Greater Portland residents said yes to clean water, healthy fish and wildlife habitat, and nature close to home by investing $475 million in their regional park system. Results show Metro’s parks and nature bond measure passing with 67 percent of the vote, making it possible to buy and restore...
GPSEN Fellow Tahira Abbas represented GPSEN at the recent Americas RCE Meeting. The 8th Americas RCE Meeting was organised by RCE Greater Burlington in Burlington, Vermont, from 23rd to 25th September, 2019 with the support of the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of...
The ReClaim It! store recently reached a crucial milestone in waste reduction when it surpassed 500,000 pounds of materials saved from the Metro Transfer Station since operations began in 2014. The North Portland store, a nonprofit project run largely by volunteers, salvages items and materials...
The ReClaim It! store recently reached a crucial milestone in waste reduction when it surpassed 500,000 pounds of materials saved from the Metro Transfer Station since operations began in 2014. The North Portland store, a nonprofit project run largely by volunteers, salvages items and materials...
PSU’s Judy Walton is the Recipient of 2019 AASHE Lifetime Achievement Award Judy Walton was the founding director of AASHE, serving the organization from 2006 to 2013. Sustainability has been her lifelong passion, with a focus on higher education and cities. Her experiences include community-led...
Portland has a national reputation as being one of the best cities for biking in the country. But while investments over the past several decades have been focused on downtown and affluent close-in neighborhoods, low-income communities and communities of color in the greater Portland region have...
Today The Intertwine Alliance is launching its new strategic plan! Guided by your input over the past year, we’ve set three clear and focused goals, and developed strategies to reach them. The goals are: Create and promote a compelling and specific vision for our region’s parks, trails and...
The ban will be implemented across the nation on Oct. 2. Why Global Citizens Should Care Plastic waste, if not recycled or properly managed, often becomes a harmful environmental pollutant that impacts life on land and in the oceans. Reducing plastic pollution is essential to establishing and...
The Eco-School Network is grateful to Meyer Memorial Trust for granting us nearly $13,000 for equity training, diversifying the communities served by our network, and developing an organizational equity plan. As the grant year wraps up, we’re proud to have welcomed 10 new Title 1 schools this...
Description As part of Germany’s and UNEP’s promise to step up their efforts for globally implementing the SDGs, the German Ministry for Environment and UNEP have created ‘Global Opportunities for SDGs’ (or in short: GO for SDGs). This new initiative aims to accelerate and raise ambition for...