E-clips, Sept. 29-Oct. 1

Green monsters (Sustainable Industries Magazine, San Francisco): It’s appropriate that the New York Jets wear green -- or at least it was. When New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in 2002 a bold plan to transform Midtown Manhattan’s west side near the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center with a new stadium for the National Football League’s New York Jets (also part of the city’s Olympic bid), the proposed design represented what would have been easily the greenest facility of its kind in the world. … This story also takes a look at how TVA Architects of Portland is preparing the Hayward Field at the UO for the 2008 Olympic trials.

Poetry collection offers simple language (Salem Monthly): The poetry in "Facts About the Moon" is the stuff you wish you'd read in high school English class. Everyday language describes relevant content that covers the gamut of familial and physical love, childhood sexual abuse, loss and nature. All the pieces in this fourth collection of poetry by the University of Oregon's Dorianne Laux reflect her life experience. In a recent conversation she said, "It's all autobiographical." Laux is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Program at the UO and a faculty member in Pacific University's MFA in Writing program.