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Aug 7 Native Resilience and Interethnic Cooperation: How Natives are adapting to climate change, and helping their non-Native neighbors follow suit

Aug 7 here (.pdf)

Jul 10 Editor’s Introduction: July 2013

Jul 8 Editor’s Introduction: July 2013

Jul 8 How the Declaration of Independence got Hijacked

Jul 8 Selections from the Public News Service-July 2013 (Audio)

Jul 8 A Bright Future: Creative, Passionate Students at Class Academy in Portland Participate in Read the Dirt Environmental Writing Contest

Jul 8 East Boulder County United Launches Campaign for the Lafayette Community Rights Act to Prohibit New Oil and Gas Extraction

Jul 8 Water Quality, Who Should Decide?

Jul 8 Speaking With a ‘Fractivist’: Data Acquisition to Federal Exemptions

Jul 8 Santa Monica Passes West Coast’s First Rights of Nature Ordinance

Jul 8 Foster Youth Bill of Rights, New Narratives

Jul 8 Spokane Continues to Fight for the Right to Vote

Jul 8 Water Quality, Who Should Decide?

Jul 7 How the Declaration of Independence got Hijacked

Jul 7 Selections from the Public News Service-July 2013

Jul 7 East Boulder County United Launches Campaign for the Lafayette Community Rights Act to Prohibit New Oil and Gas Extraction

Jul 5 Santa Monica Passes West Coast’s First Rights of Nature Ordinance

Jul 5 When Public Utility Districts Forget Who They Serve

Jul 5 Speaking With a ‘Fractivist’: Data Acquisition to Federal Exemptions

Jul 4 Foster Youth Bill of Rights, New Narratives

Jun 10 A Bright Future: Creative, Passionate Students at Class Academy in Portland Participate in Read the Dirt Environmental Writing Contest

Jun 8 Editor’s Introduction: June 2013

Jun 8 Listen Here

Jun 8 Follow Up

Jun 8 (Audio): Read the Dirt’s Coverage of the 2013 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference

Jun 8 A Conversation about School Lunches, a Student and a Farmer

Jun 7 Living Democracy as Spiritual Practice (Or Vice Versa)

Jun 7 March Against Monsanto

Jun 7 A Community Rights Ordinance For South Puget Sound

Jun 7 Surrounded by press

Jun 7 Housing Justice: Fighting for Rights

Jun 7 Surrounded by press

Jun 7 Housing Justice: Fighting for Rights

Jun 6 GM Wheat Discovered in Oregon, Benton County Continues Work on Food Bill of Rights

Jun 5 County Government Writes History, Hydrocarbon Ban is First of its Kind

May 17 Noni Austin

May 7 Editor’s Introduction: May 2013

May 7 Washington Community Action Network Talks Rights

May 7 Transforming Faith

May 7 The Moral Blueprint-Sacred Democracy

May 7 Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement

May 7 The Moral Blueprint-Sacred Democracy

May 7 Trisha Mendes

May 7 Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement

May 3 Transforming Faith

May 3 Washington Community Action Network Talks Rights

Apr 26 Alex Valentine

Apr 26 Kathryn Kozowski

Apr 8 Editor’s Introduction: April 2013

Apr 7 Read the Dirt: Changes on the Way

Apr 7 Big or Small: Who Will Grow Washington’s Cannabis Crop?

Apr 7 Crude Oil Trains Proposed for Grays Harbor, WA: Citizens Challenge Permitting Process

Apr 7 What a Difference a Degree Makes

Apr 7 Middle School Elevates its Rights above Corporations’

Apr 7 The Story of Broadview Heights, Ohio

Apr 7 Under the Radar: How a Multinational Corporation Quietly Bought a County-Wide Election

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Apr 2 Read the Dirt: Changes on the Way

Apr 2 Big or Small: Who Will Grow Washington’s Cannabis Crop?

