Someone with Oregon Environmental Council sent out this great item letting you know how YOU can help bring a most important improvement (pay-as-you-drive insurance) into being. Even better, right now it’s leading the race for funding. So please click the second link below and do your bit to help reverse the perverse incentive [...]

 This is what “sustainable biofuels” look like — the rape of the rain forest, the extinction of the orang-utan, and the conversion of billions of tons of carbon trapped in peat into atmospheric greenhouse gas — all subsidized in the name of “green fuels.”

Please join me in contributing to this very worthy cause, and pass it to your friends.
Sad that we have to do this, but it’s just another thing we have to do to respond to the gross disregard that the Bush junta shows for anyone unlucky enough to be in or to join the military when [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

So the Salem Statesman-Journal (a Gannett paper) runs this editorial in its on-line forum:
Going to college more crucial now than ever
Families must find a way to support youths’ educations
November 6, 2007
If you’re the parent of a young student and you can’t imagine how you’ll afford college for him or her, please stop that thought at [...]

You can’t say you didn’t know any more.
A UN official calls turning foodcrops into biofuels “a crime against humanity.” He may be overly optimistic about our future ability to turn other materials into biofuels, but at least he has the moral courage to demand that we stop starving people just to funnel money to [...]