Guy McPherson’s Eugene talk on video
If you missed retired professor Guy McPherson's talk on near-term human extinction June 24, the video is now on McPherson's website. See also our cover story "Radical Predictions" July 16. Continue reading
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Eugene Pleasure Shop Has Ribbon Cutting Tuesday
You can be part of one of those moments that make Eugene the awesome and unique city it is tomorrow at when the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce hosts an official ribbon cutting at As You Like It: The Pleasure Shop tomorrow, 12 pm Aug. 25. Mayor Kitty Pierce checks out "Eugene’s new and premiere sex-positive resource center, retail shop, and producer of sensual organic body products" at 2 pm. Continue reading
Activist Alert 8-20-2015
• You can “Bee Jazzy” and support Beyond Toxic’s efforts to save Oregon’s bees on Aug. 20 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm for $30 at Silvan Ridge Winery, 27012 Briggs Hill Road in Eugene. There will be wine tasting, live music with the Zac Wolfe Jazz Band and a silent auction. Continue reading
Festival of Eugene Celebrates its Second Year
Get ready for Festival of Eugene 2.0 — this year’s celebration of all things Eugene, with music, poetry, food, vendors, a pet parade and more, is bigger and better than ever before, says Krysta Albert, the event’s producer. Granted, Festival of Eugene is only in its second year, but Albert says she and her planning committee had a whole year this time to work out the details. Continue reading
Hike the Pipe to Protest LNG
A trek from the pipeline’s start in Malin, near the California border, all the way to Coos Bay
The proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Coos Bay would produce 2.1 million metric tons of CO2 a year, according to its federal environmental analysis. And the project isn’t just an LNG terminal. It’s a gas liquefaction, storage and shipping facility with a 400-megawatt natural-gas-fired plant powering four super chillers. It will all be fed by a 36-inch-wide 232-mile natural gas pipeline extending halfway across Oregon. Continue reading
Elephant Book Raises Money For Kids
The book is a poem that celebrates the strengths and weaknesses of an individual as it rhymes
Gregory Ahlijian says he doesn’t consider himself an author despite the two books he wrote and published himself, including his latest, An Elephant Would Be Wonderful. Ahlijian says he stumbled into the author role during his ongoing volunteer work in sixth and seventh grade classrooms at Jasper Mountain Center, a nonprofit in Springfield and Jasper that treats children with emotional and behavioral issues. Continue reading
Remembering Fred Taylor
Fierce defender of journalists and their craft
Fred Taylor finished Washington High School and left his native Portland in 1946 to major in journalism at the University of Oregon. He worked in the news bureau and wrote for the Oregon Daily Emerald, rising to be co-sports editor. But the dean of the journalism school told him that he would never make it in the field of journalism. He should get out of it. Continue reading
Housing First?
A Salt Lake solution could work in Eugene
Walk through downtown Eugene and you’ll see shops, restaurants, bars, kids on bikes, artists, business people, random pedestrians … and part of this quirky city scene is an assortment of panhandlers, travelers and unhoused residents not unlike those seen in downtowns across America. Walk though downtown Salt Lake City and it feels a bit like Disneyland. Weirdly clean, it too has bars, restaurants and shops. The downtown mall, City Creek Center, has a manufactured creek running charmingly through its tidy, paved center. Continue reading
Lane County Area Spray Schedule 8-20-15
Oregon Department of Transportation is currently spraying roadsides. Call Tony Kilmer at ODOT District 5 at 744-8080 or call 1-888-996-8080 for herbicide application information. Hwy. 99 and Beltline were recently sprayed. Continue reading
McDougal Brothers Applying for Wetlands Fill Permit Along Amazon
The McDougal brothers, who have faced criticism over they years for their involvement in projects such as mining scenic Parvin Butte or trying to get a water right on the McKenzie River, are applying for a fill permit for "0.76 acres of emergent and scrub/shrub wetlands" near Green Hill Road in West Eugene. Continue reading