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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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Our Shrinking Urban Canopy

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For years Portland has been renowned for its vast urban canopy but in recent years that canopy is shrinking. As the climate crisis tightens its noose around our communities, trees are one of the most important allies we have to stave off the worst impacts from a heating pla... Read more

Portland City Council's Backroom Deal

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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In late August 2021, after months of grassroots pressure, Portland City Council rejected Zenith Energy's Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) that was required before the company could get a Clean Air permit from Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Despite Zenith... Read more

Flood Plain Resilience and Tree Codes on the Chopping Block

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Once Oregon and Portland were environmental leaders but recently many of the city and state's noteworthy projects and policies find themselves on a potential chopping block. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Bob Sallinger, Urban Conservation director with Willamet... Read more

Who Will Own the Forests

Airs at: Mon, 09/11/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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At the end of this month the World Forestry Center is sponsoring a conference called “Who Will Own the Forests.” For forest conservationists that’s a good question. On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk with Alex Budd, Alliance organizer for the Pacific NW Forest Climate ... Read more

Salmonlands

Airs at: Mon, 09/04/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Without the Salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it. Yet since 1991, most of the salmon runs in the Northwest have been listed as threatened or endangered. In 2005, I produced a documentary called Salmonlands, that takes us on a journey into the land of sal... Read more

Multnomah County vs. Big Oil, with John Wasiutynski

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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  This program originally aired on July 17, 2023 Last June Multnomah County filed suit against several of the largest fossil fuel and coal-producing corporations to hold them accountable for damages from the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome, one of the deadliest and most ... Read more

The Hottest Places in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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  This program originally aired on July 10. 2023 On June 28, 2021, Portland State Geography Professor Vivek Shandas drove around Portland on this hottest day ever recorded in the city, measuring the temperatures of the pavement in various neighborhoods around town. And wha... Read more

Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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  This Program Originally Aired on June 26, 2023 Throughout history, mankind has dammed rivers at the cost of wild fish, Indigenous peoples, forested land, and healthy watersheds. Adding to the havoc of today’s climate-change-induced weather extremes and water shortages, ... Read more

Listen to Youth

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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  This program originally aired on June 16, 2023 In recent years it’s becoming more and more obvious that youth are the real leaders of the climate movement. And for good reason, because they are the ones that are going to live with the climate mess that previous generatio... Read more

Portland International Raceway's Lethal Pollution

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Because of its toxicity, the sale of leaded gasoline in passenger cars was banned by the EPA in 1996. But its use was still allowed for “off-road” vehicles, such as farm machinery, marine engines and race cars. There are more than a dozen major race tracks around the United... Read more