7 results for month: 10/2014
Pesticide Stewardship Program
Just over a year ago, Oregon established a Pesticide Stewardship Partnership (PSP) Program that helps to ensure Oregon’s water quality through pesticide monitoring, training and tools for farmers to help reduce the amount of pesticide running off into our streams and rivers, and community collection events for safe disposal of pesticides.
The PSP Program is a uniquely collaborative, Oregon solution to reduce unsafe levels of pesticides in our rivers, lakes and streams. Voluntary pesticide stewardship partnerships have helped avoid the need for a regulatory approach in some areas, providing more flexibility and control to land managers, and ...
Saving Water in Your Home
Water is a limited resource, and even in our wet corner of the world supplies can be depleted.
Rivers across the state provide drinking water for our communities and up to 30% of Oregonians draw on wells that are linked to nearby rivers. The more water we use, the less we leave for fish, wildlife and irrigating farms, and the more we end up paying. Like it or not, the population of the Pacific Northwest is expected to grow drastically over during our lifetime, so even more demands will be placed on our water resources.
The good news is that conserving water is easy. Here are a few ways to get started:
Water in the morning or evening, not in ...
Climate Smart Communities
By 2025, Oregon will grow to 4.3 million people, challenging us to add two more Portlands, eight more Salems, or 28 more Bends to our state. More people means more traffic. If we plan ahead, we can design communities so that people can move efficiently with the least infrastructure and energy costs. If we don’t plan ahead, our health and environment are at risk.
Oregon Environmental Council worked to pass state legislation that requires the Portland metro region—and encourages Oregon’s other major metropolitan areas—to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. Oregon’s growing urban areas can do this by creating “Climate ...
Get Dirty for Clean Air!
Get Dirty for Clean Air with the Slants, Dirty Revival and Oregon Environmental Council's Emerging Leaders Board. Happy Hour Auction with DJs II Trill and Ill Camino from 4-6 PM (no ticket required) and show from 6-8 PM. You can purchase tickets for the show at https://getdirtyforcleanair.splashthat.com/
This show is 21+
Proceeds support OEC's work to hold polluters accountable for global warming pollution.
Principles for a Healthy Oregon
If we desire a more sustainable society, one in which our goods and services are designed to regenerate life rather than jeopardize it, we must design products to be safer from the start by eliminating toxic chemicals through the use of green chemistry.
Green chemistry is the application of 12 principles in the design, manufacture and use of chemicals and chemical products, as defined by Paul Anastas and John Warner. The principles are focused on reducing hazards, increasing efficiency and transitioning to renewable feedstocks.
Through the application of these principles, products become safer for employees and customers alike, helping ...
Making Water Work
Water is one of Oregon’s most valuable resources. And increasingly, it’s becoming one of its most threatened. Summertime water rights are maxed out in many areas of the state, impacting business development, agricultural production and native fish, with climate change and population growth predicted to further stress Oregon’s water supplies in the future.
Oregon Environmental Council interviewed growers and irrigation experts about ways to advance water efficiency in agriculture—which uses 79% of the state's water withdrawals—while strengthening Oregon's agriculture sector. Our recommendations are included in the report, Making Water ...
Join the Climate Movement
Oregonians are committed to keeping pollution out of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the places we call home. Living up to that commitment means pushing back against big oil and coal corporations that make millions at our expense.
It’s time for Oregonians to join together and take a stand for our kids, our communities, and our economy. Together we can build the healthy environment and thriving economy that we all deserve. We have options ahead of us. We can limit pollution and promote clean energy for Oregon jobs and climate. We can protect Oregon for future generations. But we need your voice.
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