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• Meet The Creator Of Outdoor School

  

  Oregon Field Guide is doing a story about the history of Outdoor School – the Portland metro area’s six-day science program that gets sixth graders outside to learn about the natural world. The program started in 1966 and now offers … Read More

• Peek Into Some Of Portland's Small Homes
• New Hillsboro Plant Sells Nutrients From Sewage

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• In Bellingham: Using compost to heat water

  Here’s a cool find from reader Dave Miller via the permaculture site Permies.com. Brian Kerkvliet of Inspiration Farm in Bellingham, Wash., used a compost pile to heat water for 500 hot showers. The compost pile was built with 100 feet … Read More

• An easy way to compost Thanksgiving food scraps
• Coming up: Where Portland's food scraps are going

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• What Your Garbage Is Worth – Outside The Landfill

  Last week, The Wall Street Journal held its fifth annual Eco:nomics conference on the future of business and the environment. The paper published several interviews from the event with bigwigs including Bill Gates and T. Boone Pickens. I thought this … Read More

• Snapshot: How green are Oregon's oceans?
• Coming up: Where Portland's food scraps are going

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