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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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A Householder's Holiday Guide to the Universe

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Harriet Fasenfest, writer, cook, gardener, food preserver and backyard economist, returns to Locus Focus to talk about the art, economics and politics of householding and food preservation just in time for the holidays. Born and raised in the Bronx, Harriet Fasenfest has li... Read more

Locus Focus on 12/14/09

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
WOMEN & CLIMATE CHANGEWhy do women  hold the key to solving climate change. Guest Sarah Craven, chief of the United Nations Population Fund's Washington office, talks about how climate change is more than an issue of energy efficiency or industrial carbon emissions; it is a... Read more

Women and Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Why do women hold the key to solving climate change? Guest Sarah Craven, chief of the United Nations Population Fund's Washington office, talks about how climate change is more than an issue of energy efficiency or industrial carbon emissions; it is also an issue of populat... Read more

Locus Focus on 12/07/09

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Nuclear Power - Carbon-free Energy for the Future or Still Just a Bad Idea?A couple months ago, Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein leaped at the opportunity to interview Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog creator and innovative futurist. But Stewart has changed his views on... Read more

Nuclear Power - Carbon-free Energy for the Future or Still Just a Bad Idea?

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A couple months ago, Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein leaped at the opportunity to interview Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog creator and innovative futurist. But Stewart has changed his views on some key things since the heady days of the late 1960s and early 70s, when... Read more

Locus Focus on 11/30/09

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a ContinentIn these end days of peak oil, the Canadian province of Alberta is on a mission to replace Saudi Arabia as the world's major source of petroleum. The once pristine boreal forests of Northern Alberta are being transformed int... Read more

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In these end days of peak oil, the Canadian province of Alberta is on a mission to replace Saudi Arabia as the world's major source of petroleum. The once pristine boreal forests of Northern Alberta are being transformed into gigantic pit mines as energy companies rush to e... Read more

Locus Focus on 11/23/09

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Cap-and-trade systems are being touted across the country as the most likely way to reduce carbon emissions and they have been in practice in Europe for several years. But cap-and-trade is controversial in the eyes of some envrironmentalists—who see carbon trading as a form... Read more

Cap & Trade 101

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Cap-and-trade systems are being touted across the country as the most likely way to reduce carbon emissions and they have been in practice in Europe for several years. But cap-and-trade is controversial in the eyes of some envrironmentalists—who see carbon trading as a form... Read more

Locus Focus on 11/16/09

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2009 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
What is Plan B 4.0?Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, has come out with a new book PLAN B 4.0: MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION. This plan for how we can (and must) cut global emissions by 80% by the year 2020, suggests existing technologies and know-how ... Read more