Apr 2 Crude Oil Trains Proposed for Grays Harbor, WA: Citizens Challenge Permitting Process

Apr 2 Middle School Elevates its Rights above Corporations’

Apr 2 What a Difference a Degree Makes

Mar 2 The Story of Broadview Heights, Ohio

Feb 25 Park Rangers to the Rescue

Feb 17 Democracy Denied in Small Town, USA

Feb 11 Washington’s Renewables: An Introduction

Feb 4 The view from Plymouth, NH

Jan 27 Benton County’s Fight to Protect Our Seed Heritage: A Food Bill of Rights

Jan 22 Where in the World is Read the Dirt?

Jan 16 Fighting for the Right to Food Sovereignty: Benton County, Oregon

Jan 14 The Balancing Act: Exploring Water in the Skagit Basin

Jan 7 Notice: Please Read

Jan 6 Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature

Jan 6 Rivers and Natural Ecosystems as Rights Bearing Subjects

Dec 31 Case Study: The Community Right to Sustainable Energy

Dec 24 Barnstead, NH: Establishing the Community Right to Water and Self-Governance

Dec 21

Dec 21 Staff

Dec 20 Brittany Yost

Dec 20 Simon Davis-Cohen

Dec 19 Community Rights

Dec 14

Dec 12 Species Banks

Dec 4 Rapid Evolution and Adaptation to Climate Change: Salmon

Nov 23 Our Slaves

Nov 17 NW Coal Ports: Voice your concerns, voice them loud!

Nov 13 Meditations on our Future

Nov 4 Book: Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence

Oct 29 Figure 2

Oct 29 Figure 1a

Oct 29 Figure 1b

Oct 29 Historical Climate Trends in WA and Future Change

Oct 21 On Kids and Food

Oct 14 Equity, Environmental Justice, and Industrial Pollution in Portland

Oct 8 Cities advising Counties?

Sep 30 Empowered Latino Farmers

Sep 23 Changing ‘Fundemental Law’, a Case Study: Bellingham

Sep 16 Whatcom Farm-to-School: Tackling Food System Challenges One Lunch at a Time

Sep 16 nourishlife.org

Sep 12 Talking with Washington State Legislators-Stanford

Aug 23 Orca Tribes of the Salish Sea and Beyond

Aug 23 Talking with Washington State Legislators

Aug 21 Help! I’m being Climate Changed!

Aug 21 3-580×580

Aug 10 Sludge, Whose Jurisdiction? (Part 2)

Aug 5 It’s About More Than Business

Jul 30 The Right to Regulate: Sludge (Part 1)

Jul 19 A Case to Protect Public Land

Jul 16 -1

Jul 14 Oxford University Press

Jul 9 Rethinking the Peasant

Jun 30 Water in the West: Diverse Tools for Conserving our Rivers and Communities

Jun 30 Screen shot 2012-06-30 at 9.58.05 AM

Jun 25 The Beginning of Regional Food Governance?

Jun 18 Senate Manhattan Project National Historical Park Bill Introduced

Jun 17 Can City Planning Make Us Cooler, Healthier and Friendlier?

Jun 11 The Secret Life of Plastic

Jun 11 The Results

Jun 3 Part 2

May 29 Urban and Suburban Agriculture Empowers Environmental Stewards

May 20 Managing Many Waters the Walla Walla Way

May 15 Letter from the Editors

May 13 DSC_0496

May 8 Why Coal?

May 6 Why Coal?

Apr 30 News Release 4/16/12

Apr 29 The Tongass: The National Salmon Forest

Apr 22 Foreign Interests, Local Uranium

Apr 19 Just chillin

Apr 13 Liquefied Natural Gas Exports? (Part 1)

Apr 6 Oregon is a Desert State

Mar 29 The Right to Self-Govern

Mar 29 Poster

Mar 29 1st Annual Read the Dirt Writing Competition!

Mar 29 Competition-New

Mar 29 1st Annual Read the Dirt Writing Competition!

