OEC 2008-09 Overview Report
Read about OEC's accomplishments 2008-2009.
Forty years and we’re still making progress! We had the pleasure of celebrating our 40th anniversary while making important strides to protect Oregon’s environment and quality of life. Many of our accomplishments represent the culmination of several years’ worth of work, while others were the result of our adaptive response to opportunities at hand. All moved us closer to our long-term vision for Oregon.
OEC is focused on concrete progress that makes a real difference in the lives of today’s Oregonians while creating a positive environmental legacy for future generations. Our work has the greatest impact right here in our state, but we’re also conscious of the larger context and the opportunity to leverage our state-based accomplishments to create change at a national and even international level. We know that to protect Oregon’s rivers, to keep our citizens healthy, to achieve sustainable food production, and to slow the impacts of global warming, positive environmental change beyond our state’s borders is absolutely necessary. To that end, our program staff are active in working groups and think tanks that promote solutions broadly. For example, we’ve expanded our popular Eco-Healthy Child Care program nationwide, and we’re proud to say that the coalition effort we led to adopt clean car standards in 2006 culminated in adoption of national standards for greenhouse gas emissions from cars this year.
