Category: Featured News
Best of the Rising Tide website, things formally featured on the scrolling slider on the front page or on the old front page.
Cascadia RT organizes anti-LNG action at NW Natural
Cascadia Rising Tide joined forces with Stumptown Earth First! to hold an action and rally at the downtown Portland office of NW Natural (local gas utility), for their involvement in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) related pipelines, which threaten to clear-cut strips of forest throughout Oregon for new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Piling dozens of trees on NW Natural’s downtown office entryway, activists with Stumptown Earth First! and Cascadia Rising Tide, sent a message to the LNG-invested gas company: “There’s nothing Green about Clear-cuts, No new pipelines”. Continue reading
April 1st Action Guide to Fossil Fooleries
A book of ideas for action on April 1st…
Printable .pdf here! (it’s formatted for printing, not viewing)
Who are the fossil fools in your Neighborhood?
Anywhere you live, fossil fools are going to be engaging in destruction, poisoning of communities, and other filthy, climate changing business. Most of us live (sometimes ignorantly) in the shadow of toxic, combustion or extraction activities. Even if you don’t live near these points of destruction, unless your living off the grid, your utility company gets most of its energy from fossil fuels…and that’s despite any photos of wind turbines or solar panels on their website, or “green” options they are more then happy to charge you extra for on your bill.
If you’re not sure who they are, the first step to taking action on the fossil fools in your community is finding them! Continue reading