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You know what a resolution is. It's something millions of people make in anticipation of the New Year. According to USA.gov, nearly half of the most popular New Year’s resolutions revolve around health in some way, whether it’s to drink less, eat healthier, reduce stress, exercise more or lose weight.

Because health seems to be a common motivator for people in their resolutions, our Green Team’s education committee has decided to focus on healthy and sustainable eating during the first quarter of the...

Here at PECI we want our actions to speak for us, and so we work hard at living our mission every day. As part of this mission, we’re benchmarking our sustainable and socially responsible practices as we develop our first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. In the meantime, I’d like to highlight some of the day-to-day practices in our Portland Headquarters that I believe make PECI such a great company to work for.

• Composting – Receptacles are located on each of our three floors for composting anything from lunch scraps to paper towels and pizza...

I recently coordinated a discussion group sponsored by our Green Team called "Voluntary Simplicity." It was facilitated by the Northwest Earth Institute and focused on living a purposeful life, instead of one where we simply go through the motions and are controlled by personal and cultural expectations.

When I chose this particular course, I thought the main focus would be about living with fewer material possessions and the benefits of living lightly on...

Last weekend I volunteered at Portland’s Better Living Show at the Portland Expo Center. As a member of the Energy Trust of Oregon’s New Homes and Products Team, I had the opportunity to spend a few hours volunteering at Energy Trust’s “Good Energy Pavilion,” talking to customers and answering questions they had related to refrigerator recycling, energy-efficient lighting options and Energy Trust products incentives.

These events are fun for me because I mostly work “behind the scenes”...

It seems like you can do just about anything with a smartphone these days. You can call, text, listen to music, purchase music, use it as an address book, Internet provider, game console, e-reader, and GPS, just to name a few. And thanks to the development of some really great apps, you can also use it to "go green."

This post is all about the "green apps" I use: from finding in-season, local food, to figuring out what seafood is the most sustainable, to what products are best for the environment (and our health). I've provided you with a list of my favorite iPhone apps. For all of...

I recently came across two articles that prove why I am proud to be an Oregonian. The first was a story in Sustainable Business Oregon’s e-newsletter that announced per capita car registration in Oregon has dipped 5 percent in the last three years. I have a feeling that’s, at least in part, because the...

I recently participated in a discussion group sponsored by PECI's Green Team, titled “Menu for the Future.” It was facilitated by the Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI)and its focus was identifying the effects our food system has on the environment while also considering economic and social impacts.

For many people consuming food is a relatively passive action, meaning they don’t take time to consider its source, or how the food traveled to their plates. But for...