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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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Are GMOs Safe - A Science Debate

Airs at: Mon, 10/19/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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There appears to be a growing consensus among scientists that GMO food is safe to eat and that GMO opponents are "anti-science." GMO advocates lump GMO opponents with climate deniers and people who refuse to vaccinate their children. But does the science behind GMO safety a... Read more

Using RICO to Get Big Oil

Airs at: Mon, 10/12/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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An investigation by InsideClimate News has revealed that Exxon conducted research as far back as 1981, confirming that fossil fuels were playing a major role in causing climate change. But instead of using this research to alert the public about these concerns, the company ... Read more

WHERE THE DEAD PAUSE AND THE JAPANESE SAY GOODBYE

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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THIS PROGRAM WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON FEBRUARY 16, 2015 Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial of her Japanese ... Read more

The Koch Brothers and the Pacific Northwest

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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THIS PROGRAM WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST MARCH 9, 2015 Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, two of the richest people in the world, bankroll a network of organizations whose agenda is to gain indisputable control of the nation's political process. Their money supports ... Read more

KATRINA: After the Flood

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed New Orleans. Now ten years later parts of the city have not only recovered but thrive. Yet most African American communities, whether they are low income working class neighborhoods like the Lower Ninth Ward or more prosperou... Read more

THE END OF PLENTY: The Race to Feed a Crowded World

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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In the late 18th century, Robert Malthus, an English cleric and scholar, observed in his Essay on the Principle of Population that sooner or later the world's growing population would be checked by famine and disease. Then in the mid twentieth century along came the Green R... Read more

THE UNKNOWN CLIMATE with Dr. Alan Hastings and Dr. David Orr

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Locus Focus is off today. We'll hear an episode of Radio Ecoshock with host Alex Smith, called THE UNKNOWN CLIMATE (replay) Unknown tipping points, with Dr. Alan Hastings. Dr. David Orr, author of "Down to the Wire: confronting climate collapse."  http://www.ecoshock.org/ Read more

Climate Change and the Western Wildfires

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Locus Focus is off today. Instead we'll hear Radio EcoShock. Host Alex Smith presents a conference call from Climate Nexus on climate change and the Western wildfires: two scientists and a fire fighter talk latest on superfires. The guests are Mark Cochrane, Park Williams, ... Read more

Our Common Future Under Climate Change: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Kevin Anderson

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Barbara Bernstein is off today. Instead we'll hear a program from TUC Radio called "Our Common Future Under Climate Change."  In the early days of July, 2015, over 100 countries sent 2000 delegates to Paris to discuss the physical, economic and social aspects of climate cha... Read more

ENERGY, CREDIT AND THE END OF GROWTH

Airs at: Mon, 08/17/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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ORIGINALLY AIRED ON JULY 13, 2015 The prosperous economies and the culture of growth that industrialized nations take for normal, and that most other nations aspire to, rest on cheap energy. But now that we have tapped the easy energy stores, the push for continued growth ... Read more