When the prospect of adding fluoride to Portland’s drinking water reared it’s head once again, our first reaction was how unlikely in today’s times of enlightenment about toxins and the sacredness of all things natural, in a progressive city that historically has stood against conventional medicine by voting against fluoridating public waters when other major …
Given the increase in social justice and environmentally flavored films premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, I wanted to ask Sundance pioneer Robert Redford to comment at the opening press conference on whether he felt that film influences public policy, but unfortunately time was cut short and the opportunity passed. Clearly “Blackfish,” a disturbing …
New Film “Pandora’s Promise” Likely to Unleash Nuclear Energy Revivalists by Robin Klein Slick, with a budget of over $1 million, “Pandora’s Promise” is a provocative breeze to watch. Taking cues from effective leftist eye-opening documentary styles, think Michael Moore crossed with the Academy award-winning anti-nuke film “Deadly Deception,” one can see why accomplished director Robert …
A standing-room only crowd filled a hearing room next to the Columbia River in Portland on May 16 urging the Washington Department of Ecology to forbid disposal of additional radioactive wastes at the US Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear site, located some 180 miles up the river from Portland. The federal agency is proposing to …
Hopes have been high since Barack Obama took office that rampant logging on public lands would cease and that the adorable northern spotted owl could be brought back from the brink of extinction brought on by habitat loss in old growth forests. Promising moves made last June with the signing of Obama’s landmark Northern Spotted …
Moves were undertaken long ago to rescue one of the most important rivers in America, the Trinity. Significant because it remains one of the most pristine and least hindered of large rivers, and has been a major source of irrigation water for California’s parched Central Valley which provides nearly 10% of our nations produce and …
I went to this year’s Sundance Film Festival with the intention of exploring cultural trends in film stemming from increasing concern and awareness for our planet’s environment. While green themes weave through the fabric of many progressive films, I came away from the festival astounded, rather, by the intensity and prevalence of what I would …