On the Way to Carbon Neutral: Resources for Oregon Businesses

Visit our online resource, “On the Way to Carbon Neutral,” for tools and resources to reduce your business’s carbon footprint. Whether you are planning to make your business carbon neutral, or simply want to take series of smaller step to save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we have compiled a highly adaptable roadmap to help you develop and implement a climate action plan. While this tool is meant primarily to support small and medium businesses, it also offers useful information for larger businesses, government agencies and not-for-profits.

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Oregon Wineries Pledge to Go Climate Neutral

Following the Oregon Environmental Council's successful Solutions to Global Warming workshop, several Oregon wineries have taken a pioneering step to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Promoting Solutions

Oregon faces a tremendous challenge in addressing global warming. By burning fossil fuels, humans are creating a thick blanket of greenhouse gases, trapping too much heat and disrupting Earth’s climate. Find out how global warming is impacting Oregon, including our health, our economy, and our farms. But along with that challenge come opportunities. The Oregon Environmental Council is promoting policy solutions to global warming that will improve our quality of life and enhance our future prosperity, as well as providing individuals and businesses with the resources they need to make a difference. Read more about opportunities for Oregon to lead in implementing global warming solutions.

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An Inconvenient Truth and "Climate Coolers"

Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury (right) has teamed up with the Oregon Environmental Council in order to give his An Inconvenient Truth audiences the tools they need to tackle global warming. His presentations, which focus on the effects of climate change in the Northwest, have reached thousands and have launched the climate action team called Climate Coolers.

Join Climate Coolers today to receive a series of biweekly, practical tips on ways to curb global warming pollution.

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How You Can Get Involved

Find out right now what you can do to slow global warming – at home, when shopping, at school and work, and when you’re on the go.

Lend your voice to the growing chorus of those who are demanding corporate and government action by signing up for Oregon Environmental Council Action Alerts.

If you represent a business or organization, join Cool Oregon, a coalition that supports the goal of reducing Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions to 75% below 1990 levels by 2050.