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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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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 support... 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 prospe... 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 Gree... 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 c... 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 grow... Read more

THE GREAT TRANSITION

Airs at: Mon, 08/10/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This program originally aired on June 1, 2015 The age of oil and coal is rapidly coming to an end. Mounting scientific evidence has dispelled all doubt that the byproducts of these fossil fuels are dramatically increasing the rate of climate change and all its devastati... Read more

Nature's Phoenix

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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In recent years scientific perceptions of wild fires have changed. Once viewed as an anathema to healthy forests, now fire is recognized as a vital component of forest health. Yet severe fires are still feared by most forest managers, who do their best to prevent them. O... Read more

SHELL OIL IN PORTLAND AND SEATTLE

Airs at: Mon, 07/27/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s second largest company, wants to find oil under the seabed off the coast of Alaska. After a disastrous attempt at Arctic drilling in 2012, the company has returned this summer to try again to drill exploratory wells. But just like before, t... Read more