Education Sneak Peek
Read the Dirt’s latest project is its Ear to the Ground newsletter. The newsletter is a civic intelligence service. We read local [read more …]
Check It Out!
Read the Dirt is launching an affordable, exclusive newsletter that takes the model of a corporate intelligence service, and wields it for [read more …]
US Climate Movement: Funnel Money Downward if You Want to Survive
This Read the Dirt production was published by Earth Island Journal. Since the election of Donald Trump, many people who have not [read more …]
Part 2: Jordan Cove LNG Backers Spend Huge Money to Sway Tiny Oregon County Election
This Read the Dirt production was published by DeSmogBlog Two weeks ahead of an Oregon county special election, backers of the multi-billion [read more …]
Part 1: Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
This Read the Dirt production was published by DeSmogBlog and Truthout. Scattered throughout Coos County, situated on Oregon’s southern coast, are signs [read more …]
Get To Know The BATS: Teachers Fighting Privatization
This Read the Dirt production was published by Popular Resistance. Chris Christie once told a Badass Teacher that he was “sick”of people [read more …]
Re-Imagining Local Public Space, From Parks to Post Offices
This Read the Dirt production was published by The Leap. As austerity and privatization spread around the globe, there has never been [read more …]
For Teachers and Citizens: How to Respond to Federal Immigration Raids
Editor’s Note: TeachDream is a “group of educators and counselors working in New York City Public Schools, as part of an Inquiry [read more …]
How To Respond When Your (Local) Government Gets Sued By A Corporation
Editor’s Note: This piece, by Tish O’Dell of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and Ohio Community Rights Network, was written [read more …]
Interview: The Working Class Movement Fighting for Local Authority
Editor’s Note: Make the Road New York is a membership-based grassroots immigrant organization that leads and supports local lawmaking efforts, including recent [read more …]
Interview: Challenging Corporations’ ‘Right’ To Grow GMOs in Rural Oregon
Editor’s Note: Oregonians for Community Rights has filed paperwork to begin petitioning for a “Right to Local, Community Self-Government” state constitutional amendment [read more …]
Cancer Clusters Spark Historic Pesticide Vote in Oregon
Editor’s Note: Pesticide-induced cancer clusters have driven one Oregon county to propose a never-before-seen initiative. This November, residents of Josephine County, OR [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: December 2013
Read the Dirt has some exciting if not momentarily sad news to announce: We are going on sabbatical. Simon Davis-Cohen, our co-founder [read more …]
Occupy’s Not So Invisible Work
Editor’s Note: What do Naomi Klein, Occupy Sandy and the mathematics of predicting the future have in common? Originally published by Reader Supported [read more …]
The Devil In The Details of Local Law
Editor’s Note: A background story of a region fighting corporate industrial wind farming in New Hampshire. We learn about conditions that bring [read more …]
Bottled Water Facility Stopped, Local Government Replaced
Editor’s Note: Citizens in Anacortes stopped what would have been North America’s largest bottled water facility. The locals engaged to vote out [read more …]
Don’t Tread On Us-A Message from Colorado
Editor’s Introduction: Colorado Springs, CO residents are in court, fighting for the right to vote on a Community Bill of Rights that [read more …]
Making Sense of Recent Legal History
Editor’s Note: Did you know that our Supreme Court ruled—seventeen years ago—that corporations’ right to negative speech trumps citizens’/consumers’ right to know [read more …]
Where Push Is Coming To Shove, USA
East Boulder County United statement on Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s lawsuit against Lafayette’s Community Rights initiative By Cliff Willmeng and [read more …]
Getting Specific About What We Want
Editor’s Note: Rex Burkholder tells an American tale—incorporating his lessons learned as an urban planner into a broader discussion on how American [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: November 2013
Welcome to our November 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us in continuing the conversation. Send op-eds and [read more …]
The First Big Win for the $15 Movement
Editor’s Note: The first big win for the $15 movement has happened before many thought it was possible. We speak with Sage [read more …]
A Legal Definition for ‘Unsustainable Energy’?
Grafton Community Bill of Rights Ordinance Succeeds in Keeping Industrial Wind Out Editor’s Note: A small town in New Hampshire has banned [read more …]
Politicizing a Social Worker
Editor’s Note: How does ‘neoliberalism’ and the concept of government ‘neutrality’ relate to initiatives like Washington’s recent I-522? A social worker in training [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: October 2013
Welcome to our October 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us in continuing the conversation. Send op-eds and [read more …]
When The State Pushes Back
Editor’s Note: We speak with Kai Huschke, the NW and Hawaii Organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund—working to pass Community [read more …]
The People Know Best, Should We Listen?
Editor’s Note: Willmeng, actively working to pass a Lafayette, CO Community Rights Act to prohibit all new oil and gas extraction, asks [read more …]
This Crow Won’t Fly
Editor’s Note: Continuing our coverage of the Homeless Rights Movement. See here for an introduction to the movement by one of its [read more …]
Sacred Democracy-Democracy: a Work in Progress
Editor’s Note: In Philip Damon’s sixth Sacred Democracy column he provides an antidote to the mainstream media’s high-frequency buzz. For links to [read more …]
A New County Constitution
Editor’s Note: On Nov.5 citizens of Jefferson County, WA will vote on if they want to “charter” their county. To charter is [read more …]
Dispatches from Denmark-Ærø
Editor’s Note: Sarah Vaira, a former EarthFix intern, is studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark–a world leader in clean energy and environmental planning. [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: September 2013
Welcome to our September 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. When bacteria are surrounded by their own kind—when they [read more …]
Homeless Bills of Rights-New Narratives
Editor’s Note: Continuing our coverage of rights-based movements and narratives. Simon Davis-Cohen speaks with Paul Boden about Homeless Bills of Rights. Paul [read more …]
Colorado Anti-fracking Movement Heating Up!
Editor’s Note: A run down of the towns and counties in Colorado that are passing laws in opposition to the industrial gas [read more …]
Why Label Genetically Modified Food?
Editor’s Note: We spoke with Elizabeth Larter, the official spokesperson for the Yes on Washington State Initiative 522 campaign. If passed in [read more …]
Why Not Label Genetically Modified Food?
