After the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in 1979, it
looked like the nuclear industry was 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 growing drumbeat p...
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As pressure increases for us to drastically reduce carbon emissions, one
attention-grabbing option being promoted is renewable hydrogen. But is
hydrogen really the answer to our energy needs or is its promotion largely
based on false promises? On this episode of Locus Focus...
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This program aired originally on March 21, 2022
The regenerative farming movement has mostly centered around restoring soil
and ecosystem health and leaving our land, waters, and climate in better
shape for future generations. But regenerative farming also requires
reck...
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This program originally aired on February 7, 2022
At a critical bend in the Columbia River estuary, a company called NEXT
Renewable Fuels, Inc., wants to build a renewable diesel refinery. The
proposed refinery at Port Westward would be one of the largest producers of
r...
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This program initially aired on January 31, 2022
The Portland metro area is a land of water at the confluence of two of the
major rivers in the Pacific Northwest. The Chinookan People, who lived along
the Columbia and Willamette Rivers before European contact, were maste...
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This past Martin Luther King Day, Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kefoury sent
out an email with the subject line "Pressing on toward Dr. King’s Beloved
Community in the face of ongoing challenges." She concluded the email with
this statement: "The last several years have st...
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For decades we have been sold the story-line that natural gas is the best and
cleanest fuel for cooking and heating. More recently the gas industry has
been promoting gas as a bridge fuel to a renewable future and even arguing
that so-called renewable natural gas is a green...
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With a Russian military convoy advancing on her city of Kyiv, Ukraine’s
leading climate scientist made this emotional plea at the most recent meeting
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Human-induced climate
change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots, ...
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This spring communities across the country will be celebrating the 200th
birthday of Federick Law Olmsted, co-creator of New York City's Central Park
and numerous subsequent parks. Writer, literary publisher, philosopher,
abolitionist and committed social reformer, Olmsted ...
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The latest climate projections are increasingly dire as the world
climate clock now has only 7 years to reverse course. Increasingly large
and intense wildfires are one of the major changes we are seeing as climate
change accelerates. Megadroughts are also increasing which ...
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