Locus Focus

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Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Hosted by:

Barbara Bernstein

Produced by:

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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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Gaslighting Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Northwest Natural Gas's Smart Energy program advertises itself as a way for customers to “offset” their natural gas emissions by funding projects that the company says “reduce, or prevent the release of, greenhouse gases.” But in fact, as customers found out, Smart Energ... Read more

Greenfrastructure

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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More than three decades ago Urban Naturalist Mike Houck coined the term Greenfrastructure to describe the important role that urban green spaces play in providing climate resilience. Green infrastructure emphasizes the importance of viewing our parks, forests, wetlands a... Read more

Who is Running Portland's City Government

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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When voters overwhelmingly passed a new city charter in 2022, optimism abounded that the new form of government would more truly represent all of Portland, not just the business elite who had been running things pretty much for over 150 years. The city was supposed to be... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy Take 2

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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An unholy marriage between big tech and nukes threatens to upend the Pacific Northwest as we know it. 45 years ago, soon after a serious accident at one of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island caused the core to partially melt down, Oregonians overwhelmingly passed ... Read more

PIELC Report Back

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Every year around this time environmental lawyers, organizers and activists converge on Eugene, Oregon for the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, held at the University of Oregon Law School. Three days of panel discussions run the gamut from Indigenous Rights... Read more

Friends of Baltimore Woods

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Baltimore Woods is a green fringe of oak and maple trees towering over the neighborhood north of Cathedral Park. It anchors the Willamette bluff, standing as a buffer between riverside industry and downtown St. Johns residents. and providing shelter to native plants and ... Read more

The New Face of the Portland City Council

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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Portland has a new form of city government and one manifestation of this is the most progressive city council the city has seen in years. But beneath the veneer of a new governing structure an old entrenched bureaucracy appears to remain. This came into focus on February... Read more

What's Next with Zenith?

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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On the morning of February 3, right in the middle of Locus Focus, we learned that Portland's new mayor and acting city administrator approved the much contested Land Use Compatibility Statement for Zenith Energy's expansion along the banks of the Willamette River. This w... Read more

Shining a Light on Portland's Dirty Secrets about Zenith Energy

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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For several years the city of Portland has been very opaque in its dealings with Zenith Energy. Two years ago, in a backroom deal, the city gave Zenith the green light to continue to expand its rail shipments of fossil fuels, under the guise that the company would switch... Read more

Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am

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As we confront the existential crisis of climate chaos there are two paths we can take. We can make dramatic changes that meaningfully reduce carbon emissions. Or we can accept the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving climate solutions—renewable diesel, hydrogen, renewabl... Read more

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