Editor’s Note: We were privileged to ask the campaign opposing Washington State’s Initiative 522 a few questions. If passed in November 2013, [read more …]
A Brief Chat about Workers’ Rights
Editor’s Note: Sakuma Farms Inc. farmworkers have been striking and fighting for more humane wages, living quarters and working conditions. A local [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: August 2013
Welcome to our August 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us as we work to provide tactical information. [read more …]
Native Resilience and Interethnic Cooperation: How Natives are adapting to climate change, and helping their non-Native neighbors follow suit
Editor’s Note: Natives are used to challenges—colonization offers an example. Natives’ historic resiliency and local traditional knowledge, along with their political sovereignty, [read more …]
Obstacles to Asserting Rights
Editor’s Note: When citizens get together to elevate their rights above corporations’—there is a backlash. What this backlash looks like can be [read more …]
USA Refuses to Ban Atrazine
Editor’s Note: Atrazine is used in many herbicides in the USA. It is a known endocrine disruptor that reduces testosterone production and [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: July 2013
Welcome to our July 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. This month we are featuring: an extensive (multi-article) look [read more …]
Spokane Continues to Fight for the Right to Vote
Editor’s Note: Read the Dirt staff writer Alex Valentine provides context to Spokane, Washington’s current work to pass a Community Bill of [read more …]
Foster Youth Bill of Rights, New Narratives
Editor’s Note: Continuing our coverage of rights-based narratives. Foster youth in Oregon are working to explicitly recognize rights of theirs that are [read more …]
Santa Monica Passes West Coast’s First Rights of Nature Ordinance
Editor’s Note: Santa Monica recently passed an ordinance that elevates its right to enforce its Sustainable City Plan, rights to clean air, [read more …]
Speaking With a ‘Fractivist’: Data Acquisition to Federal Exemptions
Editor’s Note: A written conversation between Read the Dirt editor Simon Davis-Cohen and Shane Davis. Davis has pioneered “a method of data [read more …]
Water Quality, Who Should Decide?
Editor’s Note: A written conversation between Read the Dirt editor Simon Davis-Cohen and John Osborn MD, Board President, Center for Environmental Law [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: June 2013
Welcome to our June 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. Here you will find summaries of eight new Read [read more …]
Housing Justice: Fighting for Rights
Editor’s Note: As banks continue to foreclose our homes a new narrative about housing—one focused on rights—begins to emerge. Kari of We [read more …]
(Audio): Read the Dirt’s Coverage of the 2013 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
Editor’s Note: Read the Dirt was in attendance at this spring’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon. We recorded three [read more …]
A Conversation about School Lunches, a Student and a Farmer
Editor’s Note: In a letter Anabel Magee, 9, expresses her frustration about the state of her school lunches. Clayton Burrows of Growing [read more …]
County Government Writes History, Hydrocarbon Ban is First of its Kind
Editor’s Note: Read the Dirt intern Alex Valentine reports on Mora County, New Mexico—the first county in the nation to ban oil [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: May 2013
Welcome to our May 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. Scroll down for this month’s articles and correspondence. [read more …]
Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement
Editor’s Note: Trisha Mandes speaks to the deficiencies of U.S. food activism and proposes an adaptive way forward. Trisha has worked with [read more …]
Washington Community Action Network Talks Rights
Editor’s Note: Rachael DeCruz of Washington Community Action Network and the Seattle-King County NAACP speaks to the conflict between people’s right to [read more …]
Transforming Faith
Editor’s Note: What is the role of faith within social and environmental movements? How do people with different beliefs work toward common [read more …]
Editor’s Introduction: April 2013
Welcome to our first Monthly Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. This here should help you navigate our publication. Below [read more …]
Under the Radar: How a Multinational Corporation Quietly Bought a County-Wide Election
Editor’s Note: Citizens in Thurston County, WA put an initiative on the ballot to make its electricity publically owned. Puget Sound Energy [read more …]
Big or Small: Who Will Grow Washington’s Cannabis Crop?
Editor’s Note: Washington State recently legalized cannabis. We hear from a man who urges us to recognize this opportunity to create a [read more …]
Read the Dirt: Changes on the Way
Changes are on the horizon for Read the Dirt and its website readthedirt.org. We are revamping the website while simultaneously becoming a [read more …]
Crude Oil Trains Proposed for Grays Harbor, WA: Citizens Challenge Permitting Process
Editor’s Note: Proposals to bring crude oil terminals to Grays Harbor are making local citizens ask questions. What rights do communities have [read more …]
Middle School Elevates its Rights above Corporations’
Editor’s Note: We were invited to Sunnyside Environmental School of Southeast Portland, OR to speak to middle schoolers about citizen law making. [read more …]
What a Difference a Degree Makes
Editor’s Note: Learn about the latest with regard to coal exportation in British Columbia, Canada, and why the surrounding region is up [read more …]
The Story of Broadview Heights, Ohio
Editor’s Note: Broadview Heights, OH has introduced the novel community rights to pure water, clean air, peaceful enjoyment of home, a sustainable [read more …]
Park Rangers to the Rescue
Editor’s Note: A sneak peak at a thrilling novel set in Yellowstone that cannot escape the reality of our underfunded National Park [read more …]
Democracy Denied in Small Town, USA
Photo: Daniel Schwen, Wikimedia Commons Editor’s Note: Read the story of the inner workings of Mt. Shasta, California’s effort to pass a [read more …]
Washington’s Renewables: An Introduction
Photo: NW Energy Coalition Editor’s Note: The status of Washington State’s efforts to transition to renewable energy. Written by Marc Krasnowsky, Communications [read more …]
The View from Plymouth, NH
Photo: Pete Martin, Plymouth, NH This article is by Pete Martin, a citizen of Plymouth, NH and retired Delta Airlines crew member, [read more …]
Benton County’s Fight to Protect Our Seed Heritage: A Food Bill of Rights
Photo: Bruce Bittle By Clinton Lindsey, a 5th-generation farmer and local food advocate from Corvallis, Oregon. He currently works for Greenwillow Grains, [read more …]
Where in the World is Read the Dirt?
