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GOOD THINGS IN THE PORTLAND AREA

Alternatives to Growth Oregon
  "Dedicated to a sustainable Oregon -- better, not bigger!"

Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility - Portland
  Furthering "professional and public awareness of critical social and environmental issues."

BARK
  "Dedicated to greater citizen involvement in the management of our national forests." Groundtruthing and more!

Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA)
  "Creating safe, sane, and sustainable communities - one bike at a time."

Cascadia Forest Alliance
  Forest activists maintaining a tree sit in Eagle Creek to stop logging in our watershed.

Coalition for a Livable Future
  A network of organizations creating a more equitable and sustainable Portland metro region.

Commonway
  "Building healthy, balanced and dynamic human interactions from our currently toxic ones."

Conduit: Community Video Mixtape
  "The program features the Street Films profile of City Repair and other Portland progressive organizations and will be airing in April 2008"

Dignity Village
  A mobile village; a community of people who might otherwise inhabit doorways and sidewalks.

Downspout Disconnection Program of the City of Portland
  Our combined sewer system sends sewage into the Willamette River during heavy rains -- help fix this problem at your house!

Earth & Spirit Council
  "Re-awakening our spiritual connection with the Earth and engaging people in earth-conscious living."

Ecotrust
  Helping local communities in the Pacific Northwest bioregion build new economies based on protecting their environment.

FREE GEEK
  Recycling and salvaging old computers to help local communities.

Free Learning Operation
  "Building community, encouraging knowledge-sharing through unconventional means." Unschoolers, drop-outs, homeschoolers, activists, teachers, and non-authoritarian informational resources.

Friends of Trees
  "Bringing neighbors together for tree planting and tree care projects along city streets, in urban natural areas and on school grounds."

Gracie's Bird Cage
  Home of guerrilla cheese, Sunday noon brunches and pinko's, the commie coffee copy center.

Green House Network
  Educating the public about the dangers of climate change and the dangers of global warming.

Girls' Initiative Network
  "Girls and young women united in creating social change through advocacy, education, and activism." Also our next-door neighbors at 1233 SE Stark!

Growing Gardens
  "Creating gardens for fresh food, education, jobs, beauty and friendship with individuals, schools and organizations where the need is greatest."

Keepers of the Waters
  "Projects that restore, preserve and remediate water sources." (int'l, based in Portland)

Livable Oregon
  Citizens, businesses and public officials working together on placemaking projects and other initiatives to build livable communities.

Metro Recycled Paint program
  Metro Regional Government operates the Nations largest municipally-run recycled latex paint program.
In fiscal year 2002-2003 Metro reblended over 100,000 gallons of interior-exterior latex paint for local re-use.
WITHOUT THIS PROGRAM THIS 100% POST-CONSUMER LATEX PAINT WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLIDIFIED AND SENT TO THE LANDFILL

The National Charrette Institute
  "The art and science of creating healthy communities."

Office of Neighborhood Involvement
  Helping to connect people, neighborhoods, and the city government to better serve local residents. Also a good source for maps of Portland's neighborhoods and regional neighborhood associations

Ole Errson's Urban Permaculture house
  "Experiments in Sustainable Urban Living"! Rainwater harvesting, intensive gardening and conservation at an inner southeast Portland home.

Oregon Wildlife Federation
  "Supporting grassroots activists throughout Oregon working to protect the state's rivers, ancient forests, deserts, and the species which depend upon them for survival."

Orlo and The Bear Deluxe
  Exploring environmental issues through the creative arts.

Outside-In
  A Portland social service agency serving low income adults and homeless youth. Co-sponsors of the T-Pony.

Our United Villages
   Group that has developed an extensive process to bring people together around common goals; parent organization of the ReBuilding Center.

People's Food Co-op
  Our local organic foods co-op store, and interim town square of southeast Portland's progressive community.

Portland Community Media
  "Home of media created by the Portland community, in the Portland community, for the Portland community."

PDXPlan.org
  Ernie Bonner's excellnet, unofficial website of the history of Portland's nationally-renowned city planning.

Portland Green Map
  A project to map what our urban ecology is and where our community resources are.

