Ecotrust in the News
Oregon Public Broadcasting
March 10, 2009
by Rob Manning
Friedman, DC Leaders Hearing Oregon's 'Green' Pitch
Oregon leaders are pressing hard to get attention for their sustainability efforts.
One of the world's most-read columnists got an earful from green leaders, as he went from meeting, to lecture, to meeting, Monday. Meantime, one of Portland’s leading green developers flew to Washington, D.C. yesterday, to meet with the people holding the purse strings to the green economic stimulus. Rob Manning reports.
About 17-hundred people packed the Portland State University gym Monday, to listen to award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. His latest book and lecture emphasize solving the world’s big environmental and economic problems through competition and innovation — with a little help from government.
Friedman says he appreciates the role that Portland and Oregon have played as green leaders, so far.
Thomas Friedman: “Portland’s always been, historically, had a lot of environmental consciousness, because you depended really on timber, outdoors, tourism, clean rivers, clean beaches, and so it doesn’t surprise me that these kind of initiatives started here in the Northwest.”
Friedman learned more about Oregon’s recent sustainability efforts at two closed-door meetings yesterday.
After his lecture, he met with dozens of area business leaders.
Beforehand, he met with Governor Ted Kulongoski, P-S-U president, Wim Wievel, and Ecotrust president, Spencer Beebe. They lobbied Friedman to highlight Oregon’s efforts in an upcoming column.
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