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Huffington Post - Busy Roads, Air Pollution and Environmental Health Risks 7/26/2010
JPACT Votes to Target 75% of Regional Flexible Funds to Active Transportation 7/14/2010
NYT Op-Ed: Whether a Child Lights Up, or Chows Down 7/12/2010
Upstream Now Hiring - FT Researcher / Research Coordinator 7/9/2010
Research Coordinator 7/9/2010
Larry Cohen: As American as Apple Pie: Policies that Protect Public Health 7/9/2010
Washington Post - USDA says soda tax would cut obesity 7/9/2010
Baltimore Gets One of the Country's First Food Czars 7/5/2010
LA Times: Black and Latino males twice as likely to have poor health 7/5/2010
Why It's Hard to Change Dietary Guidelines 6/21/2010
Health Improvement Plan Committee - Community Input Survey 6/18/2010
Brewhaha Recap - Thanks Mercury! 6/14/2010
Nonprofit serves free vegan lunches to high school students 6/14/2010
Economy Drags on Transit, Services Suffer 6/14/2010
A new study tests a tribal approach in fighting obesity in American Indian children 6/9/2010
ODOT charts course for a non-highway future 6/4/2010
Local farm to school effort highlighted in Oregonian 6/2/2010
Pushed to Lower Salt Use Food Industry Pushes Back 5/31/2010
Join us June 8th for Brewhaha on Portland Public School lunches 5/31/2010
Join us June 8th 7 PM Backspace for Brewhaha on Farm to School 5/31/2010

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July 26, 2010

Huffington Post - Busy Roads, Air Pollution and Environmental Health Risks

July 14, 2010

JPACT Votes to Target 75% of Regional Flexible Funds to Active Transportation

July 12, 2010

NYT Op-Ed: Whether a Child Lights Up, or Chows Down

July 9, 2010

Upstream Now Hiring - FT Researcher / Research Coordinator
Larry Cohen: As American as Apple Pie: Policies that Protect Public Health
Washington Post - USDA says soda tax would cut obesity
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— Stephanie Farquhar , Upstream Board Member

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