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CURRENT ISSUE:

MARCH 2013: A Million Dollars in Grants Invested • BEST FEST '13 Announced • Easier Natural Gas Fueling • Inspired Light Lands Grant • Agenda Development Series a Success • Oregon BEST Lab Monitors TrekHaus • Splitting Water with Sunlight • Sen. Merkley Helps Grow Green Jobs

ARCHIVE of Past Issues:

JANUARY 2013: A New Year, Expanded Horizons • Pallets into Building Blocks • Agenda Development Series Takes Off! •  Solar Technologies Win Oregon BEST Grants • Support for Wave Energy • Sen. Wyden's New Energy Role • Have PV Panels, Will Travel! • Obama Appoints BEST Researcher

NOVEMBER 2012: The China Opportunity, Wave Energy on the Ocean Floor, Agenda Development Series Launched, PSU's Green Portables Catch On, Sustainable Cities Initiative Inspires, Student Launches Solar Startup, A Replacement Fuel for Coal, Bioenery and Other Byproducts from Diatoms, UO No. 1.

SEPTEMBER 2012: A Successful BEST FEST '12, New $10K Red List Design Competition Announced, Commericalization Grants Help Companies Develop Green Roofs and Ice-Based Energy Storage, Research Posters Win, Oregon TECH Opens New Campus.

JULY 2012: New Blue Could Cool Buildings, Oregon BEST Commercialization Grant to Stevens Water/PSU, Solar Powered Shade, Green Classrooms, Indow Windows Nabs $1.3M, OIT Partners with Powin Energy, Oregon BEST FEST Ramps Up!

MAY 2012: New Strategic Plan, Trillium FiberFuels Expands, BEST Labs Draw National Attention, Massive Wind Tunnel Opens for Collaboration, OIT Nabs Another National First, Keynoter for Oregon BEST FEST '12, Jennifer Allen Heads ISS

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

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