June 2025 Updates and Events
We are overwhelmed with gratitude for the donations and testimonials we’ve received after launching our Save 350PDX campaign just 2 weeks ago. We’re moving closer to our goal every single day. If you’ve already donated, thank you so, so much. Here are just a few of your wonderful testimonials:
“As someone who was there when 350PDX was just 6 or 7 people around a kitchen table, I am wowed by all it has accomplished and how big and respected it has grown to be. When we started, the climate crisis wasn’t on the City’s consciousness or agenda. But now we can thank 350PDX for this and so much more, including the Portland Clean Energy Fund and the fabulous art at rallies and parades. I am proud to call myself a founder and donor to 350PDX.”
– Sandy
“350PDX has been the heart of the climate movement for over ten years. These folks are the connective tissue that binds so many pieces of our movement together into a working whole. They recruit, educate, and mobilize like no other organization in this town. We can’t lose them right when we need them the most to turn our long-standing community priorities into law. Please give generously and ask others to do so as well so we can be there for 350PDX when they need us most.”
– Nick
“When I moved to Portland I wanted to get involved in the climate movement. One call to 350PDX was all it took and I was immediately welcomed into an incredible community and connected to truly meaningful volunteer opportunities. 350PDX is an essential hub for climate action. Without it, we lose the collective power and the communal joy of our movement. Please donate to save 350PDX.”
– Rory
We are working hard to Save 350PDX from an unfortunate financial crossroads, with a goal to raise $150,000 before August 1 to keep our organization alive. If we are unable to meet this goal, we will be forced to make dramatic decisions, such as leaving our beloved workshop space, laying off staff members, or closing the organization entirely. We’re doing everything we can do to avoid this, and are so grateful for this community’s immediate support in the first 2 weeks.
Donations can be made here. If you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas, you can share them with our team at info@350pdx.org. Thank you, thank you!
Team News
Fossil Fuel Resistance Team
Great work to all who came to and testified at the DEQ hearings on Zenith’s air permit application last month. Over 60 people testified between the two hearings, and all were unanimously against Zenith. That’s incredible! Not even a single industry representative bothered to show themselves and testify in front of all of us. Too scared, maybe? We’ll take it. (You can listen to the recording of the big May 12 hearing on KBOO’s Locus Focus here.)

