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Where sustainability is business as usual
- The Oregonian
- Jake Cohen
- 30 Jul 2009
When owner Angel O’Brien learned her shop, Ladybug Organic Coffee Co., was named a co-winner of Portland’s BEST Award for Sustainable Food Systems in the spring, she wasn’t content to stop with the award.
“I called (the BEST Business Center) and said, ‘I want someone to come out and see what else I can do to be more efficient,‘“ she said.
The 2-year-old coffee shop has already left its mark, or lack thereof, on St. Johns and Portland by donating, recycling and composting nearly everything its customers don’t consume.
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Case study: championing a cause
- Daily Journal of Commerce
- Christy Love and Amy Jarvis
- 28 Jul 2009
Portland is unquestionably a city to watch as related to sustainability. The unique combination of the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, in conjunction with its Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Business Center, allows Portland’s leadership to offer a variety of resources for businesses and citizens wishing to “green” their operations and their lives.
One of the fruits of this partnership is the newly launched Portland Climate Change program, through which the engineering consulting firm we work for, Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch (M+NLB), was awarded the first Portland Climate Champion Award.
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Why should businesses care about a healthy and prosperous Portland?
- BEST Business Center
- 22 01 2009
Press releases
BEST Business Center awards first ‘Portland Climate Champion’
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- Christine Llobregat
503-823-7007 - 15 Jun 2009
Some businesses go above and beyond with recycling, and others go even further to reduce their carbon emissions. The Portland office of engineering and consulting firm Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch (M+NLB) is the first Portland business to receive the BEST Business Center’s new “Portland Climate Champion” recognition. To earn this honor, M+NLB staff completed the Portland Climate Champions application and demonstrated their carbon reduction efforts during an onsite verification visit with the BEST Business Center’s sustainability advisors.
Claim Your Green: Carbon Footprint Workshop for Portland’s Businesses
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Christine Llobregat 503-823-7007
Marlowe Kulley 503-823-3919 - 10 Apr 2009
Sure, a business may think it’s green because it uses recycled paper and is located in Portland, but is it really? The only way to confidently claim green-ness is to measure carbon emissions. There’s a unique opportunity to do that: Portland’s business can still claim remaining seats at Portland’s first-of-its-kind Carbon Footprint Workshop series for businesses, presented by the BEST Business Center and Smart Trips.
As a small business in Portland we don’t think about climate change every day, but we do know our actions make a difference. This program provided the tangible results necessary for our business to ask what’s important and what motivates our philosophy and ethics.
Green Team
LRS Architects
Doing nothing is not an option. The longer we do nothing, the more it will cost our region and the nation, both environmentally and economically. Protecting the environment is essential for our economy and our future
Peggy Fowler, CEO
Portland General Electric
We will use the reports from the BEST Business Center as a baseline for future improvements to cut overhead and lighten our environmental impact on the community.
Tammy Lucky
New Copper Penny Restaurant