Back in April of 2023, a 9-year-old girl in Shasta County, California was
raising a 4-H goat named Cedar when she realized that she couldn't go
through with giving up her friend to be sold and slaughtered, as the program
demands. The fair board, which runs the 4-H progra...
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Today we honor Oregon Environment Icon Bob Sallinger, who died on October 30.
For over 30 years Bob has been a regional fixture advocating and fighting to
protect our rivers, wildlife, forests and communities from environmental and
social degradation and injustice. One of h...
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Socialist City Councilors-elect Tiffany Koyama Lane, known as Teacher
Tiffany, and Mitch Green, a green energy economist, talk about their vision
for building working-class power in Portland, Oregon
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For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down
Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in
2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public
comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant Di...
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Northwest Natural, Oregon's largest fracked gas utility, has been doing its
best for several years to delay the region's move to full electrification.
But in the past few months the company is getting its comeuppance in the
form of an expanded lawsuit from Multnomah County,...
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Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following
segments:
Middle East in Crisis: Laurie Mercier speaks with Juan Ricardo Cole about
Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon and the response from the Biden
administration and American students on coll...
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In the next week or so we will find out whether or not the United States will
remain a democracy. The suspense and stress cannot be more intense. But on
the day before Election Day we will try to cut through the anxiety and focus
on how we must protect and strengthen our de...
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If we are to save our planet from rapidly approaching climate catastrophe,
business as usual is no longer an option. Outgrow the System is a new
documentary about transitioning to a more sustainable economic system, by
co-directors Cecilia Paulsson and Anders Nillson. Extin...
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The UK-based bioenergy company Drax is coming to the West Coast. Drax, which
faces accusations of misleading regulators by denying that they are sourcing
wood pellets from old-growth forests, is now partnering with rural county
supervisors in California to build massive woo...
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