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Beyond Fryer Grease
The Portland Development Commission has released a report they commissioned on the availability of feedstock for a potential metro-area biodiesel refinery capable of producing one half million gallons annually. The winner: Canola, which can be grown in the Willamette Valley or in Eastern Oregon. The report is a great primer on seed crop production, and…
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Paying Attention to the Wrong Stuff
I’ve commented here before about the tendency for citizens to get up in arms about projects, when they didn’t pay attention to the policies that were adopted years before that enable those projects. An article from Sunday’s Oregonian makes a related point: citizens will get in an uproar about small things, while often ignoring major…
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Bike Success in Southern Oregon
I received this note from down south: Our local NPR station, Jefferson Public Radio, generously gave 7+ minutes of radio time for the Bike First! Follow up. Just go to the link below and click on the little speaker icon next to “Program gets Drivers commuting by bike” to listen. Eric Teel, the journalist, is…
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Freeway Discussion at Bike Portland
Over at BikePortland.org, there’s an interesting discussion going on about repurposing some of the asphalt in our region. I encourge you to check it out and join the discussion there.
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Mayor Puts Himself in Harm’s Way
Mayor Potter was one of the decoys for yesterday’s pedestrian enforcement action on 10th Ave near the downtown YWCA. You can get the Mayor’s perspective on his blog, and a video clip at KGW. 27 citations for failure to yield ($242) were issued along with 21 other citations and one warning.