Photo: The Colosseum in Rome, Wikimedia Commons Much has been said about what to do “when in Rome”. Saint Ambrose of [read more …]
Fighting for the Right to a Sustainable Food System: Benton County, Oregon
Photo: Philomath Barn, Benton County, Oregon, Wikimedia Commons By Dana Allen Editor’s Note: The Benton County Community Rights Coalition is working to [read more …]
The Balancing Act: Exploring Water in the Skagit Basin
Photo: US Forest Service via Wikimedia Commons By Catherine Phelps, Intern, Center for Environmental Law and Policy Editor’s Note: If water is [read more …]
Notice: Official Communication
Read the Dirt needs dollars to provide a valuable public service. We want to provide for you a place to learn about [read more …]
Rivers and Natural Ecosystems as Rights Bearing Subjects
Photo: Ron Mertons, Whanguanui River Editor’s Note: Should nature be integrated into our social contracts? Should we be empowered to dissent on [read more …]
Case Study: The Community Right to Sustainable Energy
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, High Voltage Direct Current transmission lines. Editor’s Note: Are we capable of learning from the successes and failures of [read more …]
Barnstead, NH: Establishing the Community Right to Water and Self-Governance
Photo: Channing Johnson, originally taken for Yes! Magazine. Pictured (from left to right): Gordon Preston, Gail Darrell, Jack O’Neil. Editor’s Note: We [read more …]
New Section: Community Rights
Introducing Read the Dirt’s coverage of the American Community Rights Movement. When we first launched Read the Dirt, we envisioned an online [read more …]
Species Banks
Photo: Great Blue Heron in flight over wetland home in Oregon. Steve Hillebrand, courtesy of USFWS. Editor’s Note: This piece is written [read more …]
Rapid Evolution and Adaptation to Climate Change: Salmon
Photo: Kiva Stevens, Nooksack River Editor’s Note: Are species beginning to evolve in response to climate change? Kiva Stevens is a Junior [read more …]
Our Slaves
Photo: Book: THE ENERGY OF SLAVES Oil and the New Servitude, by Andrew Nikiforuk Andrew Nikiforuk is the author of THE ENERGY [read more …]
Meditations on our Future
Photo: Simon Davis-Cohen By Robert McClure, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Investigate West Editor’s Note: This is a questionnaire with Robert McClure, [read more …]
Book: Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence
A Vision of Oil-Free Schools By Daniel Goleman (author of Emotional Intelligence) and Lisa Bennett and Zenobia Barlow of the Center for [read more …]
Historical Climate Trends in WA and Future Change
By The Office of the WA State Climatologist (OWSC) Editor’s Note: Below you’ll find a resource for understanding climate change science and [read more …]
On Kids and Food
By Laura Plaut, Founder and Director of Common Threads Farm, a nonprofit on a mission to connect young people with healthy food [read more …]
Equity, Environmental Justice, and Industrial Pollution in Portland
Photo: Eline Leemans By Andrew Riley and Eline Leemans, Center for Intercultural Organizing, Portland, OR Editor’s Note: If we want to understand [read more …]
Cities advising Counties?
Editor’s Note: Cynthia Pruitt is the Coordinator of Snohomish County Tomorrow. Read on to learn about the power dynamics at play between [read more …]
Empowered Latino Farmers (Spanish & English Translations Included)
Photo: Clayton Burrows Editor’s Note: Eden Lopez is a farmer on Growing Washington’s Alm Hill Gardens in Everson, WA. Born in Michoacan, [read more …]
Changing ‘Fundemental Law’, a Case Study: Bellingham
Photo: Simon Davis-Cohen Context: This is a discussion with Breean Beggs. Breean Beggs, attorney at law, represents No-Coal Bellingham and the petitioners [read more …]
Whatcom Farm-to-School: Tackling Food System Challenges One Lunch at a Time
Photo: David Westerlund By Mardi Solomon & Holly O’Neil, Coordinators, Whatcom Farm-to School Support Team Editor’s Note: Eating healthy foods should not [read more …]
Talking with Washington State Legislators-Stanford
Editor’s Note: We asked our state legislators a lot of questions, below is what we could extract from Representative Derek Stanford. Stanford [read more …]
Orca Tribes of the Salish Sea and Beyond
Photo: Howard Garrett By Howard Garrett, author and co-founder of Orca Network Editor’s Note: The oceans of the Pacific Northwest are home [read more …]
Talking with Washington State Legislators-Pollet
Editor’s Note: We asked our state legislators a lot of questions, below are Representative Gerry Pollet’s answers to two of them. Name: [read more …]
Help! I’m being Climate Changed!
Photo: Maureen Ryan, Fairhaven College, Climate Adaptation Class, Spring 2012 Editor’s Note: David Trapp [second to the right] is a student at [read more …]
Sludge, Whose Jurisdiction? (Part 2)
Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Flickr Editor’s Note: Last year Wahkiakum County passed an ordinance to regulate the spreading of sludge/biosolids on agricultural land. [read more …]
It’s About More Than Business
Photo: Lauren Owens Editor’s Note: Lauren Owens, a student at Fairhaven College and aspiring visual journalist, tells us a story about a [read more …]
Sludge, Whose Jurisdiction? (Part 1)
Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Flickr Editor’s Note: Last year Wahkiakum County passed an ordinance to regulate the spreading of sludge/biosolids on agricultural land. [read more …]
A Case to Protect Public Land
Photo: Clearcuts in the Green River Watershed, Del Sonneson By Janine Blaeloch, Director, Western Lands Project Editor’s Note: Learn about the law [read more …]
Questionnaire for the authors of: THE GOLDILOCKS PLANET The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth’s Climate-Oxford University Press
Editor’s Note: The new book The Goldilocks Planet, published by Oxford University Press, details Earth’s climate history. Below are the responses to [read more …]
Rethinking the Peasant
Photo: Andrew Rodman By Andrew Rodman, Editor, In Good Tilth magazine, a bi-monthly publication from Oregon Tilth Editor’s Note: Are we seeing [read more …]
Water in the West: Diverse Tools for Conserving our Rivers and Communities
Photo: Trout Unlimited – Washington Water Project By: Szilvia Rideg, Project Associate, Trout Unlimited – Washington Water Project Nobody likes to see a [read more …]
The Beginning of Regional Food Governance?
Photo: “Fawn Peak Complex Fire, Washington”, NASA Visible Earth Collection By Alon Bassok, Senior Planner, and Olivia Robinson, Regional Affairs Coordinator, Puget [read more …]
Can City Planning Make Us Cooler, Healthier and Friendlier?
