West By Northwest Online Magazine is back. Your faithful Editor is highlighting current and important issues in the West By Northwest.org new section called Current Highlights. The West By Northwest magazine is available to browse through:

You are also encouraged to visit West By Northwest.org's newest pages. Hope you like our new projects:

Our Story

Who are we? Well, West By Northwest.org Online Magazine started over nine years ago when MG Hudson and her computer knowledgeable son decided to do something useful with their new computer. We went online in 2000 after a year of preparation. West By Northwest.org tried to be spiritually aware, with special appeal to Western Friends... We had a large monthly update or issue in the early days, similar to "going to press" for a print publication. Later, as the file transfer programs became more user friendly, and we needed to make the site easier for the non-technical partner to maintain, we switched to an excellent program, called Article Manager. Now in 2008, with multiple sites to manage, Chris Hale has designed a customized Content Manager System with open source codes. Our focus had also changed over the years. West By Northwest.org tried to have something for everyone, a mixed concept of outreach. With an interest in the world as well as regional and very local issues (in Spencer Creek), we realized so many other online publications did a much better job of bringing various issues to your screen on a daily basis. Without big budgets or resources, we did a lot of linking which got away from our original concept of local talent and product. Here is our effort to get back to our roots of celebrating country life and purpose.

Our Vision

Who are the readers united by reading West by Northwest's Spencer Creek Storybook and the MemoryProject.org. We see you as seekers of truth and joy, hope and dynamic democracy. You believe that life and love are essential... You care passionately about the fate of humanity as well as the planet's. You support good causes as best you can. You know we must find peace and justice for all beings, especially we humans who have such a profound effect upon this world (and maybe others) and each other. You seek a wide community of committed world citizens who work in their own "backyards" to make a difference. You read West by Northwest .org because you know that from the particular to the universal is a matter of a few degrees of the compass.

We look through the lens of our own 'observatory' based in Spencer Creek Valley, Oregon. Spencer Creek Valley is not on many maps but is a very real place whose people face many of the issues of people all over the world including the challenge of change and preservation. And memory of the local and precious particulars. Now the City of Eugene, the McKenzie River (Land) Trust and The Nature Conservancy have identified Upper Spencer Creek Valley as valuable habitat to preserve. They now know we exist.

Autumn 2008