Welcome to our monthly newsletter, where we highlight some of the amazing work our volunteer teams have been up to and how you can take action! But first, don’t forget to come to our April Action Night! April Action Night Wed, April 17, 6-8:00PM — 350PDX Office (3639 N Mississippi Ave) – learn more and sign up here Join us for 350PDX Action Night, a monthly in-person gathering at our office where new and seasoned people interested in the climate justice movement gather to network, take action, and organize for the future! We’ll also have food ..read more

We deserve to live in a safe, healthy city with clean air, a stable climate, and without the looming threat of oil train explosions. That’s why thousands of Portlanders have spent years taking action — in the streets, in the City Hall chamber, in boats blocking oil ships on the Willamette, and more — to stop Zenith Energy’s dangerous oil-by-rail operations. But at the end of last year, City Council turned its back on us, deciding to grant Zenith a land use permit. This allowed the company to continue bringing in crude oil trains for 5 more years.  City Council’s decision w ..read more

Over the last several months, the 350PDX Forest Defense team has joined folks from all over the region to raise concerns about the Drax corporation’s plans to build a biomass pellet export plant in Longview, WA. The plant would include a huge processing facility designed to convert almost a million tons of wood every year into pellets for export, co-firing the pellets in coal power plants. Drax would receive “green energy” subsidies to produce electricity from their biomass plant, but we know that biomass is a false climate solution (there’s nothing “green” about it). Using wood for indu ..read more

Can you make a one-time donation to help us secure our event space? Wow! I am still buzzing from last night’s amazing Candidate Meet & Greet, where 34 candidates for Portland City Council shared their visions for climate justice in Portland with a packed room. It was an amazing event and one that will reverberate through the entire election season. Many things made last night possible — 350PDX’s hardworking staff and volunteers, all the City Council candidates sharing their visions for a better Portland, so many of you showing up to listen and engage — but these all depended on one imp ..read more

350PDX Community Engagement Manager To apply, please send your resume and a cover letter to jobs@350pdx.org with the subject line “Community Engagement Manager application.” Priority deadline is April 14, 2024. Organizational Overview: 350PDX’s mission is to build a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act. We are a dynamic, volunteer-driven grassroots organization with thousands of supporters. We regularly engage hundreds of people to volunteer and/or take action. Our work is si ..read more

The 350PDX Forest Defense team is excited to announce a BIG win: the Oregon Board of Forestry adopted the Habitat Conservation Plan for Western Oregon State Forests! We’ve been working towards this moment for the last several years and thank everyone who made it possible. We need healthy forests now more than ever — to provide clean water for local communities, habitat for threatened species, and a line of defense against the climate crisis — and passing the Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) was a critical step in this direction. Once implemented, the HCP will protect essential habitat for 17 i ..read more

We have several opportunities this week for you to take action for climate justice, from fighting a biomass plant in Washington, to supporting the Portland Clean Energy Fund, to joining us for the City Council Candidate Meet & Greet (Wed, March 20). Read on to learn more! Support the Portland Clean Energy Fund The Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) was designed by and for BIPOC communities and others on the frontlines of the climate crisis to create a critical funding stream for climate and environmental justice initiatives.  PCEF is projected to bring in over $150 mill ..read more

Welcome to the 350PDX newsletter, where we highlight action opportunities, upcoming events, and more! Take Action For quick actions like petitions, check out our Take Action Page. Take the Pledge of Action for more updates. Take action for clean air in Multnomah County Multnomah County Commissioners have a huge opportunity to pass an electrification resolution that would help us fight back against the gas industry and enact policies that ensure cleaner and safer air for us all to breathe. The Commissioners need to hear from us now! Join us in telling t ..read more

Join us next week — Wed, March 20, from 6-8pm — in the 350PDX Office (3639 N Mississippi Ave) for a Portland City Council Candidate Meet & Greet! RSVP here. With the upcoming Portland City Council elections this November, we are inviting City Council candidates from all four districts to our March Action Night. Join the City Council Candidate Meet & Greet for a chance to get to know candidates from your district. Consider what climate justice issues you’re noticing in your community, or around the region, and bring these up with candidates. What do you most want to see the ci ..read more

2024 Oregon Legislative Session Wrap-Up The Oregon legislative session wrapped up this past weekend, and we are celebrating that several climate justice bills passed! Over the past month, over 400 people in the 350PDX community sent messages to their legislators calling on them to prioritize climate justice during the session, and dozens more lobbied their legislators in person or submitted public testimony. These bills only passed because of support from the local climate justice movement — from people like you — contacting their legislators again and again. Join us in thanking o ..read more