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The Metro Council recently awarded 12 community organizations $700,000 in grants for projects designed to increase racial equity and climate resilience in greater Portland by connecting people of color to nature. This round of Metro’s Nature in Neighborhoods grants include a project that bring...
The University of Queensland (UQ) has become the first major university in the world to offset all of its electricity use with clean, renewable energy, following the launch of the university’s 200,000 panelled solar farm this month. The solar farm, situated close to the state’s southeastern town...
The 2020 Keeling Curve Prize, named for Charles Keeling, the scientist who started charting the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 1958, was awarded to Citizens’ Climate and nine other organizations Monday evening. “We are thrilled to see our efforts honored in this way,” Citizens’...
GPSEN has launched a search for our next Executive Director! We are excited to offer this opportunity for a regional professional to support sustainability education and network development in our broader community. The executive director should have previous experience in managing a non-profit,...
After 6 weeks of continuous protests here in Portland, the movement for Black lives has shown that it’s here to stay. For 46 nights, protestors have gathered at locations like the Justice Center, the North Precinct, and the Portland Police Association headquarters to demand justice for Black lives...
Is that hope we feel? It’s Tuesday, friends, and before we get to the latest terrible, horrible, no good, very bad news, we want to talk about a piece of advice that’s sneakily optimistic: “Never let a crisis go to waste.” We’ve been thinking about that quip a lot lately as the coronavirus...
The city made the switch after community pressure to act on climate change. The City of Sydney — the central business district of Sydney and its surrounding inner city suburbs — will now be powered using 100% renewable energy, a switch forecast to save half a million dollars and 200,000 tonnes of...
Tahira Abbas, as member of WorldOregon’s Young Professional Steering Committee recently completed a Legacy Fellowship with our frequent community partner SAGE (Senior Advocates for Generational Equity). As part of her fellowship, Tahira worked with the Greater Portland Sustainability Education...
Greetings, everyone. I hope this finds all of you safe and well. Consider this as a personal note of gratitude to all of you for your continued support to our organization with your readership, partnership and participation in the work we do. As I step away from GPSEN as its Executive Director,...