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Legislature should add fresh food to school lunches

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  • While most school cafeterias are closed for summer break, House Bill 2800, Oregon’s farm-to-school and school garden bill, is still cooking in Salem
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Work begins to remove dam in Washington’s Wind River Watershed

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  • The Hemlock Dam on Trout Creek will be removed this summer, restoring the stream’s natural flow and improving habitat for native fish
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School lunch brings home the bacon

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  • An experiment in subsidizing school lunches to use locally raised commodities pays off both in the cafeteria and in the regional economy, one study finds
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Carbon offsets a wild card as environmental markets converge

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  • A voluntary market for carbon offsets is even taking root in the absence of a national emissions cap
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Quotas on the way to Oregon fisheries, bolstering stocks

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  • It will be the first time the system – called catch shares or individual transferable quotas – has been tried on the West Coast outside of Alaska
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Pacific NW landowners team up to market forest offsets

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  • Owners of forestland in the Pacific NW could benefit more under a national carbon offsets system
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Portland fermented

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  • They are here to share information, troubleshoot and generally geek out at all things pickled here at Portland’s first ever Fermentation Festival
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Oil fields and arctic ecology

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  • Oil development in America’s Arctic
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‘Healthy oceans matter’ to this Administration says NOAA head

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  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head, Jane Lubchenco emphasized the importance of putting a new ocean council in the White House
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Catch-share rejections cloud talks

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  • A move is afoot within the federal fishery management system to increase the protection of cod and pollock from the majority of the groundfishing fleet
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Venturing forth

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  • John Haines disucusses how steering Mercy Corps’ efforts to prove loans work better than handouts to lift the destitute out of poverty
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Climate change issue takes center stage

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  • Political and business leaders from the Northwest to Washington, D.C. stepped into the spotlight Thursday on the issue of climate change
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The economics of climate stabilization

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  • A group of eight leading climate economists has a message for United States senators now considering a bill to cap emissions
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New report urges quick, aggressive action to stem carbon emissions

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  • A group of economists have come up with a simple formula for climate stabilization: Pay now, or pay a whole lot more later.
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Climate costs: can the world really afford to roll back carbon emissions?

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  • By and large, even in Oklahoma, the debate over how to tackle climate change boils down to a simple question: How much is this going to cost?
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With 67 jobs in tow, Cave Junction sawmill reopens

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  • With backing from an Ecotrust subsidiary, a 92-year-old Southern Oregon sawmill is back in business after a year off.
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Fixing old water and gas pipelines would create far more jobs than building Keystone XL

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  • It seems as if we’re collectively out on the street and Keystone XL is the only offer to come along. Not true.
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Our Misplaced, Undemocratic Budget Priorities: The Case of Keystone XL

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  • Wouldn’t it be better to have a jobs program that created things we really need, rather than things we don’t?
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How To Build A Local Food System, To Make Local Food Actually Work

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  • If good, local food is going to compete with industrial giants, it’s going to have to do more than just have people making small batches by themselves.
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Sawmill brought back to life

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  • Phillippi says the mill plans to reopen this summer, thanks to some federal tax credits and a state business loan.