by Gorge Owned | Mar 18, 2019
Gorge Owned is now accepting nominations for the 2019 Tod J. LeFevre Sustainable Champion Awards. This award celebrates individuals, businesses, organizations and students working on innovative, creative solutions to the environmental and social issues facing the...
by Gorge Owned | Sep 20, 2018
Celebrate your love for the Gorge while showing your support for Gorge Owned! Gorge Owned (GO!), with help from sponsors Tofurky and Trillium Engineering, welcomes community members to celebrate a year of resilience and positive change at its 5th annual GOvember Party...
by Gorge Owned | Aug 8, 2017
Join Gorge Owned on Wednesday September 13, 2017 from 5:30-7 p.m. for Green Drinks at Mt. Hood Town Hall in in Parkdale, OR. Learn about the history of this former schoolhouse for the upper Hood River Valley and the efforts to restore the Mt. Hood Town Hall to a...
by Gorge Owned | Jul 12, 2017
Join Gorge Owned on Monday August 7th, 2017 from 5:30-7 for Green Drinks at The Griffin House in Hood River. Why is the Columbia a target for fossil fuel exports? How have river communities bagged major victories against the deep-pocketed fossil fuel industry?...
by Gorge Owned | Jul 1, 2017
Join us Tuesday, July 11th, 5:30 to 7 p.m. for Green Drinks at Syncline Winery in Lyle, WA. Owners Poppie and Mark Mantone will provide a vineyard and garden tour and talk about sustainability practices used in their winemaking process. The couple’s experience with...
by Gorge Owned | May 11, 2017
Join Gorge Owned on Tuesday June 13, 2017 from 5:30-7 p.m. for Green Drinks at Big Winds in in Hood River. Renee Tkach with Friends of the Gorge will share the ultimate vision for Gorge Towns to Trails a 200-mile trail system wrapping around the Columbia Gorge,...
by Gorge Owned | Apr 20, 2017
Join Gorge Owned on Wednesday May 10, 2017 from 5:30-7 p.m. for Green Drinks at The Renewal Workshop in Cascade Locks. Hear from co-founder Nicole Bassett on this new kind of apparel company that makes discarded clothing and textiles into something new. They partner...
by Gorge Owned | Apr 10, 2017
Join us Wednesday, April 19th, 5:30 – 7:00 at Freebridge Brewing in The Dalles for a look behind the curtain of the historic Mint Building where the popular brewery is housed. Originally constructed in 1869 as a United States Mint with the intention of minting...
by Gorge Owned | Mar 16, 2017
On March 18th, the last Saturday of the most punishing winter in the Gorge in more than 40 years, Gorge Owned (GO), a sustainable economic development organization in the Columbia River Gorge, is hosting a series of large scale cash mobs in an effort to lift the...
by Gorge Owned | Feb 16, 2017
Although Hood River garnered national notoriety for anti-Japanese American sentiments during World War II, it’s noteworthy that a small number of local citizens stepped forward on behalf of their neighbors. In individual acts of support for Japanese Americans and...
by Gorge Owned | Feb 2, 2017
As a commissioned songwriter for the Portland’s Bonneville Power Administration in 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs – including classics like “Roll On, Columbia”, “Hard Travelin’”, and “Pastures of Plenty” extolling the...
by Gorge Owned | Dec 15, 2016
The Columbia River system is the lifeblood of the tribes. Since time immemorial, the water, salmon, game, roots, and berries—the sacred first foods—have sustained the health, spirit, and cultures of the tribes. So fundamental was this connection to the land, that when...
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