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A secret field that summons lightning. A massive spiral that disappears into a salt lake. A celestial observatory carved into a volcano. Meet the wild—and sometimes explosive—world of land art, where artists craft masterpieces with dynamite and bulldozers. In our Season 2 premiere, guest Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, takes us off road and into the minds of the artists who literally reshaped parts of the Southwest. These works aren’t meant to be easy to reach—or to explain—but they just might change how you see the world. Land art you’ll visit in this episode: - Double Negative and City by Michael Heizer (Garden Valley, Nevada) - Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (Great Salt Lake, Utah) - Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (Great Basin Desert, Utah) - Lightning Field by Walter De Maria (Catron County, New Mexico) - Roden Crater by James Turrell (Painted Desert, Arizona) Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.…
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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 at the top of the world. On this episode of Lo...
In 1980 Oregon voters overwhelmingly passed an initiative that bans any new nuclear reactors until the there is a permanent national nuclear waste repository. Since 1992 when the Trojan Nuclear power plant in Rainier, OR closed, the state has been nuclear-free. But over ...
For seven years Portlanders have been trying to stop Zenith Energy's oil trains from threatening the health and safety of our community. After nearly three years of community protests and public meetings, the City of Portland denied Zenith’s application for a Land Use Co...
Where once cows roamed on pastures and fields grew a variety of crops, now the principal crop is data centers. These massive industrial eyesores are becoming a fixture across Oregon’s rural and suburban landscapes. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Fred Huette, ...
Portland Urban Naturalist Mike Houck proclaimed the last time he was on Locus Focus: "We are living in a climate emergencty. It's time for Portland to act like it!" On this episode of Locus Focus Mike is joined by Dawn Uchiyama, former director of Portland's Bureau of E...
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 emitter of greenhouse gases. But in recent years...
Northwest Natural Gas's Smart Energy program advertises itself as a way for customers to “offset” their natural gas emissions by funding projects that the company says “reduce, or prevent the release of, greenhouse gases.” But in fact, as customers found out, Smart Energ...
More than three decades ago Urban Naturalist Mike Houck coined the term Greenfrastructure to describe the important role that urban green spaces play in providing climate resilience. Green infrastructure emphasizes the importance of viewing our parks, forests, wetlands a...
When voters overwhelmingly passed a new city charter in 2022, optimism abounded that the new form of government would more truly represent all of Portland, not just the business elite who had been running things pretty much for over 150 years. The city was supposed to be...
An unholy marriage between big tech and nukes threatens to upend the Pacific Northwest as we know it. 45 years ago, soon after a serious accident at one of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island caused the core to partially melt down, Oregonians overwhelmingly passed ...
Every year around this time environmental lawyers, organizers and activists converge on Eugene, Oregon for the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, held at the University of Oregon Law School. Three days of panel discussions run the gamut from Indigenous Rights...
Baltimore Woods is a green fringe of oak and maple trees towering over the neighborhood north of Cathedral Park. It anchors the Willamette bluff, standing as a buffer between riverside industry and downtown St. Johns residents. and providing shelter to native plants and ...
Portland has a new form of city government and one manifestation of this is the most progressive city council the city has seen in years. But beneath the veneer of a new governing structure an old entrenched bureaucracy appears to remain. This came into focus on February...
On the morning of February 3, right in the middle of Locus Focus, we learned that Portland's new mayor and acting city administrator approved the much contested Land Use Compatibility Statement for Zenith Energy's expansion along the banks of the Willamette River. This w...
For several years the city of Portland has been very opaque in its dealings with Zenith Energy. Two years ago, in a backroom deal, the city gave Zenith the green light to continue to expand its rail shipments of fossil fuels, under the guise that the company would switch...
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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 climate solutions—renewable diesel, hydrogen, renewabl...
Today, January 20, is a day that many of us have been dreading since the election. As we hurtle into the unknown Trumpian future, we really don’t know what’s in store, just how much we should be afraid, or how to muster a movement that will stand up to everything we fear...
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More than a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions produced around the world today come from the simple steps of growing, catching, processing, transporting, and cooking food—and then dealing with leftovers. This alarming statistic motivated ecologist Mark J. Easter to ...
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It's the time of year again when we look back at the past year and ahead to the new with Eric de Place, with Salish Strategies in Seattle. As the impending next Trump administration looms ever nearer, we talk about productive ways we can prepare for that unknown, and loo...
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