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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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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 mille... 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 Ins... 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 pr... 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... 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 ... 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 (Mendocin... Read more

Can Coal Ever Be Clean?

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Coal provides 40 percent of the world's electricity and 39 percent of global CO2 emissions. Mining coal is a deadly profession that destroys the natural environment. Transporting coal is also fraught with dangers and clean coal is a myth. But getting the world off coal i... Read more

The Case Against Exporting Crude Oil

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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For nearly forty years there has been a ban on crude oil exports from the United States. This ban started in response to the 1973 Arab oil embargo, which sent world oil prices soaring. To shield the United States from the volatility of global oil markets, Congress enacte... Read more

MORE ON THE MEGALOADS, with Wild Idaho Rising Tide

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

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The oil industry has targeted the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies as the most direct shipping route to move heavy equipment to Tar Sands operations in Northeastern Alberta. Since 2010 megaloads of enormous mining equipment have rumbled over winding mountain river ... Read more

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