The Renew Oregon coalition is bringing Oregon businesses together with other voices for climate action. The list of companies backing the Oregon Business Climate Declaration continues to grow, as Portland's Mayor issues a climate challenge to local businesses.
Low-carbon fuel standards make headway in OR and CA, climate pledges fall short of 2˚ goal but buy time for further progress, renewables surpass coal as UK’s #2 power source, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions
Portlanders: Let's tell City and County officials to align public dollars with public values. Support fossil fuel divestment today!
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales has issued a challenge to local businesses: join the movement for climate action, and gear your business for a sustainable, clean-energy future. Will Portland businesses accept the challenge? (Spoiler alert: Yes.)
Sweden sets goal of going completely fossil-free, China to work with US on utility innovation and decarbonizing cities, union opposes coal port in Oakland, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions
This conference will explore regional climate trends and projections and the causes, the impacts of these trends on regional activities, and what efforts are underway to address these problems.
DATE: September 9-10, 2015
LOCATION: Oregon Convention Center, 777 Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Portland, OR 97232
WEB: http://oregonbestfest.org
While many climate calamities remain preventable, the wildfires raging across the Northwest are upon us—with devastating consequences. Please, let's rise to the occasion and provide support to wildfire victims.
This northwest company has been walking its climate action talk: MacDonald-Miller works with businesses to design, build and install solutions in the building sector to dramatically cut energy use.
The largest, most toxic, and densest algae bloom ever recorded is hurting shellfish populations and local economies in unusually warm waters off the Pacific coast. Is this a harbinger of climate changes to come?
