For entrepreneurs in the south Willamette Valley an organization, cleverly called RAIN, is aiming a spotlight on the resources available in communities south of Portland and gathering momentum for its own funding vehicle. The Oregon Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network ( RAIN) formally started in May and since then the board and its executive director … Read more
Portable classrooms, the bane of students and teachers everywhere, are getting a green makeover courtesy Portland State University. Margarette Leite, a PSU professor of architecture, initiated a project to reimagine the temporary classrooms as healthy, clean places for their inhabitants…
As students file back into school this fall, some will be studying in green modular classrooms designed at Portland State University. The first batch of the innovative portable classrooms are being deployed at five schools in the Edmonds School District in Washington and the Corvallis Waldorf School…