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Finance for Sustainability: Innovative Strategies for Public and Private Sectors

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 8:30am - 4:00pm

UO in Portland, White Stag Block 152

Presenter: Aaron James

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Kipp Baratoff

A one-day workshop on practical tools and conceptual frameworks for influencing capital allocation decisions to finance sustainability in public and private organizations.

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As experiment, science pubs a huge success

By Diane Dietz
The Register-Guard

Analytical discussions are gaining popularity on the home turf of trivia contests, pool tourneys and karaoke

The fists didn’t fly. The topic didn’t provoke a barroom brawl. But it was definitely a lively debate.

University of Oregon chemist David Tyler was at the Calapooia Brewing Co. in Albany recently, giving an informal lecture through the UO-organized Science Pub, when he suggested that, if one analyzes their entire lifespan, plastic bags may be a better grocery carrier than paper.

“I don’t believe you. I just don’t believe this,” Tyler remembers a beer-hoisting patron saying.

Tyler, who likes the give and take, rose to the challenge.

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UO Students Recycle Old Shoes

By Jessica Debbas
KEZI News

EUGENE, Ore. -- A group of University of Oregon graduate students are putting old shoes to new use, and they are asking for your help.

You can drop off your worn-out shoes into a box with the white "O" on it on campus.

The students are working with Nike's Re-use a Shoe program.

It recycles old running shoes into new sport facility surfaces.

Shoes that are still okay to wear will be donated to Hope 4 Hoopers which will then be given to local people in need.

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