AltWeeklies Wire
Eager for Beavernew
Is it time to help Oregon’s state animal dam the wild?
Eugene Weekly |
Shannon Finnell |
01-20-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Restoration, Beaver
Cry Me a Rivernew
The battle for water in the West is not just about who owns it. It's also about how to keep it clean.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-27-2010 |
Environment
Small Town Strip Minenew
The small town of Dexter, Ore. is discovering the explosive consequences of inviting big timber to pay the bills.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-20-2010 |
Environment
Freshwater Fisticuffs: Warring For Water Rightsnew
Now that logging has slowed to a trickle, will there be water barons crawling out of the woodwork to exploit what might be Oregon’s most valuable resource in an era of climate change?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-09-2010 |
Environment
Fighting Fossil Foolsnew
Winona LaDuke and the campaign to block the oil machines from hell.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
09-02-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Winona Laduke
Biomass: Is Its Bite Worth the Bark?new
It seems the word “biomass” is synonymous with burning trees in a plant, but the term is much broader than that. Biomass energy can come from more sources than just burning wood.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
07-22-2010 |
Environment
Healing Haiti: Changing a Country From Withinnew
For more than 20 years, Jean André Victor worked as an agronomist in Haiti, tying to solve the riddle of how to fix centuries of environmental degradation and poverty.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-10-2010 |
Environment
Gas-Pipe Dreamsnew
Oil's not the only dirty, dangerous fossil fuel.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
05-27-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Liquified Natural Gas, LNG
Back to Nature: Naked Blackberry Whacking and Other Earth Day Delightsnew
The mission of the Glassbar Island Volunteers is to create and maintain a peaceful, nurturing symbiosis between the natural habitat and the nudists who enjoy it.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-22-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Glassbar Island, Earth Day
What's all the Dam Fuss? The Army Corps Plays with Willamette's Water Flowsnew
The Army Corps of Engineers teaming up with The Nature Conservancy to change the way the river flows as part of their “Sustainable Rivers Project." The alliance will experiment with the way the Corps manages flows of water from the dams to see if it might alter the future for the fish and the river’s ecosystem. With TNC’s reputation for bowing to big business and the Corps’ bedraggled renown for bad projects like the “monumental negligence” that led to the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it’s hard not to look at that particular pairing without some skepticism. But can the unlikely pairing improve the river, or is the Sustainable Rivers Project a greenwash scheme to make dammed rivers look better?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-03-2009 |
Environment
Fajardo's Fight: Taking on Big Oil in Ecuadornew
Pablo Fajardo is the David in a David and Goliath-esque case pitting Ecuadorian Indians and mestizos against major American oil companies.
Eugene Weekly |
Natalie Miller and Camilla Mortensen |
08-13-2009 |
Environment
Tags: Amazon, Pablo Fajardo, rainforest, Texaco, environment, business, pollution, international, Chevron, Ecuador, Big Oil
Killing Fields: Field Burning's Deadly Legacynew
The fiery death in 1988 of novelist William Wharton's daughter, her husband and baby girls is probably the grimmest reminder of the dangers of field burning smoke. Today the fight to ban the burn continues in Oregon.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-18-2009 |
Environment
Lawsuits and Tree-Sits Surround Oregon Bureau's Proposal to Lognew
A tree-sit has gone up in an Oregon forest where the state Bureau of Land Management proposes to log Fall Creek, an old-growth forest that has been successfully defended by tree-sitters time and time again.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-11-2009 |
Environment
Attacking Ecocrimes: Stomping Out Oregon's Pollutersnew
Oregon has a history of not enforcing its environmental laws, allowing industries to pollute its air and water with barely a slap on the wrist. There have been bigger penalties given for growing cannabis than for emitting toxic gases. Is Oregon's new attorney general going to change that?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
11-26-2008 |
Environment
Will an Island in Eugene Save the Columbia River's Salmon?new
What's behind low salmon numbers in the Columbia River Basin? The Army Corps of Engineers pins it on the Caspian tern, a fish-eating migratory bird species that likes to eat salmon smolt. The Corps' "relocation plan" will send the birds to other islands in Oregon and California, including one-acre square island recently built in the Fern Ridge Reservoir.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-04-2008 |
Environment
