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Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
Photo credit: Senate Democrats, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On Wednesday, July 27, 2022, Senator...
Rick Bonetti
Jul 30, 20222 min read
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Ecological Civilization: Earth, Religion and the Human Future
The Unitarian Universalist's General Assembly 2022 in Portland, OR included a workshop entitled "Ecological Civilization: Earth, Religion...
Rick Bonetti
Jul 21, 20221 min read
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"The Supreme Court Has Gone Rogue"
Heather Cox Richardson @HC_Richardson has just tweeted "The Supreme Court has gone rogue. We are in a full-blown Constitutional crisis....
Rick Bonetti
Jun 30, 20222 min read
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Drawing Down Carbon, Lifting Up Humanity
Project Drawdown has a new report, Climate–Poverty Connections: Opportunities for Synergistic Solutions at the Intersection of Planetary...
Rick Bonetti
May 23, 20222 min read
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Oregon Business and Industry Sues to Undermine Climate Action
From: Alan Journet, Cofacilitator, Southern Oregon Climate Action Now "Oregonians should know and hold accountable those who joined the...
Rick Bonetti
May 18, 20223 min read
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The Power of Big Oil
PBS FRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. This three-part series...
Rick Bonetti
May 2, 20221 min read
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Oregon State Government and the Climate Emergency
Voters ballots are due May 17, 2022 for Oregon's midterm primary election. Much of the past action addressing our climate emergency came...
Rick Bonetti
May 1, 20222 min read
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Listen to GreenState Podcast from Oregon DEQ
Listen to GreenState the 04/22/2022 podcast: Environmental Justice in the environmental and conservation movements and at DEQ. Check out...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 27, 20221 min read
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Russian Oil and the Energy Crisis
One of my favorite sources of news and commentary is the New York Times podcast The Daily, which launched in January 2017 and now gets...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 17, 20223 min read
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Why America must protect 30x30
Senator Tom Udall and Dr. Enric Sala explain why Americans must protect 30x30 in this YouTube video. A May 2019 United Nations report...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 1, 20222 min read
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Take Action for Environmental Justice
Oregon Just Transition Alliance and its member organizations are encouraging Oregon State Legislators to pass three key policies in 2022...
Rick Bonetti
Feb 27, 20222 min read
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Medford Climate Change Adaptation and Resiliency Plan
On February 10, 2022 Matt Brinkley, AICP CFM Planning Director for the City of Medford, OR presented an informational update to the...
Rick Bonetti
Feb 19, 20221 min read
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Vote Common Good
Evangelical Christian groups are spending millions to drive a socially conservative turnout for the 2018 midterms, but Pastor Doug Pagitt...
Rick Bonetti
Oct 1, 20181 min read
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How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
John Cassidy of The New Yorker, in reviewing Adam Tooze’s book Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (2018) says...
Rick Bonetti
Sep 14, 20182 min read
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The Rise of History’s Biggest Empire
According to David Vine, author of Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (American Empire Project), the...
Rick Bonetti
Feb 12, 20182 min read
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Women’s March Anniversary
from: https://www.womensmarch.com On January 21st thousands of women, femmes, and allies came together to celebrate the one-year...
Rick Bonetti
Jan 10, 20181 min read
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Localization
Locavesting is “a call to rethink the way we invest so that we support the small businesses that create jobs and healthy, resilient...
Rick Bonetti
Nov 19, 20172 min read
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