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey: 1897 Map of Portland, OR By Rex Burkholder, Councilor, Metro regional government, Portland, Oregon Editor’s Note: We are [read more …]
The Results-2012
Editor’s Note: The submissions are in and the judges have spoken. Below are the results of our 1st Annual Read the Dirt [read more …]
The Secret Life of Plastic
Photo: NOAA Photo Library Editor’s Note: Written by the inspired Young Writer Amanda Clausen, this piece provides an observant look at how [read more …]
Liquefied Natural Gas Exports? (Part 2)
Photo: Western Environmental Law Center By Susan Jane M. Brown, Staff Attorney,Western Environmental Law Center Editor’s Note: We publish this article knowing [read more …]
Urban and Suburban Agriculture Empowers Environmental Stewards
Photo: Seattle Tilth By Andrea Dwyer, Executive Director of Seattle Tilth Editor’s Note: An idea worth replicating. Read below to see how [read more …]
Managing Many Waters the Walla Walla Way
Photo: Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership By Cathy Schaeffer, Executive Director, Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership Editor’s Note: An invaluable perspective on [read more …]
A Letter from the Editors
Welcome to our most recent “Letter from the Editors”, thanks for reading. We have got a lot to say, we’ll try to [read more …]
Northwest Soil Science: Nitrogen Mineralization
Photo: Simon Davis-Cohen By Doug Collins, WSU Extension, Statewide Small Farms Educator Editor’s Note: Get a Soil Science lesson from a man [read more …]
Why Coal?
Photo: Simon Davis-Cohen By Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) and director of WELC’s west-wide climate and energy [read more …]
The Tongass: The National Salmon Forest
By Andrianna Natsoulas, Communications Consultant, Sitka Conservation Society Editor’s Note: Welcoming our first article from Alaska! The Tongass Forest is the largest [read more …]
Foreign Interests, Local Uranium
Image: The Uranium Information Center By Larry Tuttle, Founder, Center for Environmental Equity Editor’s Note: What power do American citizens have to [read more …]
Liquefied Natural Gas Exports? (Part 1)
Photo: Western Environmental Law Center By Susan Jane M. Brown, Staff Attorney,Western Environmental Law Center Editor’s Note: Susan Jane, a staff attorney [read more …]
Oregon is a Desert State
Photo: Greg Burke By Brent Fenty, Executive Director of the Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA) Editor’s Note: Take it from Brent, the [read more …]
The Right to Self-Govern
Photo: “Spokane Falls” by Tracy Hunter By Kai Huschke, Washington organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and Campaign Director for [read more …]
Making Clean Local Energy Accessible Now (Part 1)
Photo: Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy By Judy Barnes, Co-Founder, Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy (OREP) Editor’s Note: If local citizens produce [read more …]
The Clean Water Act – A Story of Activism and Change
Photo: Courtesy of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance By Chris Wilke, Executive Director of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and Pacific Regional Representative to the Waterkeeper [read more …]
Our Right To Know
Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons {PD-US} By David Seago, board member of the Washington Coalition for Open Government. He retired in 2008 [read more …]
Privatizing a Basic Human Right: Water
Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By Samuel Bliss Editor’s Note: One of our young and empowered voices—Samuel Bliss—gives us a run down [read more …]
A complicated situation: Lake Roosevelt and the Grand Coulee Dam
By Andy Dunau, Executive Director of the Lake Roosevelt Forum, President of Dunau Associates, Executive Director for the Spokane River Forum and [read more …]
Attention Readers of the Dirt!
Welcome Readers of The Dirt! You may noticed that our “Letters from the Editors” section has been somewhat dormant since we launched [read more …]
Bottle the Skagit River?
By Sandra Spargo, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, The Alliance for Democracy Editor’s Note: Sandra Spargo, a dedicated citizen, clues [read more …]
WA Conservation Districts: An Introduction
By Craig Nelson, Okanogan Conservation District Manager Editor’s Note: Those interested in the power structures concerning Washington’s natural resources should be acquainted [read more …]
Planning For A Future: Protecting The Ground
By Bob Emmons, President, LandWatch Lane County Editor’s Note: We are privileged to have Emmons guide us through some of the history [read more …]
PROTECT ONLINE FREEDOM—READ THE DIRT DEPENDS ON IT!
Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Read The Dirt along with countless other online publications, information networks, and outlets for human expression depend [read more …]
Recirculating Farms
Photo: Sahib’s Florida Aquaponic Farm, courtesy of Recirculating Farms Coalition By Shaylyn Berlew, Communications Intern, Recirculating Farms Coalition Editor’s Note: The Recirculating [read more …]
Oysters and Ocean Acidification
By Margaret Pilaro Barrette, Executive Director for the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association Editor’s Note: The Executive Director for the Pacific Coast [read more …]
Columbia Basin Water Development
By Vicky Scharlau, Executive Director, Columbia Basin Development League Editor’s Note: How America has chosen to control its water impacts our lives [read more …]
Talking About Our Nuclear Hazard
Editor’s Note: This video presentation was sent to us by our friends at Heart of America Northwest, our region’s leading nuclear watchdog [read more …]
Forest Protection-The Olympic Peninsula
By Peggy Bruton, Board of Directors, Olympic Forest Coalition Editor’s Note: Where has the discussion of logging and forest protection gone? With [read more …]
Keeping Working Forests on the Landscape
By Cindy Mitchell, Senior Director for Public Affairs at the Washington Forest Protection Association and forest lands owner. Editor’s Note: This new [read more …]
One Step Back for Clean Water in the Boise River
By John Robison, Public Lands Director of Idaho Conservation League. Editor’s Note: The Boise River watershed is the source of drinking water [read more …]
If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Portland’s Water System
By Jeffrey Boly, one of the founders of the Friends of the Reservoirs, Neighborhood Association Board President and Westside leader of the [read more …]
It’s a Wild Life – Can You Spare Some Passion?
By Tim Coleman, Director of the Kettle Range Conservation Group and Cofounder of the Wild Washington Campaign, among other things. Editor’s Note: [read more …]
Why make Mt. St. Helens a National Park?
By Sean Smith, Policy Director for the National Parks Conservation Association Editor’s Note: Increased funding for scientific research, protection from open pit [read more …]
The Story behind the Book, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
By William deBuys, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2008 Pushcart Prize recipient, founding chairman of the Valles Caldera Trust (2001-2004), which manages the [read more …]
Protecting Our Region From Hanford’s Spreading of Contamination and From Being Used (Again) as a National Radioactive Waste Dump
By Gerry Pollet, JD. Gerry Pollet is Executive Director of Heart of America Northwest, a 16,000 member citizens’ group which is widely [read more …]
Leave It to the Beaver!
