Environment
The compassionate approach to climate change: a plant-based diet
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, Rao had emigrated from India to study at Stony Brook University in New York, later earning a Ph.D. at Stanford University. In the late 1990s, he…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: Reunion on the horizon
I call Portland my best of times, my worst of times,” said Loretta H. Loretta and her husband, Andy, recently lost their jobs as co-managers at a local apartment complex. Loretta said she spoke up about rent and repair issues for tenants and was fired. As a result, they also lost the housing that…
News
Born into ‘1 percent,’ Chuck Collins has strong words for the privileged
Chuck Collins is the great-grandson of Oscar Mayer. A member of the economic elite, you might be tempted to stereotype him as callous. But in 1986, he donated his inheritance of half a million dollars to charitable organizations rather than letting it mature to the $6 million or $7 million it would be today. Today,…
Housing
People on, off the streets work together on universal problem: garbage
During the spring and summer last year, Gilligan, a 40-year-old homeless man who lives in the Parkrose neighborhood along the Columbia Slough, took handfuls of garbage bags to the homeless camps throughout the Parkrose neighborhood. While handing the bags out, he and other volunteers reminded the campers that their garbage had to be bagged…
Opinion
Editorial cartoon: July 28, 2017
Portland native Elizabeth Considine is the creator of Street Roots' editorial cartoon, Sheeptoast. Want to see more Sheeptoast cartoons? VIEW OUR GALLERY
