Testimony re: City of Portland Climate Emergency Workplan
or both climate and public health, businesses and industry should not get off the hook for the next 10 years with no expected reductions in emissions
Climate Emergency
LTE: Climate workplan needs improvements
his climate workplan must be improved before the actual vote on August 24. Then make it happen, with funding and cooperation.
Inflation Reduction? We Need Carbon Reduction!
So… Joe “Coal Baron” Manchin finally came around. After his slow-motion takedown of Biden’s Build Back Better effort, the senator from the plundered state of West Virginia bargained with Majority Leader Schumer to produce the … Read more
Testimony on City Climate Action Workplan
For the sake of future generations and all the others we share this planet with you must do what your document starts with and act like we are living in a climate emergency, but really act, backed with big chunks of the budget, not teeny-tiny crumbs.
Finding Our Real Power: From Individual Choice to Collective Action
Compelling the City of Portland to create and enforce policies that will reduce emissions citywide will do more than several lifetimes of recycling bottles and cans. That’s why I got involved with Extinction Rebellion…
Doom or Bloom? Zenith Energy Protest, June 4
Extinction Rebellion PDX will protest Zenith Energy’s continued operation at their transshipment facility, gathering at Highway 30 and Kittredge at noon on June 4, then marching half a mile to Zenith’s front gate at 5501 … Read more
City Budget: XRPDX Makes Its Demands!
We implore the City of Portland to not only meet the IPCC requirements, but to exceed them, through concrete policy laid out here and implemented by a future director…
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.