The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Waterways Superfund Part 1
Cities around the United States grew up around the great arterial waterways. In the West, the Columbia and Willamette have seen 150 years of commerce and change and unfortunately have paid the price of the industrial revolution. It's not the water s...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Sustainable Forestry
Growing trees is not totally the job of Mother Nature anymore! Making sure logging doesn’t tax future growth too much is an ever more increasingly important task. Using a relatively new high tech invention, the helicopter, to harvest hasn’t be...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Organic Cooking
There’s nothing boring about organic cuisine anymore! Bland and dull are not words used to describe the food at places like Flying Lotus Café. This trend has to start up the stream a little further, which is where food giant like Sysco comes in. ...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Green Medicine
Words like Naturopath and other less traditional terms to describe the healing process once were shunned by modern medicine and the general public. Today they are much more common and accepted. Procedures like acupuncture are prescribed by doctors r...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Wind Power
The Green Economy looks at the emerging technology that’s becoming big business. Condon Oregon is the site of one of the largest wind farms in the World. This trend is becoming a reality!
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Waste to Energy
Marion County Environmental Services oversees the operation of one of the most successful recycling and energy programs in the United States. Curbside collection, sorting, waste incineration which in turn generates electricity…these folks have it ...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Biodiesel
Growing gas…that’s one way to look at it. By focusing on using organic waste like used cooking oil and compost materials niche companies like Sequential Bio-Diesel have created their own industry. We will look at how it's grown, gathered, made...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Solar Energy
Stores like Real Goods in Humboldt County California carry everything you can think of solar including…yes you guessed it…solar toilets! We will look at the differences in the technology and how this endless energy source is being used. The fu...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Solar Revisited
Previously we looked at the different types of solar and where the technology and trends are taking us. Now we will look at how solar is much more widely accepted and used. In Coos Bay Oregon nearly every new public structure has solar integrated ...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Geothermal Energy
All of us have seen a hot spring or an active volcano but finding new and creative ways to utilize this energy hasn't been easy. Now you can not only heat your home but use it to turn the lights on too. We visit Bottle Rock Power Plant in The Geyser...