all the currently proposed highway projects are built, any reductions that are achieved in other areas will be canceled out by increased auto use. How do plans to replace the I5 bridge betwe... Read more

The One Straw Revolution - Larry Korn's Portland, OR talk

Airs at: Thu, 07/30/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Lecture Room

Larry Korn, the english translator of Masanobu Fukuoka's 1970s book "The One Straw Revolution" is the presenter here. Recorded at Tryon Life Community Farm on June 30th, 2009. Introduction by Marisha Auerbach Discussed in this recording are: natural farming, growing crop... Read more

Oregon Wild

Airs at: Wed, 02/10/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Underground

Brendan tells us about the Organization Oregon Wild, a group that works to protect and restore Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for all Oregonians. Read more

February 8, 2010 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this show which covers several health-related issues: the medical challenges in Haiti after the earthquake, poisonous chemicals in our bodies from manufactured products, and how the law treats people who rely on faith healing rather than medicine. Plu... Read more

Poisons In Our Bodies

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

What toxic substances are we soaking up from the industrial products we use -- including "sippy" bottles for babies? Renee Hackenmiller-Paradis has been studying the body chemistry of Oregonians and she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about her findings. Hacke... Read more

More Talk Radio on 2/8/10

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hearings on Federal Plans to Make Hanford a National Radioactive Waste Dump and Abandon Existing Contamination - In Hood River on Tuesday 2/9 and in Portland on Wednesday 2/10 Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Gerald Pollet, Executive Director, Co-Founder ... Read more

Judging in Difficult Times and EcoKashrut

Airs at: Fri, 02/05/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Shalom Portland

Shalom Portland brings you a talk by Federal Judge Myron Thompson, "Judging in Difficult Times: Berlin 1933 to Birmingham 1963". In this talk recorded at Congregation Beth Israel Judge Thompson speaks of the parallels between discrimination against Jews in Germany in t... Read more

Heavy Weather

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

The Copenhagen Climate Talks yielded disappointing results. But there are many effective initiatives we can take to reduce global greenhouse emissions that don't require international treaties. HEAVY WEATHER, a new radio documentary by Barbara Bernstein explores the conn... Read more

Making Local Energy

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Howie Hawkins as the Green Party candidate took 41% of the vote for mayor of Syracuse, New York last November. One of his main issues is public utilities and generating green energy locally, and he talks about the politics of that in this conversation with the Old Mole... Read more