The Earth Day Celebration Organizing Coalition honors human collective action and local empowerment. This event is sponsored by the many organizations and businesses who are volunteering their efforts and resources to make this a true community project.

We greatly appreciate all kinds of local support, including involvement with the Celebration (coordinating, volunteering, boothing, vending, etc.) as well as in-kind and monetary donations. All donors will be recognized equally by the Organizing Coalition.

• We welcome the involvement of and donations of up to $1000 from any individual.

• We welcome the involvement of and donations of up to $1000 from for-profit entities that:
  • are based in the Portland metro area,
  • are predominantly owned from within the Portland metro area, and
  • practice social and environmental sustainability consistent with the Earth Day Celebration Sustainability Ethic.

• We welcome the involvement of and donations of any size from non-profit organizations and government entities that:
  • practice social and environmental sustainability consistent with the Earth Day Celebration Sustainability Ethic.

Event sponsors are those organizations and individuals who are part of the Organizing Coalition. If you would like to be part of the Coalition, contact The City Repair Project at earthday[at]cityrepair.org or 503-235-8946 ext. 3 to start getting involved.

The City Repair Project ~ Spring 2001 ~ Portland, Oregon

...inspired by the work of many, especially Fundacion Neotropica and The Earth Council Indigenous Peoples Project (Costa Rica).

Sustainability means the maintenance and continuity of life, from generation to generation. It means living in a way that does not compromise the present and future well-being of our ecosystem and all that is part of it, including humans.

“Holistic Sustainability” emphasizes that all lives, all systems and all actions are interconnected and interdependent. This implies that achieving sustainability will be a social, economic, ecological, political, cultural, territorial, philosophical and wholly multi-faceted process.

The Earth Day Celebration organizing coalition recognizes these basic principles of holistic sustainability, and will use them to guide our work.

Basic Principles of Holistic Sustainability

• We can CHANGE the old ways. We must:
  • recognize that humans are part of a global ecosystem, interconnected and interdependent with all that is around us. Humans have no inherent “right” to exploit or destroy the ecosystem we are a part of.
  • recognize that present and future human generations have a right to a healthy environment. Our society should not damage the environment’s integrity and regenerative capacity.
  • reduce the growth of human activities to within nature’s limits and capacity for self-regeneration.

• We can CREATE a new way. We must:
  • practice sustainability in our lives, not just in theory, and continue developing and refining our understanding of sustainability as we learn from that practice.
  • empower communities and individuals to participate in the social decision-making that affects their lives. Redefine social decision-making process so that power rests with citizen communities.
  • create self-sufficient communities, so that people’s control over their own lives be increased, and that the social and cultural identity and decision-making capacities of communities be maintained and strengthened.
  • establish a new international order of equal opportunities, relations and global wealth between individuals, communities, nations and cultures.
  • adopt equitable forms of wealth distribution that allow all people to meet their basic needs, particularly the most disadvantaged. This means eliminating all unjust, illegal, and abusive forms of production and distribution of wealth, which produce and reproduce inequality and poverty among people all around the world.

The City Repair Project ~ Spring 2001 ~ Portland, Oregon

~ $1000 to sponsor live music at the Main stage

~ $1000 to the City of Portland for use of Woodlawn Park

~ $1000 leases tents for organizations and businesses

~ $500 helps build the Kids’ Village stage

~ $500 supports city-wide (and web-wide) publicity

~ $500 prints posters and flyers for the celebration

~ In-Kind donation - 5 hours per week Earth Day Coalition (now through end of April)

~ In-Kind donation - 100 hours total Set-up, day of and/or take-down of Earth Day activities

~ Booth space at Woodlawn Park

~ Listing in all promotional printed materials

~ Organization or business logo will be posted on our website with a link to your website

~ Organization or business logo printed in a 4-page insert

We would also like to extend the invitation to you and your employees to volunteer during the event. This involvement would not only assist the planning committee in finding much needed volunteers, but would also provide you with the opportunity to see and meet the community you serve. If you are interested in our In-Kind Sponsorship, please contact me directly to find out what opportunities are available.

The City Repair Project, a non-profit grassroots organization that helps people reclaim their urban spaces to create community-oriented places, dedicates Earth Day to promoting local and sustainable efforts of organizations and businesses in the Portland area.

We expect this to be a very special day in our neighborhood and hope you will consider participating in Earth Day this year.

In community,

Bob New, Earth Day Coordinator

The City Repair Project

earthday [at] cityrepair [dot] org