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<div><font size="2">Nov. 2: (The Oregonian) Pearl District wins award for brownfield redevelopment</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/pearl_district_wins_award_for.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/pearl_district_wins_award_for.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The Canadian Urban Institute has honored Portland for the Pearl District redevelopment. The city and Portland Development Commission received a Special Recognition Award…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Nov. 2: (Bend Bulletin) Software firm can stay at Bend airport</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">A Deschutes County official approved a conditional use permit Friday to allow a small software development business to remain at the Bend Municipal Airport…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Nov. 2: (The Oregonian) Note to Portland transportation planners: Not everyone can ride transit</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/note_to_portland_transportatio.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/note_to_portland_transportatio.html</u></font></a><br>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Metro's proposed Regional Transportation Plan for the Portland area emphasizes the need to provide transportation options that will get people out of their cars. But as always, the devil is in the details….</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Nov. 2: (OPB News) Tree Farmers May Profit From Climate Regulation</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://news.opb.org/article/6131-tree-farmers-may-profit-climate-regulation/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://news.opb.org/article/6131-tree-farmers-may-profit-climate-regulation/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Some airlines are starting to do it. Some Northwest ski resorts, too. Not to mention event organizers. They're inviting people like you to pay a little bit extra to offset the global warming pollution…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 31: (The Oregonian) Portland-area builders shift to small, efficient homes</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/portland-area_builders_shift_t.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/portland-area_builders_shift_t.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Renaissance Homes will pull back from Bend to focus on its core markets in Portland's affluent suburbs. Buena Vista Custom Homes will abandon 5,000-square-foot ramblers for homes one-third the size and half the price…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 31: (The Oregonian) Contamination at Umatilla clouds land-use issue</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/contamination_at_umatilla_clou.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/contamination_at_umatilla_clou.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">HERMISTON -- With the Army on track to destroy the last of the deadly mustard agents at its Umatilla Chemical Depot in 2011 and return the sprawling property to public use, developers from ports to tribes are drawing up plans…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 31: (The Oregonian) LNG developers push back plans to 2011 for North Spit of Coos Bay</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/lng_developers_push_back_plans.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/lng_developers_push_back_plans.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">COOS BAY -- Developers hoping to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the North Spit of Coos Bay have pushed back plans to start construction until spring 2011…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 30: (The Oregonian) Linking a sustainable Portland with how fair it is to all</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/expert_says_portlands_sustaina.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/expert_says_portlands_sustaina.html</u></font></a><br>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Everyone tells us we're great. We recycle, use trains and buses, capture our rainwater, support local farmers and protect our wetlands. The urban growth boundary around metropolitan Portland keeps sprawl on a leash and
farmland protected. We're so sustainable that scholars and land-use planners come from all over to gawk and gush…</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 30: (Eugene Register-Guard) Historic hassle: 263 Cottage Grove homes at center of labeling controversy</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/22184363-35/story.csp"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/22184363-35/story.csp</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">COTTAGE GROVE — James Henry McFarland arrived here with his brother John in the summer of 1853, buying land and establishing a cemetery on the north side of what’s now known as McFarland’s Butte, becoming one of the founders of Cottage Grove…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 30: (Roseburg News-Review) Forum focuses on driving down emissions</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091030/NEWS/910309979/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091030/NEWS/910309979/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Reducing carbon footprints and going green is all the rage right now for many people. However, those who are working toward a leaner, greener Earth…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 29: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Taking voters to school in Vernonia</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/29/taking-voters-to-school/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/29/taking-voters-to-school/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The Vernonia School District expects voters next week to pass a $13 million bond to help pay for construction of a new $37 million LEED-platinum school outside the flood plain where high waters destroyed one district school and damaged two
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 29: (Capital Press) Farmer works to make Umatilla basin bloom</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">HERMISTON, Ore. -- On either side of Feedville Road just south of Hermiston are two fields farmed by Oregon State Board of Agriculture Chairman Bob Levy. On one, where Levy has a full season's access to water, a potato crop is sprouting
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 29: (Guest Commentary, Lake Oswego Review) City’s zoning, land use create attainable housing barriers</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=125676847870522500"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=125676847870522500</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">I would like to commend Paul Lyons, Ralph Tahran, city Councilor Roger Hennagin and other Lake Oswego volunteers for focusing the community’s attention on “attainable housing…”</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 29: (Bend Bulletin) Thornburgh resort faces foreclosure</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/NEWS01/910290390/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/NEWS01/910290390/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">A firm that loaned $11.3 million to the manager and CEO of the proposed 1,970-acre Thornburgh resort near Cline Buttes has initiated foreclosure proceedings on the resort property, which is currently owned by a member of the Thornburgh family…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 29: (Bend Bulletin) States pushes development on disputed site near Bend</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/NEWS01/910290392/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/NEWS01/910290392/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">SALEM — Neighbors and visitors should not be alarmed by the scary-sounding signs soon to sprout on a plot of land on the southeast edge of Bend — even though they warn of asbestos and a “potential health hazard…”</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 29: (Bend Bulletin) Hooker Creek silos are OK’d to stay put</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/BIZ0102/910290362/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/BIZ0102/910290362/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">When construction began in 1996 on the Bend Parkway, proponents promised an efficient way to speed traffic through the city as well as eye-popping views of the Cascades as the parkway cut past the Old Mill District…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 29: (The Oregonian) Agri-tainment offers fun on the farm, with a side of conflict</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2009/10/agri-tainment_offers_fun_on_th.