The activists kept pushing for formal recognition of Oaks Bottom as an important natural resource and in 1988 the city made it Portland's first official urban wildlife refuge.
The possibilities are endless from poverty alleviation to affordable housing to natural resource conservation to building needed infrastructure in a city or state.
The best economic prospects in this region lie in more modestly sized cities like Santiago, the capital of resource-rich Chile, and even Campinas, Brazil, a growing smaller city--with 3 million residents--that lies outside the congested Sao Paolo region.
Around the table we had entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship resource providers and supporters from the for-profit, not-for-profit, academic, and government (city and federal) arenas.