by Tom Osdoba on April 16, 2012

Carbon neutral cities require three components: policy and institutional innovations; organized capital; and extensive outreach, education and public engagement.

by Patrick Mazza on April 12, 2012

The BioCycle Conference in Portland April 16-19 focused on the new economics of materials and natural services – harnessing organic wastes with processes that make valuable goods, and valuing ecological services to send the right signals on the use of nature in general.

by Tom Osdoba on April 3, 2012

Do current utility models have anything to offer us in solving our energy dilemma – transforming our system by driving radical efficiency improvements, smart infrastructure, and multiple kinds of distributed, renewable energy technologies?

by Patrick Mazza on March 30, 2012

What do yard trimmings, food waste, woody materials, biosolids, manure, municipal solid waste and other organic residues have to do with cooling our overheating climate? 

by Rhys Roth on March 29, 2012

Climate change can sometimes seem like the proliferation of bizarre ‘reality TV’, a problem so huge and entrenched only those with a Quixote complex would be crazy enough to tackle it. 

by Tom Osdoba on March 19, 2012

Investors and customers continue to embrace solar.

by Patrick Mazza on March 7, 2012

Climate change is among the greatest challenges facing 21st century agriculture. To anticipate those challenges a cutting-edge Northwest scientific exploration is bringing some very 21st century tools to bear.

by Patrick Mazza on March 7, 2012

Climate change is among the greatest challenges facing 21st century agriculture. To anticipate those challenges a cutting-edge Northwest scientific exploration is bringing some very 21st century tools to bear.

by Patrick Mazza on February 21, 2012

In a world of ever increasing stress on our food and energy supplies, it makes little sense to pave farmland under sprawl, but that’s what we’ve been doing. 

by Patrick Mazza on February 12, 2012

In a world of ever increasing stress on our food and energy supplies, it makes little sense to pave farmland under sprawl, but that’s what we’ve been doing.  A new report from American Farmland Trust (AFT) documents more than 800,000 acres of Puget Sound farmland lost in the 12 counties around the Sound since 1950. The remaining 600,000 acres are “far from secure.” AFT notes in Losing Ground: Farmland Protection in the Puget Sound Region.