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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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BRINGING CLIMATE JUSTICE TO THE CLASSROOM

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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In what may be a first in the nation, the Portland, Oregon school board passed a sweeping “climate justice” resolution that commits the school district to “abandon the use of any adopted text material that is found to express doubt about the severity of the climate crisis o... Read more

THE GENIUS OF BIRDS

Airs at: Mon, 05/16/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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The idea that birds are not particularly smart is so culturally ingrained that we refer to someone who is not intelligent as “bird brained.” But researchers have found that birds are actually incredibly smart and have some abilities that far surpass that of humans. The Clar... Read more

THE BANKRUPTCY OF COAL

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Last month coal giant Peabody Coal filed for bankruptcy. Despite Donald Trump's vow to reopen coal mines if he is elected president, the coal industry needs a lot more than hollow campaign promises to stay alive. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Clark Williams-De... Read more

EARTHQUAKE TIME BOMBS

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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No one can predict when the next earthquake will strike. But according to Bob Yeats, a retired geology professor at Oregon State University, a knowledge of geology can help us predict where. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver. Like the recent seismic d... Read more

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: Mountains & the Environmental Movement

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Mountains have played a major role in the American psyche and the history of our country. Once perceived as places of evil or barriers to progress, the conquest of their peaks became a key component of westward expansion in the 19th century. Our fascination with mountains a... Read more

ONCE THEY WERE HATS: In Search of the Mighty Beaver

Airs at: Mon, 04/18/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pac... Read more

TESOR0-SAVAGE vs. THE THIN GREEN LINE

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Tesoro-Savage wants to build the North America's largest crude-by-rail export terminal in Vancouver, Washington. But many people in the community have a very different idea of the future they want for the region. At a public meeting on Tuesday, April 12, Port of Vancouver o... Read more

OIL PRESSURE ON THE NORTHWEST

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Pressure continues to turn the Pacific Northwest into a hub for fossil fuel exports. Yet, opponents of these proposed refineries, pipelines and export terminals have managed to stop or slow the progress of several of these projects. On this episode of Locus Focus, Eric de P... Read more

GMO-FREE JACKSON COUNTY

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Two years ago two Southern Oregon counties - Jackson and Josephine - passed initiatives banning GMO crops from being grown. After a year of lawsuits, Jackson County's anti-GMO initiative prevailed and now the Josephine County initiative may also become enforceable. On this ... Read more

A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Originally Broadcast on November 30, 2015   When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in Denton—the first Texas town to challe... Read more