Oregon Green News You May Have Missed 4.5.10 to 4.9.10
4/12/2010

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.

4/6/10  ::  Bicycling magazine has rated the top 50 bike-friendly cities.  Guess what?  We’re #2!  Minneapolis has earned the numero uno spot for its work for doubling bike commuters in 3 years.  This won’t stop us, our fixed gears, and butt tight jeans.  1st is the worst and 2nd is the best, duh!  Besides, with Portland’s creative use of it’s Big Pipe money for new bike boulevards and green streets, we’ll be at the tippy top soon enough. 

4/6/10  ::  Everyone that shops at Whole Foods and recycles wine corks should thank Willamette Valley Vineyards and the non profit that spun out of it, Cork ReHarvest.  Now in April, Whole Foods, from their success in a Portland and Seattle wine cork recycling pilot project, will be expanding cork recycling to all of it’s stores in the USA, Canada, and the UK.  Partnerships established with recyclers by Cork ReHarvest, a one man show based in Salem, will be turning used wine corks into wine-shipping containers, cork floor tiles, and a variety of of other products.

4/9/10  ::  U of W.  Both of them.  University of Washington and University of Wisconsin have taken notice of Nike’s actions and outcome from closing 2 factories in Honduras.  University of Wisconsin has taken the extra step of ending its licensing agreement with Nike for violating the Code of Conduct in their agreement, whereas Washington put Nike in violation.  With no warning, the factories, not owned by Nike, shut down in ’09.  It’s employees didn’t receive more than $2 million in severance pay by the factory owners.       Wisconsin’s Chancellor Biddy Martin wrote in a statement that “Nike has not developed, and does not intend to develop, meaningful ways of addressing the plight of displaced workers and their families in Honduras...It has not presented clear long-range plans to prevent or respond to similar problems in the future. For this combination of reasons, we have decided to end our relationship for now.”

 

Written by: Jonathan Davis, Founder and Editor

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