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

Interview: Ethan Hughes of The Possibility Alliance, part two

In the first part of this interview, Ethan Hughes talked with The Technoskeptic about events that led to the founding [...]

By Mo Lotman | June 15, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Family, Human Rights, Society, Well-Being | Activism, Agriculture, Anger, Bacha Kahn, Gift Economy, Health Care, Martin Luther King, Missouri, Off-the-grid, Oil, PEACH, Permaculture, Pyrenees, Service, Still Waters Sanctuary, Sustainability, The Possibility Alliance

Interview: Ethan Hughes of The Possibility Alliance, part one

There are brilliant writers and thinkers who are questioning technological progress from a philosophical perspective, others who raise alarms about [...]

By Mo Lotman | June 8, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Family, Human Rights, Society, Well-Being | Activism, Agriculture, Be the Change, Cycling, Ecuador, Gift Economy, Loving Earth Sanctuary, Missouri, Off-the-grid, Oil, Permaculture, Service, Still Waters Sanctuary, Sustainability, The Amazon, The Possibility Alliance