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Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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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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THE FAMILY FARMS MEASURE: JACKSON COUNTY TAKES ON GMOs

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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This May voters in Jackson County in Southern Oregon will be voting on the Family Farms Measure 15-119, a ballot measure that would ban genetically engineered crops from being grown in the county. If it passes, Jackson County will join three California Counties (Mendocino, ... Read more

Can Coal Ever Be Clean?

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Coal provides 40 percent of the world's electricity and 39 percent of global CO2 emissions. Mining coal is a deadly profession that destroys the natural environment. Transporting coal is also fraught with dangers and clean coal is a myth. But getting the world off coal is e... Read more

The Case Against Exporting Crude Oil

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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For nearly forty years there has been a ban on crude oil exports from the United States. This ban started in response to the 1973 Arab oil embargo, which sent world oil prices soaring. To shield the United States from the volatility of global oil markets, Congress enacted n... Read more

MORE ON THE MEGALOADS, with Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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The oil industry has targeted the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies as the most direct shipping route to move heavy equipment to Tar Sands operations in Northeastern Alberta. Since 2010 megaloads of enormous mining equipment have rumbled over winding mountain river cor... Read more

Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale: Big Oil and Bad Air on the Texas Prairie

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Deep in the heart of South Texas, oil and gas wells are sprouting at an unprecedented rate, making the Eagle Ford Shale one of the biggest energy booms in America. But the boom could be a bust for local residents who fear for their health, not from the water in the ground, ... Read more

THE CONTINUING SAGA OF LOGGING ON O & C LANDS

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Senator Ron Wyden is sponsoring legislation that would double the logging on the so-called O&C lands. It is estimated that approximately 200,000 acres of older forests currently protected by the Northwest Forest Plan would be shifted into logging, including clearcutting, un... Read more

Taking An Ethical Stand To Protect A Planet In Peril

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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In the face of environmental degradation and climate change, scientific knowledge alone does not show us the way to take a meaningful stand to protect our planet in peril. Nor do economic incentives or political initiatives. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with envir... Read more

Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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If we continue to allow climate change to continue unchecked we are actually making the choice to adapt to a warming world that most of us do not want to fathom. Except for a particular class of entrepreneurs who see the catastrophes of climate change as an exciting market ... Read more

The Smell of Disaster: West Virginia's Latest Toxic Spill

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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In early January, 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, a chemical used to process coal, spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, West Virginia. It turned out that little was known about the health hazards of the substance that contaminated the water supply for at least 300,000 ... Read more

Tale of Two Pipelines

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Every day the tar sands operations in Northeastern Alberta produce 2 million barrels of oil, and within a few years they are projected to double their production. But for tar sands oil production to remain profitable all this heavy crude oil must make its way to markets tha... Read more

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