Portland Peaceful Response
  Local organizing for peacful responses to national and international violence.

Portland Stories
  Your stories about your city.

Portland Rainbarrel Company
  Rainwater collection systems.

The ReBuilding Center
  Providing low-cost building materials to the public and keep reusables out of the waste stream through deconstruction, reclamation and resale.

Regional Arts & Culture Council
  Sponsors of a number of our projects.

Sensible Building Calendar
  A resource for green and natural building in Cascadia.

SHIFT to bikes
  SHIFT is a bicycle activism group working to express Portland’s creative bike culture and highlight bicycling’s positive contributions to the community. Activities include social rides, educational bike tours, actions to raise awareness about cyclist injuries or deaths, information-sharing events, art-bike parades and more. City Repair is providing fiscal sponsorship and technical assistance to this project.

Southeast Uplift
  The neighborhood district coalition for where we are; organizers of the Healthy Neighborhoods Project, Neighborhood Traffic Safety Campaign and other initiatives.

solar7.83 design studio
  "solar7.83... an environmental union between the sun that heats our earth and the heartbeat of our planet." Also a great links page for natural building and other sustainability resources.

Volunteers of America, Oregon Chapter
  "Empowering individuals to make positive choices, build stronger families and live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Also, they make it possible to donate your car to City Repair.

GOOD THINGS BEYOND PORTLAND

Bioneers
  "Visionary and practical solutions for restoring the earth." (nat'l, based in Santa Fe, New Mex.)

Greenhuts
Cob Cottage Company
  Training, promotion, and hands-on research on natural building methods and materials. (Cottage Grove, Ore.)

CobWorks
  "...building beautiful, affordable structures with natural and local material in a spirit of cooperation and social responsibility." They offer workshops, apprentice programs, books, and project support. (British Columbia, Canada)

Dancing Dragons
  A new annual Festival to "...support groups and individuals in creating social, economic and cultural transformation in alignment with long term sustainability of this precious planet we live on." (regional, based Eugene, Ore.)

The Earth Council
  Home of the Earth Charter and the National Councils for Sustainable Development. EC is also one of the inspirations for our Earth Day 2001 Sustainability Ethic. Loads slowly - be patient. (int'l, based in Costa Rica)

Earthday Resources
  The Earth Day website of the state PIRGs. (based in Boston)

Earth Day Network
  Encouraging Earth Day celebrations worldwide. (int'l, based in Seattle)

EcoNomads
  "It's been 890 days since we left Palestine on a mission - to evolve by acquiring first-hand knowledge and experience from the people who mold the civilization of the future." (int'l, virtual)

Intervale (Vermont)
  "Hands-on training for a new generation of organic farmers." (Vermont)

Lost Valley Educational Center
  "Hands-on training for cultural evolutionaries." (Dexter, Ore.)

Malidoma
  "His name means makes friends with the stranger.... he conducts workshops and rituals throughout the U.S., trying to help us wake up to ourselves..." (Burkina Faso, West Africa)

Mosaic Voices
  "voices of youth | voices of community" (Seattle, Wash.)

Natural Building Network
  "A resource to connect work site hosts, natural builders, and information relevant to the trade. Includes lists of upcoming workshops & relevant reading.

Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust (OSALT)
  Research, education and protection of rural and urban agricultural lands. (Canby, Ore.)

Permaculture Institute of Northern California
  Workshops, products... "Permaculture is the practice of creating mutually beneficial relationships with the natural world." (Pt. Reyes, Calif.)

Procession of the Species
  An artistic and environmental celebration created by community, for community, to honor the natural world. (nat'l, based in Olympia, Wash.)

Project for Public Spaces
  "Building communities by creating the special places that build community life." City Repair's long-lost older sibling? (int'l, based in New York City)

Sarvodaya
  Local economic self-reliance and the awakening of everyone through sharing in over 10,000 Sri Lankan villages and beyond.

The E. F. Schumacher Society
  Linking people, land, and community by building local economies

Solar Energy International
  Workshops on alternative energy & natural building around the region; scholarships sometimes available.

