Cyan

We had a good time Friday at the housewarming. Great music, and a really good turnout of folks learning more about Cyan. Plus excellent wines and food from Pour. Thanks to everyone at Cyan for putting it together…all I had to do was show up! Excellent.

This Thursday we’re doing a wine tasting, featuring biodynamic wines from Triage. The wines should be really great and Triage focuses on producers who stay close to the land. It should be a chance to taste some things you have never tried before from some iconoclasts in the wine industry. If you want to go, send me a tweet! @ianrjohnson

We’re throwing a party tomorrow evening at the Cyan leasing center, aka my Portland apartment. Come by!

Friday April 3, 4:30-6:30, at the Cyan leasing center, 333 SW Harrison.

We encourage you to take the streetcar; it runs right by our front door.

Beer/wine and food provided by Pour wine bar
Music by Jon Davidson and Travis Williams
Make a flipbook from your own 7 second movie with the people from Fliptography
Be part of the Mural of Sustainability (I am not sure what this is but I bet it will be sensational!)
Enter a drawing to win a Bianchi bike or a basket of sustainable goodies.

Hope to see you here.

I happen to be reading a book about Alice Waters and the opening of Chez Panisse. Looks like she’s making headway on installing a vegetable garden at the White House. Pretty cool.

One of the concepts we learned about in Natural Step training was the earth as a closed system with finite resources. We shuffle those resources around as we use them for energy, and a lot of carbon that’s in the ground winds up where it’s not supposed to be. About the only thing that affects us from outside the confines of our atmosphere is solar energy.

Damin sent me a link to The Breathing Earth which is one view of how humans affect things within the closed system of the planet. Check it out and click on various locations to see what’s going on right now.

So, I’ve just moved in to the Cyan leasing center, which makes me, sort of, the first official resident of Cyan! There’s a pair of full-scale apartments already furnished and ready to occupy. I was talking with some of the Cyan people a while back (I’ve been following the project for a while) about how a performance artist slash comedian lived in an Ikea last year. I think he had to resort to using the employee showers though, cause those units in Ikea are not plumbed!

We thought it would be cool to have someone live in the Cyan models. So, I humbly volunteered myself. They are furnished AND there’s hot water and electricity, all the mod cons. So I now have an official pied a terre (I’m living in the West unit) and my friends and I plan to throw a few parties and get to know the neighborhood. It should be a lot of fun. See you soon!