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It's no Portland Oregon's capital far behind its bigger sister	JMG	24 Sep 2008	Gristmill
From LoveSalem: So we were talking about keeping chickens as part of a scheme for implementing the "Food Not Lawns" ideal (Victory Gardening for The New Reality). Someone thought you could keep hens but not roosters. Someone else thought you couldn't keep either. It all led to an inquiry to the powers that be, who replied ... Read the rest if you dare.
Topics: Oregon, food, placemaking, green living (all these topics)

West for the Weary Western states announce proposal for cutting GHG emissions		23 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 3:07 PM on 23 Sep 2008 Participants in the Western Climate Initiative on Tuesday announced specific plans for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The seven states and four provinces will initiate a cap-and-trade program, establishing a carbon market that applies to industries and utilities by 2012 and transportation, heating, and other fuels by 2015. The proposed program is ...
Topics: Arizona, business, California, Canada, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Montana, New Mexico, news, Oregon, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Oregon's Measure 63 Permit me to ignore building codes	Eric de Place	12 Sep 2008	Gristmill
I know everyone's in the throes of the Obama-McCain frenzy, but allow me to divert your attention to a minor ballot initiative in Oregon: Measure 63. Oh it's fascinating, I assure you. Measure 63 is the last whimpering gasp of the property rights measures that originated in Oregon. Times change. It was just a few years ago when property rights radicals dreamed of essentially putting a stop to growth planning, and even rolling back basic land use restrictions. Unf ...
Topics: Oregon, placemaking, state politics (all these topics)

I can see clearcuts now Google knows what you're doing	Eric de Place	04 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Oh, Google, what would we ever do without you? Check out this Google Maps-generated image of the region near Cannon Beach, Oregon: The strange patchwork of brown? Those are clearcuts in the Coast Range. And many of them appear to be recent. What's really great is that you can zoom in so close that you can clearly see the bulldozed logging roads, a line of "leave trees," and a striated green that I'm guessing is first season re-growth of ...
Topics: deforestation, climate, Oregon (all these topics)

Ghosts of the 21st century Disappearing owls, threatened forests, and the city-country conflict	Kit Stolz	02 Sep 2008	Gristmill
"Ghost" is a word field biologists use to describe a species near the end of its time on earth. Often these endangered species are birds, but in a spectacular essay in a newly internet-friendly issue of the English literary journal Granta, Robert MacFarlane slightly expands the meaning of the word. He visits an obscure low-lying region of U.K., the Norfolk Fens, not far from the Wash, where numerous varieties of locals -- including plants, animals, and t ...
Topics: climate, Oregon, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Food plight Sen. Gordon Smith's frozen-foods plant violates environmental regs	Kate Sheppard	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith (R) is in hot water over a water-quality violation at his family's food-processing plant. Wastewater from Smith Frozen Foods in eastern Oregon overflowed into a creek recently while the plant was processing corn, a violation of state environmental regulations. This is bad timing for Smith, who has been touting his eco-credentials in what's shaping up to be a tight race against Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley this November. Smith is th ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, news, Oregon, politics, US Senate, water pollution (all these topics)

Me, on the radio in Oregon	Sean Casten	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Hear Bruce Silverman interview me on Portland's KBOO FM on the opportunities for waste energy recovery -- specifically in the wood products, pulp, and paper industries in the state. (Special Bonus: plug for Grist at 18:40 or so!)
Topics: cogeneration, energy, Oregon, radio (all these topics)

