Monday Mailing
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Electrifying News: Solar And Wind Power Has Quintupled In A Decade (Michael Hoch) Portland, Oregon: Displacement By Design (Bayoán Ware) Remix Picks Up $15 Million To Help Cities Make Better Decisions Around Transit (Corum Ketchum) Born And Raised: The Parts Of America With The Most Natives (Carolina Negron) Consequences Of Inequality Will Strike Everyone Indiscriminately The Secret Ingredient of Resilient Cities: Culture Can Indoor Farming Fulfill The Dream Of Opportunity Zones? Perfectly Legal: The Clear-Cut Rewards Of Campaign Cash The Karuk Tribe Fights A Growing Wildfire Threat and A Lack Of Funding WEBINAR – EPA Office Of Community Revitalization’s Strategies For Food Systems, Health, And Economic Development Webinar
1. Electrifying News: Solar And Wind Power Has Quintupled
In A Decade
Quote of the Week:
“To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.” - Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Oregon Fast Fact #2
Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state.
Across the United States, workers are covering fields with solar panels, and big rigs are hauling massive turbine blades to windscoured ridgelines. This is what it looks like when renewable energy expands exponentially.
The amount of renewable electricity generated in the United States has doubled in the last 10 years, according to number-crunching out Tuesday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. And as impressive as doubling in a decade is, it understates the case. That’s because about 90 percent of that growth came from wind and solar: 57 million megawatt hours in 2008, and 301 million megawatt hours in 2018 — increasing more than fivefold in a decade. So where do we stand after accounting for all that growth? Well, some 17.6 percent of the country’s power now comes from renewables. To access the full story, click here. 2. Portland, Oregon: Displacement By Design Portland, the largest city in the state of Oregon, is reputed to be the whitest city of its size in the United States. According to the 2017 U.S. census data, Portland’s population is 77.4 percent white while the Black population has dwindled from a high of 7.7 percent in 1990 to just 5.7 percent today. Though much has been written
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