by Ross Macfarlane on September 19, 2012

The following, an excerpt of an open letter to BNSF CEO Matthew Rose, was published in Sustainable Business Oregon. We wanted to thank you for recently visiting the Northwest. We’re sorry that we didn’t have a chance to chat about the subject that brought you to our region: coal export.

by Bobby Hayden on September 16, 2012

How Green Canopy Homes turns a profit, cuts the same carbon on average as one car permanently off the road, and employs approx.

by Rhys Roth on September 12, 2012

On a marine wildlife cruise in Alaska recently I got to touch a sea otter pelt–it was so luxuriously soft my knees almost buckled with pleasure. A new study found that these critters are not only super-cuddly, they also play an outsized role in sucking up carbon from the atmosphere and storing it safely away in the sea.

by Peter and Pam Hayes on September 4, 2012

In our three family-owned forests in the northern Oregon Coast Range, our work is guided by a simple belief: “If we take care of the land—the land will take care of us.”  With climate change, we believe that “caring for the land” includes our playing a responsible role in maintaining the climate on which life—and the success of our tiny family business—depends.

by Eileen V. Quigley on September 4, 2012

How does a city go about becoming carbon neutral? Communities in the Puget Sound are tackling the challenge of significant carbon reduction and looking at whether carbon neutrality is possible.

by Rhys Roth on August 31, 2012

Congratulations to the Willamette Partnership, a NBI Innovation Partner, which teamed up with the Freshwater Trust to receive a $1.5 million Conservation Innovation Grant from the US Department of Agriculture.

by Patrick Mazza on August 27, 2012

One of the most important climate change solutions is emerging literally on the ground.  The power of plant growth in rich soils to pull carbon from the atmosphere is drawing increased attention as this story, Climate Change SOS: Soil is the Solution, or the most important environmental story I'll ever write, demonstrates. 

by Sam Bliss on August 27, 2012

The United Kingdom's Green Deal program has much to teach the United States about how to create a successful energy efficiency retrofit program.

by Sam Bliss on August 22, 2012

While cleaning up sites such as capped landfills, abandoned mines, and former industrial properties can be pricey, converting them into renewable energy generating capacity may help make the investment pay back over time.

by Elizabeth Willmott on August 13, 2012

Installed solar capacity in Boise, ID increased to two megawatts in 2011, and is nearing three megawatts in 2012.