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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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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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Cristina Eisenberg on her new book, The Carnivore Way

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Guest host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Cristina Eisenberg about her new book, "The Carnivore Way: Coexisting with and Conserving North America's Predators." In "The Carnivore Way", Cristina Eisenberg argues for the necessity of top predators in large, undisturbed landsc... Read more

Dan Barber on "The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food"

Airs at: Mon, 06/02/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Chris Seigel guest hosts. He interviews James Beard award-winning Chef Dan Barber about his book THE THIRD PLATE: Field Notes on the Future of Food. In the book. Barber argues that the sustainable food movement needs to redefine its expectation of “what’s for dinner” to be... Read more

The Sixth Extinction: An Interview with author Elizabeth Kolbert

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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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 the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction ev... Read more

5/12 - The West Without Water

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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The extreme drought that California is currently enduring may be a harbinger of climatic conditions to come. Geologic evidence spanning the last 10,000 years indicates that extended droughts and catastrophic floods plagued the West with regularity over the past two millenni... Read more

The Sixth Extinction: A Conversation with author Elizabeth Kolbert

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, MAY 19 AT 10:15 AM. Read more

The World Banks' Willful Blindness

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Precious land is being swiped away from poor farmers in the developing world and it's not the work of corrupt dictators or Mother Nature. The culprit is the World Bank. On this episode of Locus Focus, we'll talk with Anuradha Mittal, executive director of the Oakland Instit... Read more

Measure 26-156, the Water District Initiative - on your ballot next month

Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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In a few weeks Portland voters will be voting on a measure that would remove Portland's Bureaus of Water and Environmental Services from city control and have them run instead by a new elected board. Proponents claim that this measure will cut Portland water rates and provi... Read more

The Himalayan Stove Project

Airs at: Mon, 04/14/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Primitive open-fire cooking methods used by people in remote regions of the High Himalayas are responsible for significant deforestation, toxic air pollution, global warming, and millions of premature deaths. One solution to this problem is providing clean-burning stoves to... Read more

THE KINGDOM OF RARITIES - A Conversation with author Eric Dinerstein

Airs at: Mon, 04/07/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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This program was originally broadcast on April 8, 2013 When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a crow or a robin than a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? How much does the rarity of a species have to... Read more

THE FAMILY FARMS MEASURE: JACKSON COUNTY TAKES ON GMOs

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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This May voters in Jackson County in Southern Oregon will be voting on the Family Farms Measure 15-119, a ballot measure that would ban genetically engineered crops from being grown in the county. If it passes, Jackson County will join three California Counties (Mendocino, ... Read more

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