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Investment in renewable energy manufacturing and projects in Oregon totals over $9 billion, according to a new report by the Renewable Northwest Project released for Earth Day.

Rough & Ready, the 90-year old mill featured in our current issue, shut down yesterday.

While residential flight to the suburbs ebbed in the last decade or two amid urban gentrification, most jobs are still migrating outward according to a new Brookings report.

The Pinchot Institute for Conservation and PacificSource Health Plans have partnered to provide a first of its kind ATreeM card that uses proceeds from American Carbon Registry-certified carbon credits to provide health care funds to family forest owners.

Oregon is one of the least affordable states in the country for child care. The average cost of enrolling a toddler at an Oregon day care center now exceeds the cost of college tuition at our public colleges and universities.

“This will be the decade in which we find out who wants to live above a Walmart,” Uwe Brandes says. Environmental, financial and demographic trends have created a new economy that will radically change urban planning and development patterns through 2020.

Don’t look now, but online education startups may soon give social media/mobile app developers a run for their money — in Oregon and around the country.

BY BRANDON SAWYER | OB RESEARCH EDITOR

Mark Parker, Nike’s CEO, came in fourth on a New York Times list of 2012’s top-paid CEOs at U.S. public companies. He was topped only by Oracle’s Larry Ellison (no. 1), HCA Healthcare’s Richard Bracken and Walt Disney’s Bob Iger.

It’s hard to believe there’s anything more about GE foods to debate. But once again, activists are trying to raise public fears about genetically engineered foods.

BY LINDA BAKER | OB EDITOR

The Portland Meat Collective, a mobile butchery school, goes national with a Kickstarter campaign. The initiative, “Meat Collectives Across America,” is unique in the Kickstarter repertoire as it asks supporters to back a movement, not a product.