The Oregon Way...the governor has attempted to provide a system and process to achieve accountability and transparency over all the ARRA money coming to Oregon. A lot of great information is on the web site but the first energy deadline is tomorrow April 15th. It is a shame that those submitting, at least us, were unable to have our form sent through the web site as required. Our IT folks assured us that the error was NOT on our end. We ended up using snail mail to get the submission post marked… Continue

Is it possible that Linn and Benton County can work together along with OSU, a local non profit, a couple of cities and a couple of private start up companies to create a novel and innovative solution for a renewable energy source? Stay tuned because it seems a possibility if the State of Oregon and Department of Energy are really serious about job creation and novel renewable energy solutions. The feedstock would be algae. The two private companies would be Bioalgene and OrAgrow. Both companies… Continue

Today, the big 3 of Vermiculture in Mid Willamette Valley, met to discuss the possibility of having a commercial reactor solving some of the problems that the populace of Marion County may be facing. This is a problem that the knowledgeable are seeking solutions for and yet most folks don't read about it, hear about it, understand it, care about it or even suspect that their precious tax dollars are going to be under utilized trying to solve it. The problem of wet waste going to the burner and e… Continue

On my way back from the gun show at the Linn County Expo Center yesterday I stopped in at Garland's nursery to see if they had anything new and worth buying. This was a strange stop for me as I had heard on the news that it was supposed to snow today! Why did I stop. Well, I wanted to make sure that they had stocked up on a new product from Oregon Soil Corporation, their pure organic worm castings. I have read all the technical reports and this is an outstanding product according to the research… Continue

Tomorrow will be the first day over at OSU for me looking for talent to assist the Professional Partners Project with the city of corvallis. The BEC and a couple of its affiliates want to work with the city to see if we can help them solve some of their pollution problems at the waste water treatment plant. Stan Barnes the CEO of BioAlgene is proposing an algae project and Dan Holcombe of Oregon Soil Corporation is willing to take a look at using his "red wigglers" to use the left over biomass a… Continue