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The number of years Oregon PSR has been sponsoring the Greenfield Peace Scholarship
What is 14 years?
Oregon PSR's Peace Program coordinates an annual memorial event in Portland to mark the anniversary of the atomic bombings of these two cities
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Name the two main sources of renewable energy that Oregon PSR likes ;)
Wind and solar
True or False: Indoor air is often more polluted than outdoor air.
The US military budget in 2022
What is $782 billion?
The Greenfield Peace Scholarship is named after this longtime executive director who had a passion for youth engagement with peace issues.
Who is Del Greenfield?
Plutonium for the nuclear weapon dropped on Nagasaki was developed at this location near Richland, Washington, only a few hours from Portland on the Columbia River.
What is The Hanford Nuclear Reservation?
Pumped hydro energy storage and ______ are the two leading systems to store renewable power generated by wind and solar
What are batteries?
Nitrogen dioxide and this other gas are the two main sources of toxic pollutants from burning gas indoors
What is carbon monoxide?
The number of households that could be converted to solar power using one year of military spending
What are 2.11 Billion Households?
This year's scholarship was only open to this marginalized group
Who are low-income students?
Today, the US nuclear stockpile contains more than ______ megatons of destructive capability, the equivalent to 159,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs.
What is 2,400?
The demand for this battery element (and epic Nirvana song) is expected to increase by 40 times in the next twenty years
What is lithium?
True or False: Children in homes with gas stoves have a 30% increased risk of developing asthma symptoms.
The number of public housing units that could be built using one year of military spending
What are 87.97 million Public Housing Units?
Very few anti-war movements have gained traction since worldwide protests, spanning over 600 cities across the globe, erupted on February 15th, 2003 in opposition to this war
What is The US-Iraq War?
In 1985, PSR shared this prestigious prize with our international affiliate International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), for our work bringing awareness to the impacts of nuclear war.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
Pumped hydro energy storage systems buy energy when the price is low, and sell energy when the price is high. This process is known as _____.
What is arbitrage?
Oregon PSR successfully lobbied to pass this bill in 2022, which particularly protects unhoused people in the summer
Emergency Heat Relief Legislation (HB 2085)
The number of $15/hr jobs that could be created using one year of military spending
What are 16.94 million Jobs?
True or False: Oregon PSR supports nuclear energy, just not nuclear weapons development.
What is False?
On January 22nd, 2021 the TPNW entered into force and became international law. TPNW stands for _______.
What is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?
Why is Oregon PSR opposed to building 400 wind turbines on the Minidoka National Historic Site?
What is, because it is the site of a former Japanese internment camp and unjust siting of renewable projects robs communities of their autonomy and history????
Fracked gas is primarily what type of gas?
What is methane gas?
This is the number of 4-year, full-tuition scholarships that we could provide using one year of military spending
What are 19.79 million Scholarships?