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CURRENT ISSUE:

MARCH 2012: Storing Energy Like a Dandelion, Entrepreneurs-In-Residence Hired, The Up-Side of the Oregon Sustainability Center Process, Consortium Member Profile: Skanska, Oregon BEST Lab Plays Role in Iraq Green Rebuilding, Sen. Merkley Visits Green Lite Motors

ARCHIVE of Past Issues:

JANUARY 2012: 2011 Milestones & 2012 Priorities, $2M for Hydrogen Storage, $3.5M to Innovate Transit, Fool's Gold = Cheaper Solar?, $40M to Advance Biofuels, Grants Help Rural Economies

NOVEMBER 2011: Commercialization Program Expands: New Manager and $1M in Grant Funding, Success Story: Tau Science + OPIC Lab, Greener Portable Classrooms, SWEETLab's Magic, Indow Windows Keeps Winning

SEPTEMBER 2011: Funding Flurry Brings Millions, Local Collaborations Boost Clean Energy Production, OIT Goes After Net Zero, Green Jobs for Oregon via Qatar, Using Microwave Energy to Capture Waste Heat

JULY 2011: Using Inkjet Printers to Print Solar Cells, Companies Working With Oregon BEST See Success, New Board Member Joins Oregon BEST, Are Natural Resources Oregon's Cleantech Advantage?

MAY 2011: Indow Windows' Success, Leveraging Millions in Research Revenue, Growing a Regional Research & Innovation Culture, Universities Launch Green Programs, Lessons from the Japan Quake

MARCH 2011: New Sustainable Built Environment Research Consortium Launched, The Power of High-Density Poplar, UO's Sustainable Cities Initiative, PSU Prof Wins Latrobe Prize

JANUARY 2011: Commercialization Grants Announced, iSTAR Lab Joins Shared-User Network, Up to $1.2M for Oregon Sustainability Center, Oregon's 1st PhD program in Architecture, Innovating Solar Gain

NOVEMBER 2010: Commercialization Board Announced, New "Green Science Oregon" TV Program, Legislators Tour Oregon BEST Labs, OIT Leases Former InFocus HQ Building

September 2010: Oregon BEST Expands Shared-User Lab Network, Researchers Land Large Grants, Oregon BEST Shares $1M Grant, Oregon BEST FEST '10 a Sparking Success

July, 2010: Research Creates Rural Jobs, New Commercialization Grant Program Launched, Water Light Shelf Reflects Nature Indoors, Bringing Solar Power to Tanzanian Schools

May, 2010: UO Students Wow with Design, Solar Energy Breakthrough, Where Buildings & People Interact (PSU's Loren Lutzenhiser), OIT Successes in Energy, Grants, & Rankings

March, 2010: Oregon BEST Hires Green Building Leader, Amplifying Solar Energy, Greening Transportation, Turning Grass-Seed Straw into Biofuel

January, 2010: Nation's 1st Renewable Energy Engineering Program, Growing Bioplastics in Trees, Building Better Green Buildings

November, 2009: Green Building Research Lab Opens, Boosting Wind Energy Efficiency, Meet Sergio Palleroni

September, 2009: Daylighting Luminary G.Z. "Charlie" Brown, Oregon as Solar Energy Epicenter

July, 2009: Replacing Plastics Along Oregon Highways, Green (Re)Building in Iraq, New Wind Tunnel to Study Turbine Arrays

May, 2009: BEST Brokers $1.3M for Solar Energy Research, Green Roofs + Solar Panels, UO Prof. Designs Solar Awning

March, 2009: BEST Brokers $1.6M for Green Building Research, Helping Oregon Farmers Produce Biofuels, Oregon SuNRISE