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Hosted by: 
Barbara Bernstein
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Every Monday from 10:00am to 11:00am.


 

A weekly conversation about our place on the planet. Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein talks with local, regional and national experts, activists and policy makers about climate change, food policy, land use, salmon restoration, forest management and all the other things that matter in our environment.

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Activism, Agriculture, Science/Technology, Food, Global Affairs, Government/Politics, Environment/Climate
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The Thin Green Line in 2018

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Donald Trump is targeting the Pacific Northwest for accelerated fossil fuel development. He brought the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay back from the dead, designating it as the highest priority site for LNG development on the West Coast. And now he is opening up the c... Read more

Opening the Trump Time Capsule

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Toward the end of 2016 Sightline Institute's Programs Director Eric de Place created a Trump Time Capsule project. He sent out an email to his friends and colleagues asking them to write down their predictions for the future, trying to envision the unusual events and disrup... Read more

Junk Raft

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As you celebrate the holidays this week, we are rerunning this program about the insidious problems created by plastic pollution. Something to think about as you figure out how to dispose of all that holiday packaging. This program originally aired on November 6, 2017. New... Read more

Firestorm

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.” It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet i... Read more

Portland Harbor Superfund Site

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Portland Harbor Superfund site is a highly contaminated stretch of the Willamette River that extends approximately 10 miles, beginning near the confluence with the Columbia River and stretching to the Fremont Bridge. In 2000 this area was designated a Federal Superfund ... Read more

The Future of Food

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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What will the future of food look like? Some say the only way we will be able to feed ourselves in the future is through an expansion of agribusiness, reliant on GMOs and pesticides. But there is another vision of the future that involves creating crops that regenerate the ... Read more

Learning Resiliency from Disaster

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On October 16 Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, was scheduled to come on this show to talk about a controversy that was raging over how to reach a 100% renewable future. Richard lives in Santa Rosa and when I contacted him a week before the show ... Read more

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Threatened Again

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For a while it seemed like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge had been saved from oil rigs. But since Trump was elected every bad idea we thought we'd blocked is back in play. After decades of bipartisan support for protecting one of the last pristine, untouched wild place... Read more

MEGAFIRES

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Wildfire, like actors in a Greek drama, has two opposing faces: one of destruction and another of rejuvenation. In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of wildfire’s regenerative function in forest ecology, but the increase in large, intensely hot “megafires” ... Read more

JUNK RAFT

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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News media brought the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”—the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution in the ocean—into the public consciousness. But when Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna Cummins, and set out to study the world’s oceans with ... Read more