Locus Focus

This program aired originally on December 23, 2024

As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of

are more and larger server farms and nuclear power reactors to feed them

electricity. Yet that is the plan being hatched by Microsoft, Amazo...

This program aired originally on May 12, 2025

While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a

warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning

historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries ...

This program aired originally on October 7, 2024

Unpredictable and destructive weather events dramatically illustrate how

climate chaos is impacting us right now. Yet while there are real solutions

that will enable us to stop emitting greenhouse gases, the fossil fuel ...

This program aired originally on January 27, 2025

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 cl...

Portland now has a new form of government and a revamped city council that in

many respects represents the new vision that created this change in our city

government. But many tensions remain between some of the city council

visionaries and an established way of thinking...

For years the fossil fuel industry has set its sights on Port Westward, just

outside Clatskanie, Oregon, where there is a small industrial park along the

Columbia Estuary. Port Westward has very little industrial development on

what is primarily highly productive agricul...

In a growing number of communities across the United States, gas utilities,

supported by state legislatures, labor unions, environmental groups and other

stakeholders, are exploring Thermal Energy Networks (TENs) to decarbonize

buildings and create clean energy jobs. TEN...

Nature has ingenious methods of managing and delivering water in all its

phases: precipitation, evaporation, absorption by plants, wetlands, rivers

and lakes, and infiltration that recharges groundwater and aquifers. Yet in

most urban environments, stormwater is seen as ...

This program aired originally on April 7, 2025

Concentrated Animal Feed Operations have been around for a few decades.

Basically concentration camps for cattle, pigs and chickens, these factory

farms not only torture animals but also are major polluters and a principal...

The first evidence of Climate Chaos was felt mainly at the poles, as polar

sea ice began to melt. Polar bears served as the first charismatic symbol of

climate change but since media attention shifted from melting sea ice to

wildfires, floods, heatwaves, and other impact...