Organizers of this week’s International Mass Timber Conference in Portland devoted a whole track of their three-day event to environmental and sustainability aspects of the mass timber sector.
Seafood Analytics also recently collaborated with Ecotrust, Oregon State University and three small fleet fisheries on the west coast to address questions of frozen seafood freshness.
Some of the millennial value system is trickling down to the nuptial exchange. Couples are seeking edgier, urban venues like warehouses (as opposed to churches and hotel ballrooms).
Alaska’s congressional delegation has voted with the Republican majority to overturn a rule that blocks coal mines from discharging waste into streams.
The restoration economy is already providing jobs for loggers across Oregon, and even some coal miners in Virginia, but it could disappear if the GOP environmental rollback continues.
President Donald Trump and many Congressional Republicans say they’ll create jobs by rolling back environmental regulation, but their current trajectory could have the opposite effect.
