Oregon community action
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Oregon.
News
US approves largest dam removal in history to save endangered salmon, The Guardian (Nov 17, 2022) — Four dams on California-Oregon border to be decommissioned on Klamath River, which fish use to reach spawning grounds
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Networks and sustainability initiatives
Ecovillages
Lost Valley Educational Center is an intentional community and ecovillage located on 87 acres (350,000 m2) acres of mostly forested land in Dexter, Oregon, United States, approximately 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Eugene. The center was founded in 1989 and is located on the grounds of the old headquarters of the Shiloh Youth Revival Centers.
Community involvement
Bioregionalism
- Regenerate Cascadia, 501(c)3 social movement organization developing a long-term bioregional vision and process that works with on-the-ground communities to design and implement new frameworks of governance, ecology, and economy for the regeneration and health of the Cascadia bioregion along the northeast Pacific rim of North America and beyond.
Food activism
- Huerto de la Familia (The Family Garden)
- Aprovecho Research Center, 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, develops efficient cook stoves for use in developing countries.
Community energy
Solar power has been growing in the U.S. state of Oregon in recent years due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives enacted by the state government.
Energy Trust of Oregon is an independent nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, United States, offering services and cash incentives to customers of Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural, Cascade Natural Gas, and Avista in Oregon. It also serves customers of NW Natural in Washington.
- Solar electric
- Biopower from wood waste, landfill and wastewater gas, manure and other organic sources
- Other sources, including hydropower and geothermal, and some instances of small-scale community wind
The U.S. state of Oregon has large wind energy resources. Many projects have been completed, most of them in rural Eastern Oregon and near the Columbia River Gorge. Wind power accounted for 12.1% of the electricity generated in Oregon in 2016.
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
Oregon Bottle Bill
Sharing
Sustainable transport activism
Hiking trails in Oregon
Cycling activism
The Oregon Bicycle Bill (ORS 366.514) is transportation legislation passed in the U.S. state of Oregon in 1971. It requires the inclusion of facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists wherever a road, street or highway is being constructed or reconstructed and applies to the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) as well as Oregon cities and counties.
The law requires that in any given fiscal year, a minimum of 1% of the state highway fund received by the ODOT, a city or county is used to provide walkways and bikeways located within the right-of-way of public roads, streets or highways open to motor vehicle traffic.
Cycle Oregon is a non-profit organization best known for its week-long, non-competitive bike ride, called Classic, held as a fundraiser for the Cycle Oregon Fund. Cycle Oregon additionally hosts GRAVEL, a weekend cycling event, Joyride, a one-day cycling event for women only and WEEKENDER, a weekend cycling event often hosted on a college campus. Cycle Oregon also manages Jumpstart, Oregon's Safe Routes to School program focused on rural communities, and administers the Oregon Scenic Bikeways program.
Cycle Oregon, non-profit organization dedicated to transforming individuals and communities through bicycling.
- Bike paths in Oregon
- Oregon Pedestrian and Bicycle Program, Oregon Department of Transportation. Resources include: safety publications, bicycle maps, project design and funding resources, and trip planning tools.
Education for sustainability
- List of nature centers in Oregon
- Environmental Education Association of Oregon
- Map of nature centers and environmental education centers in Oregon
Environment quality
- Beyond Toxics
- Freshwater Trust
- Department of Environmental Quality, the chief regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for protecting and enhancing the state's natural resources and managing sanitary and toxic waste disposal.
Open spaces
List of Oregon state parks
Trees, woodland and forest
- Williams Community Forest Project, ecological non-profit that promotes and advocates for the Williams watershed and Oregon ecosystems, following science-based studies through education, recreation, and activism. added 12:17, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Ecotrust is powered by the vision of a world where people and nature thrive together. Since 1991, we have partnered with local communities from California to Alaska to build new ways of living and doing business. From forestry to finance, food access to green building, we work to advance social equity, economic opportunity, and environmental well-being. Together, we are making this place we live a home that we love.
- BARK, non-profit organization that was created to combat logging, clear-cutting, deforestation and projects members say cause "commercial destruction" in Oregon forests, specifically those of the Mt. Hood National Forest.
- List of Oregon state forests
- List of Oregon National Forests
News archive
2016-2020
- California and Oregon 2020 wildfires in maps, graphics and images, Sep 18, 2020...BBC News
- Oregon wildfires: Half a million people flee dozens of infernos, Sep 11, 2020...BBC News
2017
- Depave picks away pavement to create green space, Oct 11, 2017...oregonlive.com
- Oregon becomes first state to pass law to completely eliminate coal-fired power, Mar 3, 2016...The Guardian
About Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. The 42° north parallel delineates the southern boundary with California and Nevada.
Oregon has been home to many Indigenous nations for thousands of years. Because of its diverse landscapes and waterways, Oregon's economy is largely powered by various forms of agriculture, fishing, and hydroelectric power. Technology is another one of Oregon's major economic forces, beginning in the 1970s with the establishment of the Silicon Forest, a nickname for the cluster of high-tech companies located in the Portland metropolitan area.
Near you
See also
- Category:Oregon State University
External links
Environment Oregon is a political non-profit organization in the U.S. state of Oregon, that lobbies for legislation in regard to environmental policy on local, state and national levels. It is affiliated with Environment America, a federation of environmental organizations in thirty states. Based in Portland, Oregon, it has more than 35,000 members throughout the state. It is also partnered with the Environment Oregon Research & Policy Center, its sister 501(c)(3) organization.
- Environment Oregon
- 1000 Friends of Oregon, is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that advocates for land-use planning.
- Restore Oregon, formerly the Historic Preservation League of Oregon, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with a mission to "Preserve, Reuse, and Pass Forward Oregon's Historic Resources to Ensure Livable, Sustainable Communities."