Hi everyone, Beaverton City Council last night voted unanimously to approve their first Climate Action Plan, which mandates net zero emissions by 2050. While this isn’t fast enough, this is a big step in the right direction, so congratulations to all our friends in Washington County! Here’s your 350PDX weekly update! Updates Do Good Get […]
What a year it has been. We started out helping submit a record high number of comments (50,000!!) to stop the Jordan Cove fracked gas project. We helped Zenith go from an unknown facility to the most high profile campaign in the City of Portland. We set up two brand new campaign teams, Transportation Justice, […]
Metro has finally released their recommended projects list for a dismal transportation package (attached). The package brings together a disparate set of spot-fix projects with no commitment to building a bold transit system that will inspire the rapid reduction in driving needed to meet the region’s goals for reducing GHG emissions. Take action! Today: Write a statement […]
Hi everyone, Thanks for everyone who joined us for our General Meeting this Monday! We dived deep into debriefing the climate strike and 9 different tables came up with 9 rough proposals for what we should do next! A team of volunteers is now collating these proposals and ideas together to explore what Earth Day […]
Photo Credit Lorraine Olivia Hi everyone, Here’s your 350PDX weekly update! Requests North Portland Neighborhood team 350PDX is currently in the process of organizing a North Portland Neighborhood Climate Justice Team — and we’re looking for you to join! If you’re interested in being a part of a self-sustaining neighborhood-based climate justice team, please e-mail […]
Hi everyone, In our increasingly chaotic climate, feelings of grief, stress and burnout can be common. Long term emergency work is exhausting and often discouraging in our culture where denial has become delusion, and justice, for those in the margins, is challenged daily from the nation’s leaders. Our consumer culture has commodified and isolated us. […]
American Wind Week – Tour of EDPR’s Rattlesnake Road & Wheat Field Wind Farms, August 2019 By Jane Stackhouse American Wind Week brought members of 350PDX and Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) together for a tour of EDP Renewables’ (EDPR) Rattlesnake Road and Wheat Field wind farms in Arlington Oregon. 350PDX member […]
Hi everyone, Are you feeling it? In the book This Is An Uprising this is called The Moment of The Whirlwind. When hundreds or thousands of people are pouring their effort, energy and passion into one new, exciting, and powerful thing. It is in these times that we can significantly build our movement, broaden our […]
Hi everyone, The Amazon is on fire, and the DNC voted against allowing a Climate Debate, but at the same time presidential candidates are coming out with frankly amazing climate plans, and our local movement is growing in number and energy every day. In many ways we’ve never been closer to a climate justice revolution, […]
Hi everyone, In the past month, the United States has been ravaged by a series of shooters influenced by the far-right. An increasingly dangerous pattern in these shootings is the influence of eco-fascism on the shooters (re: El Paso, Christchurch). Eco-fascism is a form of environmentalism influenced by Malthusian theory and the idea that we […]