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Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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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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THE FUTURE IS NOT ALL DOOMED - A Conversation with Carl Safina

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON APRIL 2, 2012 In this age of climate change, species extinction and exponentially expanding human population, it's hard not to feel like we're doomed. So it's important that we find voices to listen to that offer some glimmers of hope. On this episo... Read more

Trees In Paradise, Part Two

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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A few species of trees have come to define what was once the nearly treeless landscape of California. Only two of these iconic species are native to California - Coastal Redwoods and Giant Sequoias. The other three - Eucalyptus, Orange and Palms - have, like most of Califor... Read more

THE PIPELINE THAT NO ONE IS NOTICING

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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While the fate of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is caught in a fury of politics and headlines, last month the U.S. quietly approved another major border-crossing pipeline proposal. Kinder Morgan's Cochin Pipeline has been operating since 1979 between Ft. Saskatchew... Read more

SNAKE OIL: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future with Richard Heinberg

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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REBROADCAST OF PROGRAM ORIGINALLY AIRED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production and driven down energy costs. But it's also sparked a massive environmental backlash in communities ... Read more

TAR SANDS OIL COMING TO THE NORTHWEST

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Every day the 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 ... Read more

MEGALOADS MOVING THROUGH OREGON

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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For the past few years big oil companies have been developing strategies that would turn pristine river corridors in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies into an industrialized "high and wide corridor" for hauling enormous pieces of equipment to Tar Sands operations i... Read more

Nature Murals in City of Natural Wonders

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Portland is noted for its abundant urban natural areas and the wildlife that abounds in many spots not far from downtown. But the city is also becoming a center for nature murals that help residents become more aware of the wealth of nature areas around them. On this episo... Read more

Trees in Paradise: The Dreamscape and Treescape of California

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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California's treescape is largely a dreamscape defined mostly by non-native trees, which settlers planted to "improve" what they saw as brown barren treeless country. The principal native trees – coastal redwoods and sequoias were valued primarily as timber to build the inf... Read more

EMPIRE ANTARCTICA, an Interview with author Gavin Francis

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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The Halley Research Station, a profoundly isolated British research station in Antarctica, is so remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station than it is to bring someone out of Halley in the winter. A small group of people wint... Read more

The Invasion of Invasive Species In Urban Natural Areas

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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The past few summers people have flocked to the bluff above Oaks Bottom to admire the striking purple flowers that blanket the wetland. Although these flowers, known as purple loose strife, are beautiful, they should not be there. In fact they are a noxious invasive weed th... Read more