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Doug DeFilipps is a research associate at Cascade Policy Institute. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University..

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by John Charles on November 8, 2012 in Audio, John Charles, Land Use, Publications, QuickPoints!, Transportation

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by John Charles on October 24, 2012 in Audio, John Charles, Publications, QuickPoints!, Tax and Budget

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By Victoria Leca Buy naltrexone without prescription, Portland politicians and civic leaders have tried to “brand” the city as a world leader in “sustainable development” for the past decade. Now that Portland has so many buildings built to so-called “green standards,” it’s appropriate to take a look back at the track record.

One of the first eco-buildings built in Portland with help from the local government was Viridian Place in Lake Oswego, buy naltrexone online. It is a three-story office building with 15,000 square feet, Buy naltrexone on line, built by Blazer Development and CES Northwest. Construction on the building began in 1999, and the building opened two years later. The cost was $2 million or $130 per square foot, buy naltrexone without prescription. It has maximum exposure to sunlight, generic naltrexone online, low-flow water fixtures to cut use by 20 percent, and efficiency measures to reduce energy consumption by 40 percent. Lowest price naltrexone, It was the region’s first LEED project, and people all over the world came to look at it and tried to replicate the model. However, the problem with replication is that the project was not financially viable without government subsidies, naltrexone us.

The developers went to the Oregon Office of Energy, which offers low-interest, Buy naltrexone no rx, fixed-rate, long-term loans for projects that save or produce energy. Buy naltrexone without prescription, The low-cost energy loans serve as incentives to encourage businesses and governments to incorporate energy efficiencies into their projects and “get more for their money.” The money is geared towards only the energy saving parts of the project; but the loan committee can recommend financing for the entire project, if it qualifies as a demonstration project.

In the case of Viridian Place, the entire project qualified as a “demonstration” project since it was one of the first eco-buildings in Portland, naltrexone internet. In order for a project to be placed into this category, the project has to act as a model for subsequent projects, Order naltrexone cheap online, be visible to the general public, and be as energy efficient as possible. Viridian Place fell under all three categories. Thus, best price for naltrexone, the Office of Energy Loan Program offered the developers of Viridian Place a $1.8 million loan for 15 years at a fixed rate of 7.11 percent. Commercial lenders at the time were charging nine percent interest rates for comparable loans, buy naltrexone without prescription.

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One reason the building was financially infeasible was that the developers chose to install expensive solar panels that had a payback period of more than 40 years. From the developers’ perspective, canadian naltrexone, it was worth the cost because they “wanted something to show our commitment. Without those solar panels there is nothing to say this is a sustainable building by looking at it.”

However, Naltrexone online without a prescription, there is one way to offset the unwillingness of the customer to pay for a symbolic, but high-cost product: tax credits and low-interest loans from the government. At the time of Viridian Place’s construction, the Oregon Office of Energy offered Business Energy Tax Credits (BETC) to encourage investments in energy conservation, buy cheapest naltrexone, recycling, renewable energy resources, Sale naltrexone, and less-polluting transportation fuels. Any Oregon business could qualify, and the tax credit was 35 percent of the project cost. Viridian Place received $21,136 in tax credits, buy naltrexone without prescription. The BETC program expired in July 2012, cheapest generic naltrexone online, but provisions were added to a new Tax Credit Extension Bill which still allocate public money either to energy conservation projects or to renewable energy developments.

When developers apply for government help, Find naltrexone without prescription, they don’t think of how sustainable the project’s business model is or what their customers really want. When a project has such an unsustainable business model, it shouldn’t be touted as a ground-breaking, energy-saving project, order naltrexone from canada. In order for a project to be sustainable, it also must be financially sound. Buy naltrexone without prescription, Currently, another sustainable building faces the same financial dilemma. Cheap naltrexone in canada, The now-stalled Oregon Sustainability Center needs to be massively subsidized with state funds and government tenants in order to be built. No private investor is willing to pay the high price of building an eco-building with a projected price tag of $62 million. The early lessons of Viridian Place seem to have been lost on Portland politicians.

Victoria Leca is a research associate at Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization. She is a student at Portland State University..

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by cascade policy institute on August 9, 2012 in Commentaries, Education, Publications, Tax and Budget

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This isn’t to say that artistic development and success do not require discipline and some kind of formal guidance in an art class―it almost always does. Yet, buy elimite from india, because of the diverse nature of art, Elimite cheap price, and the wide range of criteria used to judge its quality, this discipline and guidance must happen at a much more specialized and intimate level than what the city can or should provide. Therefore, if people are not satisfied with the art education available in Portland’s public schools, they should take The Oregonian’s advice and support the arts on an individual level. Buy elimite without prescription, Instead of increasing dedicated spending on the arts through taxation for the benefit of public schools and selected nonprofits, Portlanders should supplement the current art activities in schools, as they choose, with a willingness to allow and encourage children to individually explore the arts for themselves. Financially contributing directly to the areas in which children are interested, rather than simply allowing the city to mass-regulate artistic creativity and diversity, honors and respects the nature of creative expression. This November, Portlanders should allow future generations to answer the age-old question of “What is art?” for themselves, rather than hand city government more taxpayer money to answer it for them.

Shane Young is a research associate at Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization. He is a student at Whitman College..

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