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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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Topic tags: 
Activism, Agriculture, Science/Technology, Food, Global Affairs, Government/Politics, Environment/Climate
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KBOO Stream 1
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Locus Focus on 09/26/11

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
OUR DYING PLANET - An interview with ecologist Peter Sale Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet, a potential eradication being caused by us. Human activities are creating enormous changes on this planet which sustains us... Read more

OUR DYING PLANET - An interview with ecologist Peter Sale

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet, a potential eradication being caused by us. Human activities are creating enormous changes on this planet which sustains us, and the alarming plight of coral reefs is just one... Read more

Locus Focus on 09/19/11

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
World Population Hits 7 Billion - A Conversation with William Ryerson The United Nations is predicting that world population will reach 7 billion on October 31, 2011. Despite evidence that adding 225,000 more people every day to our population is stressing out the world—ev... Read more

World Population Hits 7 Billion - A Conversation with William Ryerson

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The United Nations is predicting that world population will reach 7 billion on October 31, 2011. Despite evidence that adding 225,000 more people every day to our population is stressing out the world—evinced by soaring food and gas prices and water shortages—the envi... Read more

Locus Focus on 09/12/11

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The End Of Growth - An Interview with Richard Heinberg Conventional economic theory flies in the face of ecological reality. How can a global economy premised on perpetual growth survive in a closed system, which is our planet earth? On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk... Read more

The End Of Growth - An Interview with Richard Heinberg

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Conventional economic theory flies in the face of ecological reality. How can a global economy premised on perpetual growth survive in a closed system, which is our planet earth? On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk with Richard Heinberg, author of a new book, The ... Read more

Locus Focus on 08/29/11

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Steven Thompson, an American living in Japan, who is working on issues related to the radiation coming from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant. Thompson recently visited the area surrounding Fukushima. He will talk about current conditi... Read more

An American in Japan: Current conditions in Fukushima

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Steven Thompson, an American living in Japan, who is working on issues related to the radiation coming from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant. Thompson recently visited the area surrounding Fukushima. He will talk about current conditi... Read more

Locus Focus on 08/22/11

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2011 at 10:45am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Locus Focus is on break. We'll hear If You Love This Planet with Dr. Helen Caldicott. Dr Caldicott talks to Registered Geologist, Bob Gilkeson, about Los Alamos National Laboritory. The site is vulnerable to seismic activity, causing concerns about a new nuclear facili... Read more

Locus Focus on 08/15/11

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Guest host Stephanie Potter interviews Barbara Ford, Marilee Dea, and Pat Sanders who are going as part of a contingent of "Gray Haired Ladies" to Washington DC to protest  the Keystone XL Pipeline,  a proposed 1,700 mile pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Cana... Read more