Locus Focus

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

THIS SHOW ORIGINALLY AIRED ON AUGUST 3, 2020

 

In the midst of election season insanity, let's step back in time and forward

into the future by listening again to an interview I did with Chinook Elder

Sam Robinson in early August.

In mid July I went out to Chinook Point o...

For over five years the threat of being the site for the world’s largest

methanol refinery has loomed over the small community of Kalama, Washington,

40 miles north of Portland. This month the Washington Department of Ecology

released a new Draft Supplemental Environmental ...