A prototype green modular classroom is being built under an agreement with Portland State University, which the partners hope will be a model for healthy, energy efficient portable classrooms that address overcrowding.
A brighter future for Northeast Oregon’s wood products industry is on the horizon if a collaborative effort focused on improving forest health and bolstering the regional economy succeeds.
Portland State University is moving forward with its effort to build green portable classrooms with a finalized design and plans to build the first two prototypes this summer. The effort, launched in response to the demand for portable classrooms, is an Oregon Solutions project — carrying the support of Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Here’s an innovative idea: Pull all the key stakeholders together around a key community-level priority and solve the problem. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, via an executive order issued last December, created the infrastructure for this to happen, calling it the “Oregon Solutions Network.”
People advocating for development of a unique Northeast Portland park recently got one step closer to realizing their vision.
Gov. John Kitzhaber, on the first day of a three-day swing through Eastern Oregon, talked Monday about bringing affordable housing to the working people of Morrow County during a stop at Boardman City Hall. The Oregon Solutions team in Boardman met with Kitzhaber for an hour to discuss building more market-rate rental housing. Kitzhaber said … Read moreKitzhaber talks housing, poplars and biomass
For the first time in over 60 years, juvenile spring Chinook salmon can swim freely through newly created side channels of the Willamette River at Delta Ponds and Heron Slough.
A pair of architects at Portland State University is turning their eco-friendly designs to a multi-billion national industry: portable classrooms. The state of Oregon is supporting their work, recognizing a green solution to the burgeoning portable school expansion may have implications for both public schools and the economy.
The newly formed Umatilla National Forest Collaborative Group will meet Monday, Sept. 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Umatilla National Forest Supervisor’s Office in Pendleton. “I’m anxious to hear everyone’s thoughts on potential projects, so we can begin developing a plan for how everyone can work together and get on-the-ground results,” said … Read moreNew collaborative gears up on Umatilla Forest
When local schools bulge with too many students, one of the first options for school districts is slapping a new “portable classroom” on the playground. They’re cheap. They go up quickly. And they don’t require voter approval of a bond measure. Portland Public Schools – which has built only two new schools in the past … Read morePortable dangers: PSU architect wants to build a better classroom, state industry