Editor's Take: April 15, 2008
Writer Doug Fine (left).
Living the Complicated Life
I love Tuesdays in the newspaper business. Of course, there’s the New York Times’ science section. A Tuesday sleeper is the Portland Tribune’s Sustainable Life section. Today, find out how pollution makes us fat, trace Earth Day’s evolution, and read about a guy who tried to ditch the grid--and learned that the simple life is actually pretty complicated.
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One Man's Divorce from Suburbia
Portland Tribune
04/15/2008
With insight and wit, Doug Fine weans himself off fossil fuels.
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Ashland Help Wanted: Green Collar Only
Ashland Daily Tidings
04/14/2008
Thomas Brex is a beneficiary of the great green job machine that's created at least 50 new positions in Lane County over the past five years.
They're the sort of green jobs -- skilled, but without a four-year degree requirement -- that the Democratic presidential candidates (and/or their spouses) are jawboning about during campaign stops.
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Farmed BC Salmon Sales Up
Victoria Times Colonist
04/15/2008
Demand from U.S. buyers for farmed B.C. salmon is outstripping supply and the situation is expected to continue, says an industry spokeswoman.
About 85 per cent of the farmed salmon produced off B.C.'s coast is sent to the United States where, last week, officials announced total closure this year of the commercial and sport chinook salmon fisheries off California and most of Oregon.
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The Candidates on Salmon
Boise Idaho Statesman
04/15/2008
None of the three remaining major-party candidates for president will rule out breaching dams to save Columbia and Snake River salmon. But they don't support dam breaching now, either.
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All Quiet on the BC Carbon Tax Front
Vancouver Sun
04/15/2008
The B.C. Liberals are still sorting out a final version of their carbon tax legislation, two months after they promised it in the budget speech.
The unusually long interval -- tax bills are almost always tabled on the same day as the budget -- has led to speculation about the reasons for the delay.
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$5 Million to Help Vancouver's Street Kids
CBC BC
04/14/2008
Vancouver's largest shelter and resource centre for homeless youth will receive $5 million in the next three years to double its capacity and maintain operational needs.
The money will allow Covenant House to create 32 transition beds and open a communal kitchen, lounge area and additional space for programs and services.
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Train a Comin' to Snohomish?
Everett Herald
04/15/2008
The idea to start commuter train service between Snohomish and Bellevue has piqued interest among residents. Tonight, the City Council is set to hold a workshop on the plan.
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Commentary: The Trouble With Salmon
New York Times
04/15/2008
The federal government’s decision to shut down commercial salmon fishing from the California coast to north-central Oregon is a blow to local fishermen and the coastal economy.
This decision is necessary if there is to be any hope of salmon recovery.
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Commentary: Slow News is Big News
Victoria Times Colonist
04/15/2008
Poverty and the environment used to be soft topics. These were the portfolios of female cabinet ministers, the obsessions of bleeding-heart backbenchers. These were the things hippies talked about over herbal tea.
Government might still be behind the times, but society has moved on. Now global poverty and the environment are the subject of bar graphs in boardrooms, where men in suits crowd around and look very, very nervous.
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The Evolution of Earth Day
Portland Tribune
04/15/2008
Hybrids and offsets replace hatchets and outrage on planet's annual holiday.
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