Green Building
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With Mr. Sun deal, Tom Kelly looks on solar's brighter side
Neil Kelly Co. is expanding its design-build reach into a renewable energy area that’s lately taken its hits. But the Kelly team’s purchase of Portland-based solar design and installation specialist…
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Gallery: PSU's SAGE program spices up national modular classroom options
A team of professors and students at Portland State University’s School of Architecture is about to deploy its first set of green portable classrooms on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The city of Cambridge,…
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It's a Living Future thing: Conference could quell recent bad news
When it comes to “sustainability-related” news, this past weekend was kind of a bummer. First, I read that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed a dreaded milestone, reaching levels…
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Conference aims to put SPRNG in green businesses' step
This Thursday’s Sustainable Practices Raising Net Growth program, at the University of Oregon’s downtown Portland campus, promises a bevy of information for those curious about responsible business…
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Google exec named to Living Building group's board
A Google Inc. executive is one of three new International Living Future Institute board appointees. George Salah, Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) director of real estate and workplace services, joins consultant…
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Sustainable Alpha: Bruce Jenkyn-Jones talks resource optimization
Sustainable Alpha features shared conversations with the best minds, portfolio managers and industry leaders working to maximize returns while prioritizing the environment, social and governance factors…
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Future Energy Conference: Four tips on reenergizing your building
Chris Smith's company Energy 350 focuses on managing the energy demand of buildings. It makes sense, then, that Smith, speaking at Wednesday's Future Energy Conference, offered a set of rapid-fire pieces…
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Six Oregon schools make 'Green Colleges' list
Six Oregon universities have landed on Princeton Review's annual Guide to Green Colleges. Presented in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, this year's Green Colleges list features 322 public…
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Nike employee grants bring big green to green works
The latest round of Nike Inc. employee grants, awarded through the Oregon Community Foundation, includes several sustainability-related groups among its 25 recipients. Among those sharing in the $250,000…
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From brown to green: Portland launches clean-up loan program
After more than a year of planning and strategizing, a fund to help clean Portland brownfields is in loan-issuing mode. The Portland Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund issued $130,000 to clean contaminated…
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The Oregon Resilience Plan: A call to expand the sustainability conversation
Resilience and sustainability are not the same, but they have a lot in common. Resilience tends to be concerned with the capacity to withstand and recover from disasters, both natural and human-caused. Both…
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PAE formally moves engineering footprint up the road
A West Coast engineering firm that’s made a splash in Portland is expanding its services up Interstate 5. PAE, which leased the top two floors of a downtown Portland building in January, will open its…
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Gallery: Energy efficiency, mainstream amenities define 'Next Home'
From the outside, this house looks like a typical, high-end single-family home. The 2,730-square-foot Southwest Portland project dubbed 'Next Home' is nestled on a slope north of Taylors Ferry Road. But…
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Greener goods help paint happier, healthier picture
Just 20 years ago, paint manufacturers struggled to fill demands from pro-environment contractors who requested paints with low quantities of volatile organic compounds. Yet when federal legislation finally…
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Changing our throw-away mentality through deconstruction and reuse
If you live in one of Portland’s close-in, older neighborhoods, there is a good chance a home on your street has been remodeled or even torn down. Do you know where all of the construction debris from…
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Energy Star ratings knock Portland down several notches
In terms of environmental stewardship, Portland is widely considered an environmental shining star. Yet in terms of its Energy Star-certified building counts, the city is just so-so. The Environmental…
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Habitat for Humanity moves Portland ReStore
Habitat for Humanity’s Portland ReStore ˜ a favored outlet for recycled goods afficiandos and bargain-hunters alike ˜ has moved out of the Central Eastside Industrial District. The Portland ReStore’s…
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Neil Kelly cabinets gain high-end enviro honors
A Portland sustainability virtuoso has become the first cabinet specialist to attain an arduous new performance standard. Neil Kelly Cabinets will carry the Declare label for meeting the Living Building…
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Oregon trade mission spotlights green issues
A team of Oregon boosters is making sustainability one of their messages during the ongoing business development mission to the Netherlands and Germany. The Gov. John Kitzhaber-led unit is hitting the…
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Portland affordable housing complex takes modular approach to green
Portland saw its first modular housing development open its doors this week with the launch of the Kah San Chaco Haws apartment complex. The development, which means "East House" in Chinook, is a LEED…
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Gallery: TrekHaus passive home provides a living lab
TrekHaus, a duplex built at Southeast Taylor and 43rd in Portland to Passive House standards, passed its one-year mark of occupancy in December with better than net-zero results. In the first year in…
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Portland home wins national honors for eco-integration
A Portland home designed by Nathan Good Architects is being held up as a national example of harmonious integration with its surroundings, garnering the "Best Eco-Integration" award from Green Builder…
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Merkley to chair green jobs subcommittee
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley announced Tuesday he will chair the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee created out of the Senate committee for the environment and public works. The subcommittee will…
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NW Energy Angels invested close to $4.7M in 2012
Regional investment network Northwest Energy Angels announced Tuesday that the group invested $4,696,500 in 15 cleantech companies in 2012 — the biggest investment year since the group was founded in…
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UO sustainability program to take on Portland real estate development
The University of Oregon tripled enrollment in the second year of its new Oregon Leadership in Sustainability certificate. EIghteen program participants will work on a development project along the Willamette…
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