en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Oregon headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 Groups are urging WA and OR leaders to toss out the proposed massive $4 billion, 12-lane Columbia River Crossing bridge project and start over, using a new approach that starts with region's shared values of economic vitality, affordable transportation, safe and healthy neighborhoods and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125749057683734200 Climate Sprawl & Transportation Oregon Washington 11/06/2009 Portland Tribune Researchers believe the day is coming when the electricity you use will be your own. Instead of relying on large central generating stations - hydroelectric dams, coal plants and the like - scientists say we're moving toward an era of "personalized solar energy." http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/personalized_solar_units_could.html Climate Economy Energy Environment Solutions Sustainable Living Oregon United States 11/05/2009 Oregonian Rural and disadvantaged communities in the Northwest could receive an economic boost thanks to $30 million in new markets tax credits allocated to Portland-based Ecotrust. The nonprofit organization plans to target former timber towns struggling to recover jobs and tribes working for economic benefits by improving the health of forests. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/ecotrust_lands_tax_credits_to.html Economy Forests Oregon 11/05/2009 Oregonian If Eugene's city officials fail to act to beautify its long derelict property, fed up residents could arm themselves with agricultural implements and storm the blight with guerrilla gardening. http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2009/11/05/coverstory.html Environment Oregon 11/05/2009 Eugene Weekly The deadly foam that clobbered seabirds in the Pacific Northwest has subsided and several hundred birds rescued from the slime are being released. But the death toll worries conservationists. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/deadly_ocean_foam_subsides_but.html Wildlife Oregon Washington 11/04/2009 Oregonian A rebate to plant trees? That's the city of Portland's plan to encourage property owners to plant more trees, which help suck up hundreds of gallons of rainwater every year, reducing the amount that flows into storm drains and, eventually, into local rivers and streams. http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125731371395092500 Environment Pollution & Toxics Sprawl & Transportation Water Wildlife Oregon 11/04/2009 Portland Tribune Portlander Berlin Reed used to be a militant vegan, until a series of off-restaurant jobs left him working behind a sustainably run butchery counter. "There was pretty much no argument against it. I knew exactly where the animals came from and how they lived. So I took a nice bite of rib eye at work and was like, 'I'm sold.'" http://www.willametteweek.com/editorial/3552/13275/ Environment Food & Farms Sustainable Living Oregon 11/04/2009 Willamette Week In Boise, a proposed $60 million trolley plan became a major theme of local elections Tuesday but also represents an American revival. Some 80 US cities have proposals for streetcars, which they hope will become engines for prosperity that will reduce congestion and air pollution by turning back the clock. http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/959921.html Climate Environment Policy Sprawl & Transportation Idaho Oregon 11/03/2009 Boise Idaho Statesman More than 10,000 children have been added to the state health plan under a new law aimed at expanding health insurance coverage to nearly every child in Oregon, officials said Tuesday. http://gazettetimes.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c41fe2cd-681c-5aab-bcbb-47268c6c79cc.html Human Health Policy Oregon 11/03/2009 Corvallis Gazette-Times