Last night, the City of Portland held budget hearings at Montgomery Park. Several hundred people attended; so many that testimony had to be limited to a minute. There was incredible energy in the room and impassioned testimony by community members highlighted the programs that will be severely impacted if cuts proceed as expected. One person in...
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Representative Blumenauer, I stopped by your office yesterday to request, as a constituent, that you withdraw from the March 27th Portland Business Alliance members only luncheon, which is sponsored in part by TransCanada. TransCanada, of course, is the owner of the Keystone XL pipeline project which aims to transport oil from the Alberta Tar...
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This letter was delivered to ESCO Corporation as a part of March 18′s Tour of Portland’s Worst Polluters Ride – Tar Sands Edition: TO: Calvin Collins, Corporate Officers, and ESCO Corporation Employees RE: ESCO’s Legacy and Place in the Community DATE: March 18, 2013 ESCO, we’ve come to...
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I still live in Portland because of a vision that our unique culture could be animated into a real political force for an equitable and sustainable future. Despite my optimism, I couldn’t help but laugh when I found out that Portland is going to be highlighted as a model of urban sustainability for World Environment...
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Last night, at the Waypost, the Oregon League of Conservation Voters held a forum called “Engaging priorities and engaging pints” to “break down the Oregon Conservation Networks priorities and other important issues in the 2013 legislature.” It was a pretty standard affair with lots of policy talk except for two events that stood out....
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I'll be at the Oregon capitol tomorrow with lots of folks who don't want to see this bridge happen.
Read more →Colleagues, This week we continue our examination of the sacred with the following readings: Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred, preface and chp. 1 Alan Weisman, The World Without Us, chp. 5 Paul L Knox, Metroburbia, chp. 2 Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics, chps. 1, 5, and 22 In addition, we still have a homework assignment to come...
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Panel includes Bethany Cotton of Greenpeace, Dr. Andy Harris of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Brian Gard & Liz Fuller of Gard Communications. For some reason, there is about a minute lag before sound starts. Be patient.
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Kari Chisholm at Blue Oregon already published some coal truth this week through his post on the global-danger-posed-by-versus-comparably-low-local-economic-benefits of Northwest coal exports (after taking into account economic sectors that would be negatively impacted by the effects of coal and externalities, I strongly doubt there would be any net local economic benefits), but there’s still a...
Read more →Friends and Colleagues, If you missed the 1/23 session of the Commons, the Public Domain, and the Sacred, fear not. You didn’t miss the actual course content and can still freely jump in with us next week. We mostly went over procedural issues and actually hope to design the course in a way that...
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