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Hosted by: 
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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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

The Future of Food

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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What will the future of food look like? Some say the only way we will be able to feed ourselves in the future is through an expansion of agribusiness, reliant on GMOs and pesticides. But there is another vision of the future that involves creating crops that regenerate t... Read more

Learning Resiliency from Disaster

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On October 16 Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, was scheduled to come on this show to talk about a controversy that was raging over how to reach a 100% renewable future. Richard lives in Santa Rosa and when I contacted him a week before the sh... Read more

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Threatened Again

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For a while it seemed like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge had been saved from oil rigs. But since Trump was elected every bad idea we thought we'd blocked is back in play. After decades of bipartisan support for protecting one of the last pristine, untouched wild pl... Read more

MEGAFIRES

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Wildfire, like actors in a Greek drama, has two opposing faces: one of destruction and another of rejuvenation. In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of wildfire’s regenerative function in forest ecology, but the increase in large, intensely hot “megafire... Read more

JUNK RAFT

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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News media brought the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”—the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution in the ocean—into the public consciousness. But when Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna Cummins, and set out to study the world’s oceans wit... Read more

Fire, Flood & Trump

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As the world continues to take unnerving and unpredictable twists and turns, we check in again with Sightline Institute's Eric de Place, to gain some perspective on the craziness that abounds. We'll do a mash up everything that's frightening and confusing us - unpreceden... Read more

Eagle Creek Fire Seven Weeks Later

Airs at: Mon, 10/23/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This past week a fifteen year old boy from Vancouver, WA was charged with five misdemeanor counts for starting the Eagle Creek Fire on September 2. Now that the fire is mostly contained and the alleged culprit will be brought to trial, attention is focusing on post-fire ... Read more

Summer of Fire, Smoke and Ash

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Five weeks ago a massive fire roared through the western half of the Columbia River Gorge, while hundreds of thousands of acres burned across the rest of Oregon, and more than another million in Montana. This week massive wildfires erupted across far more populated areas... Read more

Snake River Dams, Hot Water & Salmon

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As some federal legislators move to stifle salmon recovery and science, Columbia Riverkeeper recently released new research on how the Snake River dams affect water temperature and salmon migration. In 2015, hot water killed 250,000 sockeye salmon in the Columbia River b... Read more