Tree Bressen
  Facilitator for activist and community groups and has a plethora of information on decision making and group process available on her website.

Urban Ecology Australia
  "...committed to the evolution of socially vital, economically viable and ecologically sustaining human settlements." (Adelaide, Australia)

ZeroCircles
  "An expression of hope and a personal committment to help end the destruction of Nature."

NEWS AND INFORMATION

In our region...


Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory
  "Earth's biggest environmental search engine." (internet)

The Asian Reporter
  "International and local northwest news and events with an Asian focus."

CascadeLink
  "Providing on-line community information, encouraging citizen involvement and supporting Internet access for people living in the Portland, Ore. / Vancouver, Wash. region."

El Hispanic News
  "The leading source of information for the Hispanic community in the Pacific Northwest."

KBOO 90.7 FM
  Listener-sponsored, non-corporate, 100% community radio. Liberators of our airwaves, and sponsors of Hands Around Portland.

Oregon Activist Calendar
  THE place to go for upcoming presentations, teach-ins, meetings and demonstrations in Portland and Oregon.

Portland Indymedia
  An independent media collective offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of local news and events.

The ReDirect Guide
  A great local directory to ecologically wise, socially responsible, and health oriented businesses and services.

The Skanner newspaper
  "Advancing the cause of the Black Press in the Northwest."

TIDEPOOL
  "Providing the Pacific Northwest Bioregional community with the news they need to create a conservation based economy -- updated daily." (Part of Ecotrust's INFORAIN Bioregional Information System.)

Beyond our region...

AdBusters
  "Social Activist Movement of the Information Age." (int'l, based in Vancouver, Brit. Col.)

CarBusters
  "All over the world people are uniting to fight against CAR CULTURE -- a growing movement uniting in the struggle to save the earth from destruction." (int'l, based in Prague, Czech Republic)

Common Dreams
  Excellent daily collection of progressive news articles, press releases and analyses.

Community Arts Network
  An online resource for/about/by artists and communities working together. Produced by Art in the Public Interest, a North Carolina nonprofit organization.

Free Speech TV
  Just what it says. Radio, too. (nat'l, virtual)

HopeDance magazine
  "Pathways to sustainable living and positive solutions." (nat'l, based in San Luis Obispo, Calif.)

Independent Media Center (IMC)
  A collective of independent media ogranizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of local, national and international events.

New Village Journal
  The journal of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. See their article on our Share-It Square project.

Save Our Environment
  Increasing public awareness and activism on today's most important issues. (nat'l, virtual)

Talking Leaves magazine
  "A journal of our evolving ecological culture." (nat'l, based at the Lost Valley intentional community, Ore.)

Z Net
  The amazing website of Z Magazine - the first place to look for extensive background, analysis and news about current events and social change.

yes! magazine
  A journal of positive futures. (int'l, based in Bainbridge Island, Wash.)

Arkadia WorldWide Properties
  International real estate classified ads from homeowners or brokers to buy, sell or rent your property, house, apartment, business or land.

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

City Office of Neighborhood Involvement
  "Enhancing the quality of neighborhoods through community participation."

City Office of Sustainable Development
  The government taking action for a sustainable future. Includes the Green Building Program, Green Teams, Local Action on Global Warming... well, it's Portland, of course!

City of Portland, Oregon
  Our city.

Multnomah County
  the County with Portland, Gresham, Troutdale and the Colombia River Gorge National Scenic Area.

Metro
  Our regional government, and the folks who maintain our urban growth boundary.

State of Oregon official website
  

MISCELLANEOUS STUFF

because a little randomness is sometimes good....

Greg Brown official website
  We like him. Won't you let him "Build a Little Village" in your heart, too? =)

Dismantling the Cities
  "Dismantlement doesn't mean destruction. It means assessing what needs to be changed in order to improve and preserve life on earth, and then making those changes. . . . Half the human race lives in cities. So, if we're serious about promoting sustainable life, the city is the best place to start."

Calculate your Ecological Footprint
  So you think you live sustainably, huh? Find out what your impact really is. (from www.redefiningprogress.org)

 
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