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City slates carbon workshop

Portland Business Journal
17 Apr 2009

The city of Portland is launching its first Carbon Footprint Workshop series to help businesses learn how to offset their emissions.  The three-part series is offered to participants in the city’s BEST Business Center, which works with businesses to help them become more environmentally sustainable.

The city and its sustainability partners invited Carbon Smart, an environmental firm from Vancouver, B.C., to lead the series after it realized local businesses are interested in their carbon footprints, but need more information about the issue.

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EcoTrust Canada leads Rose City workshops

Sustainable Industries
by Jessica A. Knoblauch
07 Apr 2009

Portland’s BEST (Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow) Business Center this spring is helping about 15 local businesses learn how to measure, reduce and offset their greenhouse gas emissions.

With a dearth of local climate change consultants to choose from, including Ecos Consulting, Bonneville Environmental Foundation and Blue Tree Strategies Inc. to name a few, the BEST Business Center chose Ecotrust Canada, which was launched in 1994 by Portland-based Ecotrust, to lead the three half-day workshops.

Continue reading at: www.sustainableindustries.com