This spring communities across the country will be celebrating the 200th
birthday of Federick Law Olmsted, co-creator of New York City's Central Park
and numerous subsequent parks. Writer, literary publisher, philosopher,
abolitionist and committed social reformer, Olmsted ...
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The latest climate projections are increasingly dire as the world
climate clock now has only 7 years to reverse course. Increasingly large
and intense wildfires are one of the major changes we are seeing as climate
change accelerates. Megadroughts are also increasing which ...
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The regenerative farming movement has mostly centered around restoring soil
and ecosystem health and leaving our land, waters, and climate in better
shape for future generations. But regenerative farming also requires
reckoning with our nation’s agricultural history that is...
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The Pacific Northwest has fought off two methanol refineries in Washington
and an LNG Export terminal and pipeline in Coos Bay, but the fracked gas
industry still has this region in its crosshairs. TC Energy is full steam
ahead with plans to expand its Gas Transmission Nort...
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Oregon’s 2022 short legislative session is drawing to a close. While short
sessions, which happen during even years, often focus on budgets, unfinished
business, and a limited set of new policy ideas, this year is different.
Numerous bills have been introduced and are now m...
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The Oregon Department of Transportation, known to its friends as ODOT, has
been displeasing lots of people, whether it’s for their excessive postfire
logging along the Santiam Highway last year, or their latest deceptively
named proposal to expand Interstate 5, disguising i...
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The Mount Hood National Forest has been getting more and more overrun in
recent years by throngs who are loving it to death and this crush of humanity
has only become worse since Covid. On the one hand it's great to see more
people getting outdoors and (hopefully) appreciat...
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When it comes to tackling the climate crisis, there are already plenty of
reasons for Oregonians to take pride in our state. Earlier this year, the
Legislature passed three clean energy bills focused on energy affordability
and climate-smart housing. In 2018, Portland also ...
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At a critical bend in the Columbia River estuary, a company called NEXT
Renewable Fuels, Inc., wants to build a renewable diesel refinery. The
proposed refinery at Port Westward would be one of the largest producers of
renewable diesel on the West Coast. While renewable die...
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The Portland metro area is a land of water at the confluence of two of the
major rivers in the Pacific Northwest. The Chinookan People, who lived along
the Columbia and Willamette Rivers before European contact, were master canoe
builders, and the rivers were their highw...
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