Locus Focus

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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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New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City

Airs at: Mon, 11/17/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Portland, Oregon has been described as the city where young people come to retire, a place that celebrates what is becoming known as the Leisure Ethic. But the Leisure Ethic is not really about retiring, but about finding a way to live more simply, quietly and slowly, in... Read more

Saving the Tongass

Airs at: Mon, 11/10/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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At 16.8 million acres, the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is America’s largest national forest, and contains some of the most intact expanses of temperate rainforest remaining in the world today. In addition, the Tongass is a key contributor to long-term seq... Read more

THE ONCE AND FUTURE WORLD with J.B. MacKinnon

Airs at: Mon, 11/03/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This program was originally broadcast on October 28, 2013. We now live in a new geologic era shaped more by human forces than those of nature. But the environmental crisis we face today, has been underway for hundreds of years. Ours is now a '10 percent world'—a planet wi... Read more

Journalist Kathryn Miles on her book SUPERSTORM: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy

Airs at: Mon, 10/27/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with award-winning journalist Kathryn Miles, author of SUPERSTORM: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy, a moment-by-moment account of this catastrophic storm that took the nation by surprise. They'll talk about the fallibility of our ... Read more

GMO Labeling and Ballot Measure 92

Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Corporations like Monsanto and Pepisco are pumping millions of dollars into Oregon to defeat a measure on this election's ballot that would require labeling of genetically engineered raw and packaged food. Why is big ag so determined to stop GMO labeling? On this episode... Read more

The Bad Idea of Fracking, with Sandra Steingraber

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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REBROADCAST OF A PROGRAM ORIGINALLY AIRED ON FEBRUARY 25, 2013 In several recent speeches, President Obama has pleased many environmental activists when he pledged to seriously address the issue of climate change. But hidden within his promises of promoting renewable and ... Read more

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER

Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Sociologists have argued that we don't address global warming because it's too big and frightening to get our heads around. But if we don't take it seriously we're going to find ourselves and the planet in deep trouble. On this episode of Locus Focus we introduce a new t... Read more

HOW TO CHANGE MINDS ABOUT OUR CHANGING CLIMATE

Airs at: Mon, 09/29/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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During the past week we witnessed 400,000 people marching in the People's Climate March in New York City, while many more mobilized in cities around the world (including 4,000 in Portland). During the United Nations climate summit two days later President Obama gave a fo... Read more

Oil Trains: Coming Through a Community Near You

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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We've been covering oil trains for awhile on Locus Focus but until recently most news outlets carried few if any stories about what has now grown into a major concern. Across the United States and Canada worry about the danger of these barely regulated trains carrying po... Read more

Louisiana: An Intersection of Impending Disasters

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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In Louisiana the combined results of unfettered industrialization and climate change thrust the state toward ecological disaster. The region's impending environmental crises - sea level rise, disappearing coastal wetlands and the increasing threat of catastrophic hurrica... Read more