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.
Ok, it’s not in Portland and it’s not even in Oregon… but I know there are some fellow Michiganders out there who would love to see this! If it has been a while since your last visit to Michigan, check out the images below of the transit center in Detroit that was completed in July 2009.
“The new Rosa Parks Transit Center includes a passenger terminal and roof canopy covering a drop off and outdoor waiting area which will play a pivotal role in providing alternate means of public transportation to the greater Detroit area. The project brief was simple: a permanent roof structure, to withstand harsh weathers, durable, easy to maintain, inexpensive and unique.
The architect, Parson Brinkerhoff, MI, a pioneer in transportation facilities, invited FTL Design and Engineering Studio to be part of their team to develop an ‘elegant and contemporary canopy.’
FTL developed a design approach that uses flowing canopies to create an active visual space and naturally day light space which challenges the conventional notion of roof where the membrane both hovers 50 ft in space, and in other areas brought to ground and to act as a giant water collector. To create rhythm, the proposed scheme was broken down into seven repetitive bays, each approximately 110′ long and 50 ft wide. Each bay is comprised of two trusses, an A frame and fabric which is pulled down, transforming the roof into a wall and encompassing a courtyard.”
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….
Did you know . . . .Every year, Americans throw away enough office and writing paper to build a wall 12 feet high, stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
This photo shows 29.4% of garbage is paper, but this figure is increasing and now 34.2% of all garbage is paper. Paper usage is rising by around 20% every year, with the average office worker using approximately 50 sheets of paper every day in the typical office. More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail and American consumers receive 41 pounds of junk mail each year.
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!
Here’s wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season! To get you started, check out the Local Portland Event Calendar to find out all about Portland happenings during the holiday season (and beyond)!
You will find things like Zoo Lights, Decorations at the Pittock Mansion, Nutcracker Ballet, Christmas music Symphony, Gingerbread display, Beer & Brunch, Holiday Ale Fest…. the list just goes on and on!! Something for everyone to enjoy the holidays. All the best from Cyan.
