A new program aims to help Clackamas County’s agricultural industry by connecting businesses, nonprofits and government agencies that work with food producers, processors and distributors. The ONEStop program is part of Oregon Solutions, a statewide program that takes on big local projects that are contentious or involve many players and helps figure out solutions or … Read more
An effort by two Oregon sustainability titans to better harvest and utilize juniper from public lands has earned approval from the state’s top rungs. Gov. John Kitzhaber has designated the Western Juniper Utilization Group as an “Oregon Solutions” project, meaning it will collect $262,000 “to unlock the potential of rangeland restoration and juniper harvested from … Read more
Thursday, Aug. 1 marked the final meeting between the dignitaries involved in writing the fine print for the Innovation and Learning Center, the new distance education program set to take place at the Daly Middle School. The day-long meeting covered the solidification of the governance structure for the Innovation and Learning Center and refined the … Read more
Karen Chase was driving through a snowstorm in Nevada when the flurry of ideas hit her. Two years, dozens of meetings and untold amounts of research later, it all came together and was unveiled recently in Gold Beach. “I thought, ‘How can we do housing and make jobs at the same time?’” said Chase, the … Read more
Three developers are interested in building and managing a community health center in Beaverton for low-income residents, city officials said Tuesday. New market tax credits from the federal government could pay about 18 percent of the cost of building the center, Beaverton Community and Economic Development Director Don Mazziotti told the City Council…
Portland State University’s sustainable architecture program is about to deploy its first set of green portable classrooms on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The city of Cambridge, Md. hopes to use the structures as it educates children on the ecologically and historically significant Chesapeake Bay watershed…
Members of the South Santiam Community Forest project team on Friday spent the day visiting key sites along the proposed corridor, from Sweet Home to Cascadia Cave. The South Santiam Forest Corridor Project proposes an as-yet undefined corridor along the South Santiam River, from a point that started at a former Knife River (Morse Bros.) … Read more
For nearly a decade, conservationists and irrigation interests have battled at the state capitol over Columbia River water and the long-standing laws safeguarding Columbia summer flows from new appropriations. These summer flows are critical to support the Columbia River’s salmon and steelhead runs protected by the federal Endangered Species Act… Download full newsletter and read … Read more
A healthy, inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution for housing millions of retiring baby boomers is staring us in the face. We just know it by a dirty name…
The Port of Tillamook Bay is now eligible to receive $4.3 million in federal funds for its flood reduction project planned northwest of the City of Tillamook. The eligibility ruling comes after two years of Port appeals within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The project, known as the Southern Flow Corridor, was developed by … Read more