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The $150 Million Question: Gas-Guzzling Trucks or Dirty Tugboats?new

A ticked-off tribe and a delicate union negotiation could stop Metro from picking the most fuel-efficient option on a massive upcoming garbage-hauling contract.
Willamette Week  |  Nigel Jaquiss  |  12-19-2007  |  Environment

Oregon Now Lags in Fighting Climate Changenew

How the state that pioneered the fight against climate change has fallen behind.
Willamette Week  |  James Pitkin  |  12-05-2007  |  Environment

Tre Mal's Case Moves Alongnew

The environmental activist loses his extradition appeal in Canada, but he's still fighting his return to Oregon.
Willamette Week  |  Andrew MacLeod  |  10-24-2007  |  Environment

Critics Question Green Cred of Utility's 'Smart Energy'new

"Portlanders want green energy, but they don't want their energy coming from industrial factory farms," says Kendra Kimbirauskas, a Portland-based consultant for the GRACE Factory Farm Project, a New York-based nonprofit that opposes industrial farming.
Willamette Week  |  James Pitkin  |  09-26-2007  |  Environment

The Portland Region's Top 25 Water-Using Residencesnew

These people waste so much water, it's scary.
Willamette Week  |  James Pitkin and Rachel Schiff  |  09-12-2007  |  Environment

Burning Green?new

Portland's "Burners" drive hundreds of miles into the desert to attend this year's "green" Burning Man.
Willamette Week  |  Rachel Schiff  |  08-22-2007  |  Environment

Bamboo-zled?new

Portland pushes its "sustainable" businesses without knowing what that means, exactly.
Willamette Week  |  Corey Pein  |  08-16-2007  |  Environment

Grapes of Cashnew

Lewis & Clark College owns thousands of acres in Eastern Oregon. If you think that's odd, read what the school might do with them.
Willamette Week  |  Beth Slovic  |  07-05-2007  |  Environment

A Mighty (Portland) Windnew

Look which utility is blowing its influence into the renewable energy bill.
Willamette Week  |  Nigel Jaquiss  |  05-16-2007  |  Environment

Sustainable Foodnew

Is it, or isn't it? Digesting Oregon's green-menu movement.
Willamette Week  |  William Crawford and Stiv J. Wilson I  |  04-18-2007  |  Environment

Sustainable Sink Fixturesnew

Eleek makes household hardware that's not so hard on the environment.
Willamette Week  |  Elianna Bar-El  |  04-18-2007  |  Environment

Sustainable Wheelsnew

Mitch Shults bikes to Hillsboro and back every day, packing heat.
Willamette Week  |  Mike Thelin  |  04-18-2007  |  Environment

Sustainable Funeralsnew

How do you say goodbye in a socially conscious fashion?
Willamette Week  |  Laura Shinn  |  04-18-2007  |  Environment

Sustainable Wedding Threadsnew

Old, new, borrowed and ... green?
Willamette Week  |  Ben Waterhouse  |  04-18-2007  |  Environment

Sustainable Sex Toysnew

A Portland couple explores the last eco frontier: sex toys.
Willamette Week  |  Ethan Smith  |  04-18-2007  |  Environment

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