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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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Will the Pacific Northwest be Transformed into a Petrochemical Export Hub?

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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The Pacific Northwest is noted for its magnificent mountains, rivers, coastline and verdant farmland. The region also holds itself up as a model of environmental stewardship and sustainability. Yet at the same time, forces inside and outside of the Northwest are pushing for... Read more

The 1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption - Then and Now

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This May 18 marks the 35th anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, that blew the top 1,300 feet off the mountain and triggered the largest recorded landslide in the earth's history. The eruption disrupted the lives of thousands of people and wildlife and transfo... Read more

TASTY: The Art and Science of What We Eat

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Taste is often dismissed as the most primitive of senses, yet it's really the most complex and subtle. On this episode of Locus Focus we learn how taste originated, starting with flavor's primitive stirrings 500 million years ago, and many millions of years later with the t... Read more

CAN GEOENGINEERING SOLVE GLOBAL WARMING?

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Modified jets spewing sulfuric acid could haze the skies over the Arctic in a few years “for the price of a Hollywood blockbuster,” as physicist David Keith of Harvard University likes to say. That’s geoengineering, the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary e... Read more

Mount Polley copper/gold mine in B.C. set to reopen just 8 months after massive toxic spill

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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On August 4, 2014 a huge mine tailings pond breached, releasing an estimated 14.5 million cubic meters of toxic solid and liquid mine wastes into the pristine waters of the Fraser River watershed in southeastern British Columbia. Imperial Metals, which runs the Mount Polley... Read more

THE SWEAT GLANDS OF THE EARTH

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This program originally aired on February 2, 2015 The carbon emissions created by tropical deforestation are well known. Now a new study finds that forests are not just the lungs of the earth—they are the sweat glands. In other words, the moisture they move through their r... Read more

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Four Years Later with Charles Johnson of PSR

Airs at: Mon, 04/13/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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On March 11 of this year, exactly four years after the devastating nuclear disaster in Japan, Charles Johnson of Physicians for Social Responsibility talked about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the result of a major earthquake. This Locus Focus program offers excerpts fro... Read more

Winning Grassroots Campaigns on a Shoestring Budget: Jackson and Josephine Counties

Airs at: Mon, 04/06/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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A roundtable discussion from the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference held at the University of Oregon Law School in early March. Panelists include attorney Brent Foster; George Kimbrell, Senior Attorney, Center for Food Safety; Chris Hardy, Farmer, Our Family Farms... Read more

Reforesting the Tropics

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Since the dawn of civilization, humans have destroyed or badly damaged perhaps three-quarters of the world’s forests. While forests have been re-established in many regions across the Northern Hemisphere they are under increasing assault in the tropics. On this episode of L... Read more

Jackson County's Anti-GMO Ordinance Goes to Court

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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In May 2014, voters in Jackson County overwhelmingly approved Measure 15-119, banning most GMO crops in the county. The bi-partisan victory came despite a wave of opposition funding from the chemical industry, topping out at nearly $1 million. Now these same biotechnology i... Read more