Regional stakeholders hope to work together to address the impacts of homeless people living in public parks and forests Natural resource managers from around the Pacific Northwest met with environmental and homeless advocates Monday, Oct. 23, to find way ...
27 Oct 2017 - Emily Green
Sen. Alan Olsen joins the legislature’s advisory council on climate change Oregon’s Democratic Senate president appointed a climate change denier, Sen. Alan Olsen (R-Canby), to the Oregon Global Warming Commission last week. The commission was formed a de ...
31 Aug 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
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 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
The author of ‘Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants’ touts nature’s healing potential Scott Kloos has a profound affinity for plants. He’s the founder and director at The School of Forest Medicine, a founding member of Portland’s Elderberry School of Botani ...
19 May 2017 - Emily Green
‘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
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
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
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