Regions: Statewide

The Oregon Sustainability Board aimed to provide support and guidance for schools and districts as they endeavored to improve ecological performance and save money. Governor Ted Kulongoski asked Secretary of State Bill Bradbury to convene a team of key representatives from public, private, and nonprofit entities to develop a compendium of practices and resources for … Read moreOregon Sustainability Board, Sustainable Schools Project

Oregon Solutions convened eight counties across the state to develop locally-based approaches to reduce the number of Oregon children in foster care by 20 percent by 2011. The project was spurred in part by a grant from the Casey Foundation, with an emphasis on creating alternatives to foster care and addressing equity issues. The Oregon … Read moreFoster Care

The Oregon Solutions Animal By-Products project explored economically viable, environmentally benign and socially acceptable options for processing the organic residues of slaughtering offal, other meat-based residues, and on-farm animal mortality into marketable products. The project pursued options that captured by-product value through energy production and nutrient recycling in addition to traditional rendering products. Declaration of … Read moreCreating Value from Animal By-Products

The Oregon Solutions Stream Restoration Partnership Project, sponsored by The Freshwater Trust and the Department of State Lands, was designed with the goal of making private land restoration easier on a landscape scale and at an accelerated pace that promotes the quality conservation outcomes needed to attain watershed health in a meaningful time frame. Governor’s … Read moreStream Restoration Partnership

The Renewable Energy Opportunities and Eastern Oregon Landscape Conservation Partnership (REECon) was established to collaboratively address the needs and issues inherent in renewable energy development and habitat conservation across Eastern Oregon. Partners sought collaborative approaches to mutually address issues, beginning with sagebrush and sage- grouse issues, to determine criteria for identifying areas in Eastern Oregon … Read moreRenewable Energy and Eastern Oregon Landscape Conservation Partnership (REECon)

In 2009, Oregon’s Alternative Fuels Working Group identified a number of barriers associated with transportation electrification and provided recommendations to address the barriers.  One recommendation of the group was the creation of a governor designated executive council to formulate strategies, plans, and partnerships. The Transportation Electrification Executive Council (TEEC) was established by governor’s executive order … Read moreTransportation Electrification Executive Council (TEEC)