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 to get Valentine’s Day weekend off to a fun start? Get your tickets for tonight’s 4th Annual Valentine’s Ball to support the Oregon Active Foundation. The Oregon Active Foundation is a 501(c) (3) non-profit dedicated to providing outdoor adventures for those in our community that are affected by life-challenging conditions. The Oregon Active Foundation focuses on facilitating these adventures for young adults battling cancer, at-risk children in challenging situations, and members of our community with disabilities.
Grab a group of friends or invite that specal someone to join in the fun and dancing tonight. ORA will be hosting a silent and live auction with items including, but not limited to: kiteboarding lessons, “meet and greet” with Blazer Rudy Fernandez, state-wide adventure getaways, horseback wine tours, and fly fishing tours.
When: Thursday, February 11, 2010. 7:30pm-12am. Doors close at 8pm.
Where: Crown Ballroom, 918 SW. Yamhill, 5th Floor.
Attire: Formal attire encouraged.
Cost: $45 at the door. Proceeds support the Oregon Active Foundation and the great work they do for the Oregon community.
Dennis Wilde, principal at Gerding Edlen Development, kicks off the Real Estate Sustainability Series with a discussion of the proposed Oregon Sustainability Center. This Net Zero project is a collaborative effort to build the most environmentally responsible high-rise ever attempted, anywhere.
Join in on the discussion with a Q&A session following the program. February 25 , Arlington Club (811 SW Salmon Street). Registration begins at 4 pm, program begins at 4:15pm.
RSVP to Kelsey at khultengren@perkinsaccounting.com or 503.221.7548.
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
Join the celebration of nature, by volunteering your time and energy to something you love and want others to enjoy. Oregon Metro offers up different volunteer programs for different folks. Whether it is the fun of showing both children and adults alike how to discover nature or doing restoration projects, you will discover something within yourself. This site also gives information on activities to do, places to go and sustainable living. So give an hour do teach someone, something new!
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!
The Vancouver Olympic games are coming up February 12 -28, what will you be doing? Below are some tips on having a sustainable trip!
Do what you can to help make the Games sustainable.
Here are some key strategies for you to consider when you attend the 2010 Winter Games to help us meet our sustainability objectives:
Find more information at http://www.vancouver2010.com/sustainability/
It’s refreshing to finally see companies starting to understand that we don’t need bigger badder products. Today we need things to be simple and small that can fit into our lives and our pocket books!! Homes, appliances, computers, cell phones, and cars…on man, no one really needs that extended monster truck with the 7 foot tires do they? Along with some other forward thinking companies Ford Motor Company has figured out what we are looking for!
Tomorrow at the Detriot Auto Show welcome the new Ford Focus!
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.
