 The company is a unique home-cleaning service that uses only natural products. It was formed in 2006, with a $300 investment, by two moms with young children, who were looking for ways to make money and provide a safer environment for their families. According to co-founder, Nathan Brown, Maid Naturally became interested in Sustainable Oroville, through his long time friendship with CMO, Ryan Skinner. “When Ryan asked me if our company was as supportive of Green Product Advancement as his venture, it was like we had been talking about it for years,” said Mr. Brown by telephone. “Our business is the only EnviroStars™ Certified cleaning service in Washington State.” No small accomplishment. The EnviroStars program was created in 1995, as a service of the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, Washington. According to EnviroStars’ website: The mission is to provide assistance and incentives for smaller businesses to reduce hazardous materials and waste, in order to protect public health, municipal systems, and the environment. The products used by Maid Naturally, were originally formulated by the two moms--Ruthanne Eberly and Heather Brown--who started the company, due to a raised awareness of chemicals being used around their children. The product line is currently used by other cleaning services, businesses, and it is sold in 27 stores around the state. The company now has surpassed 10 employees. “With the use of Toxic chemicals in home, businesses, schools and public buildings contributing to environmental and health hazards with our society, we wanted to help make a difference in any area we could,” said Nathan Brown. The Sustainable Oroville project also grew from the ideas of long time friends, Ryan Skinner, Steve Morberg, and Tim King. Sustainable Oroville is a project, where the city is creating sustainable solutions on their own, despite the economic challenges facing the State of Washington. The city is utilizing existing infrastructure to attract green industry and development that will increase jobs, tourism, affordable renewable energy and revenue for area farmers for a sustainable future. Tim King, is just weeks away from opening a canola oil-seed crushing plant in Oroville. The benefits would include bio-fuel plant feedstock, with some resulting bio-fuel going to local farmers; an increase in wheat and other crop yield; meal feed for dairy cows and other farm animals; and possible local electricity generated from incinerating canola-derived bio-fuel. Steve Morberg plans to build a green hotel, which will be imperative to the growth of Oroville, and many local officials, including the Chamber of Commerce, are excited about the prospect. Sustainable Oroville is being designed as a green industry template to be duplicated in communities across America. Maid Naturally and other clean energy companies have recognized the benefit of sustainability and environmental stewardship, by partnering with Sustainable Oroville and its investment firm Carbon Cycle Investments (CCI). “By partnering with CCI we know that people and the environment will benefit greatly from the corporations success,” Said Brown. “Maid Naturally is committed to decreasing waste and energy consumption and increasing Green Technologies that benefit the planet--along with providing a healthier choice of cleaners for homes and businesses.” The motto of Maid Naturally is Clean like Nature intended. Learn more about Maid Naturally visit: www.MaidNaturally.com Continue reading on Examiner.com: Maid Naturally was made for a Sustainable Oroville partnership Add Comment  Plans to install and operate a canola oil-seed crushing plant in Oroville, Washington have been in the works for almost a year and it has finally advanced to the hiring stage. Initially, there are 10 openings to be filled, for 24/7 rotating shifts. Ads were placed in the Omak Chronicle, the Oroville Gazette, Craig’s list, and Work Source. According to Pam Leslie, Regional Coordinator, they were overwhelmed with more than 300 applications for the jobs in a small town of approximately 2,500 people. The job listings closed on January 22nd. “The response was surprising to me,” said Ms. Leslie by phone. “We have an amazing pool of people to choose from. I didn’t know we had such talent in our midst.” Tim King is owner of the canola oil-seed crushing equipment that was delivered to Oroville, starting in September. Currently, Rob Larsen is a sub-contractor setting up his own temporary crushing equipment to get the production started in approximately two weeks. He will train the new hires; equipment operators, mill wrights, and mill wright supervisors, while Mr. King’s permanent equipment is being set up to get operational. Mr. King is determined that Sustainable Oroville, will benefit the community in multiple ways. The town, has been hit hard by the recession, but still, he was surprised by the flood of applications. Furthermore, the job interviews will be conducted in the coming weeks, but King asked Ms. Leslie to let the other applicants know that it is just the beginning: “It is our plans that this is just the first round of many hires to come in the future. The economy and our position in it will determine how fast and large our future hires will be.” Oroville, is poised to evolve into a template of green industry, biofuel production, and sustainability. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Oroville crushing plant gets overwhelming response to job openings Send in your resumes! 01/11/2011
 Carbon Cycle Crush LLC, of Oroville, Washington, will be accepting resumes for multiple positions through January 22nd, 2011. CCC is seeking experienced, committed individuals for the following positions: Millwrights Equipment operator Supervisor Site maintenance person Office clerk Our plant runs 24/7 and will require four shifts, each independently managed by a shift supervisor. Teamwork will be job one. Positions are full-time and we offer competitive wages as we believe our employees are our most valuable asset. Please note that Oroville is a small community with limited housing available. We do not make allowances for housing or moving expenses for those coming from outside the area. Please send resume, including references, to: Carbon Cycle Crush PO Box 2147 Oroville, WA 98844  A hotel designed for Passivhaus performance is being developed in Oroville, Washington, using prefab containerized components Green-building advocates are paying attention to the Green Built Hotel planned for Oroville, an agricultural community in north central Washington. The hotel is unusual not just because its prefabricated panels will be shipped in containers to its destination at the south end of town and then assembled in fairly short order. The building is being designed to perform to the Passivhaus standard, which would make it one of the first Passivhaus hotels in the country. The project will use components from prefabricated-housing producer bôd Structures. Known until very recently as American Container Homes, bôd Structures aims to build good quality houses more quickly and for less cost than is typically possible using standard construction techniques. The company’s product line includes single-family and multifamily structures; small commercial buildings such as classrooms, clinics, and hotels; and dormitory-like