Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) Updates
XRPDX supports PCEF and will pressure the City not to concede to the demands of the business community.
Editorials
Editorials, essays, opinion pieces and subjective personal reports.
“Dangerous Disruption” – the 2022 IPCC Report
The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt.
Two Campaigns for ’22
After two months of reflection and research, XRPDX members, at our February 8th full chapter meeting, officially adopted two campaigns to focus on in 2022.
Killing a School to Widen a Freeway?!
Last spring the Oregon Department of Transportation’s maps planning an I-5 freeway expansion were uncovered by No More Freeways PDX. These maps detailed expanding the interstate onto the school grounds of Harriet Tubman Middle School. … Read more
Portland Needs Cleaner Air, not Wider Freeways
How clean is the air above Portland, and how clean (or not) will it remain? Protecting air quality and blocking the widening of the I-5 freeway are two essential tasks for the City of Portland … Read more
Prepare for Impact: Comet MAGA
The movie Don’t Look Up is an obvious metaphor for any situation in which a population carries on with business as usual as doom rapidly approaches. Obviously, that could be climate disruption or the COVID-19 … Read more
“Beyond Hypocrisy” – Letter to the New York Times
Even wiser would be shifting such funds to true clean energy solutions…
Suffering and Sacrifice
It is logical that the central focus of climate action should directly confront the main contributor to climate change, the use of fossil fuels to provide by primary institutional consumers such as industry and other … Read more
Reflections on Roller skating and COP26
The morning after going roller skating, you’re sore, and tired, and maybe even feel like you can’t get out of bed. Post-exercise paralysis. Which maybe doesn’t feel so different from climate-paralysis.