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Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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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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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

STORM SURGE

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Two years after Hurricane Sandy tore a swath of destruction and death across the Northeast, one haunting question remains: was it a freak of nature or was this devastating catastrophe a harbinger of what’s to come? On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with scientist Adam ... Read more

The Koch Brothers and the Pacific Northwest

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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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 efforts to undermine everything from social security... Read more

Propane In Portland

Airs at: Mon, 03/02/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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The largest pipeline company in the Alberta tar sands mining industry, Pembina, wants to export propane (a form of liquefied petroleum gas) from the Port of Portland’s Terminal 6 on the Columbia River to Asian markets. Pembina’s proposal for this terminal on Hayden Island w... Read more

Keeping Nestlé Out of the Gorge

Airs at: Mon, 02/23/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Nestlé has been attempting for more than five years to gain access to spring water used for a fish hatchery by the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife so they can establish a bottled water plant near Cascade Locks. In the face of intense public opposition to Nestlé's initi... Read more

WHERE THE DEAD PAUSE AND THE JAPANESE SAY GOODBYE

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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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 grandfather’s bones. At the same time, Mockett grieved for ... Read more

Of Ice and Men: A Conversation with McKenzie Funk

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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With the world’s easy oil supplies tapped out, the energy giant Royal Dutch Shell made an urgent, $6 billion bet on finding new reserves in one of Earth’s wildest environments—the frigid Arctic Ocean off Alaska. But the hunt for extreme oil pushed the world's biggest compan... Read more

THE SWEAT GLANDS OF THE EARTH

Airs at: Mon, 02/02/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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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 roots, trunks and leaves helps keep the planet cool ... Read more

Kinder Morgan's Louisiana Coal operations

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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This week on Locus Focus we continue the story of Kinder Morgan. This time we go to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, where Kinder Morgan's coal export terminal in Plaquemines Parish has been wreaking havoc on the lives and health of the residents of communities in this coastal ... Read more

Public Produce

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2015 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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How can public access to fresh produce improve urban dwellers’ quality of life? On this episode of Locus Focus we look at governmental and non-governmental efforts in communities across North America to transform pieces of public land into edible gardens and orchards. Darri... Read more

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