Locus Focus

With the world's economy shut down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the

air is cleaner in normally polluted cities around the world. On this episode

of Locus Focus we talk with atmospheric scientist Heather Price about the

lessons we can glean from seeing air pollution...

While the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the nuclear and fossil

fuel industries are keeping busy trying to slip through their latest devious

plans. But activists are on to them, even from their socially distanced

locations. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk...

On April 22, 1970, millions of people around the world mobilized to celebrate

the first Earth Day, helping to kickstart the modern environmental movement.

On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk with Denis Hayes, who coordinated the

first Earth Day – as once again, all arou...

On April 22, 1970, millions of people around the world mobilized to celebrate

the first Earth Day, helping to kickstart the modern environmental movement.

On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk with Denis Hayes, who coordinated the

first Earth Day – as once again, all arou...

Now that everyone on the planet is facing the all-consuming threat of the

COVID-19 pandemic, we need to seriously face not only the need to

innovate our medical and social systems, but also how we make policy. If we

can figure out how to swiftly limit the deadly virus’s spr...

Just two months ago it looked like the Oregon Legislature was poised to pass

a slew of civil rights, environmental and equity bills. But this agenda was

blindsided, first by Republican legislators who once again fled the state to

protest the cap and trade bill. Their move s...

As the CoronaVirus pandemic transforms our increasingly surreal reality,

there is much confusion, misinformation and abject fear that gets in the way

of seriously tackling this crisis. Of course the Confuser-in-Chief is a

primary culprit in spreading dangerous misconception...

As we all hunker down in social isolation, in hope of staving off the worst

of the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we maintain our connections to community and

social activism? Since KBOO has shut down all volunteer operations, we are

producing our programming from our homes or o...

Last year residents of Randle, Washington, a small community in eastern Lewis

county nestled between Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens, learned that Crystal

Geyser had bought property to get access to spring water for a water bottling

plant. They immediately pressured their Co...

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation - along the Columbia River 200 miles upstream

from Portland, is one of the most contaminated places on the planet. Once a

bustling production facility for Plutonium and later a proposed site for the

United States' permanent nuclear waste repo...