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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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Big Vision for the Willamette

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Today we honor Oregon Environment Icon Bob Sallinger, who died on October 30. For over 30 years Bob has been a regional fixture advocating and fighting to protect our rivers, wildlife, forests and communities from environmental and social degradation and injustice. One of h... Read more

Stopping Zenith Energy Once and For All

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in 2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant Di... Read more

Striking Back at Northwest Natural

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Northwest Natural, Oregon's largest fracked gas utility, has been doing its best for several years to delay the region's move to full electrification. But in the past few months the company is getting its comeuppance in the form of an expanded lawsuit from Multnomah County,... Read more

Protecting and Strengthening Our Democracy

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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In the next week or so we will find out whether or not the United States will remain a democracy. The suspense and stress cannot be more intense. But on the day before Election Day we will try to cut through the anxiety and focus on how we must protect and strengthen our de... Read more

Falling for the Biomass Delusion

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The UK-based bioenergy company Drax is coming to the West Coast. Drax, which faces accusations of misleading regulators by denying that they are sourcing wood pellets from old-growth forests, is now partnering with rural county supervisors in California to build massive woo... Read more

Toppling the Fossil Fuel Giants

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On September 27, Kentucky State Representative Justin Pearson came to Portland to talk about his community’s triumph against the Byhalia Connection Pipeline in Southwest Memphis. He was joined by local environmental justice advocates who shared past victories in our region ... Read more

Another Bad Idea for the Columbia River Ecosystem

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Houston-based company, NEXT Renewables LLC Oregon is proposing to construct a major new refinery at Port Westward, near Clatskanie, on the Columbia. This project would immediately become one of Oregon’s top greenhouse gas polluters. The refinery would be one of the larg... Read more

Hydrogen Hype

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Hurricane Helene dramatically illustrates how climate chaos is impacting us right now. Yet while there are real solutions that will enable us to stop emitting greenhouse gases, the fossil fuel industry continues to promote a menagerie of false solutions that do not actually... Read more

Why Portland's Economic Opportunity Analysis is so Important

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For decades powerful corporate industries have set the stage for much of the city’s development along the  lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers through a little known process known as the Economic Opportunity Analysis, or EOA. Currently the Bureau of Planning and Sustainabi... Read more

Forests Over Profits

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Wall Street investors driving the climate crisis and big timber corporations clearcutting PNW forests are coming to Portland for the annual “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference---now called “Canopy”---September 24-26. These big polluters hope to stall real climate act... Read more