CRITICAL HEARING ON CEI HUB SAFETY POLICY
Wednesday, September 16: mark your calendar! This may be your final opportunity to say your piece to the City Council about CEI Hub issues!
Climate
Zenith, I Squared Capital, and the Duty of the Portland City Council
[Note: this is my (Janet Weil’s) expansion on the open letter created by Braided River Campaign regarding the franchise transfer from Zenith Energy to I Squared Capital to the members of the Portland City Council, … Read more
Rumble on the River #32: We’re Not Gonna Take the Heat
Rumble on the River #32: We’re Not Gonna Take the HeatThursday July 9, 2026, Doors and info Tables at 5:30, panel at 6:30Dharma Rain Zen Center, 8500 NE Siskiyou St, Portland, 97220 Also, at 5 … Read more
Readers respond: PCEF Money Needed for Climate
I was appalled, but not surprised, to read the recent Oregonian/OregonLive editorial on the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund, given the editorial board’s long running efforts to undermine PCEF, (“Editorial: Drop the sanctimony, City … Read more
War and Genocide During a Climate Crisis – WTF?
“WE OPENLY CHALLENGE OURSELVES AND THIS TOXIC SYSTEM –Leaving our comfort zones to take action for change.” Extinction Rebellion’s FourthPrinciple Overview. The global climate crisis is absolutely the WORST time for the United Statesto wage … Read more
STOP TRIMET FROM RAISING FARES!
Fares aren’t Fair! On April 26 at 8:45 am, in Room 206 at 1120 SW 5th Avenue, TriMet is proposing a 12% increase in fares! Testify in person at the meeting or submit written testimony to boardtestimony@trimet.org by 5 pm … Read more
Book Review: Fighting in a World on Fire
Fighting in a World on Fire is an adaptation, for a younger audience, of Andreas Malm’s How to Blow up a Pipeline by Jimmy and Llewyn Whipps. Fighting in a World on Fire is a … Read more
Book Review: No Planet B
No Planet B is an anthology of Teen Vogue articles centering climate. All are written by youth in the years 2016-19, with some additions by the editor, Lucy Diavolo, mid-COVID. They cover a wide array … Read more
What a Year!
Again, we took the City Council to task for not creating or implementing policies to live up to their promises in the 2020 Climate Emergency Declaration. Again we assembled on a rainy June day, with art, music, speeches and determination, at the gates of Zenith.
Hey, Wyden: Defeat Manchin’s Dirty Side Deal
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