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BGI's pioneering MBA and Certificate programs prepare diverse leaders to build enterprises that are economically successful, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable.

GreenBiz | News Center | Columns As the world grapples with environmental crises, businesses need holistic leadership to fundamentally reinvent how we approach sustainability. Rick Walker makes the case for the Chief Sustainability Officer.

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The mission of Resource Innovations is to help government, business, and communities adopt sustainability based thinking, policies, and programs. To achieve this mission, Resource Innovations assists others to expand thinking, develop linkages between seemingly unrelated organizations and issues, frame language and communication effectively, and promote innovation.

The mission of the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Examiners is to protect the public by improving upon standards of care offered by licensed practitioners through ensuring competency in education, and enhancing communication with the profession and the public.

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Founded in 1979, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) was established as a means of exchanging ideas, stimulating research, and promoting graduate training in resource and environmental economics.

The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) is the center of the University of Pennsylvania's activities and programs in health services research, health policy, and health care management executive education. A formal cooperative venture among Penn's schools of medicine, business, nursing, and dental medicine, LDI works to improve the health of the public through multidisciplinary studies on the medical, economic, social, and ethical issues that influence how health care is organized, financed, managed, and delivered. LDI represents one of the earliest efforts to promote collaborative scholarship in health care through formal partnerships within the same university among the clinical, management, and social sciences.

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) is a non-profit professional and educational association that promotes the effective and ethical use of spatial information and information technologies for the understanding and management of urban and regional systems. It is a multidisciplinary association where professionals from all parts of the spatial data community can come together and share concerns and ideas.

This program of the Bureau of Planning conducts research, community collaboration, and legislative projects to support the city’s business and industrial districts and long-range economic development goals.

Working to Keep Oregon Oregon. 1000 Friends of Oregon is a nonprofit charitable organization, founded in 1975 by Governor Tom McCall and Henry Richmond as the citizens' voice for land use planning that protects Oregon's quality of life from the effects of growth.

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Metro protects open space and parks, plans for land use and transportation, and manages garbage disposal and recycling for 1.3 million residents in three counties and 25 cities in the Portland, Oregon, region.

Randal O'Toole is an economist and has been director of the Oregon-based Thoreau Institute since 1975. He has also been an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute since 1995. His recent research and policy interests have centered on regional planning and growth management in Portland, Oregon and, more generally, on the New Urbanism. Among his more recent publications is The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths (Thoreau Institute, 1996) a critical appraisal of growth management and regional planning in Portland.

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Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association - recipient of APA's 2004 Chapter of the Year Award". The Chapter's mission is to carry out the objectives of the American Planning Association (APA) and to promote the art and science of planning in Oregon.

Our core services include environmental, planning, management consulting, design/engineering, construction management, operations & maintenance, e-business and e-media, and—integrating all of the above—program management.