To meet greenhouse gas emissions goals for 2050, we’ll need to change our eating habits, researcher Zak Accuardi explains If you want to significantly reduce your carbon footprint, it might be time to rethink your diet. Agriculture is responsible for enor ...
3 Mar 2016 - Emily Green
You can help declining bee and butterfly species by turning your backyard into a pollinator habitat Because many bee species native to Oregon are solitary bees with small flying ranges, your backyard could become a haven away from harmful pesticides if yo ...
15 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
Oregon lawmakers killed a bill to restrict neonicotinoids, but could you be doing more to help declining pollinator populations? In June 2013, an insecticide containing neonicotinoids caused a massive bumblebee die-off at a Target in Wilsonville. The chem ...
17 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
Forget honeybees; you can be a backyard beekeeper with minimal effort when you host native bees Backyard beekeeping is big in Portland, but it’s also increasing in popularity worldwide, bee educator Rebekah Golden says. She teaches classes on how to be a ...
18 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
How Oregon’s 1.3 million cows are affecting the state’s economic and ecologic future Oregon’s bovine businesses are booming. Cattle, dairy and hay for livestock feed have topped Oregon’s list of highest grossing agricultural commodities for six years runn ...
21 Jul 2017 - Emily Green
Sailesh Rao says global veganism would reverse global warming When he saw a public-access broadcast of Al Gore’s presentation on climate change in 2005, Sailesh Rao was working as an internet communications developer. An electrical engineer by training, R ...
29 Jul 2017 - Emily Green
How legal battles behind the label are defining what it takes to be certified Updated on Jan. 1, 2018. Ongoing legal battles over the laws governing the USDA Organic label could be cause for concern among consumers paying a premium price for organic produ ...
4 Aug 2017 - Emily Green
And advocates say new pesticide rules fall short of protecting their living areas To get to the Leary Road labor camp from downtown Woodburn, you have to drive past an expansive strip of “premium” retail outlet stores sitting on the west side of Interstat ...
3 Nov 2017 - Emily Green
Center for Food Safety and Cultivate Oregon take on the Trump administration for killing a regulation that would have bolstered organic-labeling standards Attorneys at the Center for Food Safety’s Portland office have taken the lead in a lawsuit filed aga ...
30 Mar 2018 - Emily Green
How farmworkers, nationally and in Oregon, are faring in an age of rising temperatures, immigration crack-downs, housing insecurity and uncertainty At the height of a sweltering afternoon in late July, more than a hundred people descended from a caravan o ...
3 Aug 2018 - Emily Green