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Hosted by: 
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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Locus Focus on 07/23/08

Airs at: Wed, 07/23/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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This week on Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein is joined by Frida Berrigan, Senior Program Associate, Arms and Security Initiative, with The New America Foundation. We'll be talking about repercussions of Obama's trip to Iraq and Afghanistan on the potential of actually en... Read more

Frida Berrigan from The New America Foundation on The War.

Airs at: Tue, 07/22/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Hosted by: Barbara Bernstein Obama's trip to the mideast This week on Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein is joined by Frida Berrigan, Senior Program Associate, Arms and Security Initiative, with The New America Foundation. We'll be talking about repercussions of Obama's tri... Read more

Locus Focus: Columbia River Crossing and the Obama Cartoon

Airs at: Tue, 07/15/2008 at 5:00pm
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Host Barbara Bernstein leads a discussion with our listeners on two topics, one National, one Local: The Columbia River Crossing and the recent New Yorker cover, featuring a cartoon of Barack Obama and his wife dressed as terrorists. Read more

Locus Focus on 07/09/08

Airs at: Wed, 07/09/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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Jerry DeWitt, Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, joins host Barbara Bernstein in a discussion about the impacts of climate change and agricultural practices on recent flooding in the midwest. Read more

Jerry DeWitt, Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Airs at: Tue, 07/08/2008 at 5:00pm
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Jerry DeWitt (bio), Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, joins host Barbara Bernstein in a discussion about the impacts of climate change and agricultural practices on recent flooding in the midwest. Read more

Locus Focus on 07/02/08

Airs at: Wed, 07/02/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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Host Barbara Bernstein speaks with Michael Klare, author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (2008), about the hype and myth of off-shore oil drilling and how our wrong-headed energy policies are destined to lead to resource wars. Read more

Dr. Matthew Helmers on US Agriculture today

Airs at: Tue, 06/24/2008 at 5:00pm
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Host Barbara Bernstein talks about the recent severe weather and the impacts on Agriculture with Dr. Matthew Helmers, Assistant Professor at Iowa State's Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, and an expert in Agricultural and Water Resources. Read more

Locus Focus on 06/18/08

Airs at: Wed, 06/18/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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Host Barbara Bernstein speaks with activist and author Tom Hayden. Hayden was a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1961, and author of its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement, described by Howard Zinn as "one of those historic documents which r... Read more

Tom Hayden and Elisabeth de la Vega - IMPEACH!!!

Airs at: Tue, 06/17/2008 at 5:00pm
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Host Barbara Bernstein speaks with activist and author Tom Hayden. Hayden was a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1961, and author of its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement, described by Howard Zinn as "one of those historic documents which r... Read more

Locus Focus on 06/11/08

Airs at: Wed, 06/11/2008 at 7:30am - 9:00am
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Host Barbara Bernstein talks about organic farming certification with Chris Schreiner of Oregon Tilth, Moreland Farmers' Market Manager Laura Wendel and several farmers who have gone through the federal organic certification process, and some who have not. Read more