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Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Hosted by: 
Barbara Bernstein
Produced by: 
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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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The Hanford Reservation: A Ticking Time Bomb of Contamination

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River in eastern Washington, is the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere. Clean up of its innumerous leaking tanks and unlined pits of radioactive waste has been moving at a glacial pace for forty ye... Read more

Attack of Fracked Gas in the Northwest

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Now that Northwest communities have turned back nearly every coal and oil project proposed for the region, the "natural" gas industry is upping its ante in the Northwest. Actually before massive oil and coal export terminals began to threaten Oregon and Washington, Liqui... Read more

The Nation's Largest Oil-By-Rail Terminal Meets its Maker

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For four and a half years community and climate activists, health care workers, teachers, longshoremen and first responders in the Portland-Vancouver region have been working hard to stop the largest oil-by-rail terminal in North America, from being built at the Port of ... Read more

The Plot to Loot America's Public Lands

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Last week, the bulk of the National Parks Service advisory board resigned en masse in condemnation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's abject indifference to climate change and the department's massive roll back of protections for public lands. This comes on top of the Tr... Read more

Oregon's Clean Energy Jobs Bill

Airs at: Mon, 01/22/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This spring, Oregon has the opportunity to take a major step in the transition from polluting energy to a clean energy future. The Clean Energy Jobs bill, currently being considered by the Oregon legislature, limits climate pollution and invests in clean energy strategie... Read more

The Thin Green Line in 2018

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Donald Trump is targeting the Pacific Northwest for accelerated fossil fuel development. He brought the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay back from the dead, designating it as the highest priority site for LNG development on the West Coast. And now he is opening up th... Read more

Opening the Trump Time Capsule

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Toward the end of 2016 Sightline Institute's Programs Director Eric de Place created a Trump Time Capsule project. He sent out an email to his friends and colleagues asking them to write down their predictions for the future, trying to envision the unusual events and dis... Read more

Junk Raft

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As you celebrate the holidays this week, we are rerunning this program about the insidious problems created by plastic pollution. Something to think about as you figure out how to dispose of all that holiday packaging. This program originally aired on November 6, 2017. ... Read more

Firestorm

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.” It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Ye... Read more

Portland Harbor Superfund Site

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Portland Harbor Superfund site is a highly contaminated stretch of the Willamette River that extends approximately 10 miles, beginning near the confluence with the Columbia River and stretching to the Fremont Bridge. In 2000 this area was designated a Federal Superfu... Read more