Green Options

On an unusually warm and sunny April Sunday, Portland Mayor Sam Adams accepted a Solar America Cities Award from the Department of Energy and pledged to greatly expand the amount of solar power in the city. Portland was one of 25 cities to have earned the Solar City award in 2007-8 which included a matching grant of $200,000 to be used for outreach to consumers about the viability of solar in the often cloudy Northwest, and to work with private [...]

We’re all now well aware of the imminence of cap-and-trade legislation becoming reality. It’s been floated in Congress. It was a major topic on the campaign trail. It has enough support to get through a democratic-led Congress. And the President has verbally committed to such a scheme to numerous world leaders. A recent New York Times article called it “inevitable.”