Test drive an EV on September 20

ACT NOW for Residential Solar

Photo of two houses with rooftop solar panels under a clear blue sky. Text reads ‘Solarize Lake Oswego, Jul. 1 – Aug. 31.’ Logos for City of Lake Oswego, Lake Oswego Sustainability Network, Solar Oregon, and Energy Trust of Oregon are at the bottom.

Help your trees survive the summer heat

How you can reduce your trash bill

Join LOSN for an Open House and Tour of Tigard’s first Net Zero apartments

January 2025

Join LOSN for an Open House and Tour of Tigard’s first Net Zero apartments.

The Steward is the first certified Path to Net Zero apartment building in Tigard, Oregon, offering fully electric living without the carbon operating footprint from fossil fuels. Residents will enjoy a clean and healthy living environment thanks to the rooftop photovoltaic solar system (103 kW), energy efficient windows, extended capacity heat pumps and more.

Register online to tour The Steward on January 14, 2025.

Tours of the building will be leaving from the lobby at 5:30 PM, 6:00 PM, and 6:30 PM.

Following the tour, enjoy light refreshments and connect with local environmental organizations: Solar Oregon, Electrify Now, and Lake Oswego Sustainability Network in the community space on the 5th floor.

The Steward combines environmentally friendly living with purposeful design, where energy efficiency, sustainable practices, and sophisticated design coexist.

Urban Forest Summit and healthy yard tips for fall

October 2024

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6th Annual Urban Forest Summit:

A Healthy Urban Forest – What You Can Do

Saturday, November 2, 9 am – 12:30 pm

Lake Oswego United Methodist Church

1855 South Shore Blvd, Lake Oswego

You are invited to attend the 6th annual Urban Forest Summit. This is an opportunity to expand your arboreal knowledge, discuss the importance of a healthy, interconnected urban ecological system and share opportunities to maintain and support the health of the urban forest.

This year’s agenda will include an update on the City of Lake Oswego Community and Urban Forestry Plan, information on tree care and maintenance, understanding our urban forest from floor to canopy, and best practices for native plant landscaping. We’ll be exploring how we can care for our urban forest, individually and collectively.

The opening speakers will be Jack Halsey, Executive Director of the OLWC, Jessica Numanoglu, Community Development Director for the City of Lake Oswego, and Scott Altenhoff, Manager of the Urban and Community Forestry Program at the Oregon Department of Forestry. They will be followed by the following panelists: Caitlin Pope Daum, Principal Landscape Architect at Studio Wild, Ian Hunter, founder and owner of Phoenix Habitats, and Leah Puhlman, Master Gardener Oregon State University Extension.

The Urban Forest Summit is presented by the Oswego Lake Watershed Council in partnership with the Lake Oswego Sustainability Network.

For more information and to register: oswegowatershed.org

Learn more about and register for the Urban Forest Summit

Leave the Leaves… and other sustainable gardening ideas for fall

Leave the Leaves:

  • If they fall in garden beds let them stay in place.
  • Place leaves from your walkways and hardscape into your garden beds.
  • If they fall on your lawn use an electric lawn mower to chop them up and let them stay in place. By spring, all of the leaves will disintegrate into a leaf duff, which is just another name for natural compost.

Leave the flowers:

  • Birds will come to eat the seeds.
  • Wait until early spring to cut back your perennials to maximize winter food for birds and small mammals.

Leave the berries and other fruit on shrubs and trees.

Leave small branches and twigs – they provide good food for fungi. They will also disintegrate into the leaf duff.

ELECTRIFY YOUR LANDSCAPING AND HEALTHY YARD CARE

It’s Clean, It’s Quiet, It’s Healthy

Candidate Forum

Lake Oswego candidate forum

Do you want to hear about what our Lake Oswego candidates think about accelerating the implementation of the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan, banning gas-powered leaf blowers and other sustainability and equity questions? This forum was held on October 7 and was hosted by Respond to Racism and the Lake Oswego Sustainability Network. Here is the YouTube link to the Candidate Forum: https://www.youtube.com/live/sPVqkuKB1jQ

We experienced difficulty in the audio recording and the sound begins at the 18:45 mark.

Lake Oswego Repair Fair Coming November 16

Please join us at our upcoming Lake Oswego Repair Fair on November 16 from 10 am – 1 pm.  For more information on upcoming Clackamas County Repair Fairs.