A vast array of tank farms, housing an even vaster array of toxic chemicals
and fossil fuels, lines the Willamette River as you head north along highway
30 in Northwest Portland. Known as Oregon’s Critical Energy Infrastructure
Hub, these tanks provide most of the fuel stor...
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This past October the Columbia River Gorge Commission adopted much needed
revisions to the Management Plan for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic
Area, which had not been updated since 1991. These plan revisions address for
the first time critical issues like climate ...
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While we continue to slog through the Covid Pandemic and the end of the Trump
era, it’s hard not to think about what the future holds. And it’s even
harder to imagine what that future may even be like after the dramatic
changes we’ve been through during this trying year of ...
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While all of us have been focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, a major
recession, dramatic impacts of climate chaos and election madness, the fossil
fuel industry continues its efforts to build fracked gas projects along the
Columbia River.
On this episode of Locus Focus we t...
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won the election and despite Donald Trump's
ongoing hissy fits, tens of millions of Americans are celebrating this
victory for democracy. Yet this victory is attenuated by the millions of
Americans who still voted for Trump and the other lea...
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In the midst of the most nerve wracking and unnerving election any of us in
this country have ever experienced, how do we make sense of what’s going
on, what should be going on and how not to go crazy keeping up with all the
drama and suspense. On this episode of Locus Focu...
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If you walk along the bluff on Sellwood Blvd you are likely to see one of the
neighborhood icons: a young man peering through a birding scope. Ezra Cohen
is a fifteen year old student at the Portland Waldorf School and a passionate
birder. For the last couple years he’s bee...
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Verizon is planning to build a drone testing facility along the Willamette
River in North Portland. Until recently few people knew about this plan and
it seems that Verizon hoped to get the project approved away from the public
eye. However neighborhood activists got wind o...
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A couple weeks ago I had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Northwest
environmental writer, poet, novelist and butterfly expert, Robert Michael
Pyle, about his new book Nature Matrix. We had a free-wheeling
conversation, sitting on the front porch of my friend Susan Ba...
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This program originally aired on August 24, 2020
Right now salmon are making the miraculous journey from the Pacific Ocean, up
the Columbia, to the place each fish was born. All salmon ask for is a river
with cool flowing water. But because of the stagnant reservoirs beh...
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