THRU Magazine Archive
Nuclear Nation II is a Window into the Lives at Ground Zero. Futaba, a small coastal city in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan, is where the TEPCO Daiichi nuclear power site failed, on March 11, 2011, following a terrible earthquake and tsunami. Even were the nuclear site to have withstood the impact — or had […]
At least 1,600 signatures will be delivered Monday morning to the Hood River County elections office by county residents with the Local Water Alliance. Their petition will place the Hood River Water Protection Measure on the 2016 ballot, in response to seven years of planning that would give Nestlé staggering access to vital waters. With each year, more voices […]
This Changes Everything illustrates what Naomi Klein grapples with in her internationally bestselling book. At the beginning of This Changes Everything, Avi Lewis’ new documentary inspired by his wife’s climate change manifesto, a polar bear lumbers forward on pieces of ice in the bright artic sun, loosened from glaciers in the warming climate. Over this we hear […]
Why all Oregonians should care about Nestlé’s plan with the water supply in Cascade Locks. Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population, and there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, […]
On Earth Day last week, I celebrated the holiday by drenching myself in gasoline. My recent inheritance of a 1977 Volkswagen Dasher (nicknamed Rudy) has been keeping my hands dirty. On the day that environmentalists champion their cause and accomplishments, and highlight all the work on curbing climate change forthcoming, I found myself pulling fuel […]