Join Portland State University for the last Social Sustainability Colloquium of the term for conversations and questions regarding what is guiding the current economy. The Colloquium is sponsored by the Social Sustainability Network and the Center for Professional Integrity & Accountability.
Friday, Mar 12. 12 noon – 2pm
Academic & Student Rec Center
School of Social Work Room 660
1800 SW 6th Avenue, 6th Floor
Looking for a great lunch spot in the area? Head to Buddha Bites just up the street on SW 4th & Hall for mouth-watering plates. Buddha Bites prides itself on offering seasonal, local, organic choices for their Portland customers, making them (and their tasty sandwiches) a favorite in the Cyan/PDX office. As if their BLT and veggie melt weren’t enough, Buddha Bites brews their own chai tea!
Since there are so many Bites to choose from, Cyan/PDX is going to help out. This week, we’re full-heartedly behind the Grilled Club–great with either homemade Naan bread or gluten-free bread.
Head to http://buddhabitespdx.blogspot.com/ for their full menu, catering options, and more!
A handful of northwest businesses urged congress this week to approve comprehensive climate legislation, citing it as an opportunity to jumpstart thousands of jobs and support a healthier environment.
Mark Edlen, a managing principal of Gerding Edlen, said a combination of extended tax credits and other incentives could produce thousands of jobs. In Portland alone, perhaps half of 75 million square feet of commercial office space needs to be retrofitted with efficient electrical, water and sewage systems, he said.
He proposed increasing the gas tax and dedicating a portion of it to energy efficiency projects, saying there is “a generation’s worth of work” for laborers, electricians, architects, engineers and those who arrange financing for such projects.
Continue reading The Oregonian’s coverage of Tuesday’s news conference.
Also present at Tuesdays conference were representatives from Nike, Starbucks, local unions & youthgroups, and more.
Congrats to Portland’s Streetcar Project for being one of the selected projects out of over 1400 applicants to receive Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) funding through the US Department of Transportation. The project will support the addition of traffic lanes, streetcar tracks, and cycling/pedestrian options throughout the South Waterfront area. Read More.
Want to take advantage of Portland’s Streetcar but aren’t sure how? Head to www.portlandstreetcar.org for updates, schedules, maps, and great ways to explore the city by streetcar. Hop on at SW 4th & Harrison from Cyan/PDX and enjoy all that Fareless Square has to offer!
On top of sharing some great crab recipes and local getaways, 1859’s Winter Adventure Issue highlights homes focused on “sustainable design and low-impact living” in Oregon.
As if that wasn’t enough to excite Cyan/PDX, the issue introduces readers to artist and physicist, Julian Voss-Andreae and his incredible (and almost disappearing) Quantum Man. Grab the next issue you see!
Photo courtesy of www.julianvossandreae.com
All you have ever wanted to know about green gadgets from conferences to websites. Gadgets are great, but gadgets which are energy efficient and sustainable are fantastic! The following websites offer up cool little tidbits about green technology and how powerful the benefits really are.
Check out greener gadgets, envirogadget, cool green gadgets, inhabitat, and sierra club for more ways to live in harmony with mother earth.
Do you occasionally need someone to feed your cat, or take your dog for a walk?
Are there times you’d like a dog-sitter, without paying the pricey daycare fees?
Do you think it’d be nice to let your pet socialize with other pets through play dates or walks?
Join the only social networking site for downtown Portland area apartments created for The Cyan’s animal owners:
Cyan Paws!7.0 Haiti earthquake and leaves the country in ruins
5:00 p.m. ET, January 12, 2010 a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, leaving a wake of panic, dread, and destruction. The capital city of Port-au-Prince has all but been destroyed and the American Red Cross has reported that approximately three million people have been affected by the earthquake. Following the catastrophic quake has been a series of devastating aftershocks; at least 28 had struck by Tuesday morning.
Donation sites are listed below and there is an article on MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34835478/ns/world_news-americas/?gt1=43001.
A few sites have also made it super easy to text your donation and have the amount on your next phone bill. All you have to do is take a few seconds out of your day to make a difference in the world!
For weeks now the Cyan has been mourning the loss of one of our two clown fish twins. Its disappearance and lack of physical evidence (no floating fish body) was somewhat of a mystery to all of our residents; “one moment it was swimming around having a great time and the next….gone” exclaimed one distraught residents. Even after putting our best detective skills to work we came up empty handed. For all our efforts we could not solve the mystery of the disappearing clown fish twin.
Over the next few weeks we continued to search for any signs of our lost friend with no luck. Our other clown fish wouldn’t give up the search and seemed heart broken, never leaving the top of the tank. With the loss of its twin clown fish it looked like we would lose our other clown fish too. After we had given up all hope on ever knowing what had happened to our fishy friend its twin gave us a sign! While cleaning out the 85 gallon tank our other clown fish would not move from the filter area and time and time again tried to swim up the filter hose. That’s when we saw it! A flipper slap the top of the water in the over flow filter! After some wrangling around the filter tank we found our clown fish was safe and sound!! For two weeks our little friend had kept itself alive swimming around in the over flow tank after being sucked up into the filter system.
Today our clown fish twins are reunited and happily swimming around the Cyan tank with all of their other fishy friends! If you are interested in meeting this heroic little swimmer stop by the Cyan leasing office and we will introduce you.
To see more and watch a few videos go to http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/.
