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| === Sunday | November 14, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Condi-kick-out.jpg|thumb|Unwelcoming committee.]] | |
| '''"Queen Of Terror" Denied Entry'''<br /> | |
| [[Rose City]] "radicals" question their own "victory" after realizing they just bolstered Portland's reputation as bastion of monochromatic pseudo-liberalism by compelling a [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/22/condoleezza-rice-cheney-a_n_190340.html conservative black woman] to take refuge in "(Dick) Cheney's bunker."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/11/403627.shtml VICTORY?]
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| === Saturday | November 13, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Coal-fired power plant.jpg|thumb|Coal-fired power plant. Image: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/rs_butner/4193880822/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Scott Butner]]]
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| '''Coal Controversy Heats Up'''<br />
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| [[PGE]]'s [[Coal-Fired Power Plant|coal-fired power plant]] in [[Boardman]], [[Oregon]] "puts toxins into the air and water (that are) responsible for four of the five leading causes of death in the United States. These are serious toxins. If we wait another 10 years (to close the plant) the impacts could be disruptive and permanent."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/nov/13/debate-flares-over-coal-fired-power/ Debate flares over coal-fired power: Environmentalists at odds over when is best time to close pollution-causing plant in Boardman, Ore.]
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| :''Go to info resource center'': [http://www.ilovemountains.org/ End Mountaintop Removal Action and Resource Center]
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| === Friday | November 12, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Conflict-Minerals-101.gif|thumb|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF-sJgcoY20 Conflict Minerals 101]]]
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| '''Clearcut Cell Towers; Leave The Trees'''<br />
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| Perhaps you're one of the dozens--if not hundreds--of folks across [[Consumertopia]] who has permanently switched off your cell phone because you can no longer feel good about our culture's "insatiable demand for electronics products such as cell phones and laptops" that "fuel waves of sexual violence" in places "that most of us will never go." No more trade in [[conflict minerals]] for you! And you're no longer overheating your brains with [[cell phone radiation]] and looking foolish by pressing an electronic gadget up against your head while chattering aimlessly as you hurtle down the highway or stumble along the sidewalk. But wait; there's something more: cell phone towers. They gotta go. Good news! You're invited to attend a workshop that'll show you how to get rid of 'em.<br />
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| :''Go to stories'':<br />
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| *[http://blog.oregonlive.com/pdxgreen/2010/11/a_workshop_on_cell_towers_in_p.html A workshop on cell towers in Portland neighborhoods]
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| *[http://www.enoughproject.org/publications/can-you-hear-congo-now-cell-phones-conflict-minerals-and-worst-sexual-violence-world CAN YOU HEAR CONGO NOW? CELL PHONES, CONFLICT MINERALS, AND THE WORST SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD]
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| *[http://organicode.net/consumertopia.html Consumertopia]
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| *[http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phone-radiation-levels/ Cell phone radiation levels]
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| === Thursday | November 11, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Homeless-vet-worthless-bum.jpg|thumb|Supporting our troops.]]
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| '''Today Is Veterans Day; Do You Know Where Your Veteran Is?'''<br />
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| "More than 10 percent of Oregon's homeless are veterans. There are 19 separate squatter villages populated primarily with homeless veterans in Central Oregon alone, and that's only the ones the Central Oregon Veterans Outreach group knows about. Many of them are addicted to drugs, or suffering from PTSD."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/veteran-assistance-programs-aid-more-homeless-veterans-in-the-winter-1.1748145 Veteran assistance programs aid more homeless veterans in the winter]
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| === Wednesday | November 10, 2010 ===
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| '''[[Neighborhood Greenways]]: From Asphalt To Bike Path, One Street At A Time'''<br />
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| Portland's [[Portland Bureau of Transportation|Bureau of Transportation]] ([[Portland Bureau of Transportation|PBOT]]) claims that neighborhood greenways are "much more than just chevrons painted on the asphalt." PortlandWiki News has in fact discovered they're traffic calming devices like speed bumps, extended curbs, stormwater management planters and all the other features that bike bloggers and city planners prattle on and on about.<br />
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| *[http://livininthebikelane.blogspot.com/2010/11/portlands-bike-boulevards-become.html Portland’s Bike Boulevards Become Neighborhood Greenways]
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| *[http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/portland-mode-share-tops-7.php Portland's Bike Use Tops 7%; Are 'Neighborhood Greenways' The Answer?]
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| === Tuesday | November 9, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Ecotopia.gif|thumb|[[Ecotopia]] in your dreams.]]
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| '''Watersheds & Woodpeckers'''<br />
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| Did you know that "we live in a watershed within a watershed within a watershed"? Were you also aware that a "watershed is an area of land that drains to a body of water"? Perhaps you suspect that we also live in a woodshed within a woodshed that drains into the clearcutting maws of the "forest products" industry within an industry. And that our woodshed's woodpeckers frolic with our watershed's waterpeckers. In short, we live in [[Ecotopia]].<br />
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| Go to story: [http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/news/2010/11/the_water_cycle_in_portland_living_in_a_watershed/ The Water Cycle in Portland: Living in a Watershed]
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| === Monday | November 8, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Oregon Spotted Frog.jpg|thumb|An [[Oregon Spotted Frog|Oregon spotted frog]] raised by offenders at the [[Cedar Creek Corrections Center]]. ''Photo: Melanie Colombo.'']]
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| '''Two Convicts & A Frog'''<br />
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| "Much to the surprise of research scientists and zookeepers" participating "in a 'head start' program to bolster" the [[Oregon Spotted Frog|Oregon spotted frog]]'s "dwindling population," James Goodall, a convicted drug dealer and fellow inmate, convicted robber Harry Greer apparently make great endangered frog nannies. In a fenced off-area behind Cedar Creek Correctional Center called "Frogga Walla," the two men spend nine hours a day feeding and tending to the endangered little critters. "We baby them like little kids," said Goodall, adding "They've got personalities, too, it seems like." "People may not think prisons are the right place for this type of environmental work, but it's the ideal place," said Chad Lewis, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. "We have folks with plenty of time in a controlled environment. That's what you need."<br />
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| *[http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_frogga_walla.html Washington prisoners helping save endangered frogs]<br />
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| *[http://blogs.evergreen.edu/sustainableprisons/2009/08/19/saving-frogs-takes-teamwork/ Saving frogs takes teamwork]
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