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Previous: March 13, 2010

Friday 03.19.2010

• North Pacific sells more assets
• Carbon transaction signals new revenue source for forest landowners [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center to close
• Chiropractic college becomes a university
• Southwest Washington Health System may merge with PeaceHealth
• Diamond Foods cleared to buy Kettle Foods [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Diamond Foods cleared to buy Kettle Foods
• Mortgage broker headed to prison
• Boeing ramps up 777, 747 production
• First Wind eyes IPO (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• BioEnergy brings in $6.4M debt round (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Whole Foods' Walter Robb talks up conscious capitalism [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Bellotti leaves Oregon AD post
• Portland dials up for Google
• Employment slips in 100 biggest markets
• German landscape firm opens Portland studio
• Vancouver (USA) combats mistaken identity
• Sustainability fits with a stewardship culture [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• Ichor looks to solar industry for growth [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]

Thursday 03.18.2010

• Report: British Columbia's 'green' business could hit $27B by 2020 [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• California offers $30M clean-tech loan program (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• ‘Green’ jobs in Washington up by a third (Seattle) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Army Corps awards $1.26M for solar installations (Sacramento) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Governor signs BETC reform bill [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Tripwire appoints CFO
• TriQuint increases revenue expectation
• Governor signs BETC reforms bill
• Umpqua Bank offers program for small businesses
• 'Shop local' sentiment spurs Portland startup [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Troutman Sanders opens Portland office [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Troutman Sanders opens Portland office
• Portland loses 9,100 construction jobs
• Council passes $20M bike plan ‘jumpstart’ funding [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Maine tidal power company pulls in $4M [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Qwest offers cash to small-business customers for referrals

Wednesday 03.17.2010

• TriMet’s Fred Hansen to leave
• Green focus transforms the business of architecture [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Council passes $20M bike ‘jumpstart’ funding
• Blazers fire salary cap expert Tom Penn
• Governors Wind Energy Coalition calls for renewable electricity standard [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Nike’s Q3 sales up 7%; stock hits new high
• Bioject increases revenue, trims losses
• Williams Controls to open plant in India
• Second Porch gets $1M investment
• Frontier restates earnings, doubt raised about bank’s future
• Global solar installations set record (Sacramento) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Smart grid project spawns energy-storage startup [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Senate sends jobs bill to Obama
• Portland architects chase Living Building designation [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• A reformed energy tax credit, a stagnant investment environment? [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• Blockbuster: Bankruptcy is a possibility
• American Airlines flight attendants may strike
• Aurora Biofuels raises $15M in venture round (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• PremierWest raises $18.7M
• Home sales slowed in February

Tuesday 03.16.2010

• Sterling hints at private investment
• Tyfone partners with First Data Corp.
• New York companies get $100M for energy efficiency (Albany) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Fish proposes changes to camping guidelines
• Merix to buy back $1.4 million of short-term notes
• Green energy business grows 11 percent
• Clean-energy business grows 11 percent in 2009 [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Oregon BEST hires green building expert [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Oregon unemployment rate inches down
• PSU lab builds a green reputation [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Mark Trexler helps companies navigate climate change [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• XPLANE expands to Amsterdam
• Geothermal developer Vulcan Power names board of directors [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Oregon highways rank No. 10

Monday 03.15.2010

• Green building in the works for OSU campus [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Cascade Bancorp lost $93.1M, plans stock split
• First Solar sells 30-megawatt plant in New Mexico [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Multnomah board leans toward Cogen appointment
• RF Micro announces solar cell milestone (Greensboro) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Redwood Systems networks LEDs for a brighter future (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Anheuser-Busch InBev to cut water usage (St. Louis) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Cincinnati, Pittsburgh pursue greener future [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• State: Work site deaths match lowest number ever
• Phoenix solar firm grows with acquisitions [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Port embraces solar power (Sacramento) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Brammo partners with Jackie Chan
• Safeway joins group to push green supply chains (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Shareholders fighting for environmental disclosures (Pittsburgh) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Flexible work time helps sustainability (Honolulu) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Recycling makes a comeback as commodity prices recover (Denver) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Southern’s Ratcliffe signs solar deal with Ted Turner (Atlanta) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• YoCream sales up, profits down
• Brammo finds partner in Jackie Chan company [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• T. Boone Pickens: U.S. paid $50B for foreign oil in first two months of 2010 (Dallas) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• New OSU solar research center set to open in May [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Portland’s economy improves
• Time for states to take the climate change wheel [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• Future of the smart grid tested by NW project [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]

