Lloyd’s post on Crude prompted me to look around to see if I could find what Oregon’s plan is–how are we going to keep your kids and grandkids from living in a world of hurt, in other words.
Well, as best I can find, this is the plan for Oregon with respect to global warming: [...]

There is a provision in the Oregon Better Health Act (SB 27) that has drawn criticism by several Onward Oregon members who are members of the legal community. SB 27 Section 11, sets up six subcommittees, with one subcommittee set up to (as currently written) “make recommendations concerning how to address the issue of medical [...]

OK, Measure 37 rewrite is going to the voters. It stinks, but it stinks far, far less than Measure 37, so we need to do everything we can to pass it.
Meanwhile, what do we concentrate on for the balance of the session?
If you like big-picture, long-term thinking, probably SB 838 (renewable portfolio standard for [...]

The Statesman Journal copy editor who crafted the headline over this column is in the lead for “Worst Headline That Contradicts The Piece Below It” for 2007. Here’s the headline:

“Legislation about electronic-waste recycling falls short”

Carol McAlice Currie, an SJ columnist (ccurrie@StatesmanJournal.com, (503) 399-6746) wrote a column that appeared today in which she damns the [...]

With all the energy devoted to the bottle bill, don’t forget to make mention of the far more important toxic e-waste bill whenever you talk to a legislator.
There’s lots of arguments about how best to deal with empty pop bottles–there’s no argument about the need to keep toxics and heavy metals out of the environment! [...]

(This affects you no matter what substantive issues you are most interested in. Driving out small publishers will do to our discourse what Sprawl-Mart does to Main Street businesses in Oregon.)
POST OFFICE TO END 215 YEARS OF SUPPORT OF A FREE PRESS
BOB MCCHESNEY - The U.S. Post Office is in the process of [...]

STUDY: HEALTH RISK FROM ETHANOL
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - A new study out of Stanford says pollution from ethanol could end up creating a worse health hazard than gasoline, especially for people with asthma and other respiratory diseases. “Ethanol is being promoted as a clean and renewable fuel that will reduce global warming and air pollution,” [...]

Note that HB2626 gets us started on all three of these recommendations for getting our leaky “bottles” (computers) full of hazardous materials out of our waste stream.
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High-Tech Trash Talk
Excerpts:
When we heard about Elizabeth Grossman’s “High Tech Trash” book, we did seek a meeting with her in downtown San Francisco to ask her a few questions.

Story below reports that California may join Oregon among the civilized states that permit aid-in-dying to terminally ill people.
This would be huge step forward for America if so. Aid-in-dying — incorrectly named “physician assisted suicide” — is a huge boon to Oregonians, most of whom never take the pills prescribed under the law; they [...]

not sure this was a great label for Kitz’ organization, but too late now. the symbolism is great, which is why there are a ton of Archimedes projects out there. it also appears that it’s too hard for most people to spell, so a new website is coming soon: joinAM.org.
that aside, [...]