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Greenfrastructure

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2025/03/24

More than three decades ago Urban Naturalist Mike Houck coined the term Greenfrastructure to describe the important role that urban green spaces play in providing climate resilience. Green infrastructure emphasizes the importance of viewing our parks, forests, wetlands a...

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Who is Running Portland's City Government

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2025/03/17

When voters overwhelmingly passed a new city charter in 2022, optimism abounded that the new form of government would more truly represent all of Portland, not just the business elite who had been running things pretty much for over 150 years. The city was supposed to be...

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Nukes for Needless Energy Take 2

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2025/03/10

An unholy marriage between big tech and nukes threatens to upend the Pacific Northwest as we know it. 45 years ago, soon after a serious accident at one of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island caused the core to partially melt down, Oregonians overwhelmingly passed ...

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Friends of Baltimore Woods

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2025/02/24

Baltimore Woods is a green fringe of oak and maple trees towering over the neighborhood north of Cathedral Park. It anchors the Willamette bluff, standing as a buffer between riverside industry and downtown St. Johns residents. and providing shelter to native plants and ...

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The New Face of the Portland City Council

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2025/02/17

Portland has a new form of city government and one manifestation of this is the most progressive city council the city has seen in years. But beneath the veneer of a new governing structure an old entrenched bureaucracy appears to remain. This came into focus on February...

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What's Next with Zenith?

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2025/02/10

On the morning of February 3, right in the middle of Locus Focus, we learned that Portland's new mayor and acting city administrator approved the much contested Land Use Compatibility Statement for Zenith Energy's expansion along the banks of the Willamette River. This w...

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Big Vision for the Willamette

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2024/11/25

Today we honor Oregon Environment Icon Bob Sallinger, who died on October 30. For over 30 years Bob has been a regional fixture advocating and fighting to protect our rivers, wildlife, forests and communities from environmental and social degradation and injustice. One of h...

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Hydrogen Hype

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2024/10/07

Hurricane Helene dramatically illustrates how climate chaos is impacting us right now. Yet while there are real solutions that will enable us to stop emitting greenhouse gases, the fossil fuel industry continues to promote a menagerie of false solutions that do not actually...

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Why Portland's Economic Opportunity Analysis is so...

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2024/09/30

For decades powerful corporate industries have set the stage for much of the city’s development along the lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers through a little known process known as the Economic Opportunity Analysis, or EOA. Currently the Bureau of Planning and Sustainabi...

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The Mountain Valley Pipeline

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2024/08/19

This program aired originally on June 10, 2024 According to the fossil fuel industry, the Mountain Valley Pipeline is recognized as a critical infrastructure project, essential for our nation’s energy security and energy reliability. But for communities from West Vir...

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Dangerous Pipedreams

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2024/08/05

This program originally aired on May 13, 2024 We are at the precipice of a climate emergency. If we do not seriously begin to cut our carbon emissions now we will be entering an uncharted territory of climate chaos. But instead of accelerating the adoption of verified...

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Northwest Forest Update

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2024/07/29

There's a lot happening in our forests in the Northwest, even while our attention may be focused elsewhere (like on the upcoming elections). But now is a good time to check in with Alex Budd, Alliance Organizer with Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, about issues we...

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Rethinking and Reshaping Our Transportation System,...

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2024/06/03

Transportation generates the largest share of Oregon’s carbon emissions. It's one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize because it involves changing our daily lives. In order to achieve our climate goals, we need to not only drive less, but to act upon the realization that ...

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Gaslight: The Fight to Stop the Atlantic Coast PIpeline

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2024/05/27

While Oregonians were fighting to stop the behemoth Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove LNG Terminal in Southern Oregon, communities in Virginia were facing a similar struggle to stop an even larger and longer pipeline that would have crossed the Blue Ridge Mount...

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Biomass is not a Climate Solution

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2024/05/20

Drax, a major British global manufacturer of wood pellets for bioenergy, plans to build an industrial-scale wood pellet plant in Longview, Washington.. The proposed siting of the Longview facility, along with two proposed two large biomass mills in California, would mark a ...

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Dangerous Pipedreams

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2024/05/14

We are at the precipice of a climate emergency. If we do not seriously begin to cut our carbon emissions now we will be entering an uncharted territory of climate chaos. But instead of accelerating the adoption of verified and trusted climate solutions, governments and indu...

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Killing Salmon to Lose Money

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2024/05/06

The Willamette River Basin once supported tremendous salmon runs. Today, less than 10,000 wild Chinook salmon return each year to the Upper Willamette River basin, approximately a 97% reduction of the historic estimates. And one of the main culprits for the threatened extin...

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Zenith's Planned Expansion Brings New Threats

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2024/04/29

After promising to ditch crude oil, documents show that Zenith Energy intends to expand its Portland, OR, terminal while continuing to handle fossil fuels. The amount of liquid fuels passing through the terminal is projected to increase more than 2.5 times above 2022 levels...

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Drax and the Downside of Biomass

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2024/04/22

Woody Biomass is being promoted as a carbon neutral climate solution. Proposals for industrial scale wood pellet projects are popping up in California and Washington State, that claim they will help to protect forests and benefit rural communities—as well as combat climate ...

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Tree Sitting in the Poor Windy Timber Sale

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2024/04/15

On April 1, forest defenders launched a tree sit to stop old growth logging on federal Bureau of Land Management land in Southern Oregon. They are opposing the Poor Windy timber sale, which targets thousands of acres of mature and old growth forest. The timber sale is just ...

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