Barbara Bernstein

Dec 7, 2023 | kboo.fm | Barbara Bernstein

For the past year a coalition of climate and social justice activists have been presenting a series of monthly Rumble On The River community forums that bring together expert voices to explain the risks of having 90% of Oregon’s fuel stored within city limits at the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub along the Willamette River. This month the Rumble broadens its focus to examine a wide array of false climate solutions.

Nov 22, 2023 | kboo.fm | Barbara Bernstein

The United States’ food system has become a corporate-dominated marketplace, strangled by an elite few, that holds farmers and consumers hostage to greed. Currently Congress is negotiating the 19th Farm Bill which is an opportunity to pass a fair Farm Bill for all, after decades of government-sponsored corporate consolidation of the companies that control our food system.

Nov 11, 2023 | kboo.fm | Barbara Bernstein

The Port of Columbia County, along the Columbia River northwest of Portland, has been trying to expand industrial development by rezoning valuable agricultural land for industrial use. But many farmers in the area have a different vision for the future of their community. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with two young farmers in Clatskanie, Jasmine Lillich and Brandon Schilling, who leading the way to make their vision a reality.

Nov 2, 2023 | kboo.fm | Barbara Bernstein

There is no question that we need to cut our carbon emissions substantially and quickly in order to prevent our planet from becoming uninhabitable. While the move to electrify transportation is an obvious step toward decarbonization, the fossil fuel industry has other ideas. In particular the promotion of renewable diesel and biofuels.

Oct 25, 2023 | kboo.fm | Barbara Bernstein

Last spring Zenith Energy, the Houston-based fossil fuel company who has been operating a massive oil-by-rail operation in Portland Harbor, met secretly with staff from city commissioner Dan Ryan's and Carmen Rubio's offices, to hammer out a backroom deal that granted the company a necessary permit to continue its operation. Now the ball is in the court of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, who has the authority to deny Zentih's Air Contaminant Discharge Permit application.