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Green educators growing in Portland – Edible Portland – 6/08
“The program addresses the emerging field of sustainability education and focuses on teaching in the community through projects like the Learning Gardens Laboratory, a student-faculty run garden in southeast Portland that works with elementary schools to teach youth everything from the biology of worms to helping the hungry.”

New DEQ boss has big plans – Oregonian – 6/24/08
“He says he wants to add nearly 100 workers to the 750-employee agency despite the down economy; help companies cut greenhouse gas emissions; streamline pollution enforcement; cut pesticides from farms and forests; give the public more Internet access to polluter information; boost DEQ’s public profile; and hold businesses seeking to move to Oregon to high green standards.”

So long, timber payments, hello even harder times – Oregonian – 6/24/08
“With the federal government’s timber payments to forest-rich states ending this year, the $238 million hit will ripple through every Oregon school district and most county governments.”

A peak by any other name – KTVZ.com – 6/24/08
“A small peak near Ashland known as Squaw Peak is the latest site in Oregon to drop a name considered derogatory to American Indians. The United States Board of Geographic Names recently approved changing the name to Taowhywee Point earlier this month.”

New mad cow case in Canada – Oregonian – 6/23/08
“The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday that the latest case of mad cow disease is not an indication of a widespread epidemic. The inspection agency also says no part of the animal entered the human food system.”

City’s new plant’s a gas – Daily Journal of Commerce – 6/23/08
“The facility will burn methane gas produced from the city’s solid waste to generate more than 12 million kilowatt hours of electricity, or about enough energy to power 1,000 Northwest homes, each year. The energy produced will provide about half of the treatment plant’s daily power demand, cutting its annual energy bills by about 40 percent.”

Oregon farmer’s markets flourishing – Statesman Journal – 6/23/08
“More than 1,000 growers participate each year in selling direct at Oregon farmers markets. About 90,000 customers visit Oregon farmers’ markets each week throughout the season.”

Measure easing development – Oregonian – 6/20/08
“Measure 49’s clamp upon rural development in Oregon is becoming hard and clear. Instead of having potentially more than 100,000 new houses built in the countryside, Oregonians will see 13,000, according to state projections.”

Wyden proposes new forest plan – Portland Business Journal – 6/19/08
“For the sake of our environment, economy and our way of life, we must come together to pursue a concerted, new focus on sustainable forestry management that will create thousands of new jobs and restore the health of our forests.”

For an annotated list of recent national/international stories, check out today’s post from Humane Connection.

~ Marsha