Locus Focus

Coming Soon

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Hosted by:

Barbara Bernstein

Produced by:

KBOO

Subscribe to podcast

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.

http://www.mediaprojectonline.org

Topic tags:

Activism, Agriculture, Science/Technology, Food, Global Affairs, Government/Politics, Environment/Climate

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

OUR RENEWABLE FUTURE

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven b... Read more

CAN A CITY BE SUSTAINABLE?

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

More than half of the world's population now lives in cities. By 2050 that number is expected to nearly double. According to Can a City Be Sustainable?, the latest edition of the the Worldwatch Institute's State of the World series, there is no question that cities will ... Read more

TRIBES TAKE ON THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY IN THE GORGE

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

In the struggle to prevent the Pacific Northwest from becoming an export hub for fossil fuels, Native American tribes have played a vanguard role in taking on the fossil fuel industry. On this episode of Locus Focus we'll look at how the tribes are an inspiration to ever... Read more

STOPPING LNG IN CLATSOP COUNTY

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

For twelve years residents of Clatsop County (in the NW corner of Oregon) battled proposals to build massive Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminals near the mouth of the Columbia River. On April 15, 2016, the last of these proposals was defeated, when Oregon LNG withdrew ... Read more

Locus Focus on 07/25/16

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

COYOTE AMERICA

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the co... Read more

Portland's Housing Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

A four-story mixed use building is going up in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, on a stretch of SE 13th Avenue where the average building is two stories high. Over the past few months of construction someone keeps spray painting on plywood front of the building: "F... Read more

BOMB TRAIN IN MOSIER

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

On June 3 an oil train derailed in the Columbia Gorge town of Mosier, 70 miles east of Portland. It could have been much worse. The typical Gorge wind could have been blowing but amazingly the air was still that afternoon. If there had been wind there would be no more Mo... Read more

Good News For Salmon and the Columbia River

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

In May, the U.S. District Court in Portland OR issued its long-awaited ruling on the federal government's Columbia/Snake River Salmon Plan. U.S. District Judge Michael Simon blasted the 2014 biological opinion issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration... Read more

KILLING CORMORANTS AND CLEANING UP THE SUPERFUND SITE

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Download audio file

This week on Locus Focus we delve into two seemingly unrelated topics that actually have a lot in common: the mass killing of cormorants on East Sand Island in the Columbia River Estuary - in the name of protecting salmon - and the slow and painful (lack of) progress in ... Read more

Log in to post comments