Locus Focus

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Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Hosted by:

Barbara Bernstein

Produced by:

KBOO

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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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Topic tags:

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

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Year of the Fires

Airs at: Mon, 01/04/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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It’s hard to decide what was the most unbelievable event of 2020, in a year that never relented with terrifying surprises. There have been many moments when it felt that things will never be as they were, especially as the impacts of climate chaos grow more and more dram... Read more

Extinction of Experience with Robert Michael Pyle

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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THIS PROGRAM AIRED ORIGINALLY ON OCTOBER 19, 2020 This past October I had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Northwest environmental writer, poet, novelist and butterfly expert, Robert Michael Pyle, about his new book Nature Matrix. We had a free-wheeling conver... Read more

Becoming a Democracy

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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So the electoral college has met and elected Joe Biden president, and Mitch McConnell has finally congratulated Biden. After a close brush with the end of democracy in America, is all well now? Or does this close call actually amplify all the weaknesses and undemocratic ... Read more

CEI Hub: A Ticking Catastrophic Environmental Time Bomb

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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A vast array of tank farms, housing an even vaster array of toxic chemicals and fossil fuels, lines the Willamette River as you head north along highway 30 in Northwest Portland. Known as Oregon’s Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub, these tanks provide most of the fuel s... Read more

Sweeping Changes to the Columbia River Gorge Management Plan

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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This past October the Columbia River Gorge Commission adopted much needed revisions to the Management Plan for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, which had not been updated since 1991. These plan revisions address for the first time critical issues like clima... Read more

What Will the Future Hold Now?

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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While we continue to slog through the Covid Pandemic and the end of the Trump era, it’s hard not to think about what the future holds. And it’s even harder to imagine what that future may even be like after the dramatic changes we’ve been through during this trying year ... Read more

Fracked Gas on the Columbia

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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While all of us have been focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, a major recession, dramatic impacts of climate chaos and election madness, the fossil fuel industry continues its efforts to build fracked gas projects along the Columbia River. On this episode of Locus Focus w... Read more

Diversifying Power

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won the election and despite Donald Trump's ongoing hissy fits, tens of millions of Americans are celebrating this victory for democracy. Yet this victory is attenuated by the millions of Americans who still voted for Trump and the other ... Read more

Election Reflection 2020

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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In the midst of the most nerve wracking and unnerving election any of us in this country have ever experienced, how do we make sense of what’s going on, what should be going on and how not to go crazy keeping up with all the drama and suspense. On this episode of Locus F... Read more

Oaks Bottom: The Next Generation

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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If you walk along the bluff on Sellwood Blvd you are likely to see one of the neighborhood icons: a young man peering through a birding scope. Ezra Cohen is a fifteen year old student at the Portland Waldorf School and a passionate birder. For the last couple years he’s ... Read more

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