Posts Tagged ‘portland metro’

Plans for First Food Waste to Energy Plant in U.S. Underway

December 13, 2010 The green light has been given by Portland Metro to Columbia Biogas to “build a facility that will use anaerobic digestion to transform commercial food waste into methane gas that will run engines to generate electricity.” The food waste will be collected from commercial and industrial sources and is “expected to produce [...]

Urban Growth Boundaries: The Reserves Process (Video)

January 18, 2010; Part 2: Over the next 30 years, the Portland Metro area is projected to increase in population size by 1 million people. Since the 1970’s, the state, and in particular the Portland metro area that occupies 3 counties (Multnomah; Clackamas; and Washington), have remarkably managed their urban growth efficiently (and wisely) through [...]

Urban Growth Boundary: Oregon Agriculture, Economy, and Managed Growth (video)

Part 1: In physics, the second law of thermodynamics, which deals with the natural flow of energy distribution (no, you won’t be tested on this part), stipulates that localized “systems,” (think of an ice cube melting), will disperse outward, unless a counter force is applied to contain it. In population centers of the country, urban [...]