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How to Actually Solve Climate Change, Part Whatever

Energy Trust and the Big Hope 13
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago One glimmer of hope in the campaign against climate change is called Energy Trust, an organization in Oregon that, if widely copied, would move us well on the way to solving the problem.
Green Jobs Now

Weatherizing Portland 0
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago Clean Energy Works Portland is a groundbreaking new program that enables Portland residents to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and pay for the improvements over time through their utility bills.
National Day of Action Against Coal 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The first three days of this week are seeing a slew of activities taking on coal.
Sen. Jeff Merkley answers Grist’s questions on Senate climate bill 6
Posted 2 months ago
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) has come out swinging on climate and energy issues, securing an appointment to the Environment & Public Works Committee, sponsoring or co-sponsoring a series of clean energy bills and amendments, and generally staking out the left edge of the climate bill debate. Sen. Merkley was kind enough to answer a couple of questions from Grist about the upcoming Senate battle over the climate bill.
Trees in the bank

Pacific NW landowners team up to market forest offsets 2
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
A national climate bill could create a huge market for forestry-based carbon offsets. Companies looking to cash in are pooling together relatively small parcels of forestland in the Pacific Northwest.
Oregon group fights national forest logging near Crater Lake 1
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago
It's just a DeFazio

DeFazio lambasts cap-and-trade 3
Posted 5 months ago
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) made one thing clear on Friday: he's just not that into the cap-and-trade legislation under debate in the House.
Good Griddance

Ask Umbra on living off the grid 17
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
What does it mean to live off the grid, and how can you get in on the action? Tune in to Umbra's latest advice.
April Powers

EPA announces collegiate Green Power winners; competition fails to change power buying habits 1
Posted 7 months ago
The Ivy League is the greenest of them all, according to the EPA, which today announced the college and university winners of the Green Power challenge -- a competition to motivate American schools to purchase more renewable energy.
Tax a mile in another man's shoes

Oregon’s successful mileage tax experiment worked smoothly—and helped curb congestion 3
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
A system of per-mile road usage fees can replace our dysfunctional gasoline tax as a way of funding transportation infrastructure.
Oregon's folly

Oregon tries to undo ethanol leg. while ‘enviros’ lobby for biofuels subsidies 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Oregon is struggling to undo bad ethanol legislation.
Everybody cool it

Regional climate policy is still moving forward in the Northwest 0
Posted 8 months ago
Over the last couple of weeks, there's been a lot of hand-wringing about the state of climate policy in the Northwest. Washington's citizen-backed renewable energy standard is in jeopardy and neither Oregon nor Washington appears close to implementing the Western Climate Initiative. Even British Columbia's pioneering carbon tax is taking fire. Freak out! Everybody panic! Or not.
It had a good run

Whatever its virtues, the gas tax is nearing the end of its life 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Oregon enviro group calls not for shutdown of coal plant, but for infusion of millions of dollars 19
Posted 10 months ago
DDT, other contaminants persist in Columbia River 1
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
In Oregon, bicyclists want to roll through traffic-free stop signs 11
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
Before we debate gas taxes vs. mileage taxes, Oregonians must pay for roads with those taxes 5
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
UPS to deliver by b-i-k-e? 3
Posted 1 year ago
Merkley triumphs in Oregon; three other races still undecided 0
Posted 1 year ago
Oregon Baby Oregon

Oregon guv outlines climate-change-fightin’ plans 1
Posted 1 year ago