OEC Is In Willamette Week’s Give!Guide 2019, Donate Online Today!
This is the second year OEC will be in the Willamette Week's Give!Guide and we could not be more excited! Giving online started November 1. Don't miss this chance to do good by Oregon and help protect our air, water, and land for future generations. There are many opportunities to win awesome prizes, attend exciting events put together by nonprofits, and attend amazing live music performances too. Get a jump start on your holiday giving and do good while getting a little something in return for your kindness.
Giving to OEC is not just good for the environment, it could ...
More than a decade of work will not be silenced.
2019 has been a tumultuous year for Oregonians and our environment. As we look to the future, we remain more committed than ever to the idea that people coming together with passion and perseverance can positively alter the course of the future.
There is much work yet to do: In the last legislative session, the Oregon legislature failed to vote on the Clean Energy Jobs bill. It was a disappointing outcome after an inspiring show of support for the bill over many years.
More than a decade of work will not be silenced. The crucial work of Oregon Environmental Council ...
Oregon’s Future Depends on You!
Did you know that Oregon Environmental Council launched its biggest and boldest fundraising campaign in 2017 to accelerate our progress to protect clean air, clean water and act on climate change? Our goal is to raise $15 million over three years and thanks to our foundation partners and generous Oregonians like you, we’re more than halfway there.
Oregon is a national leader in environmental protection. Over our 50-year history, Oregon Environmental Council has delivered big, bold solutions – from the early years of the Bottle Bill, Bike Bill, and Beach Bill – ...
Sponsored content: Celebrating 50 years Innovation: Intel & Oregon Environmental Council
Our state motto, “she flies with her own wings,” has long been reflected in the spirit of the people of Oregon, with a readiness to embrace new ideas and look towards the possibilities of tomorrow.
Curbside Recycling: Four Love Stories and a Kitchen Table
by Kevin Kasowski
The idea for one of the rituals at the heart of being an Oregonian – taking the recycling bin out to the curb each week – was conceived at a kitchen table, and born thanks to a little “pillow talk.”
If you’re over 40, you may remember hauling tied up bundles of newspaper to a local recycling depot back in the day. For most other household “leftovers” there was nowhere else to go, except the garbage can and then the landfill.
Our Bottle Bill, enacted in 1971, with Oregon Environmental Council’s (OEC) help, began to change ...
Volunteers needed, October 5th!
Oregon Environmental Council is celebrating a half-century of environmental accomplishments on Friday, October 5th at the downtown Hilton in Portland.
We need an amazing team of dedicated volunteers to make this night a success!
Help us greet the more than 400 guests, leaders and philanthropic community members who are committed to Oregon's future. Be a part of a historic look back and look forward to Oregon's environmental accomplishments.
Volunteer with Oregon Environmental Council Friday, October 5:
Greeters: Warmly greet and direct guests to the registra...
Corinne Handelman
Corrine first started working with Oregon Environmental Council back in 2012, collecting signatures for the Toxic Free Kids Act. More recently, she served on the Emerging Leaders Board...
Art and Oregon’s “Good for Nothing” Land
Next time you pour a glass of Oregon pinot noir, consider offering a toast to “SB 100” (Senate Bill 100) – the 1973 law that created Oregon’s land use planning program.
Why? Back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Oregon’s population was growing rapidly. Would-be developers and land speculators were eyeing the rolling hills between Newberg and McMinnville for expensive “large-lot” “view” subdivisions. The soil, they said, was good for nothing.
But a guy named David Lett and a couple of young dreamers on the property next door – Susan Sokol ...
A creative force for our planet: Ursula K Le Guin
The news of Oregon writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s passing traveled swiftly through our office today. A few moments earlier, a crow had roosted on our fire escape, with yearning eyes and an unusually friendly stance that caught our attention.
Two separate instances but in a strange way connected.
You see, Ursula’s name is familiar to all of us here at the office. Regardless of our backgrounds and our work to protect Oregon’s treasured water, air and land.
If you’ve visited us, you know. Feet from our water cooler, hanging on the wall, rests a signed copy of ...
Skip the trip to DEQ! Hawthorne Auto offers DEQ, too!
On my list of to-do’s this month was taking my car to the DEQ to get its emissions tested.
