Got a bright idea for making Oregon, Washington or California greener? Could you use a little green to help make your project a reality? Beginning March 8, 2010, Pacific Power will accept applications for community-based renewable energy project funding from its Blue Sky renewable energy program.
For 10 years now, Pacific Power’s participating Blue Sky customers [...]
From PortlandOnline.com (via Urban Pacific Real Estate):
Trees are vital, long-term, low-cost components of Portland’s green stormwater infrastructure. Trees absorb rain and prevent erosion to protect watershed health. Every tree planted in Portland is a step toward a cleaner Willamette River, so plant trees!
To encourage Portlanders to plant trees, Environmental Services offers two cost-reducing opportunities:
Plant a [...]
On Tuesday February 9th, the City of Gresham with REC Solar and SunEdison will celebrate the activation of a 419kW ground mounted solar power system at the Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant. This is the largest ground mount solar power system in the Pacific Northwest to date.
The photovoltaic system will generate approximately 440, 000 kilowatt hours [...]
What’s white, rigid and takes up a lot of space in garbage carts and landfills?
The answer: Block foam. The solution: A free collection event for Clark County residents from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., this Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center, 3510 SE 164th Ave.
Recycling block foam – Styrofoam™ – packaging from [...]
From the New York Times:
Urban gardening used to seem subversive. People planted tomatoes in public parks, strung their hops to rooftops to make homebrew and reclaimed empty lots as community farms, never mind the property owner.
Yet here in one of the more thoroughly tilled cities in America, subversive has come full circle: the federal government [...]
Winter weather and gray days in Oregon keep many of us indoors. However, these conditions are ideal for planting trees, around our homes or to help regenerate Oregon’s forests.
Oregon has actively promoted replanting trees as a part of forest management since the Forest Conservation Act of 1941, and a key facet of Oregon’s landmark 1971 [...]
