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Is local the new organic? The local-food movement may bring red and blue together	Jennifer Lamson	12 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Last week, The New York Times ran a feature by Marian Burros on New Seasons Markets, a grocery store chain in Portland that's banking on consumer interest in local, sustainable food -- as opposed to simply organic. The chain recently completed an inventory of the origins of its stock and has labeled everything grown in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California 'Homegrown.' They've already got six stores and three more on the way, but remain adamantly opposed to ex ...
Topics: Portland (all these topics)

New American dream towns	David Roberts	27 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Outside magazine has a list of 10 "New American Dream Towns." When we combed the country for the sweetest innovations and the freshest ideas for making neighborhoods better places to live, work, and play -- with tons of green space, easy access to the outdoors, and big-think visions for smarter, more sustainable everyday living -- we hit the jackpot. ... To spotlight the new American dream towns, we started with a wish list of criteria: commitment ...
Topics: Chicago, Portland (all these topics)

The 0.7 Percent Absolution Portland retracts claim that its CO2 emissions dropped below 1990 levels		19 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
The 0.7 Percent Absolution Portland retracts claim that its CO2 emissions dropped below 1990 levels Breaking the hearts of factoid-citers everywhere, the city of Portland, Ore., has issued a correction to its widely hailed announcement that last year its carbon-dioxide emissions dipped below 1990 levels. Thanks to a subtle data-entry mistake, the figures were miscalculated, and 2004 levels were actually 0.7 percent above 1990 levels ...
Topics: news, Oregon, Portland (all these topics)

Portland and vanity	David Roberts	06 Jul 2005	Gristmill
Re: the previous post, another quote from the Portland guy caught my eye: Mr. Sten added that Portland's officials were able to curb carbon emissions only because the steps they took were intrinsically popular and cheap, serving other purposes like reducing traffic congestion or saving on electrical costs. "I haven't seen that much willingness even among our environmentalists," he said, "to do huge masochistic things to save the plan ...
Topics: Portland (all these topics)

Portland, emissions cuts, and the economy	David Roberts	06 Jul 2005	Gristmill
I've had words with Nicholas Kristof before, but I suppose it's to his credit that he's finally discovered -- and publicized, in a way a lil' rag like Grist never could -- the fact that reducing greenhouse emissions is a profitable enterprise (via Gil Friend). It does not hurt the economy. It helps. Cities that do it save money and make themselves more desirable places to live and work. See: Portland. "Portland's ef ...
Topics: Portland (all these topics)

Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco named most sustainable city; Houston least		08 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco named most sustainable city; Houston least San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Berkeley, Calif., and Seattle took the top four spots in a new ranking of 25 U.S. cities based on sustainability practices. Bay Area green group SustainLane created the list after scrutinizing the metropolises based on 12 criteria, ...
Topics: California, news, Oregon, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Washington (all these topics)

Something smells rank The ranking of most eco-friendly cities gives too much weight to good intentions.	Clark Williams-Derry	07 Jun 2005	Gristmill
Via Planetizen News, here's an interesting sustainability ranking for 25 US cities. Now, I haven't had time to look through the methods thoroughly. But my first impression is that it gives undue weight to intentions, and not enough to actual performance. For example, Portland does exceptionally well in climate and energy policy, while New York City's rank on energy policy is only middling. But this only measures what cities say about energy, not what they a ...
Topics: Portland (all these topics)

Guppy Love Young urban professionals hip to green-building scene		26 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Guppy Love Young urban professionals hip to green-building scene The trend now has a name. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Guppys: Green urban professionals who are young. (Yeah, we didn't say it was a clever name.) Portland, Ore., has become the epicenter of a movement by the storied "creative class" to find, build, or remodel eco-friendly houses. Guppys are seeking out solar panels, pas ...
Topics: green living, news, Oregon, Portland, water pollution (all these topics)

