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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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For Now the Air is Cleaner

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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With the world's economy shut down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the air is cleaner in normally polluted cities around the world. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with atmospheric scientist Heather Price about the lessons we can glean from seeing air pollution... Read more

Trump's War on the Environment Using the Pandemic as Cover

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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While the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the nuclear and fossil fuel industries are keeping busy trying to slip through their latest devious plans. But activists are on to them, even from their socially distanced locations. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk... Read more

Earth Day Fifty Years Later - Rebroadcast

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On April 22, 1970, millions of people around the world mobilized to celebrate the first Earth Day, helping to kickstart the modern environmental movement. On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk with Denis Hayes, who coordinated the first Earth Day – as once again, all arou... Read more

Earth Day Fifty Years Later

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On April 22, 1970, millions of people around the world mobilized to celebrate the first Earth Day, helping to kickstart the modern environmental movement. On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk with Denis Hayes, who coordinated the first Earth Day – as once again, all arou... Read more

Policy Making in a Pandemic

Airs at: Mon, 04/13/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Now that everyone on the planet is facing the all-consuming threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to seriously face not only the need to innovate our medical and social systems, but also how we make policy. If we can figure out how to swiftly limit the deadly virus’s spr... Read more

Promoting a Progressive Agenda for Oregon in the Face of a Pandemic

Airs at: Mon, 04/06/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Just two months ago it looked like the Oregon Legislature was poised to pass a slew of civil rights, environmental and equity bills. But this agenda was blindsided, first by Republican legislators who once again fled the state to protest the cap and trade bill. Their move s... Read more

COVID-19: An Epidemiologist's View

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As the CoronaVirus pandemic transforms our increasingly surreal reality, there is much confusion, misinformation and abject fear that gets in the way of seriously tackling this crisis. Of course the Confuser-in-Chief is a primary culprit in spreading dangerous misconception... Read more

Activism in the Time of COVID-19

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As we all hunker down in social isolation, in hope of staving off the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we maintain our connections to community and social activism? Since KBOO has shut down all volunteer operations, we are producing our programming from our homes or o... Read more

Battling Bottled Water in Randle, Washington

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Last year residents of Randle, Washington, a small community in eastern Lewis county nestled between Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens, learned that Crystal Geyser had bought property to get access to spring water for a water bottling plant. They immediately pressured their Co... Read more

The Never-ending Saga of the Hanford Cleanup

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Hanford Nuclear Reservation - along the Columbia River 200 miles upstream from Portland, is one of the most contaminated places on the planet. Once a bustling production facility for Plutonium and later a proposed site for the United States' permanent nuclear waste repo... Read more