Conversations that go deep on the environment, the climate crisis, and the solutions
“I think we need each other to remind ourselves of the stakes and encourage us to remember that, in a way, it doesn’t matter what the odds are, that the good life lies in part in doing the best that we can.” - Jeff Golden
Connect with Senator Golden: Website | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
Press Releases Related to Climate and Wildfires: SB 1602 Floor Speech | Statement of FERC Approval of the Jordan Cove Pipeline | Response to Governor Brown's Executive Order | SB 1530 Facts on Jobs and Costs | Op-Ed: Investing Upstream | HB 2020 Rural Advantages
Books: Watermelon Summer: A Journal | Forest Blood | As If We Were Grownups | Unafraid: A Novel of the Possible | Everything We Know About Leadership (contributor)
Senator Golden’s Popular Media Publications: Many of Senator Golden’s writing can be found on the Blue Oregon website or listed below
Mail Tribune: Climate action has to stay focused on fairness
Oregon State Legislature Do What You Can Do Column: Welcome to the 2020 Walkout Edition of Do What You Can Do
Oregon State Legislature Do What You Can Do Column: Surviving the fire
Immense Possibilities TV: Website | PBS
The Jefferson Exchange: NPR | Jefferson Public Radio | Apple | Google | Stitcher
Golden for Senate: Meet Jeff Golden
Blog Posts: Now let’s bring Big Logging Back Again! | And so it begins--
Documentaries: River Dogs | The Same River Twice
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Lawmakers seek reduced ties between timber industry ad Oregon board of forestry | Oregon governor signs ambitious clean energy bill | Oregon voters open door for campaign finance limits
The Oregonian: Senator asks Gov. Kate Brown to suspend Oregon's post-fire hazard
tree removal program pending an investigation into allegations of mismanagement
Green Biz: Oregon's forest wildfire without a forest proves forest management isn't enough
Gazette Times: Old wounds of Oregon’s timber wars take first step toward healing
The Astorian: Deal could heal old wounds in Oregon’s timber wars
Crosscut: Oregon Democrats try to learn from British Columbia’s carbon tax
Vox: Oregon Republicans are subverting democracy by running away. Again.
State of Oregon Newsroom: Governor Kate Brown Signs Clean Energy Bills, Sets Goal for 100% Clean Energy by 2040
The Environmental Center: 2021 Oregon Legislative Session
Davis Wright Tremaine: Comprehensive Oregon Wildfire Legislation Reaffirms and Expands Utility Obligations
The Washington Post: Inside the scorched towns of Talent and Phoenix, Ore.