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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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Trees in Paradise: The Dreamscape and Treescape of California

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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California's treescape is largely a dreamscape defined mostly by non-native trees, which settlers planted to "improve" what they saw as brown barren treeless country. The principal native trees – coastal redwoods and sequoias were valued primarily as timber to build the ... Read more

EMPIRE ANTARCTICA, an Interview with author Gavin Francis

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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The Halley Research Station, a profoundly isolated British research station in Antarctica, is so remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station than it is to bring someone out of Halley in the winter. A small group of people w... Read more

The Invasion of Invasive Species In Urban Natural Areas

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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The past few summers people have flocked to the bluff above Oaks Bottom to admire the striking purple flowers that blanket the wetland. Although these flowers, known as purple loose strife, are beautiful, they should not be there. In fact they are a noxious invasive weed... Read more

The Grassroots Battle Against Big Oil - with Wen Stephenson

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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A year ago Texas Activists with Tar Sands Blockade locked themselves to equipment being used to build the Keystone XL pipeline, near Nacogdoches, Texas. A year later the battle over the pipeline is still raging but we hear less about the dramatic actions that made headli... Read more

COAL TRAINS, OIL TRAINS, PIPELINES coming through the Pacific Northwest

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Originally broadcast on September 9, 2013 COAL TRAINS, OIL TRAINS, PIPELINES coming through the Pacific Northwest This summer the port of Vancouver, Washington approved plans to build a terminal for oil trains, over widespread opposition from the community. Meanwhile ant... Read more

THE ONCE AND FUTURE WORLD with J.B. MacKinnon

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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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 with just one-tenth of its former abundance. On this episod... Read more

Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, too often it does jus... Read more

WHAT HAS NATURE EVER DONE FOR US? HOW MONEY REALLY DOES GROW ON TREES

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, nature provides the "natural services" that keep the economy going - as well as ecological balance. From the recycling miracles i the soil to an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests, it has been estimated that these and ot... Read more

SHOULD PORTLAND CREATE A SPECIAL DISTRICT TO RUN PUBLIC UTILITIES?

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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An effort is underfoot to wrest control of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services and Water Bureau from the Portland City Council and transfer them to an obscure board lacking transparency and accountability. This effort masquerades as a populist movement but is in ... Read more

SNAKE OIL: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future with Richard Heinberg

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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SNAKE OIL: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future with Richard Heinberg The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production and driven down energy costs. But it's also sparked a massive envir... Read more