The Better Communities Podcast

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The Better Communities Podcast

The Better Communities Podcast creates a space for industry professionals, thought leaders and underrepresented communities to share their stories and create a dialogue to foster better more functional communities across the Pacific Northwest.

  1. The War on Renewable Energy

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    The War on Renewable Energy

    The Pacific Northwest is in the middle of a renewable energy boom. State legislatures, policy leaders, and voters have aggressively set carbon reduction targets over the last decade – paving the way for a new wave of federal dollars to drive the development and construction of wind, solar, and battery storage facilities across the region.  New developments have always generated an element of local resistance. But none have proven to be as divisive as renewable energy. And despite the anti-woke, post-truth messaging from one unusually loud climate denier (see here), these divisions don't necessarily follow predictable ideological fault lines.   Increasingly, fossil fuel interests and die-hard environmentalists have found a convenient allyship in this war against renewable development. Together, they are injecting a new kind of collective opposition that has created a strange new coalition that is part land-use watch dog, part liberal NIMBYist, and part climate change skeptic.   The challenge to developers, energy leaders, and policymakers isn’t just local opposition to change. It’s that many of these communities are now drowning in a sea of misinformation about questionable claims about renewable energy’s impact on everything from water quality to public safety to their reliability.   In the latest episode of the Better Communities Podcast, our team explores the misinformation war on renewable energy in the Pacific Northwest.   Listen in as we talk about the social, economic, and environmental consequences of this misinformation war with Ruchi Sadhir from the Oregon Department of Energy, Jillian Farmer of New Project Media, Nicole Hughes from Renewable Northwest, Jake Melder from Clenera, Commissioner Derrick DeGroot of Klamath County, and labor and construction trade advocate Willy Myers.

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  2. The Roots of Oregon's Housing Crisis

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    The Roots of Oregon's Housing Crisis

    Change is hard. In 1973, Oregon Governor Tom McCall created a pioneering land use policy focused on preserving farmland, reducing pollution and preventing urban sprawl. At the time, it was a visionary move that took bold political leadership. But what seemed visionary 50 years ago has played a pivotal role in creating Oregon’s modern day housing crisis. Today, our rural towns are struggling to address population growth as people seek a new hybrid work, lifestyle in these idyllic communities. Increasingly, rural areas of Oregon once thought to be affordable are now out of reach for most home buyers as housing supply has lagged behind demand for decades. And just building more housing isn’t as easy as it sounds. In this episode, we explore the challenges at the heart of Oregon’s housing crisis, what “affordable housing” really means, and why a new era of bold political leadership is required to solve this problem. Listen as JESSICA SEIDEL, Senior Director of Marketing and Customer experience at Pahlisch Homes, JOHN ROBERTS Deputy City Manager with the City of Redmond, KATY BROOKS, CEO and President of the Bend Chamber of Commerce, REBECCA LEWIS Associate Professor School of Planning, Public Policy and Management University of Oregon, and JAMES ADKINS, Manager of Public Policy at Hubbell talk about McCall’s legacy, the housing crisis, and the prospect of modernizing Oregon’s land use policies.

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  3. Division and the Discomfort of ‘Otherness’

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    Division and the Discomfort of ‘Otherness’

    We are often told society today is more divided than ever. But what is driving this division?   A number of factors are fueling this narrative of “us versus them” in our communities. Ideology, race, gender, class, and geography have come to define who we listen to – and who we distrust.   Add in an increasingly complex media ecosystem designed to connect us but which has, in fact, divided us further.   Much of this stems from our willingness to make assumptions about others – and to misunderstand other people’s core values, beliefs, and intentions.   But are we really that divided?   In this episode, we explore issues of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination through a unique lens. Listen as we take a journey into a group commonly misunderstood: hunters.   Join us as host Bryan Dorn goes on his first hunting trip and meets up with Jimmy Flatt of Hunters of Color to talk about why hunting is seen as a “white man’s sport”; with Marcia Brownlee of Artemis Sportswomen about her mission to bend gender stereotypes in the community; with Carla Brauer about her journey from being a vegan animal rights activist to a proponent of ethical hunting practices; with Evan Charpentier on his experience as both a hunter and soccer Dad in Lake Oswego; and Ian Isaacson of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers about why the hunting community needs to do more to tell its story better.

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The Better Communities Podcast creates a space for industry professionals, thought leaders and underrepresented communities to share their stories and create a dialogue to foster better more functional communities across the Pacific Northwest.

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