Friday 03.12.2010

• Efficiency products mostly made in the USA [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Portland ranked greenest U.S. city
• J.P. Morgan Chase CEO: ‘Euthanasia’ needed for failing financial giants
• Condo auction action expands to Eugene
• WaMu holding company reaches settlements with FDIC, Chase
• Nicky USA bolstered by foodies [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Sustainability experts embrace 'new urbanism' [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Plug Power lands two deals (Albany) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• SunEdison to build Italian solar plant (St. Louis) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Portland ranked greenest U.S. city [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Portland Farmers Market expands [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Zumiez Q4 net income rises
• Fisher Communications reports Q4 profit
• Oregon Technology Awards finalists announced
• Revisiting Oregon's first green buildings [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Portland Farmers Market expands
• Why the Sustainability Center is not sustainable business [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• Candidates drop out of races
• State program aims to connect companies

Thursday 03.11.2010

• Operations boss leaves McCormick & Schmick’s
• Ecoroof industry ready to sprout [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• SunPower gets $1.5M in research grants (San Jose) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Kane honored by Fast Company as a sustainable food leader [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• RadiSys buys Pactolus Communications Software
• Susan Sokol Blosser runs for Oregon House
• Survey: Power companies still unsure of smart grids [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Ceres releases road map for sustainable businesses [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Feds tell Albina Bank to boost capital levels
• NEEA receives EPA sustained exellence award [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Super Supplements coming to downtown
• Les Schwab Tire to pay $2M in discrimination case
• A123 Systems to make batteries for Navistar (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Icebreaker rolls out plastic-free packaging [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Phil Knight drops to No. 62 on list of world's richest people
• Google adds bike directions (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon]

Wednesday 03.10.2010

• Siemens Energy to expand (Charlotte) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Chinese silicon manufacturer coming to San Francisco [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Carter drops out of chair’s race
• Portland adopts new ‘green’ regulations [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Regence buys Washington's Kinetix Living Corp.
• Kulongoski signs new laws [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• SAIF to return $100M to customers
• First Tech Credit Union to merge with California peer
• Panera to post calorie counts
• GT Solar prices $121M secondary stock offering (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Kulongoski signs new laws
• 16 states add 50,000+ to jobless rolls
• Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. offers to buy British counterpart (Kansas City) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Solazyme and Unilever collaborate on algae-based products (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Anitian Enterprise Security expands
• UO Index: Economy continues to improve
• BofA ending debit-card overdraft fees
• Efficiency is your best energy investment [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]

Tuesday 03.09.2010

• Pinball Publishing bucks an industry in decline [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Stanford, IBM getting closer to 'green' plastic (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• MAX ridership up overall in February [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• MAX ridership up overall in February
• Report: Acquisitions ahead for Schnitzer Steel
• The Hallock Agency hires CEO
• McDermott, Fluor in carbon capture venture (Houston) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Cogen, Carter seek to be county chair
• County commission seat attracts a pack
• ActiveTrack gets funding
• Former Treasurer Hill joins race for treasurer
• Oregon nearly whiffs on green tech list
• General Growth adds $3.9B to Brookfield plan
• Profits fall, but Kroger beats 4Q estimates
• SAIC gets $21M biomass contract (Washington, D.C.) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• KB Home offers pre-wired homes for EV owners (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• EPA ‘lost the messaging war’ (Portfolio.com) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Wheeler named interim treasurer

Monday 03.08.2010

• Oregon nurseries sue S. Carolina
• Pacific Ethanol enters new debt agreement [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Oregon has just one on top 50 green startup list [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Pacific Ethanol enters new debt agreement
• Nautilus to incur $13M charge to shed commercial business
• Metsger plans treasury run
• City of Houston expands RecycleBank program [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Columbia Sportswear opens Chicago store
• Lee withdraws from Multnomah County race
• Phishing scam snares Cascade Bank customers
• Conference Board employment index prompts hope that job growth is near
• First net-zero school coming to Kentucky [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• AMSC wind components get $10M Chinese order (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Sustainable design's future is the Pacific Northwest's present [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• DeltaPoint wins $170K at Angel Oregon
• Commercial solar: ROI better, financing still tough (Phoenix) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Wells Fargo clean-tech group lends $350M (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Clean tech forms new relationships with China (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Akeena goes national with retail-ready solar panels (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Affiliated Computer Services to hire 190
• Politics, cost holding back green progress (Jacksonville) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Georgia Tech building $23M energy lab (Atlanta) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Solaria goes round two with new technology, CEO (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Researchers study weather’s effect on solar panels (Phoenix) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Silicon Valley cities fear PG&E power play [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• West Ohau project pushes net-zero energy envelope (Honolulu) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Tax fix sought for energy programs in Ohio [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Duke invests in energy storage company (Charlotte) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Solar companies seek help from Md. law (Baltimore) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Demand grows for battery and fuel-cell tech (Albany) [Sustainable Business Oregon]
• Chinese solar companies see bright future in U.S. (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon]

Sunday 03.07.2010

• Treasurer Westlund dies at age 60