Study: Oregon 39th Most Obese State
The study by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation says Oregon's obesity rate is 25%. read more
Amy And Adam Korst: Couple Goes Trash Free For A Year (VIDEO)
What's Your Reaction? KGW brings us this video from Dallas, Oregon, where one couple has managed to go trash free for an entire year. Amy and Adam Korst made the pledge to stop contributing garbage to landfills on July 6th, 2009 and blog about their experience . A year later, and the only waste they have to show from that time is a small box of scraps that Amy estimates to be around four pounds.
Oregon Company Creates Hundreds of Jobs in Campaign to Rebuild Local Economies Across U.S.
Within six months of launching, over one hundred cities in twenty-six states have joined a revolution, resulting in over two hundred new jobs being created to support thousands of local businesses across the country. Their mission is to stabilize and rebuild local economies. Their message is simple - RelyLocal.
Oregon couple's experiment: Living trash-free for a year
DALLAS, Ore. - A couple in Dallas, Ore., has been trying to live trash free for an entire year. KGW first told you about Amy and Adam Korst last year. They started July 6th, 2009 and goal was to use no more than a grocery store bag worth of trash for 365 days. The Korsts are pretty much your average American couple. A couple with the idea to go trash-free for an entire year. When we first met ...
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Also: A proposed $3 billion natural gas pipeline crossing from Wyoming to Oregon has cleared its last major regulatory hurdle and construction could begin soon.