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Guest blog by Kellen Klein, Emerging Leaders Board Member

Oregon Environmental Council is seeking the right candidates to join our Emerging Leaders Board for the Portland Metro Area. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of one of Oregon’s leading environmental non-profits. As a member of the OEC Emerging Leaders Board you will be able to promote and support the mission of OEC to advance innovative, collaborative solutions to Oregon’s environmental challenges for to

Who sits on OEC’s Emerging Leaders Board? Young professionals with a drive to protect the Oregon way of life. And since the late 1950s, Outdoor School has been part of that lifestyle. It used to be that every sixth grader in the state of Oregon spent a week at Outdoor School learning about natural sciences in the best place possible: nature.

We’re not just an advisory board of entrepreneurs, strategists and community leaders lending our expertise to support of OEC’s mission. We’re also professionals, parents, aunts and uncles, daughters and sons. We’re Oregonians who were born in this beautiful state and people who moved here because we love this state so much. To safeguard our future, we must act on climate now. That’s why we created this video, narrated by best-selling author of “Wild”, Cheryl Strayed, to call for climate actio

As data centers continue their rapid expansion across Oregon, they’re making their impact felt. A new report shows that data centers account for nearly 25% of the total electricity demand in the state. As we continue to grapple with all the challenges that this industry p

If you’ve done any traveling in Oregon, you’re no stranger to the gorgeous landscapes our state has to offer – the lush, rolling hills of the Willamette Valley, the Tolkienesque cliffslides of the Columbia River Gorge, the high-desert drama of Central Oregon. But if you’ve hit the road in the past few years, you might have noticed some new additions to the vistas around you: sprawling, nondescript buildings in the d