Today, the AP reported on our Gov’s status regarding LNG terminals, storage facilities and pipelines (see below). To learn more about this item, please see our action alert.
Governor open to liquefied natural gas plants
Kulongoski says Oregon could benefit from them
The Associated Press
November 30, 2007
ASTORIA — Gov. Ted Kulongoski is open to the idea of liquefied [...]

Coming to Portland recently was the easiest move I’ve made in a…well, let’s say it’s been my easiest move ever. It’s a friendly big city, which is rare. People reach out and encourage new ideas, helping out with advice when asked, jump at the chance to collaborate over coffee.
 Also, I’m finding that Portland lives up to [...]

This doesn’t go nearly far enough or address enough issues, but it’s an important step in the right direction: declaring an end to the massively destructive “War on Drugs” that especially targets people of color:
Support Reforms to Federal Drug Sentencing Laws
Oregonians have the chance to change federal sentences for crack cocaine and challenge some of [...]

Presidential hopefuls are treading lightly on Social Security, but it’s shaping up to be an important issue in the 2008 general election.
Meanwhile, the first baby boomer applies for Social Security…
Boomers read on. This is our chance to right the wrongs of Social Security and to realize the dignity in retirement that we’ve earned.

I’m thankful for people like Amanda Fritz and Jack Bog and, of course, the folks who started Onward Oregon, and all the other people who know that “discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation” (in the un-pc parlance of the times).
Just yesterday, Amanda provided a link to a [...]

November. Ice is reforming in the Arctic after a shocking thaw last summer. In the Antarctic it’s the northern equivalent of May. If you’ve hung around a pretty cold area ( I grew up in North Dakota and later spent over two decades at 11,000 ft) you would know in your frozen bones that there [...]

Rob Zako of OTRAN sends this important announcement:
How is ODOT addressing climate change?
a presentation by
Damon Fordham
ODOT Sustainability Manager
Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 pm
Lawrence Hall, Room 206
University of Oregon campus, Eugene

A quantum mechanical phenomenon, superconductivity occurs in certain materials when cooled to extremely low temperatures. In this state, current flows in bound pairs of electrons that constitute a superfluid, which can move without power dissipation. With exactly zero resistance, current can circulate forever in superconducting circuits, an oddity that is being exploited in the [...]

The estimable George Monbiot starts his latest thus:

An Agricultural Crime Against Humanity
Posted November 6, 2007
Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 6th November 2007
It doesn’t get madder than this. Swaziland is [...]

Well, at 8:45 it appears that Measure 49 will pass, thank God, which means that people who backed Measure 37 should be happy and those who opposed Measure 37 will be breathing a huge sigh of relief: Measure 49 gives Measure 37 backers everything they said they wanted, so everybody should be happy now.  The [...]