Cities Slicker Seattle, other U.S. cities to hammer out their own Kyoto-like reductions		18 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Cities Slicker Seattle, other U.S. cities to hammer out their own Kyoto-like reductions The Kyoto Protocol has arrived, and though the Bush administration has opted out, others in the U.S. are not so climate oblivious. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced Wednesday he's leading an effort to get major U.S. cities to agree to Kyoto-like reductions of their greenhouse-gas emissions, to show the feds that " ...
Topics: climate, news, Portland, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest President Bush made a swing through Oregon and Washington state late last week to talk up his environmental agenda in an attempt to attract eco-concerned suburban voters, but he was met with thousands of protesters who didn't buy his promises to deliver "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Fo ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, Northwest, politics, Portland, wilderness (all these topics)

Ecotopia on the Hudson Lessons in environmentally friendly living from New York City	Alan Thein Durning	19 Aug 2003	Soapbox
In 1975, Ernest Callenbach published a slim book called Ecotopia, in which the Northwest secedes from the United States and establishes itself as an ecological paradise. The text became a counterculture classic, and the term "Ecotopia" entered the lexicon, embodying the American tendency to think of the continent's forested far coast as a land of recycling bins and spo ...
Topics: New York, New York City, Northwest, placemaking, Portland, Seattle (all these topics)

Gutter Politics		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Gutter Politics At the same time that is it seeking to rollback the Clean Water Act and other historic environmental legislation, the Bush administration is cracking down on sewage spills in Portland, Ore., and other major cities. Municipal leaders in Portland accuse the administration of selectively punishing areas that are traditional Democratic strongholds, but the U.S. EPA says it's just ...
Topics: Oregon, politics, Portland, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Ecotopias, Part II On environmentally friendly communities, again	Umbra Fisk	19 Sep 2002	Ask Umbra
Dearest Readers, In my last column, I received a plea from James "Captain Planet" Fitzpatrick of Florida, a firefighter looking to relocate to a small, friendly, environmentally conscious mountain community with good schools, reasonably clean air and water, and no polluting companies or toxic waste sites. As this was obviously a job for discerning Grist readers, I turned the question over to ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, placemaking, Portland (all these topics)

Arresting Development		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Arresting Development U.S. federal authorities arrested two Portland State University students yesterday and are seeking two others in conjunction with the firebombing of logging trucks during last year's protest of the Eagle Creek timber sale in Oregon. Environmentalists spent years protesting the timber sale, and some resorted to tree-sitting and other forms of civil disobedience. The sale was finally cancelled las ...
Topics: logging, Oregon, Portland, wilderness (all these topics)

The Answer, My Friends		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Answer, My Friends The biggest wind-energy meeting ever held in the U.S. opened today in Portland, Ore. Industry-watchers say the large turnout -- more than 1,500 people have registered for the three-day conference -- is a good sign for wind energy in general and for the role of the Pacific Northwest in the wind market in particular. Oregon doesn't have the bes ...
Topics: energy, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Portland, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Vera, Vera Good		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Vera, Vera Good Portland, Ore., has long had a reputation for attracting Birkenstock-wearing, bike-riding, tree-hugging residents. Now city officials hope to attract Birkenstock-wearing, bike-riding, tree-hugging companies. (Okay, yes, we know companies can't really ride bikes.) Last month, Danish wind-power company Vestas Wind Systems chose Portland as the base of its U.S. operations, bringing as many as 1,000 new jobs to the a ...
Topics: business, Oregon, Portland (all these topics)

Alien Invasion! A review of Tinkering with Eden and Nature Out of Place	Meredith Hall	10 Jan 2002	Arts and Minds
I love my hometown, but I have a bone to pick with a few of its inhabitants -- especially the green ones. It's not the lively Nader supporters of Portland, Ore., that I have hard feelings for, but rather the guileful botanic creepers that go by the common name English ivy. Botanic enemy number one is a luscious green forest dweller, a lazy gardener's groundcover, a symbol of old-world garden soph ...
Topics: Portland, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Flexing Their Muscles		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Muscles The car-sharing company Flexcar is planning to expand beyond its Northwest roots and enter the Washington, D.C., market this fall, where it will compete with Boston-based Zipcar. Both companies work to reduce the number of cars on the road by enticing customers to share vehicles and avoid the hassles of car ownership. Customers pa ...
Topics: business, green living, Massachusetts, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC (all these topics)

