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How we keep going: Lather, rinse, repeat.

by Kathy LeMay on

In perseverance, in humility, and in gratitude: that's how we keep making progress.

Biocarbon: Mobilizing the power of nature to help restore our climate

by Eileen V. Quigley on

Check out this beautiful video, and learn more about biocarbon and the role it can play in helping solve the climate crisis. 

Thank you! Climate leadership on display in Portland

by Gregg Small and Kristen Sheeran on

"The challenge to create a sustainable economy is global – and requires a global response – but I know the Northwest can show the way."

Renewing Brew

by Bobby Hayden on

From the farm to the foam in your glass, Oregon businesses are building a sustainable life-cycle for beer through clean energy and energy efficiency.

Clean power prices drop, installations and orders up

by Seth Zuckerman on

Renewable fuels advance; carbon pricing on the docket; increasing opposition to oil-drilling; China to cap coal by 2020; global warming impacts far and wide.

Look out below! Financial prospects for NW coal export continue to worsen

by Ross Macfarlane on

Coal executives once saw a rosy future (for themselves) in Northwest coal export. But falling global demand for their dirty product now means that their dreams may be going up in smoke.

Never send to know for whom the carbon burns

by Seth Zuckerman on

No matter how clean your electricity supply is on average, we’re all connected by a power grid that uses every available green electron. At the margin, we're all equal consumers of fossil fuel. 

Taskforce recommends carbon pricing for Washington

by Ben Serrurier on

Ending polluters' free ride is the key recommendation of Governor Inslee's task force on carbon emissions.

New money, policies and promises for climate action

by Seth Zuckerman on

Reverberations of the U.S.-China climate commitments keep echoing, federal clean energy fund turns a profit, lightweight solar panels you can unroll, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.

Celebrate the US-China climate deal, but keep pushing for deeper change

by KC Golden on

Next week the U.S. Senate will vote on the Keystone Pipeline, which would lock in the very C02 emissions the US-China climate deal is trying to reduce.

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