Midway Through Nationwide Green Power Challenge, Portland Sits Pretty

With one month to go, the City of Portland’s Green Power Challenge is close to reaching its goal of signing up 1,000 new green power customers by the end of September.

With one month to go, the City of Portland’s Green Power Challenge is close to reaching its goal of signing up 1,000 new green power customers by the end of September.

A YWCA summer camp for Portland area kids offers the opportunity to learn what it means to be green.

Vestas, the world’s leader in producing high-tech wind power systems, announced today it will move its North American sales and service headquarters into the historic Meier & Frank Depot Building at 1417 NW Everett St. in Portland’s Pearl District.
Gerding Edlen Development, Inc., will transform the sturdy structure, vacant since 2001, into one of Portland’s newest [...]

Mayor Denny Doyle unveiled Beaverton’s first public electric vehicle charging station today. The station, donated by local electric vehicle supply equipment and technology company OpConnect, is located on Hall Blvd. at SW 3rd St. (next to the Beaverton City Library and across from the Beaverton Farmer’s Market). Mayor Doyle and OpConnect CEO Dexter Turner drove [...]

Portland City Council today unanimously supported a resolution directing the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) and the Portland Development Commission (PDC) to initiate schematic design for the Oregon Sustainability Center.
“The Oregon Sustainability Center is a pioneering project. We’re doing something here that’s never been done before at this scale,” said Portland Mayor Sam [...]

On Tuesday August 3rd, the City of Portland announced the final building project that will receive funding from the Portland Energy Efficient Home Pilot (PEEHP), a $113,000 thousand grant fund created to offset the costs of constructing homes by builders that perform above the energy efficiency level of the 2008 Oregon Energy Code standards.
Habitat for [...]