When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our
grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient
products. Over time this system has encouraged us to know less and less about
where our food comes from and permitted us to expect mo...
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A “Sacrifice Zone” is a place where dangerous pollution, waste and
“undesirable impacts” of urban living is deposited, creating a myth that
the land is not valuable and that no one of importance lives there. In the
years, since Lewis and Clark, made their way up the Willame...
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This program aired originally on February 18, 2019
On the eve of her swearing in as Portland's first Black woman city council
member, JoAnn Hardesty wrote to her supporters: "On Wednesday, January 2nd at
9 AM, I will be officially sworn into office and take on the great ...
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On March 15 students around the world are going on strike. Inspired by
16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, they are walking out of school
to demand meaningful and impactful action on climate change. With their
futures at stake, young people are striking to call for...
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This program originally aired on February 11, 2019
As North America veers away from oil and coal, so-called natural gas is being
promoted as a green bridge fuel to a renewable future. Such is the reasoning
behind massive gas projects being proposed for the Pacific Northw...
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More than a decade ago, Oregon began putting laws on the books to limit
global warming pollution, but every time a bill is proposed to cap carbon
emissions while growing a clean economy and job market, it has been blocked
by major polluters' clout. This year, the state legi...
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For more than 14 years, southern Oregon communities have been fighting a
proposal to build the 229-mile Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline that
would cross more than 400 rivers and streams on its way across Southern
Oregon to the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal at the P...
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On the eve of her swearing in as Portland's first Black woman city council
member, JoAnn Hardesty wrote to her supporters: "On Wednesday, January 2nd at
9 AM, I will be officially sworn into office and take on the great challenge
ahead at City Hall. While I have no doubt t...
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As North America veers away from oil and coal, so-called natural gas is being
promoted as a green bridge fuel to a renewable future. Such is the reasoning
behind massive gas projects being proposed for the Pacific Northwest, such as
the world's largest methanol refinery in ...
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In 2014, a Chinese-backed company, Northwest Innovation Works, announced
that it planned to build the world's largest methanol refinery in Kalama,
Washington. This methanol would be shipped to China where it would be
processed into olefins to make plastic. Five years later ...
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