Amazing news! After fighting the proposed Perennial WindChaser fracked gas power plant for the last few years, our movement has won! In the face of sustained grassroots pressure and multiple legal challenges, Perennial WindChaser LLC has just abandoned its plan to build a new 415 megawatt fracked gas power plant in Umatilla County, OR! This is a […]
You might remember that way back in 2018, 350PDX volunteers collected over 8,000 signatures to get the Portland Clean Energy Initiative on the ballot. This initiative would go on to pass with 65% of the vote, establishing a a City of Portland grant program to fund clean energy projects, job training opportunities, and green infrastructure development thanks […]
Hi everyone, This weekend, April 9-11, is the Global Just Recovery Gathering, a 3-day online event full of fun and effective training sessions, amazing activists, leaders, and artists to energize us and find ways to design a new path for a better future for all. Join us in designing a new path towards a better future […]
Hi everyone, It has been a full year since the pandemic changed all of our lives. It also totally changed how 350PDX operates, with all team meetings going online, staff working from home, and lots of volunteer turnover with many new people joining our activist community. We’ve spent a lot of time reacting to changing […]
Victory!! The 350PDX Forest Defense Team helped Oregon get a better Board of Forestry. With your support three new members were confirmed to the Board, and they will help make forest policy on state and private lands more climate friendly. We’d like to thank Governor Brown for putting forward a strong and balanced slate, the […]
Hi everyone, Violence and harassment against Asian Americans has increased significantly across the country over the past year. In Portland, several Asian-owned businesses were recently vandalized. This is another chapter in the long history of racist oppression of Asian Americans, from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, to the Japanese internment camps of World War II, to waves of […]
This country was established on centuries of violence against Black and Indigenous people, and has been a violent place for them and for other oppressed communities ever since. 350PDX will always use nonviolent tactics in our campaigns, but we’re not here to criminalize or condemn those who use property destruction when they see it as […]
Hi everyone, The last few weeks have shown us that climate chaos is more than just global warming. Usually cold Arctic air is kept up north during the winter by a jet stream. But climate change can destabilize this stream, allowing the cold air to dip south into the United States. The winter storm that knocked out […]
Hi everyone, In 2020, it became even more clear that living in a healthy home is essential. Our society’s housing is largely energy inefficient and in massive need of repairs. When drafty houses means higher energy bills, low-income families are at the highest risk. People living in energy inefficient homes experience sick days and hospital […]
Hi everyone, Last week we saw more major setbacks for fossil fuel industry than perhaps any week ever before. Two of our major local fossil fuel fights — Jordan Cove LNG and the Kalama Methanol Refinery — were dealt serious blows from which they may never recover. The Biden administration put a freeze on federal fossil fuel leases […]
