Featured pieces from the XRPDX newsletter.
Given the huge giveaways to fossil fuels and false corporate climate solutions in the Inflation Reduction Act, we call upon Senator Wyden to pledge to vote NO and to help defeat the upcoming side deal
When the cold in Wisconsin came, we knew this time seemed different. At nearly minus sixty degrees Fahrenheit, it was far too cold to snow with any consistency. In fact, it was too cold to … Read more
The struggle for human rights and freedom of expression is inextricable from the global movement for climate justice.
COP27 Climate activism cannot be separate from human rights! Join us on COP27 International Day of Action—November 12th at noon, Pioneer Square. As an Egyptian-UK human rights activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah faces death from a six … Read more
If everything goes as expected, I’m going to become a father in about five weeks. I still can’t quite wrap my mind around it, but I guess that’s usually how it is for first-time parents. … Read more
Stories can kill or save our planet. The story ruling the world in recent centuries is the one pushed by white settler colonialists for their own profit and power. It depicts the Earth as an … Read more
Our mother cedars, that emblematic tree of the Pacific Northwest, our very own trees of life are dying. Their shallow root systems cannot compete with the maples and they dry out in our sandy soil, making them a haven for insects. Our cedars are dying, and I wonder how our forests, and the animals, human and nonhuman alike, can go on without them.
Five hundred and eighteen: the word count of Senator Merkley’s letter to Senator Schumer. The letter objects to what Merkley calls “proposed permitting reforms” on environmental justice grounds. Seven senators (Booker, Cardin, Duckworth, Markey, Sanders, … Read more
The City needs to stay strong and not grant Zenith the LUCS that it wants. Train watching in the spring showed that the vast majority (95%+) of the trains at Zenith were carrying crude oil, not renewable diesel.
given the uncertainty about the benefits of renewable diesel, a skeptical voice needs to be raised and the precautionary principle applied. Renewable diesel is only a short-term solution that contains several potential negative consequences.