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It's Your Oregon: Maradel Gale
The first President of the Oregon Environmental Council, Gale was also the organization’s first lobbyist in 1968. It is to clear-eyed visionaries like Maradel Gale that Oregonians owe much with regard to our state’s ecological heritage.
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OEC's first ever blog post
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Hi there, and thanks for dropping by.
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Calculating OEC's Carbon Footprint, Part 1
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As part of my volunteer commitment to the Oregon Environmental Council, I had the opportunity to pull together the Council’s first carbon footprint analysis. What seemed to be a straightforward, albeit time consuming, process of gathering data became a mini research project.
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Calculating OEC's Carbon Footprint, Part 2
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Enter stage left, carbon offsets! Carbon offsets are a market-based mechanism whereby one offset is purchased for each metric ton of CO2 emissions attributable to the activities of an individual or organization.
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The voluntary carbon offset market
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The voluntary market is evolving rapidly and quickly becoming big business. According to a May ’08 Climate Biz article the global voluntary offset market tripled from 97million in 2006 to $331million in 2007.
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