> Powell's Books recently announced its first-ever warehouse sale that will run from June 1-2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the chain's supply warehouse at 2720 Northwest 29th Avenue.
Oregon lawmakers 2024 statewide listening tour to gather input on how to fund and invest in #transportation in 2025, first stop is happening in #Portland on June 4th, at 5 pm.
If you are a person with skills, this has potential. No connection to the seller, might be a scam, and all the caveats. On the other hand, that's an interesting project.
@kevbob Makes one almost wonder if it's really a 4003, they knocked the thing over on stage, got chewed out late into this morning, broke down and forked over the $2k plus for replacement, and are now the proud owner of their own screw-up.
Or, they stole it, dropped it, and would be glad to get a quick $200 before anyone catches up.
As extractive “wildcrafting” has become popular, supposedly treaty-protected #Indigenous access to ancestral gathering sites has diminished, says Michelle Week (Sinixt, Arrow Lakes), who runs x̌ast sq̓it, an Indigenous foods farm near #Portland#Oregon.
“You have the privilege to go out and gather these things without fear of harassment, but my community, who’s native to this place, we just don’t have that luxury.”
Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk), author of the cookbook Chími Nu’am, says Native foods have a stigma---unless of course they’re on the menu at a #BayArea Michelin-starred French restaurant.
“They have rabbit, and quail, and deer meat, and our mushrooms, and our fish, and our shellfish, and all of that, that they are serving as the height of what you could eat as a human being. But they’re unavailable to the people who originally cultivated these foods into existence,” Olson says.
But sharing #Indigenous foods with the non-Native public can be hazardous. For one thing, there's the risk that non-Natives will commercialize, overharvest, "wildcraft" and "forage" the foods to death.
There are health hazards, too. Camas, for instance, is easily mistaken for ☠️ death camas 💀 and guess what happens when you eat death camas?
@glassdelusion It sounds like a terrible situation. I've not ever heard of this happening in Seattle, that I can remember, but I cannot imagine why it wouldn't happen here (Seattle): there are lots of stretches of the Burke-Gilman trail without any bollards at all.
#Portland, OR 🇺🇸 is the first “smoke stop” on the southbound #Amtrak Coast Starlight: everyone who wants may get off the train for a moment and stretch their legs. The lovely departure board in the main hall dates back to pre-digital times. And we again meet the Cascades #Talgo.
The contrast with failed #VisionZero plans like #Portland's seems pretty basic: "They said: 'You as provider of the road transport system are no longer allowed to kill people on that mass level that you've done'
#VisionZero has worked when the adopted plan actually mandated changes to infrastructure instead of wishes for "safety funding". Here, we let people keep driving after they participate in the city/state killing someone with their car, because "we all need to drive." If we're going to hold drivers accountable, we need to make it easy & convenient to get to and from the bar without driving, make infrastructure where bad driving will break the vehicle, require drivers actually learn how to drive.
In case you missed the excitement in our neck of the woods, a pop quiz on safety was failed by a poor student.
"At around 1:15 p.m., Portland Fire & Rescue crews along with the Multnomah County River Patrol and the United States Coast Guard Station Portland responded to the rescue on report of runaway 16-foot boat in the river and a man in the water yelling for help."
I tramp around Mount St. Helens just North of #Portland in Wa, its sort of untouched and completely changed slopes. I’ve heard how gorgeous it was prior but this OPB report gives glimpses.
May 18, 1980
Oregon Volcano Volcanic eruption #Oregon#Volcano#Volcaniceruption
I can't believe how #Portland voters keep electing the right-wing candidates, maybe the progressives moved out to Beaverton. Schmidt has gotten nothing but bad faith from the police and the republican city council isn't doing us much good either.
lmao wweek in May 2020 "But the district attorney in the state's largest county is a thought leader and a policy leader." endorsing the candidate that was not endorsed by the police union, vs now "a technician, not a politician. That’s what this office needs"
I participated in a workshop by city of #portland to discuss civic use of AI. I contributed a rubric of "assistive" versus "determinative". The first case may be a helpful use (subject to usual concerns about energy, creative rights, bias, etc etc etc). The second case is where things get dangerous. #pdx
Portland’s climate tax could fund energy-efficiency upgrades for 3,100 homes
Portland’s climate action fund is preparing to invest $140 million toward 3,100 home retrofits over the next five years. The goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, decrease energy usage, lower utility bills and increase housing resilience for qualified homeowners, renters and multifamily homes within Portland city limits
“It’s absurd for ODOT to claim that their proposed $1.9 billion 10-lane highway is in compliance with the city’s existing plans for #climateAction, sustainable #transportation investment or neighborhood development. We filed this lawsuit because state law requires ODOT to follow the city’s #cleanAir and climate goals. ODOT shouldn’t be allowed to advance a project that brazenly violates the city’s adopted plans.” -- #NoMoreFreeways#ODOTGTFOpdx#Portland
@whitemice it's like asking whether there are good cops. Or to the extent that these people exist, is it better for them to be working for the state or freelancing? IDK, but the rules DOTs have written for themselves are inherently a form of violence, mostly to the tune of coercion toward car use as a primary directive.
