29 November 2007

"Ecomerge" At Portland State University

Ecomerge is a blog created by students at Portland State University in the US. They've linked to a post that I wrote, highlighting how Vaxjo, a city in Sweden, is trying to become carbon-neutral.
It's a great example of how we can share information through the Internet.

Portland itself, whilst I've only passed through it on the train (in 1995, from San Francisco to Vancouver), fascinates me. Their city council had a recent task force on peak oil's impact on Portland. Local activism focuses on things like old growth forest preservation, and then awareness can be channelled into campaigns for sustainable wood for housing developments. Heck, even their local paper criticises mayoral candidates for not having a strong enough position on cycling.

1 comment:

EcoMerge said...

Your blog has a lot of great info. Thanks for the plug!