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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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The Sixth Extinction: An Interview with author Elizabeth Kolbert

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired on May 19, 2014 Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring... Read more

Part two: Portland forum on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Part two of a community forum recorded in Portland on June 19th 2014, on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its potential impact on local efforts to ban genetically modified organisms. Featured speakers were Julia DeGraw of Food and Water Watch; Madelyn Elder from Communica... Read more

Portland: TPP & GMOs - a Community Forum

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Part one of a community forum recorded in Portland on June 19th 2014, on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its potential impact on local efforts to ban genetically modified organisms. Featured speakers were Julia DeGraw of Food and Water Watch; Madelyn Elder from Communica... Read more

Locus Focus on 08/04/14

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Protecting Salmon from Pesticides

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Pesticides are a danger to salmon. Pesticide toxicity impacts the viability of salmon streams and communities dependent on salmon fisheries. Recently a coalition of advocates for alternatives to pesticides, conservation organizations, and fishing groups reached a significan... Read more

THE CARNIVORE'S MANIFESTO

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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According to Patrick Martins, founder of Heritage Radio USA and Slow Food USA, it's futile for us to deny that we are carnivores. But in the face of a fast-food takeover and the destructive forces of factory farming, we need to make smart, informed choices about the food we... Read more

Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America’s most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism, and feminist art. In her latest book Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politi... Read more

FIGHTING GOLIATH

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2014 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The frenetic exploitation of the Canadian Tar Sands and its rippling effect across the continent The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. These deposits of a sand-embedded solid form of low-grade oil cover an area the size of Florida. Everything ab... Read more

As if the Future Mattered, World Steward of Columbia Gorge Acts Locally, Globally

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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For over 30 years, World Steward has focussed on "the 'art and science' of managing resources as if the future mattered." Located in the Columbia Gorge, the center stewards farm and forestland, and fosters educational programs that engage students of all ages in the preserv... Read more

Andrew Kimbrell on Labeling GE Foods, Banning GMO Crops and Organics and Beyond

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2014 at 10:15am - 11:10am
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Guest host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Andrew Kimbrell. Founder and Executive Director of Center for Food Safety, about genetically engineered crops and food and the campaigns to label genetically engineered foods and ban genetically engineered crops.   Andrew Kimbrell ... Read more