Open House! Arbor School of Arts & Sciences 4201 SW Borland Rd.  Tualatin, Oregon 97062 503.638.6399    www.arborschool.org    admissions@arborschool.org…

Bus rolls over 300,000 miles, highlighting performance and health benefits Contact: Jenna Higgins/NBB 800-841-5849 October 26, 2009 JEFFERSON CITY, MO. – School bus driver Linda Rogers remembers the winter days with thick, blue smoke fouling the air around the buses. Those were the days before her district switched to B20, a blend of 20 percent…

Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:28pm EDTBy Yale Environment 360 – Yale Environment 360 By Frank Ackerman The climate change news from Washington is cautiously encouraging. No one in power is listening to the climate skeptics any more; the economic stimulus package included real money for clean energy; a bill capping U.S. carbon emissions emerged, battered…

By Harry Esteve, The Oregonian October 20, 2009, 3:47PM Portland Community College is poised to begin work on a $15 million project aimed at eventually turning the Sylvania campus into what’s called “net zero” — newspeak for generating all energy on site and offsetting all carbon emissions. Plans for the first phase, expected to begin…

The Portland Tribune, Oct 8, 2009   RENDERING BY BONN DESIGN Artists rendering of Juneberry Lane. The Clackamas Community Land Trust broke ground in late September on 12 homes in Oregon City designed to be affordable and earn the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum rating, a set of green building standards. Homeowners in…

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/suspension-of-belief/Content?oid=1676337 SIX MONTHS AFTER Mayor Sam Adams led city council in voting for the largest, most expensive possible option for replacing the I-5 bridge to Vancouver—a $4.2 billion bridge up to 12 lanes wide—Adams is back where his green allies want him. Last Friday, September 18, the mayor officially rescinded his support for a 12-lane…

September 29, 2009 Oregon Department of Agriculture, September 23, 2009 As Oregon’s biodiesel renewable fuel standard takes effect, agricultural producers throughout Oregon will receive biodiesel-blended fuel from their suppliers for their farm tanks. ODA encourages farmers and ranchers to take a few simple precautions as they begin to store and use the fuel.  The Oregon…

This month, ecoShuttle is combining two of my favorite things, art and sustainability. We are partnering with Portland Open Studios to bring you a tour of professional art studios in Portland. If you’ve never done the tour before, you should and if you have, you should do it again. I had a blast last fall…

North Bergen, New Jersey 9/23/2009 04:05 PM GMT (TransWorldNews) Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) had announced the beginning of commercial transportation of blended 2% biodiesel (B2) through its 115 mile Oregon Pipeline which run from Portland to Eugene. A test of moving B2 through the pipeline was successfully completed. The pipeline will help…

September 18, 2009 Being that I’m an Oregon local and being that Autumn is my favorite season, I thought we’d take an insiders look at what’s green and fun in my neck of the woods during the fall. Portland Oregon is an amazing place to visit anytime of the year, but in the Fall it’s…

By ANDREW DeMILLO (AP) – 6 hours ago Fiddling with your iPhone behind the wheel can get you fined across much of the nation. But many states are more than happy to tweet you with up-to-the-minute directions on how to steer clear of a traffic jam. It is a mixed signal that some safety experts…

Eco-friendly weddings, ethical weddings, green weddings or socially conscious weddings , whatever terminology one uses, studies show that more and more bridal couples are planning weddings that respect the preservation and sustainability of the earth. For many engaged couples and their families, the idea of a green wedding, however, is a little altruistic. Many people…