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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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Columbia County: Agriculture vs. Industry

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Port Westward, owned and operated by the Port of St. Helens, is ground zero for a string of controversial fossil fuel developments, including fracked gas, coal, and oil terminals. The Port recently announced plans to renew a lease option with Northwest Innovation Works to b... Read more

Participatory Budgeting

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Participatory Budgeting is one of the fastest-growing municipal democratic reforms in the world. It began in Brazil in the late 1980s and has since spread to cities across the globe. But what is Participatory Budgeting, how does it work, and how is it different from other f... Read more

The Thin Green Line in 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This program originally aired on January 15, 2018.   Donald Trump is targeting the Pacific Northwest for accelerated fossil fuel development. He brought the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay back from the dead, designating it as the highest priority site for LNG develop... Read more

Redefining Tacoma

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Tacoma, Washington is one of the few cities in the Northwest where there is a long legacy of heavy industrial contamination. The fossil fuel industry plays a big role in the local economy, but Tacoma residents have also begun to fight back against further fossil fuel develo... Read more

Saving Tarboo Creek

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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When Scott Freeman and his family decided to transform a damaged creek in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula from a drainage ditch back into a stream that could again nurture salmon, they knew the task would be formidable and the rewards plentiful. In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott... Read more

Who Let Dr. Strangelove Write the Nuclear Posture Review?

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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In 2016 while on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump alarmed leaders throughout the world when he said during a Town Hall, that there are several scenarios in which nuclear weapons should be employed by the U.S., including against ISIS. "Somebody hits us within ... Read more

The LNG Terminal that Refuses to Die

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Before oil and coal project proposals started popping up in communities across the Pacific Northwest, plans to build Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminals were emerging along the coastline from Oregon to British Columbia. And now that nearly every proposed oil and coal termina... Read more

The Hanford Reservation: A Ticking Time Bomb of Contamination

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River in eastern Washington, is the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere. Clean up of its innumerous leaking tanks and unlined pits of radioactive waste has been moving at a glacial pace for forty years... Read more

Attack of Fracked Gas in the Northwest

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Now that Northwest communities have turned back nearly every coal and oil project proposed for the region, the "natural" gas industry is upping its ante in the Northwest. Actually before massive oil and coal export terminals began to threaten Oregon and Washington, Liquid N... Read more

The Nation's Largest Oil-By-Rail Terminal Meets its Maker

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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For four and a half years community and climate activists, health care workers, teachers, longshoremen and first responders in the Portland-Vancouver region have been working hard to stop the largest oil-by-rail terminal in North America, from being built at the Port of Va... Read more