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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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Locus Focus on 08/06/08

Airs at: Wed, 08/06/2008 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein talks with Richard Charter, with Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, about the recent push for lifting moratoriums on off-shore oil drilling, why the idea seems to be winning public support and what is wrong with the plan. Read more

What's wrong with Off-Shore Oil Drilling?

Airs at: Tue, 08/05/2008 at 5:00pm
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Host Barbara Bernstein (The Media Project) talks with Richard Charter, with Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, about the recent push for lifting moratoriums on off-shore oil drilling, why the idea seems to be winning public support, and what is wrong with the plan.Barbara B... Read more

Locus Focus on 07/30/08

Airs at: Wed, 07/30/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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This morning Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein is joined by Timothy Ingalsbee, former forest firefighter and now executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology. They will discuss causes for the current rash of wildfires in California and how they... Read more

Wildfires and Climate Change

Airs at: Tue, 07/29/2008 at 5:00pm
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This morning Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein is joined by Timothy Ingalsbee, former forest firefighter and now executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology. They discuss causes for the current rash of wildfires in California and how they are ... Read more

Locus Focus on 07/23/08

Airs at: Wed, 07/23/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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This week on Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein is joined by Frida Berrigan, Senior Program Associate, Arms and Security Initiative, with The New America Foundation. We'll be talking about repercussions of Obama's trip to Iraq and Afghanistan on the potential of actually en... Read more

Frida Berrigan from The New America Foundation on The War.

Airs at: Tue, 07/22/2008 at 5:00pm
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Hosted by: Barbara Bernstein Obama's trip to the mideast This week on Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein is joined by Frida Berrigan, Senior Program Associate, Arms and Security Initiative, with The New America Foundation. We'll be talking about repercussions of Obama's tri... Read more

Locus Focus: Columbia River Crossing and the Obama Cartoon

Airs at: Tue, 07/15/2008 at 5:00pm
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Host Barbara Bernstein leads a discussion with our listeners on two topics, one National, one Local: The Columbia River Crossing and the recent New Yorker cover, featuring a cartoon of Barack Obama and his wife dressed as terrorists. Read more

Locus Focus on 07/09/08

Airs at: Wed, 07/09/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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Jerry DeWitt, Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, joins host Barbara Bernstein in a discussion about the impacts of climate change and agricultural practices on recent flooding in the midwest. Read more

Jerry DeWitt, Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Airs at: Tue, 07/08/2008 at 5:00pm
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Jerry DeWitt (bio), Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, joins host Barbara Bernstein in a discussion about the impacts of climate change and agricultural practices on recent flooding in the midwest. Read more

Locus Focus on 07/02/08

Airs at: Wed, 07/02/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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Host Barbara Bernstein speaks with Michael Klare, author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (2008), about the hype and myth of off-shore oil drilling and how our wrong-headed energy policies are destined to lead to resource wars. Read more