AltWeeklies Wire
Spirit in the Skynew
How Greenpeace’s high-wire protesters captured the world’s attention—and how Portland gently let them down.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
08-06-2015 |
Environment
Plastic Crusadernew
Can Stiv Wilson ban the plastic bag in Oregon?
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
03-16-2011 |
Environment
Green Giantnew
How much is sustainability worth? Try $65 million in public money.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
11-24-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Sustainability
What's the Plan for Those Feel-good Light Bulbs Poisoning Portland's Water?new
If you’re feeling all environmentally conscious about buying compact fluorescent light bulbs, check yourself.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
12-04-2009 |
Environment
One Prominent Enviro Thinks the Copenhagen Conference is 'Probably Obsolete'new
Next month's global climate conference in Copenhagen does not lack for dire warnings from environmentalists about what failure would mean for the world. But Lester Brown, the founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, doesn't put much faith in Copenhagen.
Willamette Week |
Henry Stern |
11-18-2009 |
Environment
Bet You're Not As Committed to 'Sustainable Living' As These Portlandersnew
The 7-acre Tryon Life Community Farm in Southwest Portland is home to a residential worker collective known as Cedar Moon. Sixteen adults and six children ages 3 to 9 live in two buildings directly off a long, pothole-speckled driveway.
Willamette Week |
Adrienne So |
04-22-2009 |
Environment
Thomas Friedman Tells Portlanders to Stop Futzing Aroundnew
Say what you will about incendiary Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and reporter Thomas Friedman: It takes some serious chutzpah to stand in front of a packed house of Portlanders and tell them that all of their green activism is nothing more than a hobby.
Willamette Week |
Adrienne So |
03-11-2009 |
Environment
Oregonians Want Green Energy at Any Pricenew
There are a variety of explanations for the lack of outcry about Oregon's subsidies for wind farms. But perhaps most important, the idea of subsidizing renewable energy has the strong support of Gov. Ted Kulongoski, other political leaders and -- if polls are correct -- a large portion of Oregonians.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
03-11-2009 |
Environment
Falling Oil Prices Could Drill into Oregon's Clean Energy Progressnew
Some clean-energy companies, investors and economists worried that cheaper oil will slow the growth of the state's green industries and smother the political will to pass new incentives when the Legislature meets in 2009. That, in turn, will make it harder to meet the state's goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
Willamette Week |
Libby Tucker |
11-05-2008 |
Environment
Utility Giant PacifiCorp Blocks Solar Energy Development in Oregonnew
PacifiCorp has asked the Public Utility Commission to clarify whether the solar installations popping up like dandelions around the state are legal, which put all projects on hold.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
06-11-2008 |
Environment
Seven Things Portland Should Do to Get Serious About Being Greennew
Sometime between Gov. Tom McCall's speeches and Al Gore's Nobel Prize, Portland ceded the green crown. Here's how to get it back.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
04-16-2008 |
Environment
Portland Schools Struggle to Meet Enviro Goals at Lunchnew
Even as the district has cultivated an eco-friendly image with a "green" schools push and a new farm-to-school program to provide local food for its lunches, it has served almost 33,000 meals each school day since 2001 on nonreusable plastic-foam trays.
Willamette Week |
Shefali Kulkarni |
03-05-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Economics vs. Environment in the Gorge.new
The Columbia River Gorge Commission is deliberating whether to let a lumber company build a 250-unit resort in violation of existing rules against a large-scale development.
Willamette Week |
Jeremy Gillick |
02-06-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
New Tax Credit Puts the Greenbacks in Green Energynew
The Oregon Department of Energy is experiencing a gold rush as it tries to set rules for new green energy-related tax credits.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
01-16-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Phone Book: Useful Resource or Outdated Waste?new
In the internet age, with Aunt Martha's phone number at your Googling fingertips, those weighty space-eaters known as phone books seem like un-green antiques every time they arrive unsolicited.
Willamette Week |
Amanda Waldroupe |
01-16-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
