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/.
If you think downsizing to a luxury Cyan apartment might be too challenging…see what this NYC couple has done to live their lives to the fullest!
175-square-foot studio just enough for couple, 2 cats
Their cozy, $150,000 apartment leaves them plenty of room — and money — for comforts outside the home.
Posted by Mai Ling at MSN Real Estate on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 10:24 AM
There’s a lotta love in New York’s tiniest apartment. Not that Zaarath and Christopher Prokop have much of a choice, nestled in their 175-square-foot “microstudio” with their two cats.
But The New York Postwrites that for the Prokops, who bought the apartment three months ago for $150,000, it was a choice.
Small, simple designed condos are growing more popular in many metropolitan areas
Their first apartment, in New Jersey, was 1,600 square feet, and with downsizing already on the brain they moved into a 900-square-foot apartment in Jersey City. When Manhattan became their next destination, they decided they could go even smaller.
Read http://realestate.msn.com/blogs/listed.aspx?feat=1418998>1=35000 for more….
After a trip out to the Beaverton Holiday U Cut Family Tree Farm ( http://www.holidayucut.com/ ) yesterday the Cyan is now ready for the Holidays! So come down to our community Living Room, grab a cup of hot coco, and watch the lights of our Holiday tree twinkle.
Holiday Trees Improve the Environment
The Yoga classes at Cyan are back from a recent break. Join Boo, our new Yoga instructor, on Mondays from 6-7pm every week! Residents get a great drop-in rate of $10 per class.
Enjoy the night lights of the city from this 16th story penthouse apartment! 
Check out this photo of Boo, the instructor! Don’t be intimidated, this pose was not practiced in class (we got her to do this great pose afterward) and all levels are welcome.
We hope to see you next Monday!
