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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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Lessons from Nature's Water Management

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Nature has ingenious methods of managing and delivering water in all its phases: precipitation, evaporation, absorption by plants, wetlands, rivers and lakes, and infiltration that recharges groundwater and aquifers. Yet in most urban environments, stormwater is seen as ... Read more

Cow Poop Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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  This program aired originally on April 7, 2025 Concentrated Animal Feed Operations have been around for a few decades. Basically concentration camps for cattle, pigs and chickens, these factory farms not only torture animals but also are major polluters and a principal... Read more

The Great White Bear

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The first evidence of Climate Chaos was felt mainly at the poles, as polar sea ice began to melt. Polar bears served as the first charismatic symbol of climate change but since media attention shifted from melting sea ice to wildfires, floods, heatwaves, and other impact... Read more

Breaking the Iron Wall on the Lower Willamette River

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Willamette River is a confluence of social, ecological, economic and historical significance and yet we continue to struggle to protect the very place that sustains us. But we are beginning to see a crack in the iron wall that has ruled the lower Willamette, created ... Read more

Zenith Gets Its Hearing

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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  This program originally aired on May 26, 2025   On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit Zen... Read more

Building the World We Believe In

Airs at: Mon, 06/02/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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In these disturbing times as we watch democracy crumble and wonder whom the oligarchs will go after next, how do we ground ourselves in the work we need to keep doing? First they come for the immigrants, then international students and now FBI agents are showing up at th... Read more

Zenith Gets Its Hearing

Airs at: Mon, 05/26/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit Zenith needs to expand its dangerous fuel facility in No... Read more

The Hype About Hydrogen

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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News reports claim that emerging technologies that will solve the climate crisis, such as hydrogen, are just around the corner. But in reality these technologies are risky, costly and don’t really work all that well. Hydrogen in particular would actually speed up climate... Read more

Arctic Passages

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries at the top of the world.  On this episode of Lo... Read more

Keeping Oregon Nuclear-Free

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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In 1980 Oregon voters overwhelmingly passed an initiative that bans any new nuclear reactors until the there is a permanent national nuclear waste repository. Since 1992 when the Trojan Nuclear power plant in Rainier, OR closed, the state has been nuclear-free. But over ... Read more