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Give a Gift of Green Tags This Holiday Season |
Need a special holiday gift for your friends or family? Sometimes the
best gift is one you can't wrap - like wind and solar energy!
The Bonneville Environmental Foundation is proud to offer the "greenest" gift idea yet: Green Tags.
Give a gift of Green Tags today
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BEF Debuts New Online Resource: Solar4RSchools.org |
 The
Solar 4R Schools (S4RS) program has a new online home. To complement
the existing curriculum and teacher-training program, Solar4RSchols.org
now provides participating schools with online access to lesson plans,
presentations, and other useful classroom materials. The site consists
of a series of
interactive Web pages dedicated to each individual S4RS project.
Students and teachers can view school solar project photos, print out
classroom exercises, download current and historical data, and compare
their school system's electricity production to that of the school
across town or across the
country. Visit
www.Solar4RSchools.org. |
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BEF Commits $300,000 to Restore Oregon's Deschutes Basin |
 In
October of this year, BEF signed a memorandum of
understanding with the Crooked River Watershed Council and committed to
undertake a 10-year watershed restoration and monitoring partnership in
Oregon's lower Crooked River. With the signing of this agreement, BEF
finalized its efforts to
establish a long-term Deschutes Basin Model Watershed program with both
the Upper Deschutes and Crooked River Watershed Councils.
In November, BEF formally committed to provide $300,000 to support this
program and to restore water quality, habitat, and native trout and
salmon in three priority Deschutes River tributaries. |
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Featured Program: SkiGreen |
 Ski Responsibly. SkiGreen.
Ski resorts across the country are embracing clean energy through initiatives such as BEF's SkiGreen™ program. Next time you're at your favorite ski resort, ask for SkiGreen to add a $2 contribution for wind energy to your
lift pass and help reduce global warming pollution.
Heading into the 2006/2007 winter-sports season, we salute the following SkiGreen
partners for their commitment to renewable energy: Alpine Meadows (CA),
Alta (UT), Aspen Snowmass (CO), Cooper Spur (OR), Crystal Mountain
(WA), Grand
Targhee Resort (WY), Kirkwood (CA), Mission Ridge (WA), Mt. Ashland
(OR), Mt. Bachelor (OR), Mt. Hood Meadows (OR), Mt. Rose (NV),
Northstar at Tahoe (CA), Schweitzer (ID), Ski Anthony Lakes (OR), Ski
Taos (NM), Stevens Pass (WA),
Telluride (CO), Summit at Snoqualmie (WA), and Timberline (OR).
Special thanks to Clif Bar for sponsoring SkiGreen,
Salomon North America for greening its 2006 demo sale, the Subaru
Nordica Service Team of Colorado for greening its travel this season,
and to Adventure Passports for including a
SkiGreen Tag with each Ski Areas of Colorado Passport.
Visit
SkiGreen.org to see new partner additions throughout the season and SkiGreen. |
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BEF Now an Option for 1% For the Planet Contributors |
 One
Percent for the Planet is "an alliance of companies that
recognize the true cost of doing business and donate 1% of their sales
to environmental organizations worldwide." Recipients of 1% For the
Planet grants are screened to ensure they meet criteria for credibility
and effectiveness in
environmental stewardship. BEF is in good company among the many
organizations supported through 1% For the Planet, and we encourage
participating businesses to include BEF in their group of annual
benefactors. To learn more about
supporting 1% For the Planet, visit:
www.onepercentfortheplanet.org. |
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BEF Included in Laurie David's New Book |
 As
BEF supporters are aware, global warming has become the most urgent
issue
of our time. In her timely and important book, Laurie David explains
how global warming is personally impacting our lives today, and more
importantly, how each and every one of us must get involved and make a
difference. As Laurie says,
"It's not about someone doing everything, it's about everyone doing
something." Required reading for the preservation of our future, Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You! will bring about the activist in everyone. The
book features an extensive resource section that includes Bonneville Environmental Foundation as a solution.
For more information, please contact Fulcrum Publishing at 1-800-992-2908, or go to their website at
www.fulcrumbooks.com. |
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New BEF Address |
 As of December 1, 2006, we are now located at the following
address:
Bonneville Environmental Foundation
240 SW 1st Avenue
Portland, OR 97204
All of our other contact information remains the same. If you're in the
Portland area, stop by to see our new offices in a
beautifully-restored, energy-efficient green building! |
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Thank You to Our New Green Tag Supporters |
New Green Tag Business Clients
Alpine Meadows
Aspen Snowmass
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies
Crystal Mountain, Inc.
Dagher Engineering, PLLC
Environmental Paper & Print
Essay Advantage
Eugene Robbins DDS
Grand Targhee Resort
Green Matters
Grilla Bites
Herb Pharm
Houston's Custom Framing and Fine Art
Mid Columbia Economic Development District
Mt. Rose
Nth Power LLC
Oak Tree Foundation - Burlingham Hall Pacific University LEED Building
Olivia Luca
Packard Foundation
Presbytery of the Cascades - EcoJustice Team
REI Adventures
Rose City Mortgage Specialists
Ruth E Callard CPA
Sebesta Blomberg
Sierra Club - Maine Chapter
Solar Focus, Inc.
Summit Projects
The Ascending Path LLC
Think Energy, Inc.
Wind River Cellars
New Green Powered / Green Travel Events
- CA Prop 87: Freedom Flies by The Vote Solar Initiative
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Climate Change & the Common Good: A Catholic Theology for Climate
Justice (sponsored by the Archdiocese of Portland & Oregon
Interfaith Power & Light)
- FarmAid 2006 (sponsored by SilkŪ Soymilk)
- MtnClim 2006 Climate Conference by Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains
- Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival by Keep Santa Fe Beautiful
- Strengthening Our Cities: Mayors Responding to Global Climate Change by Alaska Conservation Foundation
- Green Travel Option - 11th National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference |
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