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Hosted by: 
Barbara Bernstein
Produced by: 
KBOO
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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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KBOO Stream 1
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Until World War II, Odessa was one of Europe's great multicultural cities, a place of optimism and light. For nearly a century its colorful street life inspired poets and writers like Alexander Pushkin, Mark Twain and Isaac Babel. It was also a major center of Jewish cul... Read more

Locus Focus on 02/28/11

Airs at: Mon, 02/28/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Act of Reclaiming Agriculture Oregon is blessed with many small family farms that have somehow managed to survive in a hostile environment dominated by behemoth industrial farming operations. Friends of Family Farmers, a statewide organization working to promote and ... Read more

The Act of Reclaiming Agriculture

Airs at: Mon, 02/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Oregon is blessed with many small family farms that have somehow managed to survive in a hostile environment dominated by behemoth industrial farming operations. Friends of Family Farmers, a statewide organization working to promote and protect socially responsible agric... Read more

FARMING BEYOND THE BARCODE

Airs at: Tue, 02/22/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
While Barbara was in Eugene this week for the Food Justice Conference (check out last week's Locus Focus to learn more about this event), we repeated a Locus Focus episode from November 2009 that features, Joel Salatin, farmer, food choice advocate and dream-doer, who ru... Read more

Locus Focus on 02/21/11

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Farming Beyond the Barcode Barbara is in Eugene this week for the Food Justice Conference (check out last week's Locus Focus to learn more about this event), so we're re-running a Locus Focus episode from November 2009 that features, Joel Salatin, farmer, food choice adv... Read more

Locus Focus on 02/14/11

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
FOOD JUSTICE - WHAT'S THAT?     Food Justice is a term that we're beginning to hear a lot, but what does it really mean. This week on Locus Focus we'll learn about a conference happening in Eugene, February 19 - 21, that explores many facets of food justice: How do we en... Read more

FOOD JUSTICE - WHAT'S THAT?

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Food Justice is a term that we're beginning to hear a lot, but what does it really mean. This week on Locus Focus we'll learn about a conference happening in Eugene, February 19 - 21, that explores many facets of food justice: How do we ensure that our food system is sus... Read more

Locus Focus on 02/07/11

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHNSON CREEK Last December three dead coho salmon were found 15 miles upstream along the banks of Johnson Creek. This once trashed out forgotten waterway flows 26 miles from its headwaters near the Sandy River to its confluence with the Willamette... Read more

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHNSON CREEK

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last December three dead coho salmon were found 15 miles upstream along the banks of Johnson Creek . This once trashed out forgotten waterway flows 26 miles from its headwaters near the Sandy River to its confluence with the Willamette River, passing through four cities ... Read more

Locus Focus on 01/31/11

Airs at: Mon, 01/31/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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GINK—Green Inclinations, No Kids A Conversation with GRIST.ORG'S Lisa Hymas According to a 2009 study by statisticians at Oregon State University, each child an American has increases his or her lifetime carbon emission by 570 percent—because kids are likely to one day hav... Read more