We’re keeping up the fight on this comment period until the official deadline on Sunday, June 15 at 5:00pm. All comments must be submitted by that time. You can submit comments online here, or you can send a longer-form comment directly to NWRAQPermits@deq.oregon.gov. We also have gathered many handwritten comments throughout this comment period, and we plan to deliver them together to the DEQ on Friday, June 13 at 1:00pm at the DEQ office (700 NE Multnomah). Please RSVP to dineen@350pdx.org to join this in-person comment delivery, it’s going to be fun!
How to get involved: The Fossil Fuel Resistance Team meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 5:30 pm, rotating between meeting in-person and virtually on Zoom. Our next meeting is on Tuesday, June 10 at 5:30pm and is virtual. Join us at this meeting to learn more about an emerging Public Power campaign that we’re excited to get more involved in together. Please RSVP to dineen@350pdx.org for the Zoom link.
Community Development
Interested in getting involved with 350PDX? We are a volunteer-led organization and the movement needs you! There will be an orientation on Thursday, June 12th at the 350PDX office. Click here for more info and to RSVP.
The 350PDX Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of each month, alternating between virtual and in-person at our office. The next Book Club meeting is happening virtually on Wednesday July 2nd, from 6:00-8:00pm (Book TBD). Click here to sign up for the group mailing list.
The Arts Team
In May, our arts team, puppeteers and puppets marched through the streets of North Portland in the St Johns Parade. We walked near the railroad that carries Zenith oil cars, and were greeted by cheering crowds of people, many saying how much they appreciated us being there. They loved our Zenith capitalist puppet riding on our snake and oil car puppets!
Our next artbuild is June 8, 1:00-4:00pm, at 350PDX, 3639 N Mississippi. That Sunday we’ll finish puppets, make more, and clean up our work space. Can you join us for the fun? Email Donna! Murph1949@aol.com
We also need people/puppeteers for the Everything Under the Sun puppet parade in Sellwood on June 14 (yes, that June 14!) at 2:00pm in Sellwood. If you can join us, let Donna know! We hope to see you this summer!
350PDX Arts Team leads: Donna, Lauren, Allison, Dannika
Climate Policy Team
County Climate Justice Plan
Multnomah County has been working with community and environmental justice groups for the last three years to develop a Climate Justice Plan that centers community and equity. The draft plan is now open for public comments. Review the plan and submit your comments by June 29. The county’s Office of Sustainability is facing possible budget cuts and can really use strong community support right now, so even a few sentences showing support for their efforts is meaningful.
Help move state climate and environmental policies over the finish line!
The Oregon legislative session is in its final month! We are waiting to see which of our environmental and climate justice policy priorities will get funding allocated by the Ways & Means Committee. Remind legislative leaders and Ways & Means co-chairs that climate and environmental priorities have broad community support by sending this email today! See our 2025 legislative priorities page if you want to take more actions.
Welcome summer interns!
We’re excited to host five summer interns this year, supported by generous stipends from Lewis & Clark College, Reed College, and the University of Portland. Join us in welcoming the following climate policy assistants, two of whom also worked with us during the school year: Abyan Osman, Charlie Welling, Emma Johnson, Lyra Meyers, and Max Hanley. They’ll be updating our 2024 Climate Justice Platform with action steps, deepening our district organizing, and helping with the final push for the legislative session.
Join the Climate Justice Policy Team
Contact Cherice (cherice@350pdx.org) if you’re interested in helping track the city council and its new committees, helping us implement our Climate Justice Platform, or simply want to stay more informed and up-t0-date about climate, sustainability, and environmental justice issues at the city, county, and state levels.
Washington County Team

We’re working on a big new project to put on an Electrification and Sustainability Fair in Hillsboro on August 9; lots of planning is happening in partnership with the City of Hillsboro and with local allies. We have tabling opportunities for green energy and environmental advocate groups. And we need volunteers for the event!
Please email 350WashCo@gmail.com if you are interested!
We’ve fought a losing battle to keep the County Sustainability Office funded; the last staff member is gone. It’s great to know that Multnomah County may see better results. Washington County Commissioners oversight has resulted in a budget shortfall of $20.5 million in the general fund, and their priorities apparently don’t include all of the essential work that has been carried out by the Office of Sustainability since 2012. Our team is tracking and regularly submitting comments on bills moving through the busy state legislative session.
Our next online meeting will take place at 6:30pm on Tuesday, June 10. For the link, reach out to debbygactivism@gmail.com. Our general activities include: connecting with the Beaverton and the Tigard Climate Action teams, stewarding our Pollinator Garden at Bagley Park in Hillsboro, and more! We always welcome newcomers to our events and to our monthly online meetings (6:30pm on the second Tuesday of the month).
Volunteer Spotlight
Heather Ikeler
Heather started volunteering with the 350PDX Arts Team in the spring of 2019. At that time, the team was working on 13 giant puppets of presidents (Kennedy through Trump) for an event taking place in tandem with the 9th Circuit Court hearing on Juliana v. United States, also known as Youth v. Gov.
Heather could see how the art that she and the team created helped communicate the worthiness and urgency of the litigants’ case.

Heather's requested portrait!
Heather has been involved in activist and/or mutual aid communities for most of their life (with a few longish breaks along the way) and they continue to be impressed with how 350PDX provides structure and opportunities to engage in meaningful action that can be sustained over time. Heather is currently on the Forest Defense Team, and also helps out at monthly Action Nights. If they find that they have more time or energy on any given week they can easily plug in to other teams or local allies. Heather hopes to see you at the next Action Night!!
Thank you for reading our monthly newsletter, and for being part of the 350PDX community. Hope is a practice, and it will take each of us to get us through the current state of things. Donate to 350PDX today.
With gratitude,
Cherice, Dineen, Irene, Jessica, Katie