West Foot Forward Western states unveil draft cap-and-trade scheme		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:53 PM on 24 Jul 2008 The Western Climate Initiative has unveiled a draft proposal for a regional cap-and-trade program that would kick off in 2012. The 11 states and provinces involved -- Arizona, British Columbia, California, Manitoba, Montana, New Mexico, Ontario, Oregon, Quebec, Utah, and Washington -- would impose an as-yet-determined greenhouse-gas emissions limit on industries and utilities, then allow laggards ...
Topics: Arizona, business, California, Canada, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Montana, New Mexico, news, Oregon, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Oregon trail Grist talks to Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Merkley	Kate Sheppard	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Oregon Senate candidate Jeff Merkley was in Austin for Netroots Nation, where he appeared on a panel about energy issues. Merkley is attempting to unseat Gordon Smith, the sole GOP senator on the West Coast, this November, and he's put climate and environment issues at the top of his campaign agenda. His plans include calling for a 25 percent renewable energy national standard by 2025, cutting emissions 80 percent by mid-century, and creating incentives for cities ...
Topics: elections, energy, Muckraker, news, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Oregon II A chat with Portland's Charlie Stephens about petrodollars and oil wars	Melinda Henneberger	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. One thing I learned traveling around the country a couple of years ago, talking to voters for a political book I was working on, is that Americans tend to give their elected officials a super-size helping of benefit of the doubt. One night, I was in Suffolk, Va., having dinner with some active-duty ...
Topics: economy, energy, Iraq, oil, Oregon, politics, Voters Voices (all these topics)

Is that a pig in the sky? Republican Congressional candidate says main priority is energy reform	JMG	28 Jun 2008	Gristmill
While Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith (R.) tries to fuzz his ties to the GOP and his unswerving devotion to the Bush agenda (in between lurches to the center around election time), at least Oregon voters in the First District have a choice that's actually interesting: either Democrat David Wu, considered a huge disappointment and one of the least effective members of Congress (he's so lame that even the Oregonian, who typically only stops endorsing incumbents after they've been six fee ...
Topics: elections, energy, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

'Bipartisan leadership for energy independence' Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith touts work with Obama in new campaign ad	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Republican Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon is touting his work with Barack Obama to improve automobile fuel efficiency and his 'bipartisan leadership for energy independence' in a new television ad. Smith, the sole GOP senator on the West Coast, is fighting to maintain his seat this year in what's expected to be a tightly contested race against Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley. Watch it: The Obama campaign issued a statement yesterday on their candidate's appear ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, fuel efficiency, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Oregon Talking with voters in Portland about the environment and the election	Melinda Henneberger	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: David Grant This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. Portland, Ore. -- Oh, the indignity of tooling around environmentally aware Portland in a big-dog SUV, in between conversations about the environment. Even the guy at the rental-car counter was apologetic: 'I know,' he said, when I gulped at the news that my economy car ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08, Voters Voices (all these topics)

Moral obligation, patriotic duty State poll shows Oregonians ready and willing to do what it takes to halt climate change	Anna Fahey	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The National research firm Public Opinion Strategies recently conducted a survey of 500 likely Oregon voters to assess views on the issue of climate change and to gauge support for the basic principles of policy measures like the proposed cap-and-trade system in the Lieberman-Warner Act (a.k.a. the Climate Security Act -- legislation that was recently defeated last week in the U.S. Senate, but marked a step forward on national climate policy.) The survey, which presents ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, climate, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Nature Conservancy, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

Don't Count On It Budget office wants to reduce disaster funds for West Coast fisherfolk		13 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 13 Jun 2008 The federal government, having failed to support salmon to the point that California's fishing season was shut down altogether, may now yank support from fisherfolk. The Office of Management and Budget is requesting that the $170 million put aside as disaster funding for the West Coast salmon industry be reduced to $100 million to offset the increased cost of the 2010 census ...
Topics: California, fishing, news, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

Make it stop Oregon and Kentucky vote; nation yawns and rolls over	Kate Sheppard	20 May 2008	Gristmill
In case anyone's still paying attention, there were two more primaries today. Hillary Clinton scored a big win in Kentucky, with 65 percent of the vote to Obama's 30 percent. But Obama looks poised to win Oregon, and says he's reached the delegate threshold. Various media folks are reporting that he now has an 'insurmountable advantage' in the race for the Democratic nomination, much like they said ... back in February. It's the Groundhog Day primary! Clinton sa ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky, Muckraker, news, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Getting Mr. Smith out of Washington Grist talks to underdog Oregon Senate contender Steve Novick	Kate Sheppard	19 May 2008	Gristmill
Steve Novick. Photo: novickforsenate.org Tomorrow is the presidential primary in both Oregon and Kentucky, but it's also a key Senate primary in Oregon, where two Democrats are facing off to see who will get to take a crack at unseating Gordon Smith, the sole GOP senator on the West Coast. When Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley announced his bid for the nomination in August, it looked like a win was inevitable. He was hand-picked by Democratic Senatorial ...
Topics: elections, interview, Muckraker, Oregon, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

