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OPAL Rally for the Bus 8/26/2010
Oregonian: At lunchtime, we need to help our kids get fresh 8/16/2010
Upstream releases new publication: HIA on Eugence Climate & Energy Action Plan 8/6/2010
California City Puts Moratorium on Fast Food Restaurant Construction 8/4/2010
PBS Reports on Infrastructure - Blueprint America 8/2/2010
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
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

News

August 26, 2010

OPAL Rally for the Bus

August 16, 2010

Oregonian: At lunchtime, we need to help our kids get fresh

August 6, 2010

Upstream releases new publication: HIA on Eugence Climate & Energy Action Plan

August 4, 2010

California City Puts Moratorium on Fast Food Restaurant Construction

August 2, 2010

PBS Reports on Infrastructure - Blueprint America

July 26, 2010

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