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Thank you! Climate leadership on display in Portland

by Gregg Small and Kristen Sheeran on

"The challenge to create a sustainable economy is global – and requires a global response – but I know the Northwest can show the way."

Renewing Brew

by Bobby Hayden on

From the farm to the foam in your glass, Oregon businesses are building a sustainable life-cycle for beer through clean energy and energy efficiency.

Clean power prices drop, installations and orders up

by Seth Zuckerman on

Renewable fuels advance; carbon pricing on the docket; increasing opposition to oil-drilling; China to cap coal by 2020; global warming impacts far and wide.

Look out below! Financial prospects for NW coal export continue to worsen

by Ross Macfarlane on

Coal executives once saw a rosy future (for themselves) in Northwest coal export. But falling global demand for their dirty product now means that their dreams may be going up in smoke.

Never send to know for whom the carbon burns

by Seth Zuckerman on

No matter how clean your electricity supply is on average, we’re all connected by a power grid that uses every available green electron. At the margin, we're all equal consumers of fossil fuel. 

Taskforce recommends carbon pricing for Washington

by Ben Serrurier on

Ending polluters' free ride is the key recommendation of Governor Inslee's task force on carbon emissions.

New money, policies and promises for climate action

by Seth Zuckerman on

Reverberations of the U.S.-China climate commitments keep echoing, federal clean energy fund turns a profit, lightweight solar panels you can unroll, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.

Celebrate the US-China climate deal, but keep pushing for deeper change

by KC Golden on

Next week the U.S. Senate will vote on the Keystone Pipeline, which would lock in the very C02 emissions the US-China climate deal is trying to reduce.

Few bright spots for climate in midterm election results

by Seth Zuckerman on

A few victories soften the blow of an otherwise painful midterm election, Oregon NGO cleanses its portfolio of fossil fuels, Brazil attracts cheap bids for a gigawatt of solar power, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.

Coal to Clean Energy Forums in Corvallis and Portland

by Bobby Hayden on

Oregonians across the state agree: we want clean energy. It’s time to give Oregonians the energy we want.

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Earth Week in a time of monsters

“The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930, “and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Today’s intersection of monstrous planetary crises has a name and a face: the Trump administration, with fossil fuel interests pulling strings behind the scenes.