Thousands of students rally in the city to demand action on the global climate crisis Their message was loud and clear: The future of our planet requires action now. Thousands of students rallied in downtown Portland on Friday, Sept. 20, demanding that po ...
22 Sep 2019 - Eric Elmore
They all belong to Extinction Rebellion PDX, but to each of them, the fight for environmental justice is personal I am not an activist. I am not extreme. I am not radical. I am not one of “those” people. I am middle-of-the-road, logical, realistic. I am j ...
13 Sep 2019 - Eric Elmore
COMMENTARY | Portland is incapable of handling today’s homeless crisis; just imagine the future Cities, counties and states need a public planning process, including stakeholders, to mitigate the coming mass migration crisis. This is a challenge of chara ...
9 Aug 2019 - Dan Newth
The author of 2005’s ‘The Weather Makers’ reflects on his teenage years and what’s important to him now Scientist Tim Flannery was catapulted into the public eye in 2005 following the publication of “The Weather Makers.” Here, he looks back on his early l ...
5 Aug 2019 - Katherine Smyrk
COMMENTARY | With naysayers undermining the environment, it’s critical that this measure is carried out as intended In the months since voters resoundingly passed the Portland Clean Energy Fund, the impacts and urgency of the climate crisis have only grow ...
12 Jul 2019 - E.D. Mondainé and Adriana Voss-Andreae
The state has done little to prevent water scarcity as climate change and population growth take hold 2015 was not a good year for water in Oregon. It was the third year in a row of drought. As spring and summer slogged on, 25 counties across the state en ...
5 Jul 2019 - Emily Green
When the Legislature turns its back on Oregonians, it tacitly approves continued hardships for our next generation Years ago – among a collage of street art and other images – Street Roots had a poster on its wall quoting a Swahili proverb. It said, “When ...
28 Jun 2019 - SR editorial board
COMMENTARY | The scale of Extinction Rebellion’s latest protests has forced climate activism into the mainstream conversation Extinction Rebellion burst onto everybody’s screens with disruptions and mass arrests around the world. Radical disruptions in p ...
3 May 2019 - Alexander Hensby
Mark Gamba has reshaped his city’s politics. Now, he’s challenging Kurt Schrader in Oregon’s Fifth District. Milwaukie has gone through a radical transformation in recent years. This once blue collar, conservative-leaning Southeast suburb of Portland has ...
19 Apr 2019 - Emily Green
Even as climate change action grows increasingly urgent, the Columbia River corridor is poised to host more fossil fuel than ever Climate change advocacy is experiencing an unprecedented level of urgency nationwide, but on the lower Columbia River, critic ...
22 Mar 2019 - Stephen Quirke