Bark invites Portlanders to free event addressing climate change, forest management If you live in Portland, chances are you’ve taken a short road trip east to enjoy the splendor of Mt. Hood National Forest. This federally managed chunk of Northwest Oreg ...
11 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
‘Drawdown’ lays out the top 80 solutions already underway 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 no ...
10 May 2017 - Emily Green
How one Portland woman has dedicated her life to saving animals from slaughter Dani Rukin’s legs are a little shaky as she approaches the front doors of a Safeway in Southeast Portland. She glances down at the sign in her hand – a picture of a bloated pig ...
25 May 2017 - Elizabeth Buelow
Environmental activists turn to local organizing to fight corporate interests In the battle to protect the environment, activists are increasingly turning to a model of local organizing that mixes face-to-face democracy with the power to create law. Not e ...
26 May 2017 - Stephen Quirke
He publicly walked away from an adviser role for the Environmental Protection Agency, but he's still dedicated to smart housing and healthy communities As a civil engineer, Carlos Martín could expect to get a few “likes” now and again on his social m ...
2 Jun 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
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
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
Sen. Alan Olsen joins the legislature’s advisory council on climate change Oregon’s Democratic Senate president appointed a climate change denier, Sen. Alan Olsen (R-Canby), to the Oregon Global Warming Commission last week. The commission was formed a de ...
31 Aug 2017 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | A proposed ballot measure would fund local and equitable investments in renewable energy and efficiency by imposing a tax on large corporations In the coming weeks, a diverse coalition of grassroots organizations will put forward a unique bal ...
27 Oct 2017 - Stephen Quirke
Politicians say thinning forests will help prevent ‘catastrophic’ fires. But ecologists say this season wasn’t the worst, and logging won’t stop it from happening again. Attorney Brenna Bell keeps a worn Trivial Pursuit card on her desk at Bark’s headquar ...
17 Nov 2017 - Emily Green