Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007 8:00 am – 5 pm Tiger Woods Conference Center Nike World Headquarters Beaverton, Oregon THE GOAL: This one-day event will help individuals and leaders of business, government and educational institutions find the path which balances success and sustainability. For 10 years, The Oregon Natural Step Network has helped guide some of…

Three months under our belt, we feel like we just began, so we figured why not have a launch party?! On Monday, October 22nd from 3-7p we will celebrate the launch and rapid growth of EcoShuttle, to celebrate a vision to revolutionize the travel habits, our community’s sustainable practices, and the measures to protect the…

Continental Breakfast + Be a tourist in your own city For POVA members only, a specially-designed City Tour sponsored by POVA, Raz Transportation and Plans & Action. The tour will begin and end at OMSI’s south parking lot (look for the Raz motorcoach). You will see sights you may not have seen before – Chinatown…

Transit, shorter commutes limit the city’s relative misery, a national study shows Portlanders benefit from efforts to reduce sprawl. Wednesday, September 19, 2007 DYLAN RIVERA The Oregonian Rush-hour traffic clogs the nation’s cities more than ever, but the Portland area appears to be fighting the growth in misery behind the wheel better than many regions…

There were a couple articles this week on the front page of the Oregonian by Dylan Rivera that showed that you waste a week’s worth of work due to sitting in traffic, 38 hours to be exact. Now that study was in 2005, and if you’re driving in the same traffic I am at peak…

-By LAUREN L. DILLARD Of the News-Register More than 14,000 members of Yamhill County’s nonfarm workforce commute to jobs outside the county every morning, according to Pam Ferrara of the state Department of Employment. Nearly 2,400 head to Multnomah County, bound largely for Portland, and 7,000 to Washington County, bound for Hillsboro, Beaverton, Tigard, Tualatin…

As Hood to Coast has “gone green” this year, EcoShuttle thought it’d be quite opportunistic to sponsor a team. Although there is nothing green about thousands of vans constantly starting and stopping and in congestion for what can be for miles at any given exchange, we provided a carbon offset for one team: The Fluffy…

By Peter Zuckerman, Oregon Live Getting to work by bus often takes more than an hour in Clackamas County because TriMet bus routes and schedules don’t fit commuting patterns. A consultant who plugged more than 1,400 select Clackamas County employee and employer addresses into TriMet’s trip-planning software found commutes for those workers would average 78…

By Dylan Rivera-Oregon Live Because Portland-Vancouver drivers log 20 percent fewer miles a day than most U.S. urban dwellers and spend less on cars and gasoline as a result, the region’s economy saves $2.6 billion a year, or about 3 percent of the area’s annual economic output, according to a new study for the Chicago-based…

Gov. Ted Kulongoski was joined recently by legislators, environmental and agricultural leaders at a biofuels facility in Eugene, Ore., to sign House Bill 2210, which creates a renewable fuel standard and tax incentives for both consumers and producers of biofuels. “These bills will not only create financial opportunities for Oregon’s agricultural sectors, but it will…

Check us out at our booth setup at the muddy boot organic festival. Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of some other famous Cousteau, is the key speaker and world renowned advocate for ocean protection. Musical guests include March Fourth Marching Band, Freak Mountain Ramblers, and Jackstraw. Get your tickets NOW!…

Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed the state’s first climate change legislation Tuesday, capping what he called the “most momentous legislative session for energy and the environment in more than 30 years in Oregon.” The bill sets ambitious standards for greenhouse gas reduction in Oregon, including reducing greenhouse gas levels by 75 percent below 1990 levels by…