This event will double as Engineers Without Borders' annual HOLIDAY PARTY and quarterly SUMMIT MEETING. Accompanied by beer and wine, we'll hear short presentations from all our project teams (Tanzania, Haiti, Ecuador), and then join smaller breakout sessions for each project team, as well as our Steering, Fundraising, Publicity and Chapter Resources Committees.
If you're new to EWB, you can just swing by to listen and decide if this is the organization for you. The event is open to all, so please come and bring your friends!
Biking to Work and What Bikes Mean for Business
Speakers from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance: Stephanie Noll, Programs Director and Tom Rousculp, Membership Development Manager.
6th Annual Muddy Boot Festival - Keynote: Joel Makower
Keynote tickets are $12 in advanced and $15 at the door but we've created a special Green Drinks discount on Brown Paper Tickets so the first 50 people to enter the discount code "gdpdx" can buy discounted tickets for $10 each.
Environmental, economic and social sustainability will be featured on an all-day tour of Portland cohousing communities on Saturday, June 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Participants will travel by bus to four communities including Daybreak Cohousing, Cascadia Commons Cohousing Community, Kailash Ecovillage and Peninsula Park Commons. The interactive tour will include presentations by cohousing leaders, fact sheets and site maps of each community. Participants will meet cohousing community members and tour homes.
Sustainable Business Oregon, in partnership with The Natural Step Network, hosts a quarterly series to ignite discussion around sustainable business initiatives.
On Thursday, January 27th, the first Network mixer of 2011 will be held at the Mercy Corps Headquarters building (by Skidmore Fountain) from 5 – 7 PM. This edition will focus on open networking, allowing a diverse group of green team leaders, small business owners, sustainability managers and change agents to share challenges and opportunities that the new year will present.
The City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) is hosting the third annual Ecoroof Portland to provide the building design and development community, homeowners, building owners and non-profit organizations with information and technical assistance about ecoroofs.
Featured vendors and speakers include Ecoroof Experts that are architects, consultants, contractors, landscape architects, manufacturers, nurseries, structural engineers, suppliers, research and non-profit and community organizations.
Start 2011 by learning about cohousing and touring the community on Sunday, January 2, 1:30-3:30 pm on site at 2525 N. Killingsworth Street. (#72 Killingsworth bus or Max to the Killingsworth station). Daybreak Cohousing was named one of the nations “top 10 green cohousing developments” by Natural Home Magazine (January 2009). Daybreak members range in age from babies to 70+. Homes have most of the features of conventional homes, and members also enjoy extensive common facilities.
Join the excitement of Sustainable Business Oregon 2010! November's luncheon features the presentation of our innovation in sustainability awards, as well as a keynote address by Kevin Skillern, Managing Director, Venture Capital, GE Energy Financial Services.
Entrepreneurs looking to start a green business or transition their existing business will gain valuable insight from Ecotrain Media Group founder, Kevin Pile. He will share 12 years of ecoprenurial pursuit and the trials and tribulations he has faced.
The Sustainable Building Advisor (SBAP) program is a nine-month program specifically designed for professionals working or interested in the areas of green building and high performance buildings: residential and commercial. Register at 503-491-7235. For more information go to: www.mhcc.edu/sbap