Oregon Trailblazers		06 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Oregon Trailblazers When it comes to sustainability, Oregon is No. 1, says the San Francisco-based Resource Renewal Institute. The group ranked states on transit spending, open-space protection, recycling, and pollution prevention, among other things. New Jersey (shocking!) and Minnesota came in second and third, respectively. The institute's Randy Solomon said Oregon took top honors be ...
Topics: green living, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, placemaking, Portland (all these topics)

Mike Houck, Audubon Society of Portland		16 Feb 2001	Dispatches
Mike Houck has been urban naturalist for the Audubon Society of Portland since 1982 and is a cofounder of the Coalition for a Livable Future. He also sits on numerous city and regional natural resource advisory committees, and is coeditor of Wild in the City. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 16 Feb 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. 7:45 a.m.: I meet with City Commissioner Jim Francesconi at City Hall -- there's a Marsee bakery, a homegrown alternative to Starbucks, ...
Topics: Dispatches, Portland (all these topics)

Mike Houck, Audubon Society of Portland		15 Feb 2001	Dispatches
Mike Houck has been urban naturalist for the Audubon Society of Portland since 1982 and is a cofounder of the Coalition for a Livable Future. He also sits on numerous city and regional natural resource advisory committees, and is coeditor of Wild in the City. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 15 Feb 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. 7:30 a.m.: Another breakfast meeting, this time with Kendra Smith of United Sewerage Agency to discuss the agency's Watersheds 2000 pr ...
Topics: Dispatches, Portland (all these topics)

Mike Houck, Audubon Society of Portland		14 Feb 2001	Dispatches
Mike Houck has been urban naturalist for the Audubon Society of Portland since 1982 and is a cofounder of the Coalition for a Livable Future. He also sits on numerous city and regional natural resource advisory committees, and is coeditor of Wild in the City. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 14 Feb 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. It's 7:30, and I'm up on the 13th floor of the Portland Building, high above Portlandia, the trident-bearing, dice-tossing icon adorn ...
Topics: Dispatches, Portland (all these topics)

Mike Houck, Audubon Society of Portland		13 Feb 2001	Dispatches
Mike Houck has been urban naturalist for the Audubon Society of Portland since 1982 and is a cofounder of the Coalition for a Livable Future. He also sits on numerous city and regional natural resource advisory committees, and is coeditor of Wild in the City. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 13 Feb 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. My day starts with a radio interview with Barbara Bernstein. She's putting together a program for national alternative radio on urban w ...
Topics: Dispatches, Portland (all these topics)

Mike Houck, Audubon Society of Portland		12 Feb 2001	Dispatches
Mike Houck has been urban naturalist for the Audubon Society of Portland since 1982 and is a cofounder of the Coalition for a Livable Future. He also sits on numerous city and regional natural resource advisory committees, and is coeditor of Wild in the City. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 12 Feb 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. 3:30 a.m.: Woke up, wondering what was amiss. I had been waking up abut this time for the past couple weeks because I had picked up a co ...
Topics: Dispatches, Portland (all these topics)

Giant Sucking Sounds II		29 Jan 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: Portland Giant Sucking Sounds II The first widespread application of hydrogen fuel-cell technology might not be in cars but in vacuum cleaners. Industry giant Electrolux said last week that it is close to developing a fuel-cell vacuum that would be lighter than conventional models, much quieter, and, of course, free of a power cord. Big advances in pollution reduction are expected when automakers and energy companies begin using fuel cells on commercial scale, but such changes ...
Topics: Portland (all these topics)

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