Green City

In April, nearly 600 people showed up to a town hall meeting hosted by the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition to start building a plan for sustainability in Corvallis. This followed closely on the heels of Corvallis being named “Best Green City” in the nation by Country Home magazine.

But while “green” implies an environmental focus, the folks at the April meeting learned that sustainability has three intersecting spheres: environmental, social and economic. Clearly, this means we’ll have to make choices — sometimes tough ones — as we move forward.

Our city’s focus on sustainability means that we as a news organization will be spending a lot of time with it and the best way to learn how to live green and understand sustainability would be to do so together.

Our Green City site will gather our reporting to tell you about local people doing inspiring things to foster sustainability and we’ll direct you to events to meet people and learn more about it.

Most importantly, we’re hoping to use this space to get a conversation started with people around Corvallis, Albany and Benton and Linn Counties who’ve got stories and information they want to share.

Local blogs, news bits, links, questions, conversations. It’s all fair game. So check back regularly, log in, and talk back.

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