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Portland Becomes First US City to Stop Fossil Fuel Expansion

Responding to powerful grass-roots activism, Portland’s government passed a law, recently upheld by the Oregon Court of Appeals, to arrest further construction or expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in the city.

By Kevon Paynter | March 7, 2018 | Community, Environment, Government, Health, Law | 350.org, Activism, California, Carbon Dioxide, Chevron, Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Climate March, Energy, Environmentalism, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Idaho, Kayaktivism, Natural Gas, Oil, Oregon, Pipelines, Political Action, Portland, Propane, Renewable Energy, Shell, Washington, Willamette River

New Back-to-Landers Have More Information and More Obstacles

The most recent wave of back-to-landers, seeking sustainability, simplicity, and meaning, have a rich vein of resources; they also have bigger challenges.

By Nancy Matsumoto | July 5, 2017 | Agriculture, Economics, Environment, Family, Food, Society | Agriculture, Back to the Land, Back-to-Landers, Conservation, Eliot Coleman, Environmentalism, Family Farms, Farmer Shortage, Farming, France, Helen Nearing, Hippies, Jean-Martin Fortier, Maine, Market Gardening, Maude-Hélène Fortier, National Young Farmers Coalition, New Mexico, NYFC, Organic Farming, Quebec, Scott Nearing, Socialism, Start-ups