How Do Local Land Use and Transportation Plans Influence Greenhouse Gasses (GHGs)?

Did you ever wonder how existing and future local government plans impact greenhouse gases?  Cogan Owens Cogan, working with Good Company, recently assisted the City of Lake Oswego with its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Analysis.  For the first time in Oregon, the Good Company/COC team conducted a review of Lake Oswego plans and their likely GHG impacts.  We looked at the City’s 2035 We Love Lake Oswego vision, comprehensive plan elements, the 2035 preferred growth scenario, economic development and the plan for updating the City’s transportation plan.

View the report. Let us know what you think! Contact Bob Wise or Kirstin Greene for more information.

Bob Wise Launches Series of Articles in Sustainable Business Oregon

On January 31, Bob Wise posted the first of six articles on import substitution at www.sustainablebusinessoregon.com/columns. The first article summarizes the crisis in job creation facing Oregon and the nation.  Currently most economic development strategies are focused on exports of products – the traded sector.  This strategy attempts to capture money from elsewhere and bring it to Oregon.  Bob details a totally separate but compatible economic development strategy of import substitution.  At its simplest, import substitution replaces spending on imported goods and services for those made locally.  This approach keeps money here and circulating rather than sending it away.  Over the next few weeks Bob will address how this strategy can be applied to the food we eat, energy we consume, houses we build, public works we construct, and the exemplary companies focused on these markets and others.