Environmental activists turn to local organizing to fight corporate interests In the battle to protect the environment, activists are increasingly turning to a model of local organizing that mixes face-to-face democracy with the power to create law. Not e ...
26 May 2017 - Stephen Quirke
How one Portland woman has dedicated her life to saving animals from slaughter Dani Rukin’s legs are a little shaky as she approaches the front doors of a Safeway in Southeast Portland. She glances down at the sign in her hand – a picture of a bloated pig ...
25 May 2017 - Elizabeth Buelow
‘Drawdown’ lays out the top 80 solutions already underway Around the globe, people are cultivating food, harnessing energy and building communities using methods that have the combined potential to reverse global warming. Scaling up these methods would no ...
10 May 2017 - Emily Green
Bark invites Portlanders to free event addressing climate change, forest management If you live in Portland, chances are you’ve taken a short road trip east to enjoy the splendor of Mt. Hood National Forest. This federally managed chunk of Northwest Oreg ...
11 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
Municipal resistance is rising across the country as local communities try to preserve their environmental interests Two winters ago, the city of Portland made history. After years of work on climate resilience and efforts to lower the city’s carbon footp ...
5 Apr 2017 - Stephen Quirke
Concerned property owners in Coos County are pushing back after the blocked proposal resurges In the whirlwind of deregulation and corporate jubilance surrounding President Donald Trump, Canada-based Veresen Inc. hopes to find some new wind in its sails. ...
16 Mar 2017 - Stephen Quirke
Michelle Romero wants Oregon to follow California’s lead: Price carbon emissions and put the revenue back into communities most affected by climate change Lawmakers in Salem are considering five different bills with the same goal of significantly reducing ...
9 Mar 2017 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | We have a chance to respond to climate change and to advance housing justice At OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, we spent six years fighting for and winning inclusionary housing policies for Oregon’s cities. As partners in Anti-Displacement ...
2 Mar 2017 - Vivian Satterfield
They pulled off the most expansive, coordinated takeover of fossil fuel infrastructure ever attempted in the U.S. Leonard Higgins was starting to panic. The industrial chain he was attempting to cut loose was made of case-hardened steel. It was thicker a ...
1 Dec 2016 - Emily Green
With few shade trees and a lot of pavement, Portland’s hottest neighborhoods are also some of the city’s poorest Portland, unlike the rest of the nation, has had a relatively cool summer this year. Even so, 2016 has so far been the hottest year on record ...
1 Sep 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe