For the second year in a row Lisa Shannon, a local activist in Portland, is running the full route (over 30 miles) of Portland’s Forest Park Wildwood Trail to raise money for the women and children of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are the victims of a brutal ongoing war that the world [...]

I’ve been rebuked by a reader for insufficient labeling of my product. He’s right, at least part of the time. Some of the stuff I write doesn’t break up into segments, since it deals with a single topic. But on these monthly reviews of the Oregon energy situation, it might work well.
Please note that [...]

For every star in the sky, there is a fusion reactor producing energy, a process little understood until Albert Einstein’s brilliance revealed the relationship between mass and energy. To release the energy locked in the atom, fission or fusion can be used. The heavy atoms of uranium are split in fission reactors, which presently supply [...]

Scotch Broom was introduced to the U.S. in the 1800s as an ornamental shrub from Europe, where in its native habitat insects keep it in check. This fast-growing species has spread along the east coast and throughout the Pacific Northwest, invading rangeland and hillsides.
Gorse is a spiny plant also native to Europe, where it has [...]

Energy is the prototype for the clown of a thousand faces. Energy is heat. Energy is light. Energy is an electrical storm, a hurricane, a tornado, a warm day.
Energy is now. Energy is stored. E=MC2. . energy is mass times the square of the speed of light. You, yourself, are a sweet little bundle of [...]

Metro-area voters, please vote Yes on 26-80!
Within the next 25 years, over 1 million more people will move to the Portland area. Growth is inevitable. But preservation of core natural areas is not.
This year — with the Natural Areas, Parks, and Streams Bond Measure — we have a unique opportunity to permanently protect vital lands [...]

This past Monday I had the opportunity to attend a round table discussion about the Israel-Lebanon war with Congressman Earl Blumenauer and six others who had been invited. Earl held two round tables, one with a “pro-Israeli” group and then us, which I’m not sure what we were, but based on what my own [...]

The CBS show ‘60 Minutes’ last Sunday (7/30) rebroadcast a report on a dispute between federal climatologists and the White House. The report identified the individuals involved, their credentials and their positions within the government, as well as hard evidence of a document rewritten to the extent it no longer represented the scientist’s thinking. [...]