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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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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

GMOs IN OREGON - Update with Clint Lindsey

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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GMOs IN OREGON - Update with Clint LindseyLast May a mystery GMO wheat plant was discovered in a field in Eastern Oregon. The discovery surprised the farmer who found the plants because he had not planted the wheat. Plus GMO wheat cannot be grown commerically at this tim... Read more

Locus Focus on 09/16/13

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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    FIRE, WATER & BRIMSTONE The fire season has been intense around much of the country this summer, climaxing with the dramatic Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park. The third largest wildfire in California history, the fire threatened San Francisco's power grid and drink... Read more

Locus Focus on 09/09/13

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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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 anti-coal activists are still trying to fend of... Read more

Locus Focus on 09/02/13

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2013 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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From the series TUC Radio we hear Dr. Helen Caldicott's keynote presentation at a public forum in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 7, 2013. The organizer was an antinuclear alliance of mothers called Mom Loves Taiwan. They are campaigning to prevent the opening of yet another nu... Read more

Locus Focus on 08/26/13

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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Guest host Ross Freeman Levin invited local activist Pierre to discuss his efforts to end oppression in modern culture. They talked about uncompromising environmental activism, corporate greed, police repression, prison abolition and efforts to liberate the earth from ca... Read more