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Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Barbara Bernstein
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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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Activism, Agriculture, Science/Technology, Food, Global Affairs, Government/Politics, Environment/Climate
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The Coal Hard Truth

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In the past year the Northwest made major strides towards being coal-free, as deadlines were set to shut down the regions' last coal-fired power plants. But while the Northwest is moving away from relying on coal to generate its own electricity, there is a movement afoo... Read more

Locus Focus on 11/07/11

Airs at: Mon, 11/07/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Wild in the City One of Portland's best known attributes is the easy access to all kinds of spectacular nature. Mountains, rivers, the Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Coast are all within an easy drive from the city. One of Portland's best kept secrets is the abundance ... Read more

WILD IN THE CITY

Airs at: Mon, 11/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
One of Portland's best known attributes is the easy access to all kinds of spectacular nature. Mountains, rivers, the Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Coast are all within an easy drive from the city. One of Portland's best kept secrets is the abundance of natural are... Read more

Locus Focus on 10/31/11

Airs at: Mon, 10/31/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
THE MOVEMENT TO STOP THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE Alberta's Tar Sands operations have been stirring up controversy north of the border for some time now, but until recently there has been little talk south of the border about this last gasp of fossil fuel extraction. However,... Read more

THE MOVEMENT TO STOP THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

Airs at: Mon, 10/31/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Alberta's Tar Sands operations have been stirring up controversy north of the border for some time now, Last month awareness of Alberta's tar sands mining began to spread as thousands of activists gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, that is ... Read more

Locus Focus on 10/24/11

Airs at: Mon, 10/24/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
FELLING THE CONDIT DAM For a century dams have blocked salmon runs throughout the Pacific Northwest. These dams have wiped out or greatly reduced many of the salmon runs in the Columbia River Watershed, which was once the greatest salmon river in the west. But in the past f... Read more

FELLING THE CONDIT DAM

Airs at: Mon, 10/24/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For a century dams have blocked salmon runs throughout the Pacific Northwest. These dams have wiped out or greatly reduced many of the salmon runs in the Columbia River Watershed, which was once the greatest salmon river in the west. But in the past few years, some of th... Read more

Locus Focus on 10/17/11

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
DEEP FUTURE: THE NEXT 100,000 YEARS OF LIFE ON EARTH For the past few weeks we've been discussing relatively short term implications of climate change on a variety of ecosystems. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at how the course we take in the near future—whether to ... Read more

DEEP FUTURE: THE NEXT 100,000 YEARS OF LIFE ON EARTH

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For the past few weeks we've been discussing relatively short term implications of climate change on a variety of ecosystems. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at how the course we take in the near future—whether to curb our appetite for fossil fuels or continue the... Read more

Locus Focus on 10/10/11

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
EMPIRE OF THE BEETLE Author Andrew Nikiforuk on the Bark Beetle's Seige of North American Forests A bug the size of a rice kernel is killing off more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees in North America. Historically bark beetles are not pests. A bark beetle can probably h... Read more