You’re invited to this week’s LF20 Online Summit and Session Series: Topic: Resilience in Crisis Why this topic is important right now: As we pause business as usual during this pandemic, we have an opportunity to reimagine how we design buildings and communities for resilience. Join...
Like emerging new shoots in spring, our 2020 Symposium participants engaged in our community dialogue session with enthusiasm after riveting presentations on energy, food systems and permaculture. Our community dialogue started with a nod to the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle observed...
Business Sustainability Leadership Award Winner Portland utility PGE has been named the GPSEN 2020 Business Sustainability Leadership Award Winner for its innovative programs, including Green Future Impact, and for its commitment to making half its energy renewable by 2025. We spoke with Caitlin...
A fun-filled weekend where families learn fishing skills together while staying overnight at Camp Angelos on the Sandy River. Kids and adults can fish the pond, play games, plan their next fishing adventure, and participate in various session activities led by expert anglers from the Association...
The ReClaim It! store recently reached a crucial milestone in waste reduction when it surpassed 500,000 pounds of materials saved from the Metro Transfer Station since operations began in 2014. The North Portland store, a nonprofit project run largely by volunteers, salvages items and materials...
The ReClaim It! store recently reached a crucial milestone in waste reduction when it surpassed 500,000 pounds of materials saved from the Metro Transfer Station since operations began in 2014. The North Portland store, a nonprofit project run largely by volunteers, salvages items and materials...
Connect the dots between your values + the impact of your actions during The People’s Ecochallenge! Ecochallenge.org’s social change platform + curriculum connect a global community of advocates and changemakers, each doing what we can, in ways that are most relevant to us, to make...
Walk through the steps of creating a comprehensive sustainability plan: from justification for your sustainability efforts, through impacts assessment and determination of measures. The resulting plan also sets you up for reliable and pain free reporting. At the end of the course you will have a...
After several months of hard work, the Campus Sustainability Office is thrilled to share its new interactive Sustainability Dashboard. Use the arrows to enter full screen – from there, you can examine utility data by time period, building, and more. The dashboard was created by PSU student...
A couple of days ago on 29 July was 2019’s Earth Overshoot Day, marking the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. We maintain this deficit by liquidating stocks of ecological resources and...
Can you imagine getting all of your food from local producers? Or a food system that was regenerative—rather than destructive? Join us or a live, online conversation with author, farmer and PCI Board President Jason Bradford, author and co-owner of Regenerative Farms Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin,...
During this Spring term 2019 at Portland Community College, I have been taking a class focused on environmental sociology. As part of the curriculum, our instructor Dr. Kim Smith – founder of GPSEN – invited the class to participate in the Northwest Earth Institute’s...