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  1. Oregon breweries unite to protect Owyhee Canyonlands

    Craft brewers have joined efforts to protect the largest swath of untouched and unprotected wilderness in the lower 48 states When President Barack Obama left the White House without declaring Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands a national monument, he left the l ...

    14 Feb 2017 - Emily Green

  2. Portland’s hot spots: Urban heat islands pose threat to lower-income residents

    With few shade trees and a lot of pavement, Portland’s hottest neighborhoods are also some of the city’s poorest Portland, unlike the rest of the nation, has had a relatively cool summer this year.  Even so, 2016 has so far been the hottest year on record ...

    1 Sep 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe

  3. Learning to speak the truth without punishing the listener

    BOOK REVIEW | 'I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up' by James Hoggan with Grania Litwin Gun control. Transgender rights. Black Lives Matter. The war on terrorism. There are many hot-button iss ...

    25 Aug 2016 - Gayle Clemans

  4. Director’s Desk: Housing is not the only social justice issue

    We have work to do to tackle many community problems, especially in the context of poverty Homelessness. Housing. Crisis.  Those three words have become commonplace in our city over the past three years.  It’s for good reason too. The skyrocketing rents a ...

    25 Aug 2016 - Israel Bayer

  5. The forester's dilemma

    Some timber producers say it's time for a cultural shift in how we think about logging and forests' role in the ecosystem The way Peter Hayes explains it, every time the timber industry makes a change to the way it harvests America’s forests, it ...

    18 Aug 2016 - Emily Green

  6. Saving Dory: Hollywood pet craze could spell trouble for ecosystem

    If people demand their own Dory as much as they wanted Nemo, the impact on the blue tang population could be devastating We’d all love to own a cute film animal, wouldn’t we? A rat that sits on your shoulder and helps you make the dinner, perhaps. Or a Mu ...

    11 Aug 2016 - Lucy Sweet

  7. Jeff Merkley: Oregon’s man of the hour

    Oregon's progressive U.S. senator is separating himself from the pack in the fight against global warming, housing crisis, political corruption U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has made a big splash in his eight years in the Senate. One of the Senate’s most pr ...

    3 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe

  8. John Ahni Schertow shines a spotlight on indigenous resistance

    Indigenous peoples’ struggles go unseen by much of the world. IC Magazine's editor is working to change that. On June 30, Carol Linnitt of the online news magazine DeSmog Canada reported that a controversial crude oil pipeline had just been defeated ...

    30 Jul 2016 - Stephen Quirke

  9. We all have a role in changing our environment | SR EDITORIAL

    This is no time for hand-wringing, finger-pointing and resignation over the horse that left the stable. We have to get back in our saddle. Maybe, finally, 2016 might be the year Portland creates real progress for the environment. The year has certainly pr ...

    16 Jun 2016 - SR editorial board

  10. DEQ resurfacing in Oregon

    Oregon’s agency responsible for monitoring water polluters hopes added positions will help it catch up on expired permits Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) grabbed the lifeline it sorely needed when legislators approved a $1.5 million pac ...

    28 Jul 2015 - Emily Green

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