A nice article in the Forest Grove News-Times today, about Pacific University's upcoming Focus the Nation global warming event, also mentioned the potential for the City of Forest Grove to go sustainable.  Apparently, Forest Grove's "vision statement" now includes a commitment toward sustainability, and the city government wants to go greener.

I've been hearing rumors about the mayor and city council of Forest Grove going to the green side.  I don't know enough yet to say how true they are - but I hope to find out soon.  After all, in addition to pressuring the county government, the Cool Washington County campaign needs to begin looking at getting the individual cities working on reducing greenhouse emissions.  It will be great if Forest Grove turns out to be really serious about sustainability - though I'm not getting my hopes too high, yet.  Saying you're a "leader in sustainable development" is awfully popular these days, as is revising "vision statements" to include sustainability.  In fact, the S-word seems to be all over the place right now, and if everyone was really as committed to it as they say, we'd be in pretty good shape.

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Some more research on Forest Grove is in order.  Though much smaller than Hillsboro or Beaverton, it's one of Washington County's most rapidly-expanding cities; and the form that new development takes over the next several years has a lot of potential to keep greenhouse emissions out of the air - or add them.  Watch for more news on the Grove.