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Myth Buster
Apr 06 2012 at 1:01 PM
The greenest thing about Portland Oregon is the money that changes hands between corrupt officials and greedy special interest groups.
By restricting municipal boundaries, the price of property skyrocketed, and the already wealthy became even more so.
By letting the road system fall into disrepair, they discourage growth and new business starts, some of those green technology businesses that went elsewhere, and so protected their power base and increased the gap between rich and poor.
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to take a lot more than a small group of the gender confused riding bicycles with no seats through downtown traffic to save the environment. By encouraging self proclaimed eco-warriors to create a circus side show distraction, the local governments can go about their business of quietly picking everyone's pockets undisturbed, with an unfair income tax system that favors the rich.
It's time to start seriously working on the environment, and the economy.
Stop taking the medication and Wake up!
Guest
Jun 30 2012 at 11:15 PM
The greenest thing about Portland is the marijuana scary people on the street sell
Suzy
Jan 28 2012 at 5:59 AM
I agree that global warming is very serious. All the tsunamis and icemelt in the Arctic, global warming, ecosystems out of balance; there is talk on some scientific websites that say we are entering what was referred to as the Great Dying some 250 M years ago. The Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred 252.28 million years ago due to the concentration of methane in the atmosphere. It was the Earth's most severe extinction event, with up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial
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vertebrate species becoming extinct. It is the only known mass extinction of insects
Rbicknese
Jan 23 2012 at 11:08 PM
Global warming is dead seriously real. The science is surprisingly clear.
Guest
Dec 30 2012 at 4:51 PM
Don't even think that, it is real. watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU
Guest
Nov 07 2011 at 8:33 PM
Efficient alternatives to fossil fuels and clean water solutions are pretty solid though :P
samba
Aug 26 2011 at 8:36 AM
recently people all over the world are worried about their future and the future of their descendant, and that because of the neglec of our environment
my thought go to the renewable energy, i am talkink about (sun, wind ..?
abbas saeed hakim
Mar 19 2011 at 12:14 PM
acres of land devoted to green space is a good clean option, but that would account to about the map area of pakitan and americas population is double that of pakistan.
SmartLifeways
Jun 16 2010 at 6:32 PM
In spite of the tragedy in the gulf coast, and I do mean tragedy, more and more cities are realizing that "going green" is essential to the future of our cities. We basically need new skill sets to move us ahead. Many of these skills our parents or grandparents had and now we see how valuable they are.
It is time to be kinder to the earth and each other.
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