Tag: Oregon - Page 3
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Pants & Bike Lights. Don't Leave Home Without Them
Would you leave home without pulling on some pants? That's the question being asked by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and the Portland
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Nau Is A Style Winner in Eco Clothing. It's Official
Nau, one of our favourite eco clothiers was recently presented with the ISPO (international sports expo) BrandNew Award in the Style category. "Nau combines urban style and high end outdoor functionality on a unprecedented level,"
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Nike's Six Million Environmental Design Tool. Now Yours. For Free.
A couple of weeks ago Nike unveiled a for-general-consumption version of their Environmental Apparel Design Tool. It is a replica of the calculator they use in-house when putting together their Considered Design collection, and is said to
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Oregon to be Coal-Free by 2020
There's currently only one lonely coal-fired power plant in all of Oregon. But by 2020, there will be none -- Portland General Electric Co., which operates the plant, has announced that it will either
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Free Bike Repair for Farmers (Video)
From a cell phone app empowering bike repair on the go, to community-based bike co-ops, we've seen plenty of initiatives aimed at enabling folks to fix their own bikes and take charge of their transportation in the process.
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Big Trees May Make Communities Safer, Says Study
They might not be too effective when it comes chasing down vandals or spooking away would-be burglars -- but it turns out that our humble city trees may be apt crime-fighters, nonetheless. According to the findings
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Nestle vs. Oregon: Battle Heats Up Over Columbia River Gorge
Nestle, the world's top-selling bottled water company, has been trying to win the right to tap between 100 and 166 million gallons of water from Oregon's Columbia River Gorge annually, and wants to justify it as environmentally sound by simply
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Greenpeace Urges Facebook to 'Unfriend' Coal (VIDEO)
Chances are that you have logged into Facebook today -- maybe it's open in another tab of your Internet browser right now -- but at what cost to the environment? A new video from Greenpeace is urging to social-media giant to change its dirty ways by
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Self-Sufficiency Versus a Backyard CSA (Video)
A few years ago, Scott McGuire launched an experiment in backyard sustainability—exploring how much food he could grow in his backyard for his family, and whether they could reach self-sufficiency. So what happened?
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"Traditional" Design Meets Passive House Efficiency In Oregon
Most Passivhaus or Passive House designs we have shown on TreeHugger have tended to be modern, but Sarah Evans and Stuart Rue tell Green Building Advisor that "We wanted our house to fit in with the surrounding
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From Austin to Santa Cruz NRDC's Rates the US's Smarter Cities for Energy
There are lots of things that go into making a city more environmentally friendly--from sufficient density, to adequate public transportation, to superior walkability, to good green spaces--but a key part of all that is
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Oregon Wind Farm Neighbors Offered $5000 Not to Complain About Noise
I suppose it was only a matter of time... According to a new article in The New York Times some residents near the Shepherd's Flat wind farm in Oregon have been offered $5000 to not complain about the whooshing noise from
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Signal Shed: A Tiny, Affordable, Off-Grid Getaway In The Woods
Ryan Lingard Design Ryan Lingard designed and built this lovely litte cabin near Joseph, Oregon in a couple of weeks for under $10,000. Preston at Jetson Green tells us that it has a wood stove, metal roof, cedar rainscreen, reused windows, portable
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Project Runway Winner to Design Solar Clothing Collection for Spring 2011
While we're still enjoying the hip summer accessories of this summer season, the upcoming spring/summer 2011 collections, set to hit runways in fashion
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Which Do You Prefer: Modern Clean Green or Comfy Rustic Tree Houses?
Poet Roy Conant endears himself to us by pitching his own eco-guest house in a treehouse, which he calls "Lothlorien", with the introduction:
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Moso Bamboo Transplanted From Century-Old Louisiana Grove to Oregon (Video)
If you love bamboo as much as I do, just as a substance, forget about any specific green credentials it has, then check out this short video from Bamboo Revolution. It explains and documents in return for returning one of the original moso bamboo
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Couple Lives Trash Free for One Year
Okay, "trash free" technically only applies if you consider that the small box of non-recyclables accumulated by Amy and Adam Korst now counts as collectible. The Korsts write in their blog, Green Garbage Project:
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Top 10 U.S. Cities For Green Job Seekers
Recently, friends and new college graduates have been asking me how they can get into the field of sustainability. When the question has arisen, I have found myself wondering where the green jobs are sprouting. Then,