By a Whisker Northwest sea lions granted stay of execution		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:03 PM on 24 Apr 2008 Sea lions all set to gobble their last salmon supper at a Northwest dam have been granted a stay of execution by a U.S. appeals court. Judges granted an injunction, requested by the Humane Society, that a lower court had denied last week. It's only a partial victory for the Humane Society, however, as the court did OK the transfer of the whiskery rascals to zoos and aquariums; state officials planned to ...
Topics: animal welfare, dams, endangered species, litigation, news, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Google: energy glutton? New server farm projected to use 103 MW of power	Erik Hoffner	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Interesting feature in the March issue of Harper's if you missed it: Google's server farms use a heckuva lot of energy. A planned server farm in The Dalles, Ore. will probably use 103 megawatts of mega-hydro electrons, enough to power 82,000 homes, according to the author, Ginger Strand. Server farms used more power than TVs in the U.S. in 2006, and this may increase as other search firms gear up to battle Google. Of course, the proliferation of flat-screen energy hogs ...
Topics: business, energy, Oregon, websites (all these topics)

Lions' Humane Judge denies Humane Society injunction, OKs sea-lion trapping		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:41 PM on 17 Apr 2008 Denying an injunction sought by the Humane Society, a federal judge has given the go-ahead to Oregon and Washington state officials to trap and kill salmon-gobbling sea lions near the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. The animal-rights group sued after the National Marine Fisheries Service OK'd sea-lion culling last month. An official hearing on the Humane Society lawsuit could be held as ...
Topics: animal welfare, dams, endangered species, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Taking meat off the plate ... and the pole Vegan strip club closes after one month	Sarah van Schagen	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Ah, Casa Diablo, we hardly knew ye ...Two things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both. At his Casa Diablo Gentlemen's Club, soy protein replaces beef in the tacos and chimichangas; the dancers wear pleather, not leather. ...Last week Mr. Diablo put the club up for sale ... He may have underestimated the appeal of stripping to vegans, or of vegan cuisine to striptease f ...
Topics: green living, Oregon, sex, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Energy policy: a good opening hook? Senate candidate shows energy policy promise; rocks at parties	Corey McKrill	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Oregonian candidate for U.S. Senate Steve Novick seems refreshingly up on energy issues: But is he electable? Well, they say Bush got votes because people perceived him as a guy they could relax and have a beer with: I'd say he's got it in the bag.
Topics: politics, Oregon (all these topics)

Flipper Them Off State officials given OK to kill sea lions to protect salmon		18 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Oregon and Washington state officials will have the authority to trap and, if necessary, kill up to 85 of the sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday. Sea lions, which enjoy a robust population but are nonetheless protected under the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act, have been visiting ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Off the Hook Salmon fishing season in California and Oregon may be canceled		12 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:49 PM on 12 Mar 2008 So few salmon are swimming in California and Oregon that salmon fishing season is likely to be canceled completely unless an emergency exemption is granted, according to the federal Pacific Fishery Management Council. The states' salmon season, which traditionally runs from April to mid-November, has never been entirely canceled before. Even with a complete closure, fishery experts estim ...
Topics: California, fishing, insanity, news, Oregon (all these topics)

What's wrong with the WCI? The Western Climate Initiative's first proposal ducks biggest climate problem	Eric de Place	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Western Climate Initiative is a path-breaking effort. Insufficient federal progress prompted seven states and two provinces to join together to reduce climate pollution by means of an economy-wide cap-and-trade program. It's a momentous opportunity, and many folks have been working hard to ensure that it's a success. Unfortunately, there's now cause for serious concern. Yesterday evening, WCI released its draft proposal (PDF). It proposes an initial cap that ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

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