By Kat Hall (The Lands Council’s Conservation Programs Director) and Amanda Parrish (The Beaver Solution Contact) Editor’s Note: Want to know how [read more …]
West Hylebos Wetlands: A Place Worth Preserving
By Steve Dubiel (EarthCorps Executive Director) and Blair Edwards (EarthCorps Intern) All too often, we look to wilderness to find nature [read more …]
Liquified Natural Gas on the Columbia River Reignites Fossil Fuel Battle
By Dan Serres, a born-and-raised Oregonian. As the Conservation Director for Columbia Riverkeeper, Dan has worked to protect Oregon and Washington farms, [read more …]
New Gold Rush Threatens the West
By Gary Macfarlane, a native of the interior West. He graduated from Utah State University’s College of Natural Resources about 30 years [read more …]
A New Trend in Dam Removal?
By Amy Kober, Senior Communications Director for American Rivers. Editor’s Note: This article by Amy Kober of American Rivers on the upcoming [read more …]
There’s a New Bug in Town
Photo: Bev Gerdeman By Don McMoran, Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator, WSU Skagit County Extension Editor’s Note: This article from Don [read more …]
12,000 Rain Gardens
By Stacey Gianas and David Burger Editor’s Note: In this world we are often confronted with the challenge of how to make [read more …]
Investing in Seed Banks
Photo: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture: Nigeria Editor’s Note: Written by a talented young writer, this article concerning Seed Banks and [read more …]
McKibben Comments on Expansion of Coal Exports at Cherry Point (Whatcom County)
Editor’s Note: This article, written exclusively for Read The Dirt, concerns the proposed expansion of the deepwater terminal at Cherry Point north [read more …]
America’s Antiquated Mining Policy
Photo: Miners operate a hydraulic sluice in San Francisquito Canyon, Los Angeles County, California between 1890 and 1900 (Wikimedia Commons). Editor’s note: [read more …]
WASTED POWER
By Matthew Moroney Editor’s note: This piece, like our other article Turning Pollution into Energy, focuses on the benefits of anaerobic digesters. [read more …]
Drinking Water in Bellingham and much of Whatcom County
An introduction to Lake Whatcom By April J. Markiewicz, Associate Director/Toxicologist II, Institute of Environmental Toxicology at Huxley College of the Environment, [read more …]
No Fisherman Deserves a Toxic River
Editor’s Note: This piece appears in our “Dirt” section because the current unhealthy condition of the Duwamish River has been and continues [read more …]
A History Lesson Concerning Fauna
Editor’s note: This striking photo of Theodore Roosevelt has been brought to us courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The [read more …]
Thurston County Hydrologic Cycle
Editor’s Note: The graph above documents the highest rainfall event for the given years at the Olympia, WA airport. By Nadine Romero, [read more …]
Water Wealth
By Rick Glenn The 20th century was an era of tremendous economic growth in the United States. Horses were replaced by automobiles, [read more …]
Columbia Gorge Air Quality
By Ian Coleman Editor’s note: Currently attending Fairhaven College and Western Washington University, Ian is an aspiring journalist. Published in a variety [read more …]
Protecting Dirt, Among Other Things
By Connie Clement, Outreach Coordinator of Whatcom Land Trust 27 years ago, Whatcom County farmers were concerned about agricultural land being converted [read more …]
Turning Pollution Into Energy
Qualco Energy in Monroe Washington is operating an anaerobic digester with lofty goals. It is taking animal waste, trap grease and other [read more …]
Why Conserve Water in the Pacific Northwest?
By Janet Nazy, Executive Director, Partnership for Water Conservation We live in the rainy Pacific Northwest. Water is plentiful so why conserve [read more …]
Election 2010: Talk with a WA State Supreme Court Candidate (Wiggins)
Editor’s note: As we all know, the 2010 election is just around the corner. Below is a questionnaire for our Washington Supreme [read more …]
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- Jul 27 Racism in America – Lots of Guns in Small-town Connecticut
- Jul 27 Immigration Enforcement and the Remnants of Colonization
- Jul 27 Local Police Departments Take Axon Enterprise Up On Offer of Free Body Cameras
- Jul 27 Local Media Consolidation – Radio Stations For Sale
- Jul 27 The Cost of Homelessness
- Jul 27 Labor and Workers’ Protections – Small Fine For Violations That Led To Death
- Jul 27 Tight Budget in Oklahoma Heightens Pressure on AT&T to Pay Up
- Jul 27 City Controller Proposes Nation’s 1st 401(k) System for Small Employers
- Jul 27 Op-Ed: Local Utilities and Deregulation – Unregulated Water Utility Created
- Jul 27 Rural City Debates Public Ownership of Homeless Services
- Jul 27 Op-ed: Land Woes in Rural California
- Jul 27 Hundreds of Counties at Risk of Healthcare Industry Flight
- Jul 27 Municipal Finances, Local Source, Connecticut, Issue 1
- Jul 27 Budget Uncertainty
- Jul 27 Local Courts Jockey for State Funds to Deal With Case Backlogs
- Jul 27 Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Helping Counties and Jails Pay Their Bills
- Jul 27 City in Need of Cash Searches for Assets to Sell
- Sep 26 Education Sneak Peek
- Jul 21 Check It Out!
