AOR Blog

10-17-2015

Do you know a person, business or or​ganization that acts, thinks and does green? Then you need to nominate then today! All nominations are due by midnight on January 18, 2016. Winners of each category will be announced at the 2016 Mid-Valley Green Awards on March 12, 2016 at the Salem Convention Center.

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10-15-2015

The American Paper and Forest Association and PaperRecycles.org created a lively video about paper recycling, which won a 36th Annual Bronze Telly Award (the annual Telly Awards program honors excellence in broadcast and online video content). The video promotes increased quantity and quality of paper and paper-based packaging...

10-01-2015

FIRST LEGO League is an international program available to kids ages 9-14 years old, typically in 4th-8th grade.

Working as teams, they are given a new real world problem to investigate and solve. For this year’s challenge, they are investigating the problem of trash and creating an innovative solution that can help...

09-30-2015

​AOR's second "On the Road Tour" was held on September 29 in Eugene at Lane Community College, Bring Recycling, and the Lane County Transfer Station. We had an intimate group of roughly 20 AOR members from all over the northwest. One member even joined us from Port Angeles, Washington!

We started our day with an engaging...

09-28-2015

The Northwest Environmental Conference and Tradeshow will be held on Tuesday, December 8th and Wednesday, December 9th at the Red Lion Hotel on Jantzen's Beach in Portland, Oregon.

This...

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