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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 Bad Idea of Fracking, with Sandra Steingraber

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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REBROADCAST OF A PROGRAM ORIGINALLY AIRED ON FEBRUARY 25, 2013 In several recent speeches, President Obama has pleased many environmental activists when he pledged to seriously address the issue of climate change. But hidden within his promises of promoting renewable and ... Read more

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER

Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Sociologists have argued that we don't address global warming because it's too big and frightening to get our heads around. But if we don't take it seriously we're going to find ourselves and the planet in deep trouble. On this episode of Locus Focus we introduce a new t... Read more

HOW TO CHANGE MINDS ABOUT OUR CHANGING CLIMATE

Airs at: Mon, 09/29/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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During the past week we witnessed 400,000 people marching in the People's Climate March in New York City, while many more mobilized in cities around the world (including 4,000 in Portland). During the United Nations climate summit two days later President Obama gave a fo... Read more

Oil Trains: Coming Through a Community Near You

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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We've been covering oil trains for awhile on Locus Focus but until recently most news outlets carried few if any stories about what has now grown into a major concern. Across the United States and Canada worry about the danger of these barely regulated trains carrying po... Read more

Louisiana: An Intersection of Impending Disasters

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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In Louisiana the combined results of unfettered industrialization and climate change thrust the state toward ecological disaster. The region's impending environmental crises - sea level rise, disappearing coastal wetlands and the increasing threat of catastrophic hurrica... Read more

Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale: Big Oil and Bad Air on the Texas Prairie

Airs at: Mon, 09/08/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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THIS IS A REBROADCAST OF A PROGRAM THAT ORIGINALLY AIRED ON MARCH 3, 2014 Deep in the heart of South Texas, oil and gas wells are sprouting at an unprecedented rate, making the Eagle Ford Shale one of the biggest energy booms in America. But the boom could be a bust for l... Read more

Can Coal Ever Be Clean?

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired on March 24, 2014 Coal provides 40 percent of the world's electricity and 39 percent of global CO2emissions. Mining coal is a deadly profession that destroys the natural environment. Transporting coal is also fraugh... Read more

The Sixth Extinction: An Interview with author Elizabeth Kolbert

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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This is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired on May 19, 2014 Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitori... Read more

Part two: Portland forum on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Part two of a community forum recorded in Portland on June 19th 2014, on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its potential impact on local efforts to ban genetically modified organisms. Featured speakers were Julia DeGraw of Food and Water Watch; Madelyn Elder from Commun... Read more

Portland: TPP & GMOs - a Community Forum

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2014 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Part one of a community forum recorded in Portland on June 19th 2014, on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its potential impact on local efforts to ban genetically modified organisms. Featured speakers were Julia DeGraw of Food and Water Watch; Madelyn Elder from Commun... Read more