- Jun 5 US Climate Movement: Funnel Money Downward if You Want to Survive
- May 19 Part 2: Jordan Cove LNG Backers Spend Huge Money to Sway Tiny Oregon County Election
- May 2 Part 1: Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
- Mar 10 Get To Know The BATS: Teachers Fighting Privatization
- Mar 6 Re-Imagining Local Public Space, From Parks to Post Offices
- Nov 28 Quote_Robin D.G. Kelley, November, 2016
- Nov 23 Quote_James Baldwin
- Jun 13 The Fight For Local Democracy in New York City
- Jun 8 Quote_Buju Banton
- May 25 Crown Heights Tenant Union: Building Power One Building at a Time in NYC
- May 25 Activists Occupy Shipping Container to Halt AIM Pipeline Construction in Upstate NY
- May 25 Barrington, NH votes 795 to 759 to Adopt Community Bill of Rights to Protect Waterways
- May 25 Revoking The Consent to be Governed
- Apr 25 Announcement of Nationally Coordinated Prisoner Workstoppage for Sept 9, 2016
- Apr 19 The Spirit of Occupy Lives on in France’s Emerging Direct Democracy Movement
- Apr 19 How Sanders Could Lay the Foundation for a Third US Political Party
- Apr 10 Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward
- Apr 7 Reclaiming Black Land in Grafton, New York
- Apr 7 Meet the Lead Organizer Behind the Upcoming Mass Sit-Ins to get Money out of Politics
- Apr 7 Quote_Tupac Shakur
- Apr 7 Quote_Tupac Shakur
- Mar 28 Dismantling Corporate Control Isn’t a Spectator Sport: An Interview With Thomas Linzey
- Mar 16 Preempting Trump: Barnstead, NH Adopts First-In-Nation Law Protecting Against Religious Persecution
- Mar 4 This New Era Of Unrest
- Mar 1 Washington State Supreme Court Guts Local Ballot Initiative Process
- Feb 27 Quote_Pope
- Feb 27 Quote_Robin D. G. Kelley
- Feb 23 Quote_Mair
- Feb 16 Quote_Peter Mair
- Feb 15 Quote_Pablo
- Feb 9 Debating A ‘New’ Pan-European Anti-Austerity Movement
- Feb 9 How New York Stopped A Liquefied Natural Gas Project In Its Tracks
- Feb 8 Quote_Val Napoleon
- Feb 8 Quote_Duke Ellington
- Jan 28 Food, Land, and Freedom
- Jan 27 One Oregon Tribe’s Fight for Federal Recognition
- Jan 20 Worker, Civil and Environmental Rights as Legal Ends: Defying Commerce’s Logic
- Jan 20 Fast-Food Workers Plan Wave Of Strikes For 2016 Primaries
- Jan 18 Quote
- Jan 18 Greece’s Varoufakis to Launch Pan-European Progressive Movement
- Jan 12 For Teachers and Citizens: How to Respond to Federal Immigration Raids
- Jan 6 California’s Largest Tribe Passes First-In-Nation Enforceable Ban On GM-Salmon and GMOs
- Jan 5 How To Respond When Your (Local) Government Gets Sued By A Corporation
- Dec 29 The Leap Manifesto
- Dec 29 “People’s Injunction” Launched to Block Canadian Pipelines
- Dec 29 How Black Lives Matter Came Back Stronger After White Supremacist Attacks
- Dec 29 Can Local Law Enforcement Be Democratized By A People’s Movement?
- Dec 9 Preempting Democracy: What’s Not Being Voted on This November Is Sinister
- Dec 9 A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations
- Dec 9 Government and Gas Industry Team Up Against Local Fracking Ban Initiatives in Ohio
- Dec 9 Fighting Fossils, Letting Go of Regulatory Law
- Aug 26 In Colorado, A Revolutionary New Coalition Stands for Community Rights
- Aug 26 Climate Crisis Pits Local Governments Against 19th-Century Legal Doctrine
- Aug 26 Hundreds of Communities Are Building Legal Blockades to Fight Big Carbon
- Jul 21 Will Labor Go Local?
- Jul 20 Challenging Bedrock Law: “Dillon’s Rule” in Detroit and Beyond
- Jul 19 Defining a Federalist Approach to Immigration Reform
- Jul 18 Why Are Fracking Hopefuls Suing a County in New Mexico?
- May 25 Interview: The Working Class Movement Fighting for Local Authority
- Apr 29 Interview: Challenging Corporations’ ‘Right’ To Grow GMOs in Rural Oregon
- Nov 3 Cancer Clusters Spark Historic Pesticide Vote in Oregon
- Dec 8 Editor’s Introduction: December 2013
- Dec 8 Occupy’s Not So Invisible Work
- Dec 8 The Devil In The Details of Local Law
- Dec 8 Bottled Water Facility Stopped, Local Government Replaced
- Dec 8 Don’t Tread On Us-A Message from Colorado
- Dec 8 Making Sense of Recent Legal History
- Dec 8 Where Push Is Coming To Shove, USA
- Dec 8 Getting Specific About What We Want
- Dec 8 National Sovereignty At Stake
- Dec 8 Finally, The Court Case We’ve All Been Waiting For
- Dec 8 Lessons Learned By A Federal Enforcer
- Dec 8 Sacred Democracy-The Marriage of the Ethical and the Moral
- Dec 8 A Briefing On The State-Owned Bank of North Dakota
- Nov 8 Editor’s Introduction: November 2013
- Nov 8 The First Big Win for the $15 Movement
- Nov 8 A Legal Definition for ‘Unsustainable Energy’?
- Nov 8 Politicizing a Social Worker
- Nov 8 Sacred Democracy-Enlightenment and Democracy
- Nov 8 Washington State attempts to sell Columbia River water for $6 million
- Nov 8 Ohio and Colorado Voters Adopt Community Bills of Rights
- Nov 8 Community Rights Organizer Sets Sights on Fracking in Southern Illinois
- Nov 8 Critical Issues Deserve a Higher Standard
- Nov 7 Indigenous Peoples Experience Of Climate Change And Efforts To Adapt (Video)
- Nov 7 Google Cache Snapshot-Oregonlandco.com, 9/15/13
- Nov 7 Testimony
- Nov 7 Sustainable Forestry Initiative Confirms
- Oct 13 Quote
- Oct 8 Editor’s Introduction: October 2013
- Oct 8 When The State Pushes Back
- Oct 8 The People Know Best, Should We Listen?
- Oct 8 This Crow Won’t Fly
- Oct 8 Sacred Democracy-Democracy: a Work in Progress
- Oct 8 A New County Constitution
- Oct 8 Dispatches from Denmark-Ærø
- Oct 8 Naomi Klein Addresses New ‘Mega Union’
- Oct 8 Disco may be the only way to stop Monsanto (Video)
- Oct 8 Protect The Local Initiative Process-Why Support WA Initiative 517
- Oct 8 (Ohio) Frack-Backers Launch Preemptive Strikes against Democracy Attempt to Block Community Bills of Rights from Voters
- Oct 8 The California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Speaks to the Need for Wise Immigration Reform
- Oct 8 Support Local Food Rights Will Not Be Deterred by Legislature’s Blow to Democracy
- Oct 8 Economic Sovereignty At Stake
- Oct 8 Sangerville, Maine Adopts Community Bill Of Rights Ordinance to Reject Transportation and Distribution Corridors
- Oct 8 Sacred Headwaters
- Oct 8 Oregon Communities Launch Statewide Network for Community Rights
- Oct 8 Questions for a County Council Could-Be
- Sep 8 Editor’s Introduction: September 2013
- Sep 8 Homeless Bills of Rights-New Narratives
- Sep 8 Colorado Anti-fracking Movement Heating Up!
