Tag: OREGON

It was bound to happen eventually. Oregon, one of the first states to offer online testing and digital writing exams, has decided that students will be allowed to click the spell check button while taking their state-wide writing tests. State Superintendent Susan Castillo told Oregon Live, "We are not letting a student's keyboarding skills get in the way of being able to judge their writing ...

According to officials at Greenpeace, Facebook needs to change its environmentally unfriendly ways. As the AP reports, more than 500,000 users have joined Greenpeace-sponsored groups calling for the social network to use renewable energy to power its new U.S. data center. On Wednesday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reminding him that ...

Oregon is set to get the first wave farm in the U.S. that will be an important testing ground for ocean generated electricity. Wave power has increasingly garnered attention over the past several years, thanks to the fact that waves are easier to predict and more reliable producers of power than the sun or wind. At the moment, wave power is an unproven technology still, and because of its ...

Just over a year ago, we passed off a far-out proposal that would turn highways into wind farms. Now, however, the state of Oregon is proving that such feats are actually within reach as it breaks ground on the first so-called "solar highway" demonstration project. The project will be installed at the Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 interchange in Tualatin, where it will cover around 8,000 square ...

Last week we brought sad news of a man in Oregon whose house and barn had been ransacked by eager bargain hunters responding to a bogus Craigslist ad. It indicated that the owner, Robert Salisbury, had to leave town unexpectedly, and so everything he owned was up for grabs. The ad was completely fake, and yet the man tragically lost much of his belongings since hoardes of folks took the ad ...