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  1. How is your diet affecting climate change?

    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

  2. Plant a pollinator garden

    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

  3. Buzzworthy: The widely used pesticide that's killing Oregon bees

    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

  4. Easy backyard beekeeping for Oregonians

    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

  5. With ICE 'going after the farmworkers,' county jails make money

    Oregonians take pride in the state’s “sanctuary” posture, but immigrant detainees from ICE are being held in county jails on a daily basis – for money. A movement in Oregon and elsewhere is pushing to get them out. On a sunny Saturday in early May, Ramon ...

    17 May 2017 - Joanne Zuhl

  6. The true cost of cattle: A Street Roots investigation

    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

  7. The compassionate approach to climate change: a plant-based diet

    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

  8. USDA Organic: The fight for the label’s integrity

    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

  9. Dig deep! This farmer and activist has some radical ideas

    BOOK REVIEW | "Street Farm" author Michael Ableman is working to grow farmers in the city You might flip through this attractive volume in a bookstore. It has lots of colorful, glossy photos of beaming people of varying ethnicities tending lettu ...

    21 Sep 2017 - Susan Storer Clark

  10. 'Third World conditions': Many Oregon farmworkers live in substandard housing

    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

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