Portland, Ore. Three activists with Cascade Climate Network and Portland Rising Tide occupied a billboard at the corner of SE 12th and Sandy Blvd. Sunday afternoon to protest proposals for coal export terminals across the Northwest. The activists altered the billboard with a giant banner that listed five potential coal export sites along the Oregon and Washington coast, [...]
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Don’t Bottle the Skagit River!
This piece originally appeared on readthedirt.org. by: Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin: Sandra Spargo Editor’s Note: Sandra Spargo, a dedicated citizen, clues us in on a proposed bottled water/food manufacturing plant in Anacortes, Washington as well as the struggle to give the people of Anacortes a say in the decision to deny or [...]
Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency Sued for Violating State Public Records Act
Agency refused to provide public records regarding controversial draft rule purportedly intended to address hazardous air pollution from dairies YAKIMA, WA – The Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency (YRCAA) was served with a lawsuit today alleging that it violated the state Public Records Act (PRA) by refusing to copy and email electronic public records to an [...]
RED ALERT! Black Mesa/Big Mountain livestock impoundments happening now!
Alert! Take Action Now! In the last two days, livestock impoundment crews have confiscated calves and stolen and immediately sold horses belonging to several Dineh people of Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona. These livestock impoundments constitute human rights violations against traditional Dineh (Navajo); they take away one of their major food sources and one of the [...]
Weekend of Action to Protect the NW from Coal Exports Approaches
From helping to pass statewide renewable energy standards, to rallying to phase out the only coal plants in Washington and Oregon, efforts of youth activists have helped jumpstart the clean energy revolution in the Northwest. Now we’re uniting to take on what could be the biggest challenge yet: preventing our region from becoming a coal [...]
Call for Researchers: Food & Labor Justice
Food justice and the food justice movement invoke in the popular imagination such concepts as fair trade, organic, and urban agriculture. The movement is sometimes perceived as a privileged environmental struggle. Yet food justice, as all of us who are passionate about it know, is inherently about social justice; this is inextricable from its ecological [...]
Bellingham Rights-Based Ordinance Proposed to Stop Coal Trains
This piece originally appeared on readthedirt.org. by: Coal Free Bellingham Posted on: January 27, 2012 Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Editor’s Note: Bellingham has taken the first step in following the example of towns and municipalities like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who have recently explicitly asserted their rights as autonomous communities. Pittsburgh has outlawed all Hydraulic [...]
Planning For A Future: Protecting The Ground
This piece originally appeared on readthedirt.org By Bob Emmons, President, LandWatch Lane County Editor’s Note: We are privileged to have Emmons guide us through some of the history behind Oregon’s innovative and sensible land use policy, as well as the challenges it faces today. In this inspiring piece Emmons suggests a new philosophy to protect—among [...]
The Int’l Energy Horizon, Fossil Fuels, Clean Energy, & Empty Promisess
Near the end of 2011, the Department of Energy’s US Energy Information Administration released its annual report on the prospects of international energy consumption and production. The “International Energy Outlook 2011″ came 301-pages-thick, providing mind numbing amounts of research on global energy supplies, markets, and new technologies. I’ve created an overly-abridged summary, to share the [...]