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2009/10/agri-tainment_offers_fun_on_th.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Lunchtime at Leaping Lamb Farm in Alsea and a toddler scrambles around the henhouse looking for eggs. By the end of the day, this urban tyke will feed sheep and horses…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 28: (Portland Tribune) Council adopts aggressive Climate Action Plan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125678469206117000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125678469206117000</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Portland’s City Council approved Wednesday afternoon a 40-year plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions, voting 4-0 to enact one of most ambitious programs in the nation, if not the world, to counter global warming…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 28: (McMinnville News-Register) Friedman wins top SWCD award</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.newsregister.com/article/42058-friedman+wins+top+swcd+award"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.newsregister.com/article/42058-friedman+wins+top+swcd+award</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Decades of work to protect farmland and his stewardship of his own rural Yamhill acreage have earned Sid Friedman the Yamhill Soil & Water Conservation District’s major annual award Cooperator of the Year…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 28: (Daily Journal of Commerce) City, county consider climate goals</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/28/city-county-consider-climate-goals/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/28/city-county-consider-climate-goals/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Emissions-reduction efforts in Portland and Multnomah County have been a success by one measure: the area has reduced its per-capita greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent since 2000…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 28: (Daily Journal of Commerce) PSU eager to share resource</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/28/psu-eager-to-share-resource/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/28/psu-eager-to-share-resource/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">At the Green Building Research Lab at Portland State University, researchers have all of the tools they need to build a better building…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 28: (KOHD-TV, Bend) CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO OREGON LAWS</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://kohd.com/page/146878"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://kohd.com/page/146878</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Sitting in front of the Deschutes County Commissioners, David Hurtley waits for a decision. He says his future retirement is on the line…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 28: (The Oregonian) PSU, city planners to discuss Eco-district for campus area</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/psu_city_planners_to_discuss_e.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/psu_city_planners_to_discuss_e.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">A handful of downtown city blocks including parts of Portland State University and other nearby acres could become united in an Eco-district, a neighborhood where properties share utilities and other infrastructure…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 28: (The Oregonian) Proposed Fanno Creek Trail extension upsets Beaverton neighborhood</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2009/10/proposed_fanno_creek_trail_ext.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2009/10/proposed_fanno_creek_trail_ext.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">BEAVERTON – Patty Russell lugs a blue tote bag out of a back room in her house on Rollingwood Avenue and decades worth of letters, meeting minutes and maps spill out…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 28: (The Oregonian) Portland adopts ambitious goal to reduce area’s carbon footprint</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_adopts_ambitious_goal.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_adopts_ambitious_goal.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">In Portland in 2050, the population will be almost double what it is today. So when local leaders say that's their target date to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent of what they were in 1990…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 27: (The Oregonian) I-5 connector between Wilsonville and Sherwood hits snag</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2009/10/i-5_connector_between_wilsonvi.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2009/10/i-5_connector_between_wilsonvi.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">With only weeks for the region’s southwest suburban governments to finalize funding requests for major transportation projects, the fate of a long-planned connector between Interstate 5 and Oregon 99W remains as unresolved as ever…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 27: (Medford Mail Tribune) City plans new streets in west Medford</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091027/NEWS/910270330/-1/COMM01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091027/NEWS/910270330/-1/COMM01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">West Medford residents could see the number of neighborhood roadways more than double in 20 years, based on a proposal city officials are developing to ease congestion and provide alternate transportation….</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 27: (The Oregonian) City’s climate plan is ready for action</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/citys_climate_plan_is_ready_fo.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/citys_climate_plan_is_ready_fo.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">After eight town hall meetings, more than 400 responders and some 2,500 comments and suggestions, Portland's <a href="http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=49989&a=268612"><u>Climate Action Plan</u></a> is ready for review…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 24: (Coos Bay World) Ex-mill site sees activity</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/10/24/news/doc4ae2afd7bdff7948885030.txt"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/10/24/news/doc4ae2afd7bdff7948885030.txt</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Developers are starting to move dirt that has sat untouched for almost 20 years at the old Georgia-Pacific mill site in Coquille…</font></div>
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