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 [...]

Today while walking up SE Hawthorne in Portland, I was greeted on the sidewalk by Dylan, who works against global warming by working for Greenpeace. Dylan tells me there’s a global warming gathering that Portland-area OnwardOregonians might like to know about, coming up this weekend. + Saturday, Nov 3, from 2-4 p.m. Greenpeace is hosting a gathering of [...]

Life is either light or dark. The other night, my therapy-dog-in-training Conor and I walked the main boulevard near my Portland house and got to see what street people see: social injustice. You’re either in or you’re out. At least eight people along the 10-block stretch sat on the cold sidewalk outside busy, well-lit, Friday-night-crowd restaurants. The sidewalk [...]

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: [...]

If you are served by an electric coop in Oregon, then WE NEED YOU — because your locally owned and operated coop is, in all probability, trying to destroy the state’s best hope for an intelligent response to both climate change and energy resource depletion. Basically, SB 838, which calls for Oregon to get 25% [...]

Out enjoying the beautiful day today, I was meditating on what would happen should the Oregon 37 fix fail this November. I heard Sen. George speak recently and I think he’s not sure whether it will pass or fall, because he’s boasting that it is sure to fail quite loudly and often. I got the [...]

I don’t typically like to do the bloggerati thing of just posting links to other blogs. The two or three or ten of you who come to Onward Oregon come here, I expect, to read something original posted under the OO principles, even if it’s great hunks of stolen material with comments interspersed. But I [...]

One of the more important ways of knowing what’s going on in Salem is “SalemWatch,” [sic] produced by the Oregon Conservation Network and the Oregon League of Conservation Voters. This week’s issue is a timely followup to my “What’s Next?” post, because it contains some important pieces of legislation I overlooked. I’m posting big hunks [...]

Ok, we’ve got about six inches to go to score an important victory, a first step towards the kind of response to global warming that we’ve got to have. Or if you prefer baseball, we’ve got the winning run on third base, ready to come home! Or if you prefer knitting, we’ve got the shawl [...]

If you look at the “Action Center” link up there, it takes you to an important page where you can find links for taking “action” on various subjects—all marked urgent! (These days, taking action is pretty much defined as communicating with your elected employees in Salem.) One suspects that Onward Oregon readers don’t suffer from [...]