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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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The High Cost of Tar Sands Oil

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2014 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest and most polluting industrial project in the world. Impacts of tar sands development ripple out from the Northeast corner of Alberta, where the tar sands are extracted, to almost every region in North America. On this episode of Locu... Read more

Your Atomic Self

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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What do atoms have to do with your life? And how is it that even after we die we continue to exist for eternity through our atoms as they disperse back into the universe? On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Curt Stager, author of YOUR ATOMIC SELF: The Invisible ... Read more

The Bee: A Natural History

Airs at: Mon, 12/08/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Bees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that we rely on to survive. They are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants, and the economic contributions of these irreplaceable insects measure in the tens of billions of dollars each... Read more

CUB TURNS 30

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This month the Citizens' Utility Board of Oregon celebrates its 30th anniversary. CUB has come a long way from its grassroots founding through a ballot initiative in 1984. Then Oregon utilities fought against the measure with a well-funded campaign and slick TV ads argui... Read more

Richmond, California Beats Big Oil

Airs at: Mon, 11/24/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This year's midterm election offered few victories for progressives to savor. But despite the gloom there were successful progressive election results in several communities across the country. On this episode of Locus Focus we focus on one of these bright spots - Richmo... Read more

New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City

Airs at: Mon, 11/17/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Portland, Oregon has been described as the city where young people come to retire, a place that celebrates what is becoming known as the Leisure Ethic. But the Leisure Ethic is not really about retiring, but about finding a way to live more simply, quietly and slowly, in... Read more

Saving the Tongass

Airs at: Mon, 11/10/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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At 16.8 million acres, the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is America’s largest national forest, and contains some of the most intact expanses of temperate rainforest remaining in the world today. In addition, the Tongass is a key contributor to long-term seq... Read more

THE ONCE AND FUTURE WORLD with J.B. MacKinnon

Airs at: Mon, 11/03/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This program was originally broadcast on October 28, 2013. We now live in a new geologic era shaped more by human forces than those of nature. But the environmental crisis we face today, has been underway for hundreds of years. Ours is now a '10 percent world'—a planet wi... Read more

Journalist Kathryn Miles on her book SUPERSTORM: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy

Airs at: Mon, 10/27/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with award-winning journalist Kathryn Miles, author of SUPERSTORM: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy, a moment-by-moment account of this catastrophic storm that took the nation by surprise. They'll talk about the fallibility of our ... Read more

GMO Labeling and Ballot Measure 92

Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Corporations like Monsanto and Pepisco are pumping millions of dollars into Oregon to defeat a measure on this election's ballot that would require labeling of genetically engineered raw and packaged food. Why is big ag so determined to stop GMO labeling? On this episode... Read more