Environment
The plan to save the world from climate change
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 not only stop greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere; it could actually draw more carbon dioxide back into the Earth’s reserves than the sum of all emissions.…
News
Exonerated after 20 years, Anna Vasquez seeks justice
Anna Vasquez and three of her friends – Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, and Kristie Mayhugh – spent more than a decade of their lives as convicted sex offenders for a crime that never happened. In 1997 and 1998, the quad was accused of performing drug-fueled, satanic ritualistic child rape at gunpoint. The four Latina women,…
Goodwill hutching: Alberta Free Hutch sticks it to gentrification
Between the brunch lines and boutique stores that have taken over Alberta Street stands a vivid roofed structure filled to the brim with clothing, tchotchkes, books and more, all open for taking and eager to find their new homes. Known as the Alberta Free Hutch, the entirely pro bono project was founded by Joseph Drushal…
Director’s Desk: Yes, Portland has the energy to fight homelessness
We’ve lost the general public’s support and political will on homelessness. I’ve been hearing these sentiments a lot lately in political circles. That’s nonsense. It’s true that many people are upset about homelessness in our community. It is also true that many people are upset about a whole range of problems facing our city, region…
Vendor Profiles
Vendor profile: ‘I worked using discipline and knowledge’
Saoirse-Seersha Bell is turning 60 and getting her life back, as an author, as a social activist and as a recent subject of a bikini photo shoot. “We’re all late bloomers in my family,” Saoirse said with a laugh. Her mother, who self-published 32 books after the age of 60, has inspired Saoirse to self-publish…
Housing
Homeless rates increasing across Europe
Homelessness grabs a lot of headlines in Portland, but it’s without question a global issue. The United States homeless figure continues to hover at more than a half a million people in recent years. Meanwhile, countries across Europe are seeing a disturbing trend. According to a new report from EU housing organization Feansta, European countries are facing…
Director’s Desk: Yes, Portland has the energy to fight homelessness
We’ve lost the general public’s support and political will on homelessness. I’ve been hearing these sentiments a lot lately in political circles. That’s nonsense. It’s true that many people are upset about homelessness in our community. It is also true that many people are upset about a whole range of problems facing our city, region…
Opinion
Editorial cartoon: May 5, 2017
Elizabeth Considine — the creator of Street Roots' editorial cartoon, Sheeptoast — was born in Portland and has been drawing since she could hold a pen. She loves theater, poetry, chickens, growing food, and walking her three dogs in the park. “I find inspiration in the strangeness of life and the character of human nature.…
Director’s Desk: Yes, Portland has the energy to fight homelessness
We’ve lost the general public’s support and political will on homelessness. I’ve been hearing these sentiments a lot lately in political circles. That’s nonsense. It’s true that many people are upset about homelessness in our community. It is also true that many people are upset about a whole range of problems facing our city, region…
