Editor's Take: June 04, 2009
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Small Steps to Sustainable Living
Teaming up with neighbors to grow your own veggies, stringing up laundry lines to dry your skivvies, and cutting coupons and your personal consumption -- all are small steps being taken by individuals to live more sustainably. Perhaps the daily decisions we make about how we eat, shop, travel, and keep house can lead to community, city, even national shifts to live more gently on the Earth.
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Urban garden sharing spreads its roots
Oregonian
06/04/2009
Portland residents are embracing "garden-sharing": everyone contributes what they can, whether it's land or labor, money or skill, and everyone shares in the bounty.
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Build your own affordable house
Salem Statesman Journal
06/05/2009
An Oregon housing nonprofit wants to get the word out about its first Marion County project -- they want families to build their own, new affordable homes. The families are trained by Yamhill Community Development Corporation to do work such as painting, landscaping, trim work, siding, and some framing.
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Investing in health key to Canada's economic recovery
Vancouver Sun
06/04/2009
Investing in the health of Canadians should be an integral part of the nation's economic recovery plan, according to a new Senate report that warns health disparities among Canadians may widen further because of the current economic crisis.
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Some fields begging for workers
Everett Herald
06/05/2009
Companies are having a hard time hiring for some positions despite growing unemployment. Some industries such as health care face surging demand. In other fields, such as engineering, new "green" energy initiatives are expanding opportunities.
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OR legislation puts backyard laundry on the line
Oregonian
06/04/2009
With the recession forcing penny pinching and concern rising about global warming and rising energy costs, some Oregonians are turning to clotheslines as an easy way to be green. But the simple act of hanging clothes to dry is not allowed in places.
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Energy NW considers more nuclear power
Seattle Times
06/04/2009
A quarter century after its ambitious plan to build five nuclear plants crumbled into a punch line for government incompetence, a regional power consortium in the Pacific Northwest is quietly shopping the idea of building another reactor.
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A race to keep up with the tightwads
Washington Post
06/04/2009
In these recessionary times, people like Seigrid Walker are no longer concerned about keeping up with the Joneses. Now the goal is to fall far behind them.
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For the 'funemployed,' unemployment is welcome
Los Angeles Times
06/04/2009
Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks, or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings. They travel on the cheap for weeks. They head back to school or volunteer at the neighborhood soup kitchen.
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Washington wolves slowly gain a presence
KUOW
06/04/2009
Washington's wolf population is quietly rebuilding and now the state is doing what Idaho and Oregon have already done. It's writing a plan for how to manage them.
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Views: Time to slow Victoria's sewage express
Vancouver Sun
06/05/2009
Treating our sewage might be the best idea that ever washed up on Victoria's shores -- but we need to question the way it's being done.
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