- Sep 8 Why Label Genetically Modified Food?
- Sep 8 Why Not Label Genetically Modified Food?
- Sep 8 A Brief Chat about Workers’ Rights
- Sep 8 Sacred Democracy-Glimmers of Empathy in the Shadows of History
- Sep 8 Local Initiative Process Gutted
- Sep 8 When Industrial Slaughterhouses Are Proposed
- Sep 8 Bowling Green, OH Group Submits Bill of Rights Petition
- Sep 8 Judgment Day
- Sep 8 Judge Blocks Envision, SMAC Initiatives from Appearing on Ballot
- Sep 8 Why a Rights Based Ordinance In Nottingham, NH?
- Aug 8 Editor’s Introduction: August 2013
- Aug 8 Native Resilience and Interethnic Cooperation: How Natives are adapting to climate change, and helping their non-Native neighbors follow suit
- Aug 8 Obstacles to Asserting Rights
- Aug 8 USA Refuses to Ban Atrazine
- Aug 8 Benton County, OR Moves Forward with Nation’s Potential First Food Bill of Rights
- Aug 8 What is the Local Food System Ordinance of Lane County?
- Aug 8 Lane County Initiative to Protect Local Farming Encounters Hurdle; Campaign Still Targeting May 2014 Election
- Aug 8 ¡HUELGA! Mixteco and Triqui Farmworkers commence second Work Stoppage at Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc.
- Aug 8 Imagining a New Society: Comparisons from Iceland
- Aug 8 When Public Utility Districts Forget Who They Serve
- Aug 8 Sacred Democracy-Rites of Nature
- Aug 8 Benin: Local Knowledge And Adaptation To Climate Change In Ouémé Valley, Benin
- Aug 8 Bolivia: Building Resilience To Climate Change Through Indigenous Knowledge – The Case Of Bolivia
- Aug 8 Local Food System Ordinance of Lane County, Oregon
- Jul 8 Sacred Democracy-The Beatitudes of Fairness
- Jul 8 Editor’s Introduction: July 2013
- Jul 8 Spokane Continues to Fight for the Right to Vote
- Jul 8 Foster Youth Bill of Rights, New Narratives
- Jul 8 Santa Monica Passes West Coast’s First Rights of Nature Ordinance
- Jul 8 Speaking With a ‘Fractivist’: Data Acquisition to Federal Exemptions
- Jul 8 Envision Spokane Statement to Legal Action to Block the Community Bill of Rights from the Ballot
- Jul 8 Why does the Spokane City Council continue to ignore and distort the substance of the Spokane Community Bill of Rights?
- Jul 8 History of Efforts to Keep the Spokane Community Bill of Rights Initiative off the Ballot
- Jul 8 Water Quality, Who Should Decide?
- Jul 8 East Boulder County United Launches Campaign for the Lafayette Community Rights Act to Prohibit New Oil and Gas Extraction
- Jul 8 Selections from the Public News Service-July 2013 (Audio)
- Jul 8 How the Declaration of Independence got Hijacked
- Jul 8 Benton County Community Group Files Petition for the Right to a Local, Sustainable Food System
- Jul 8 Rivers and Natural Ecosystems as Rights Bearing Subjects
- Jun 17 Quote
- 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 Housing Justice: Fighting for Rights
- 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 8 A Community Rights Ordinance For South Puget Sound
- Jun 8 County Government Writes History, Hydrocarbon Ban is First of its Kind
- Jun 8 Food Bills of Rights and Monsanto-Speech
- Jun 8 Caring for Home through Nature’s Rights
- Jun 8 From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain
- Jun 8 Will Ohio Be Fracking’s Radioactive Dumping Ground?
- Jun 8 Sacred Democracy-Living Democracy as Spiritual Practice (Or Vice Versa)
- Jun 6 GM Wheat Discovered in Oregon, Benton County Continues Work on Food Bill of Rights
- May 30 Quote
- May 8 Editor’s Introduction: May 2013
- May 8 Does Food Sovereignty Exist in the United States? Food and the Community Rights Movement
- May 8 Washington Community Action Network Talks Rights
- May 8 Sacred Democracy-The Moral Blueprint
- May 8 Transforming Faith
- May 7 First County in U.S. Bans Fracking and all Hydrocarbon Extraction – Mora County, NM
- May 7 Self-Replication at Stake in Monsanto Patented Seed Case
- May 7 Guatemala: Mayan K’iché Environmental Sustainability As A Way Of Life
- May 7 Small Farms Fight Back: Food And Community Self-Governance
- May 7 State College Borough Gov Denies Pipeline Permit: Fight Isn’t Over
- May 7 Muzzling Scientists is an Assault on Democracy
- Apr 8 Editor’s Introduction: April 2013
- Apr 8 An Addition to the Climate Movement-Civil Disobedience Toolkit
- Apr 7 Under the Radar: How a Multinational Corporation Quietly Bought a County-Wide Election
- Apr 2 Day One of the Occupation of Detroit
- Apr 2 Thornton, New Hampshire Rejects Community Bill of Rights To Ban Land Acquisition for Unsustainable Energy Systems
- Apr 2 Grafton, New Hampshire Adopts Community Bill of Rights That Bans Land Acquisition for Unsustainable Energy Systems
- Apr 2 Highland Township Adopts Community Bill of Rights That Bans Toxic Injection Wells
- Apr 2 PSU Pipeline Violates Community Bill of Rights
- Apr 1 Big or Small: Who Will Grow Washington’s Cannabis Crop?
