Your state
It's Your Oregon.
At OEC, we find common ground by bringing diverse interest groups together, building common understanding, and developing creative strategies that help everyone be part of the solution to Oregon’s environmental challenges.
We believe this common ground is crucial because our state faces a host of serious challenges. Every major river in Oregon is violating Clean Water Act standards. Environmentally attributable disease costs our state more than $1.5 billion a year. Our region is warming. The population of the Portland metro-area is expected to double in size over the next 50 years - further complicating the state's transportation, land use, carbon footprint, and energy picture.
But there's a solution out there. And with your help, we're going to find it.
- OEC Publications
- Oregon Environmental Council resources available for download
- Better, Cleaner Transportation
- Read on about our observations on the Columbia River Crossing and other transportation issues facing our state.
- Working on Common Ground
- In 2002 the Oregon Environmental Council (OEC) published a report of interviews with agriculturalists in Oregon about their environmental concerns. In August 2008, OEC published a companion report, Working on Common Ground.
- Fifty Ways to Love Your River
- Tips on how to protect Oregon's Rivers for recreation, healthy wildlife and drinkable water.
- Healthy Food and Farms
- Can an environmental group be pro farm and pro environment? At the Oregon Environmental Council the answer is yes.
- Impacts of Global Warming on Oregon
- Learn more about how global warming will impact our health, economy, and agricultural sector and what we can do about it.
- Oregon Environmental Council's Pollution in People Report
- In 2007, ten Oregon women and men volunteered to have their bodies tested in a study of chemical pollution in Oregonians. Unfortunately, one thing they probably share with all Oregonians is the unwelcome presence of toxic chemicals in their bodies.
- Protecting Oregonians from Pollution
- RECENT NEWS: Check out our Tiny Footprints page for new guides on choosing safer plastics and recipes for green cleaning products.
