Oregon Green News You May Have Missed (Vid) 3.1.10 to 3.6.10
3/08/2010

In our regular search of Oregon news that is green oriented, here are a few that caught our eye this past week as news you may have missed.

3/3/10  :  Clean Energy Works Portland is a pilot program aiming to help 300 homeowners jump financial obstacles to lower their energy costs.  So, if you’re a homeowner on a tight budget, you’ll be able to pay for your improvements in increments over 20 years.  These improvements include weatherization, water heating, and space heating.  Check it out on CleanEnergyWorksPortland.org

3/4/10  :  His name is Robert Paulson.  His name is Robert Paulson.  No, that’s not true.  That’s from the movie, Fight Club.  His name is Lionel.  He was killed for doing something he loved, eating salmon.  For the past 7 years Lionel, a California sea lion named by Redland Elementary School, would feast on salmon at the Bonneville Dam.  Started in ’09 because of a mulit-billion dollar salmon restoration effort, 11 California sea lions were leathly injected last year and Lionel is the first in 2010.  Zoos and aquariums don't want them so it's come to killing them.

Activists Protest Opening of Sea Lion Killing Season

3/5/10  :  What do you get when you couple Portland’s “Green Streets” initiative with unused Big Pipe project money?  Bike boulevards in Portland!  The beginnings of the 2030 Bicycle Plan recently approved aimed to make 25% of all trips by bike in 20 years is in motion.  Mayor Adams is putting together a council calling for the Bureau of Environmental Services to spend$20 million on stormwater projects that double as bike boulevards.  Ride on! 

 

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