- Mar 29 Quote
- Mar 29 Quote
- Mar 29 Read the Dirt: Changes on the Way
- Mar 27 Quote
- Mar 27 Quote
- Mar 27 Quote
- Mar 25 Crude Oil Trains Proposed for Grays Harbor, WA: Citizens Challenge Permitting Process
- Mar 18 Middle School Elevates its Rights above Corporations’
- Mar 12 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 a Sustainable Food System: Benton County, Oregon
- Jan 14 The Balancing Act: Exploring Water in the Skagit Basin
- Jan 7 Notice: Official Communication
- 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 19 New Section: Community Rights
- 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 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 (Spanish & English Translations Included)
- 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 12 Talking with Washington State Legislators-Stanford
- Sep 4 Orca Tribes of the Salish Sea and Beyond
- Aug 26 Talking with Washington State Legislators-Pollet
- Aug 21 Help! I’m being Climate Changed!
- Aug 10 Sludge, Whose Jurisdiction? (Part 2)
- Aug 5 It’s About More Than Business
- Jul 30 Sludge, Whose Jurisdiction? (Part 1)
- Jul 19 A Case to Protect Public Land
- Jul 14 Questionnaire for the authors of: THE GOLDILOCKS PLANET The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth’s Climate-Oxford University Press
- Jul 9 Rethinking the Peasant
- Jun 30 Water in the West: Diverse Tools for Conserving our Rivers and Communities
- Jun 26 The United States Conference of Mayors Resolves that Corporations are not Natural Persons etc.
- Jun 25 The Beginning of Regional Food Governance?
- Jun 17 Can City Planning Make Us Cooler, Healthier and Friendlier?
- Jun 11 The Results-2012
- Jun 11 The Secret Life of Plastic
- Jun 3 Liquefied Natural Gas Exports? (Part 2)
- May 29 Urban and Suburban Agriculture Empowers Environmental Stewards
- May 20 Managing Many Waters the Walla Walla Way
- May 15 A Letter from the Editors
- May 13 Northwest Soil Science: Nitrogen Mineralization
- May 6 Why Coal?
- Apr 30 Information and Documents concerning Oregon LNG
- Apr 29 The Tongass: The National Salmon Forest
- Apr 22 Foreign Interests, Local Uranium
- Apr 13 Liquefied Natural Gas Exports? (Part 1)
- Apr 6 Oregon is a Desert State
- Mar 29 The Right to Self-Govern
- Mar 25 Making Clean Local Energy Accessible Now (Part 1)
- Mar 19 The Clean Water Act – A Story of Activism and Change
- Mar 16 Quote
- Mar 9 1st Annual Read the Dirt Writing Competition!
- Mar 8 Our Right To Know
- Mar 2 Privatizing a Basic Human Right: Water
- Feb 24 Oil Sands Pipelines, here?
- Feb 23 PRESS: Genetically Engineered Animals?
- Feb 23 PRESS: The 9th Annual Skagit Human Rights Festival March 2012
- Feb 17 A complicated situation: Lake Roosevelt and the Grand Coulee Dam
- Feb 15 Attention Readers of the Dirt!
- Feb 10 Bottle the Skagit River?
- Feb 7 Quote
- Feb 3 WA Conservation Districts: An Introduction
- Jan 27 Bellingham Rights-Based Ordinance Proposed to Stop Coal Trains
- Jan 26 PRESS: Occupy Seattle Joins in Solidarity with United Farm Workers
- Jan 20 Planning For A Future: Protecting The Ground
- Jan 20 Planning For a Future (Original)
- Jan 18 PROTECT ONLINE FREEDOM—READ THE DIRT DEPENDS ON IT!
- Jan 12 Recirculating Farms
- Jan 8 PRESS: Associated Students of Western Washington University Adopt Resolution Opposing Cherry Point Coal Terminal
- Jan 6 Oysters and Ocean Acidification
- Dec 30 Columbia Basin Water Development
- Dec 23 Talking About Our Nuclear Hazard
- Dec 14 Forest Protection-The Olympic Peninsula
- Nov 30 Keeping Working Forests on the Landscape
- Nov 22 Quote
- 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 15 Protecting Our Region From Hanford’s Spreading of Contamination and From Being Used (Again) as a National Radioactive Waste Dump
- Oct 6 Leave It to the Beaver!
- Sep 28 West Hylebos Wetlands: A Place Worth Preserving
- Sep 21 Liquified Natural Gas on the Columbia River Reignites Fossil Fuel Battle
- Sep 15 New Gold Rush Threatens the West
- Sep 8 A New Trend in Dam Removal?
- Aug 31 There’s a New Bug in Town
- Aug 8 12,000 Rain Gardens
- Jul 11 Investing in Seed Banks
- Jun 23 McKibben Comments on Expansion of Coal Exports at Cherry Point (Whatcom County)
- Jun 2 America’s Antiquated Mining Policy
- Apr 3 WASTED POWER
- Mar 15 Drinking Water in Bellingham and much of Whatcom County
- Feb 14
- Jan 25 No Fisherman Deserves a Toxic River
- Jan 7 A History Lesson Concerning Fauna
- Dec 20 Meet Some Environmental Consultants
- Dec 15 Conserving Working Lands, Native Species, and Fertile Soil
- Dec 5 Using Dirt to Teach
- Nov 26 Thurston County Hydrologic Cycle
- Nov 14 River Watch-Thomas Creek
- Nov 11 Water Wealth
- Nov 8 Columbia Gorge Air Quality
- Nov 1 Protecting Dirt, Among Other Things
- Oct 25 Welcome To Read The Dirt!
- Oct 25 Coming Soon
- Oct 24 Salmon, Dams and the Snake River
- Oct 21 Native Plant Spotlight: Oregon Grape
- Oct 21 The Return of Washington’s Wolf Packs?
- Oct 21 The We, The I and The Dirt
- Oct 21 Turning Pollution Into Energy
- Oct 21 Orange and Green
- Oct 21 A Fauna the WSDA isn’t Too Fond Of
- Oct 21 How is YOUR Air Quality?
- Oct 21 Washington’s Roadless Forests
- Oct 21 River Watch-The Teanaway
- Oct 21 Why Conserve Water in the Pacific Northwest?
- Oct 21 Election 2010: Talk with a WA State Supreme Court Candidate (Wiggins)
- Oct 21 Election 2010: Talk with a WA State Supreme Court Candidate (Chief Justice Madsen)
- Oct 20 Our Dirty Web Designer (Video)
- Oct 14 Quote_Robin D.G. Kelley
