Air Cascadia

The Liquefied Natural Gaszilla is wounded ...but not dead.  And you know what they say about a wounded animal.  This is the Air Cascadia you've been waiting for:  A full hour of Q & A with everyone from the New Orleans Chapter of the Sierra Club to Portland's own Olivia Sch... Read more

Normal 0 If nothing else, Tuesday’s elections across the nation proved that anger and ignorance have achieved co-dependent bliss.  The real winner was Fox Generation, the coterie of corporate money and legal lies.   In Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Kentucky, the outcome... Read more

Representatives from the Albina Ministerial Alliance had hard truth for the Portland Police Department this morning.  In the fallout from three killings  in five short months,  relations between officers and citizens  are in free-fall. Reverend Leroy Haynes of the AMA Coali... Read more

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Normal 0 Yesterday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a case that challenged federal approval of Shell's exploratory drilling plans in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.   The last legal challenge standing in the way of Shell Oil's plans to drill 'exploratory' w... Read more

Normal 0 In  Washington and Kenner, Louisiana, Congressional committee members – who couldn’t possibly know boo about oil rigs -  got some vague idea of What Went Wrong.  Starting with  defects in cementing and in a critical safety device they learned that it came down... Read more

Normal 0 Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center has got an experiment going. Two of them, actually and – mirabile dictu! – both funded by none other than the Department of Energy.   Oregon’s Green Dream is to become a leader in wave-energy technology. ... Read more

Normal 0 Private  industrial interests haggle over who’s really responsible for the Gulf of Mexico ‘So Big You Can See It From Outerspace’ oil spill, The question of environmental racism hasn’t been raised - Yet.  So I  invited Jim Albertini with the Malu ‘Aina Center f... Read more

Normal 0   Here in Portland we think of ourselves as Green.  But how green are we?  And who is greener than whom?  It comes down to the hard question:  How much Green can you afford?  My guests this morning join us from across Cascadia and deep into Southwestern parts ... Read more

Normal 0 It’s light years beyond gardening:  It’s a form of farming that stretches from inner city apartment windowsills to remote off-the-grid homesteads.  Permaculture is perhaps the most misunderstood green concept out there.  In essence, permaculture is about ‘patte... Read more