Mar 25 Making Clean Local Energy Accessible Now (Part 1)

Mar 19 The Clean Water Act – A Story of Activism and Change

Mar 15 Poster

Mar 15 1st Annual Read the Dirt Writing Competition!

Mar 9 1st Anual Read The Dirt Writing Competition!

Mar 9 -Competition!-

Mar 9 Poster

Mar 9 -Competition!-

Mar 9 Poster

Mar 9 Greater NW!

Mar 9 -Competition!-

Mar 8 Le Secret

Mar 2 Privatizing a Basic Human RIght: Water

Feb 24 Pipelines, here?

Feb 23 Genetically Engineered Fish

Feb 23 NoCoalExports

Feb 23 Jim Esterkin was admitted to practice in California in 1980 and

Feb 17 Lake Roosevelt and Grand Coulee Dam

Feb 16

Feb 15 Read the Dirt!

Feb 10 Bottle the Skagit River?

Feb 8 Donate

Feb 3 WA Conservation Districts: An Introduction

Jan 27 No Coal!

Jan 20 Planning For A Future: Protecting The Ground

Jan 20 Planning For a Future (Original)

Jan 18 Protect Online Freedom!

Jan 12 Sahib’s Florida Aquaponic Produce

Jan 5 Oysters and Ocean Acidification

Dec 30 Columbia Basin Water Development

Dec 23 Mt. St. Helens

Dec 23 Hanford

Dec 13 OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Nov 30 Keeping Working Forests on the Landscape

Nov 20 One Step Back for Clean Water in the Boise River

Nov 13 If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Portland’s Water System

Nov 2 It’s a Wild Life – Can You Spare Some Passion?

Oct 28 Why make Mt. St. Helens a National Park?

Oct 20 The Story behind the Book, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

Oct 14 Protecting Our Region From Hanford’s Spreading of Contamination and From Being Used (Again) as a National Radioactive Waste Dump

Oct 14 Cleaning Up Hanford

Oct 6 Leave It to the Beaver!

Sep 28 West Hylebos Wetlands: A Place Worth Preserving

Sep 21 Liquefied Natural Gas on the Columbia River Re-Ignites Fossil Fuel Battle

Sep 15 New Gold Rush Threatens the West

Sep 8 Elwha Dam 3

Sep 8 Glines Canyon Dam-Elwha River

Aug 31 There’s a New Bug in Town

Aug 8 Stewardship Partners

Jul 11 Seed Banks

Jun 23 Bill McKibben, author and activist.

Jun 2 America’s Antiquated Mining Policy

Apr 3 Wasted Power

Mar 15 Lake Whatcom

Jan 25 Toxic Mud

Jan 7 Theodore Roosevelt

Dec 19 ESA

Dec 15 Methow Valley Conservancy

Dec 13 Classroom in Bloom

Dec 5 Classroom in Bloom

Nov 26 Highest Rainfall Events

Nov 14 Samish Indian Nation

Nov 11 Water Wealth

Nov 8 Gorge Air

Nov 1 Whatcom Land Trust

Oct 26 Email Thanks

Oct 26 Email Confirmation

Oct 25 Pigs

Oct 25 Alm Hill Gardens

Oct 25 turkey

Oct 24 Salmon

Oct 19 Why Conserve?

Oct 19 Election 2010

Oct 17 Roadless Forests

Oct 17 Teanaway

Oct 16 Orange and Green

Oct 12

Oct 12 Contributors

Oct 12

Oct 12 Topics

Oct 6 Election 2010

Oct 4 Qualco

Oct 4 Oregon Grape

Oct 3 Conservation NW

Oct 3 Gypsy Moth

Oct 3 Ecology Dept. of Air Quality

Oct 3 classic-daybed

Oct 3 Ecology Dept. of Air Quality

Sep 28 worms

Sep 28 two_cows

Sep 27 About Us

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