Skip to content Skip to content
Center for Sustainable Economy
Center for Sustainable Economy
  • WHO WE ARE
    • Mission
    • Staff and board
    • Membership
    • Partners and clients
    • Jobs, interns and fellows
    • Contact us
  • WHAT WE DO
    • Strategic initiatives
    • Research and analysis
    • Policy solutions
    • Advocacy
  • IMPACT
  • NEWS
    • BLOG
    • NEWSLETTER
    • PRESS RELEASES
  • DONATE
Center for Sustainable Economy
  • WHO WE ARE
    • Mission
    • Staff and board
    • Membership
    • Partners and clients
    • Jobs, interns and fellows
    • Contact us
  • WHAT WE DO
    • Strategic initiatives
    • Research and analysis
    • Policy solutions
    • Advocacy
  • IMPACT
  • NEWS
    • BLOG
    • NEWSLETTER
    • PRESS RELEASES
  • DONATE

Research & Analysis

Reclaim this Land

July 9, 2020June 30, 2020 by Elijah Cetas

Building a Campaign to take on Portland’s Critical Energy Infrastructure hub In his 1963 speech, a “Message to the Grassroots,” the late Malcolm X famously declared that all revolution is based on land: “Land is … Read more

Categories Advocacy, Climate Justice, Land Use, Research & Analysis

Report Reveals Ties to Trump, Obama in Two Proposed Oregon Crude Oil Export Terminals

July 19, 2019July 14, 2019 by Daphne Wysham

A report released July 15 by Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE), “Crude Bailout: How Global Partners’ and Zenith Energy’s Oil Terminals Subvert Democracy, Endanger Human Life and Health, and Pollute the Planet,” reveals how billionaire … Read more

Categories Climate Justice, Research & Analysis, Uncategorized

Sustainable Development Opportunities in Nunavut

February 20, 2018 by John Talberth

In a report commissioned by Greenpeace Canada, “Beyond Fossil Fuels: Sustainable Development Opportunities in Eastern Nunavut,” CSE’s John Talberth and Daphne Wysham explored the dilemma Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut is facing.  With so few … Read more

Categories Climate Justice, Policy Innovations, Research & Analysis

Beyond Fossil Fuels: Planning a just transition for Alaska

March 7, 2018February 20, 2018 by Daphne Wysham

Of the 50 United States, Alaska best exemplifies the types of problems the rest of the country may well face in a matter of decades, if not years, if we don’t wean ourselves from fossil … Read more

Categories Climate Justice, Research & Analysis
climate-legislation-big-timber

Report: Climate legislation must include Big Timber

March 7, 2018December 11, 2017 by John Talberth

Carbon sequestration dead zones are expanding. Clearcutting is Oregon’s single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Millions of acres of industrial tree plantations present huge public health risks because they are far more susceptible to … Read more

Categories Policy Solutions, Research & Analysis, Wild and Working Forests
John Talberth in front of US Capitol Building

GPI 2.0: States and Cities Can Lead the Way Beyond GDP

January 22, 2018July 5, 2017 by John Talberth

In a new study authored by Dr. John Talberth and Michael Weisdorf of Portland State University, CSE has demonstrated a new methodology for the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) that promises to accelerate its adoption by … Read more

Categories New Measures of Progress, Research & Analysis
ocean

Ocean Acidification and Warming: The Economic Toll

January 22, 2018February 21, 2017 by John Talberth

In a new study authored by Dr. John Talberth and Ernie Niemi of Natural Resource Economics, CSE reviewed the economic consequences of ocean acidification and warming – the two most prominent effects of climate change … Read more

Categories Climate Justice, Research & Analysis

How Industrial Forest Practices are Subverting Oregon’s Climate Agenda

January 22, 2018November 16, 2015 by John Talberth

Clearcutting and use of forest chemicals and fertilizers on industrial forestlands could represent Oregon’s second largest source of global warming pollution and are subverting the State’s climate agenda by making landscapes more susceptible to wildfires, … Read more

Categories Climate Justice, Research & Analysis, Wild and Working Forests

Pay for Performance: Maximizing the Impact of BMP Investments

January 22, 2018August 31, 2015 by John Talberth

Agricultural best management practices (BMPs) such as streamside buffer zones and cover crops are increasingly being used to reduce nutrient pollution from fertilizers into water bodies. Eutrophication from fertilizer runoff is the key driver behind … Read more

Categories Green Infrastructure, Research & Analysis
coalsalmon

Coal vs. Wild Salmon: The Chuitna Mine Should Never See the Light of Day

January 22, 2018August 23, 2015 by John Talberth

In this late stage of the global warming crisis, it is hard to imagine why the Obama administration and decision makers in Alaska continue to push hard to approve a five thousand acre coal strip … Read more

Categories Climate Justice, Research & Analysis
Post navigation
Older posts
Page1 Page2 … Page4 Next →

News Categories

Twitter Feed

Center for Sustainable EconomyFollow

Center for Sustainable Economy
Retweet on TwitterCenter for Sustainable Economy Retweeted
5 Aug

82nd Ave, the dividing line for more than doubling your chances of contracting #COVID19 is in the heart of my district. ... This is the latest example of disparities that have been growing for years. We must center policy on the people most impacted. #orpol
https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/08/05/people-are-more-likely-to-catch-covid-east-of-82nd-avenue-thats-where-portlands-housing-is-the-most-overcrowded/

6 Aug

Shocking that taxpayer funds in Oregon are supporting timber industry lobbying and propaganda. More shocking is those ... who should know better are buying this pablum. https://www.propublica.org/article/what-happened-when-a-public-institute-became-a-de-facto-lobbying-arm-of-the-timber-industry

21 Jul

The Wood Pellet Business is Booming. Scientists Say That’s Not Good for the Climate. ... https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072020/wood-pellet-business-booming-scientists-say-%E2%80%99s-not-good-climate?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=45d7253d-b170-4054-943c-e46e669694b9&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Load More...

Connect With Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • LInkedIN
  • RSS

Join

Become a member

Initiatives

  • New Measures Of Progress
  • Climate Justice
  • Wild and Working Forests
  • Green Infrastructure

Consulting Services

  • Research and Analysis
  • Policy Solutions
  • Advocacy

Contact

Center for Sustainable Economy
P.O. Box 393
West Linn, OR 97068

(503) 657-7336
info@sustainable-economy.org

Sign up here for our newsletter

Privacy Policy | Diversity & Inclusion Policy
© 2021 Center For Sustainable Economy. All rights reserved.