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Harnessing the Worth of Water
May 13, 2021 Photo: Winston Ross Cows waiting to be milked at Threemile Canyon Farms near Boardman
A new Portland company sees opportunity in recycling wastewater, as drought and water scarcity present looming social and economic challenges.
For several years, Ben Vitale helped companies monetize their reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions when he worked at the Climate Trust. As president of the Portland carbon asset manager between 2009 and 2013, he managed a $20 million portfolio of carbon-emission reduction projects.
He has now turned his hand to helping companies reduce consumption of a natural resource that is becoming scarcer as the climate changes: water. His new company, Resilient Infrastructure Group, founded in 2019, provides private and public organizations with on-site treatment solutions
Waiting for the Ball to Drop
April 21, 2021
Commercial real estate experts say a leasing boom is around the corner.
There is a quote regularly misattributed to evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin that goes: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that can best adapt to changes in its environment.”
The quote was actually spoken by Leon C. Megginson, a management and marketing professor at Louisiana State University. But it holds just as true for business as it does in the jungle.
For commercial real estate agencies, COVID-19 has meant a year of seismic shifts, and paying close attention to industries as they adapted, or failed to adapt, to the new economy.
Biden Administration Accelerates State Climate Solutions
May 5, 2021
Environmental disasters and new federal policy spike demand for renewable energy.
When Gov. Kate Brown issued Executive Order 20-04 in March 2020, directing state agencies to create new rules limiting companies’ carbon emissions, she was on the wrong side of the national moment.
One year after taking office in 2017, the Trump administration pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, the legally binding international treaty on climate change, and issued a flurry of executive orders rolling back Obama and Clinton-era environmental regulations 74 in total. For every regulation that was put into place, two were eliminated.