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Hosted by: 
Barbara Bernstein
Produced by: 
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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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Eagle Creek Fire

Airs at: Mon, 09/11/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On the afternoon of September 2, a group of teenagers thought it was exciting to hurl lit firecrackers into the Eagle Creek canyon in the Columbia River Gorge. Shortly after a number of hikers witnessed and heard the firecrackers, a wildfire erupted in the Eagle Creek ar... Read more

SACRIFICE ZONES

Airs at: Mon, 09/04/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. On this episode of Locus Focus we present SACRIFICE ZONES, Barbara's latest documentary, originally broadcast on KBOO on June 5, 2017. As the fossil fu... Read more

Fighting Goliath

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. On this episode of Locus Focus we present FIGHTING GOLIATH, produced and broadcast in 2014. The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on e... Read more

Sculpted By Fire

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. This week we present Sculpted By Fire, produced and initially broadcast in 2007. In mid July of 2002 a series of lightning strikes ignited a number of sm... Read more

Salmonlands

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. This week we present SALMONLANDS, produced in 2005. Without the Salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it. Yet since 1991, most of the sa... Read more

RIVERS THAT WERE

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries, beginning with RIVERS THAT WERE, produced in 2002, at a time when no one would have imagined that coal and oil trains would threaten the Columbia River ... Read more

KALAMA METHANOL REFINERY UPDATE

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As the fossil fuel industry targets the Pacific NW for massive fossil fuel development, communities across the region have drawn a thin green line of resistance. Most of these proposals are being vehemently opposed, but on either side of the Lower Columbia River, the lar... Read more

Portland's Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Ban Hits an Obstacle

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On July 19, 2017 the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) ruled that Portland’s Fossil Fuel Terminal Zoning Amendments, passed unanimously in December of 2016, is inconsistent with the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Portland’s fossil fuel policy intended to... Read more

Six Months of Trump

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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It's been nearly six months since Trump became president and over seven months since George Polisner, an Oracle senior executive, publicly resigned from the company after his boss joined Trump's transition team, pledging her support to the president-elect. Since then Geo... Read more

NORTHWEST TARGETS

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Please note: Locus Focus now starts at 10 am. For the past decade numerous communities across the Northwest have defended a thin green line, stopping or delaying fossil fuel projects that would dramatically alter the fabric of this region. But the fight is far from over. ... Read more