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We’re All in This TogetherClimate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard Lobbying (Virtually) for Carbon Reduction By Don Parent Forty years have passed since I studied the mechanics of climate chan... Read more
We’re All in this Together Climate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard Frontlines of the Climate Crisis By Susana Hancock 197 billion tons of ice melted from Greenland last summer. Kiribati... Read more
Protect Portland’s Trees NOTE: The West End recently experienced three significant multiple mature tree cuttings. Due to this tree loss, a group of West Enders has worked closely with the Ci... Read more
We’re All in This TogetherClimate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard CRISIS LESSONS By Peter Dugas As the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating economic impacts, another... Read more
A NEW NORMAL With attention focused on Covid-19, health threats posed by climate change remain unchanged and existential. By continuing to burn fossil fuels, coming decades could experience... Read more
With COVID19 increasingly threatening industrial food supply chains, we need to consider other options for feeding ourselves. The Victory Gardens of WW II come to mind. Consider: the U.S. ha... Read more
We’re All in This TogetherClimate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard YOUR OWN CLIMATE SOLUTION SIMULATOR By Tamara Risser What if you woke up one day to find that all the fossil fuel powered car... Read more
We’re All in This Together: Climate Solutions Beyond Your Backyard By Kristen Caldwell I was part of a delegation lobbying our representatives in Washington, D.C. last November and the... Read more
As the climate emergency intensifies, inaction costs us tens of billions of dollars annually. And current emissions are far beyond what the planet can bear to support life. So how do we… Mov... Read more
DEALING WITH CLIMATE ANGST AND ANGER The Doomsday clock just advanced to 100 seconds before midnight – the closest we have ever been to utter disaster. Helplessness is a common response to s... Read more