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What’s Next: Reflections from a young organizer
/in Editorial, News /by Guest AuthorAfter spending one month organizing the Portland People’s Climate March, I hopped on a plane to NYC and landed in the temporary epicenter of global climate activism. For three weeks, New York was filled with meetings, panels, rallies, marches and other climate events.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered to show they care, but they also came for the excitement; the PCM was the place to be that weekend. The march was designed to appeal to a broad audience–and it did. All over NYC, I heard people talk about the march joyously, as though it were an upcoming festival. Its open atmosphere was effective at drawing 400,000 people to march in NYC, and many hundreds of thousands more at marches around the world.
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What if CO2 Were Pink?
/in Climate Heroes, News /by Guest Author“As a father of two kids who will live in a climate altered by my generation’s excesses and emissions, I found myself lying awake nights worrying about their future, and the future of all children,” Kleiner said. “After one of those long nights, I wondered what would happen if CO2 were suddenly, say, pink. And since I’m a writer, I decided to tell a story about that, because stories tap the human imagination and have the power to move people.”
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Bend Artists Show Up Big Coal
/in Climate Heroes, News /by Guest AuthorMegan McGuinness
“Leaf Toupee’s; For Those Still Standing”
Acrylic on board
22”x28”
I moved to Bend in September, and with the help of Victoria Leistman, a Green Corps organizer for Sierra Club, and a quirky group of BeyondCoal activists, organized a community Art Show at the local environmental center. The event was called, Trick-or-Treat for Energy and it featured art that depicted either the Trick–the risks of continuing to burn fossil fuels, or the Treat–the hope for a switch to clean, renewable energy options. We provided a platform for these artists and the community to collectively envision a transition from coal to clean energy.
There were 15 different artists and more than 25 different works of art provided by local artists and engaged community members. Some of the art was dark, depicting skeletons praying or desolate landscapes that called out warning about ignorance and apathy towards overuse of fossil fuel resources.
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Southern Oregon Coast Under Threat: LNG Export Facility & Pacific Connector Pipeline.
/in Announcements, Fossil Fuel Exports /by Guest AuthorPhoto: Daniel Serres
The Southern Oregon coast is currently under threat from an LNG export facility and its accompanying Pacific Connector Pipeline.
Help say “NO!” to another climate disruptor in our region. Take the bus with us on December 9th to the Public Hearing on the Jordan Cove LNG project, in Roseburg.
Our bus will leave Portland at 1:00PM and will return past midnight. Please call Bonnie at 503-705-1943 for info on reserving your seat on the bus.
The impacts of LNG in Oregon must be exposed before irresponsible and irretrievable plans become reality.
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