buildings for emergency use. Continue reading click Here  Oroville, Washington is rapidly emerging onto the sustainable green energy global platform. The town has put out the welcome mat for green businesses, with plans that include the first hotel built with Passive House standards. The majority of Passive structures have been built in Germany and Scandinavia, which incorporates tightly sealed, energy efficient construction. Accommodations in the small town near the Canadian border are scarce and currently include a bed and breakfast, a city-owned camp ground, and some lodges outside the city limits. As new businesses move into the area, more hotel space will be needed for tourists, visitors, and potential employees. Continue Reading: Sustainable Oroville to build first U.S Passive green energy hotel  Oroville plant to produce canola oil for biofuel use A plant in Oroville, Washington, is in the final stages of planning for a facility which will crush canola seeds to extract oil for use as a mechanical lubricant and diesel fuel additive. At the onset, most of the canola seed will come from farms in Canada, but the company is looking into procuring seed from local farms as well. To learn more, read "Oroville One Step Closer to Producing Canola Oil" on the Sustainable Oroville website. To read directly on WSU's website: Click Here American Container Home is bôd Structures 11/16/2010
 Along with American Container Homes new name - bôd Structures, comes a new and improved look and business expansion. As the global housing demand grows, bôd Structures is the ideal product for international markets as the product easily and efficiently transports due to our patented DOMO Technology™. The company has set up showrooms in Mexico and distribution in Canada with new requests coming in regularly. In order to meet the international demands, bôd wanted their name and image to reflect the modern and advanced technology they are supplying. bôd Structures is still very much an American company with domestic pre-built and site-built products. They are also generating green jobs with a growing workforce and national export products. To learn more about bôd Structure please visit their website at www.bodstructures.com  Tim King directing the crane operator OROVILLE – With the delivery of several roller presses to Oroville, it seems that Tim King’s dream of making canola oil is one step closer. The presses arrived at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at the old Oro HeavyPack Warehouse off 14th Street where they will be housed. The presses, weighing several tons each, were unloaded by a tall crane from a dual-trailered, semi-tractor under the watchful eye of King and those gathered to mark their arrival, including a documentary team from Tacoma-based T-Town Productions. The crushers and other equipment will be used to set up a pilot plant to crush canola seed into oil to be sold for lubricants and for adding to diesel fuel to create lower emission bio-fuel. The left over meal from the crushing can be used to create high-protein cattle feed as well. For now, most of the seed to be crushed will come from Canadian farmers, but King has approached local farmers about adding canola production to their regular crop rotation. King, manager of Carbon Technology Transfer Center LLP, said this was just the first of 15 truckloads of equipment that will be housed at in the packing facility owned by Gold Digger Apples, Inc. The company is leasing the building for now and may try and purchase it in the future, according to King’s timeline. Among the equipment that will be used to crush canola seed into oil will be 1500 metric tons of expellers, with cookers, flakers, electrical switch gear and materials handling equipment, such as drag lines, augers and conveyers. The next step after the equipment is moved into the building, said King, is to secure additional financing through a loan or investment. He said the company needs a minimum of $600,000, but $1 million would be optimal. As much as $400,000 would be used as a revolving loan to purchase canola seed. CTTC hopes to have the money in place within the next two weeks. “We really aren’t looking at your typical venture capital types,” said King. “They all want quick, high returns with no risk.” With $600,000 in capital, the company would purchase new technology crush equipment, an expander and centrifuge within 30 days. From there they could set up a permanent 200-ton a day crush line and make modifications to the building and be operational in three to four months, according to the timeline. The $400,000 revolving loan would be used to set up contracts from Canadian brokers for delivery of approximately 100 tons of canola a day or two Super B truck loads at $40,000 per day. A portable crush plant would be set up to crush the 100 tons of seed a day into oil to be sold until enough equity was built up to reinvest in a value-added bio lubricant plant, reads the timeline. The meal left over from the crushing would be sold as cattle feed until equity was built up to reinvest in a value-added feed mix and pelletization plant. From there the company hopes to replicate the Oroville pilot facility across Eastern Washington and the Pacific Northwest, with additional phases in Spokane, Omak and Douglas County, for total of 12 plants, five in Washington State, within three to five years. “Oroville is doing something no one else in the country is doing,” said Ryan Skinner of Sustainable Oroville, which is helping to get the word out about projects like the canola crushing plant and a proposed “green” hotel in Oroville on the web site www.sustainableoroville.com. “Oroville is going forward with projects like these and without the government getting involved,” Skinner said, adding that the Web site has brought positive attention to Oroville from other industries looking for a forward-thinking community. Skinner also applauded Roni Holder- Diefenbach, Executive Director of Okanogan Economic Alliance and Chris Branch, Oroville’s director of Community and Economic Development. They, along with Arnie Marchand and Pam Leslie of LM Energy, as well as interested area ranchers were on hand for the arrival of the presses. Photo's courtesy of: Roni Holder-Diefenbach, Director of the Okanogan Economic Alliance Pam Leslie of L&M Energy LLC  From Cathy McMorris Rodgers Headquarters: Some good news to report: The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently made clear that it distinguishes between emissions from biogenic sources – such as biomass and biofuel – and fossil fuels in its draft guidance, "Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting." This is welcome news for all those – like you and me – who believe that responsible development of biomass is essential to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Last week, I joined a letter sent to Nancy Sutley, Chairwoman of the CEQ, commending the CEQ for its decision, while also encouraging them to work with other federal agencies – especially theEnvironmental Protection Agency, which continues to not differentiate between biogenic emission sources and those from fossil fuels – in developing a "sensible, consistent, scientifically-based policy that recognizes the carbon-neutrality of biogenic sources." |
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