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Creating a Sustainable Future One Solar Panel at a Time

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Locus Focus

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Mon, 09/14/2009

We can create a sustainable future one solar panel array at a time. Seattle solar designers/community activists Jeremy Smithson and Pam Burton talk with host Barbara Bernstein about the work they are doing on the individual, neighborhood and regional level to make solar energy, plug-in electric cars and other sustainable practices accessible and affordable for everyone.

42:21 minutes (38.78 MB)

Sustainable Food Policy and Practice

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Environment

program:

Locus Focus

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Mon, 09/21/2009

Thirty years ago Portland was ringed by working farms and the community garden program was beginning to blossom. Today community gardens are still alive and well throughout Portland, but much of the old farms at the edge of town are now covered with housing and commercial development. On this segment of Locus Focus, host Barbara Bernstein talks with Mayor Sam Adams, Zenger Farm's Jill Kuehler and Clare Carver with Big Table Farm in Gaston, about why we need to protect local farms close to and inside our city. We look at the connections between land use policies that preserve small family farms and the growing movement to eat local food, and maybe even grow our own. Find out why eating and farming sustainably is a revolutionary act.

40:26 minutes (37.01 MB)

Real Climate Action

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Environment

program:

Locus Focus

program date:

Mon, 09/28/2009

The pressure is on for the United States to emerge from the dark ages of the Bush years and finally pass meaningful legislation to address the coming climate change crisis. So what is happening with the federal Climate Bill and will it have the teeth it needs. Host Barbara Bernstein talks with listeners about what should be in the climate bill and what it will take to get it passed.

39:14 minutes (35.92 MB)

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Living Beyond the Barcode: Backyard Food Production & Preservation

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Environment

program:

Locus Focus

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Mon, 10/05/2009

Program:

Locus Focus

Air date:

Mon, 10/05/2009 - 10:15am - 11:00am

43:48 minutes (40.11 MB)

Friends of Family Farmers

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Environment

program:

Locus Focus

program date:

Mon, 10/19/2009

Eating locally has become a national movement. But how can we eat locally produced food if our nearby family farms are plowed under for subdivisions?

42:23 minutes (38.81 MB)

Portland's Urban Growth Boundary: Thirty Years Later

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Environment

program:

Locus Focus

program date:

Mon, 10/26/2009

In the late 1970s, an imaginary line was drawn around the Portland area. Inside the line, urban development could flourish. Outside that line the farms and forestland that characterize western Oregon would remain intact. This line, called the urban growth boundary, has saved much of the natural landscape that surrounds the city. But in the thirty years since the UGB was first drawn, it has expanded more than once. Now a lot of people in the region are saying it doesn't need to grow anymore.

54:16 minutes (49.68 MB)

CHASING MOLECULES

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Environment

program:

Locus Focus

program date:

Mon, 11/02/2009

How can green chemistry revolutionize the materials we make, how they're used, and the benefits to our health and the environment.

44:36 minutes (40.83 MB)

Farming Beyond the Barcode

program:

Locus Focus

program date:

Mon, 11/09/2009

Portland area farmer Clare Carver (Big Table Farm in Gaston) returns to Locus Focus for a chat with Joel Salatin, farmer, food choice advocate and dream-doer, who runs Polyface Farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. We'll discuss the sustainable agricultural methods they practice, based on polyculture and the interweaving roles of farm animals and crops.

39:35 minutes (36.24 MB)

WHAT IS PLAN B 4.0

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Environment

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Locus Focus

program date:

Mon, 11/16/2009

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 that will accomplish what political and industrial leaders around the world seem to find so daunting.

39:38 minutes (36.3 MB)

Cap & Trade 101

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Environment

program:

Locus Focus

program date:

Mon, 11/23/2009

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 of 21st century indulgences—as well as industrial polluters who believe cap-and-trade creates unwanted government regulation.