A crowdsourcing campaign raised $123,880 toward development of a new 25-acre park in east Portland that would include trails, bike paths and a nature-themed play area. Known as “Gateway Green,” the proposed park is a land-locked greenspace owned by the Oregon Department of Transportation between Interstate 84 and Interstate 205. Gateway community leaders have been … Read moreGateway Green fundraising effort tops $120,000
GOLD BEACH, OREGON – Something important is about to happen in Curry County, nearly 2,000 square miles of forests and farms in the southwest corner of Oregon, bordered by California to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west. Some 3,876 Curry County families live in mobile homes. That’s a big chunk of its housing … Read moreMobilizing
State ag board will hear an update on state water policy and juniper control. The Oregon Board of Agriculture will hear about juniper utilization projects, learn about water quality improvements and review agriculture department budget and legislative reports when it meets Sept. 17-19 in Prineville. The need to control or find a commercial use for western juniper, which covers hillsides in much of … Read moreOregon ag board to discuss juniper control, water quality
The Poverty to Prosperity campaign, including Malheur, Harney and Baker counties, has been selected as one of 11 pilot programs in the Oregon Education Investment Board’s Regional Achievement Collaborative. Each region will receive facilitation support through the Oregon Solutions Network and funding ranging up to $40,000…
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 moreClackamas County teaming up with state to retain, expand agriculture jobs
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 moreJumping juniper: Sustainability bigwigs to help manage proliferating wood
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 moreDignitaries sign Innovation and Learning Center MOU
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 moreManufactured homes get fix under program
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…