Street Smart Economics | In the throes of climate crisis, corporations are gambling with our lives The World Meteorological Organization has declared 2023 “the warmest year on record, by a huge margin.” Annual global carbon emissions also hit a new high, ...
21 Feb 2024 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COP 28, as the prior 27, failed to accomplish the most important goals Two weeks of intense negotiations in the United Arab Emirates resulted in progress and frustration. This is what 195 countries finally agreed to at COP 28: “We call on countries to con ...
20 Dec 2023 - Robin Hahnel
Street Smart Economics | Polluters try to sell you on the idea of buying a solution without seeking actionable change We are running out of time to avoid climate disaster. As signatories to the 2015 Paris Agreement, more than 190 governments have pledged ...
18 Oct 2023 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Investment in infrastructure needed for culverts, tunnels essential to Pacific salmon migration As the Biden administration prepares to make the biggest investment in U.S. infrastructure in more than a decade, there’s much discussion about how systems lik ...
24 Nov 2021 - Ashlee Abrantes
House Bill 2488 would codify environmental justice principles, but lawmakers are already limiting its scope Lisa Arkin is the executive director at Beyond Toxics. The Eugene-based nonprofit centers and uplifts voices that are most affected by pollution an ...
21 Apr 2021 - Lisa Arkin
COMMENTARY | When supporters speak to the threat to 'our way of life,' they are invoking the white supremacist history of Oregon The sun came out on a recent Thursday in Salem. For many of the attendees at the Timber Unity rally against cap-and- ...
21 Feb 2020 - Kaisa Schlarb
COMMENTARY | With naysayers undermining the environment, it’s critical that this measure is carried out as intended In the months since voters resoundingly passed the Portland Clean Energy Fund, the impacts and urgency of the climate crisis have only grow ...
12 Jul 2019 - E.D. Mondainé and Adriana Voss-Andreae
COMMENTARY | The scale of Extinction Rebellion’s latest protests has forced climate activism into the mainstream conversation Extinction Rebellion burst onto everybody’s screens with disruptions and mass arrests around the world. Radical disruptions in p ...
3 May 2019 - Alexander Hensby
COMMENTARY | Zombie Boy and youths who tattoo their faces bring to mind a more pressing issue that stares us in the face At the beginning of August, we heard of the tragic death of Rick Genest, who was better known under the pseudonym of Zombie Boy. This ...
23 Nov 2018 - Mathieu Thériault
COMMENTARY | Region's most vulnerable have long suffered consequences of pollution in the Willamette River, and they, too, will be most implicated in Superfund clean-up Hundreds of Portlanders will join the “Big Float” for its eighth year on July 14 ...
13 Jul 2018 - Erin Goodling and Donovan Scribes