New Dry Cleaning Schedule: Eco Drycleaner will now be picking up and dropping off items between the hours of 6:30am-9:00am.
Indigo has partnered with Eco Drycleaner in offering a sustainable dry cleaning service right at your doorstep! Simply drop off your dry cleaning with your concierge and pick up your order as you are arriving home. Eco Drycleaner offers free pick up and delivery for Indigo residents! Sign up today!
Photo Courtesy of Portland Farmer’s Market.
Mondays: Portland Farmer’s Market at Pioneer Square held June 21 through October 25 from 10am-2pm. Beyond being a tremendously enjoyable activity, attending and purchasing local products boosts the economy and provides support for your fellow community members. Enjoy local produce, eat healthy, support the local economy, encourage awareness, become part of your community, think sustainability, and live a conscience life.
The Monday Market at Pioneer Courthouse Square is located between SW Broadway & SW 6th and SW Morrison & SW Yamhill.
Photo courtesy of B-Line Delivery.
B-Line Delivery brings fresh fruit to us every Monday morning. B-Line specializes in sustainable urban delivery for the urban core. Today we recived a delivery of fresh oranges by bike. Why not gather together as a business and take advantage of the sustainable alternatives surrounding us? Why not have your daily office needs delivered by bike? Start a compost at your workplace? Get rid of paper-cups and purchase mugs to share? Provide multiple recycling receptacles so folks don’t have a convenient excuse to rid things in the trash? Think local, organic, and sustainable.
| Development Tour: OHSU Center for Health & Healing and Schnitzer Campus Thursday, June 17 |
| Join ULI Oregon on June 17 as we visit the OHSU’s South Waterfront campus for a tour of the Center for Health and Healing (CHH) followed by a discussion with Mark Williams and Brian Newman of OHSU’s Campus Planning, Development and Real Estate department. The afternoon begins with a guided tour of the world’s first LEED Platinum medical facility. See first-hand 412,000 square feet of medical practice, surgery and imaging spaces, a gymnasium, pools, spa, and education and research areas. Then hear about the future of OHSU’s role in the South Waterfront and its plans for the 26 acres known as the Schnitzer Campus.Speakers: Brian Newman, OHSU Director of Campus Planning, Development and Real Estate Mark Williams, OHSU Associate Vice President for Campus Planning and Administration Thursday, June 17 Cost: $15 ULI members | $20 non-members Registration deadline: Monday, June 14
Register online at http://oregon.uli.org or by phone at |
06.09.10
Photos courtesy of iPad Apple Store.
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“As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues, President Obama is calling upon Americans to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. With the nation’s transportation system heavily reliant on petroleum, this change is unlikely to occur unless Americans transform the way we move ourselves and our goods around the nation”. -Brought to you by the City Club of Portland.
05.21.10
From the DJC Oregon, by Stephanie Basalyga: “Take four floors of space for the offices of a Portland architecture firm. Add 17 floors of apartments. Then top it all off with four rooftop wind turbines. The end result is a 23-story tower in downtown Portland that walked away with the “best in show” title at the Daily Journal of Commerce’s 2010 TopProjects event.
Held Thursday at the Oregon Convention Center, this year’s TopProjects event paid tribute to nearly 100 projects completed last year in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Twelve West, submitted by project designer ZGF Architects, took the top award as well as first place in the category of private buildings valued at more than $100 million. Members of the project team recognized included project developers Gerding Edlen Development and Downtown Development Inc., project engineer Glumac and general contractor Hoffman Construction”.
I’m not sure what else I could add to this except, “Wow”— and that we knew you were worthy all along Indigo. You have made us proud. Fun to live in, to work in, to look at from many vantage points— and now, pedigreed. Just thought you should know that where you reside, where your head hits the pillow every night, is an award winning place. Not just your home, but a place others get inspiration. Perhaps we are a beacon unto the future.
Photo Courtesy of Timberline Lodge.
Zip in, Eat out, and Snowboard to Nirvana
Not exactly in that order, but when I thought about writing last week, I figured the first blog I did should reflect what I cared about- it could become an introduction to me. Not so fast, actually, the scribbles you first saw could reflect what I would blog about in the future.
Naturally, my first inclination was to blog about the Blazers, but as their meeting with the Suns in the recent Playoffs proved— they were more like the propane on a BBQ grill than a proper flame. They had moments, but were very inconsistent this season as to which team would show up. Some games I thought I was watching the pilot light on the grill. Nevertheless, given all the adversity, they did well to make it into the Playoffs this year . . .
So what to write about, my first love taken from me so quickly once again. Well, perhaps a more prosaic approach would suffice. I’ll write about things I love, and things I’m interested in: Food and sustainable ways to live and be. In a world of oil slicks and Katrina-like flooding, the later can be a real challenge, but fortunately Portland’s lively food scene has got my back.
Zip, zip, zip away. Sounds like a futuristic option really. Just waive your card across the windshield, get into a random car, and drive away. Almost like you stole it! Except it comes with gas and insurance. That to me is what the Zip Car experience reminds me of. While I wish their was a parking spot right on the 12th Avenue side of our building, I still believe that Portland is the natural choice for this burgeoning part of our “shared future”. Ownership of individual things is not the most important aspect. Sure, it’s a fundamental part of our property law, that being, the ability to exclude— but it’s not sustainable and truthfully it’s not right. You won’t use a boat everyday, you may not use a car everyday. ERGO, let’s share. A new principle I believe we can all get behind, “Share unto others as you would have them share unto you.”
05.02.10
Photo Courtesy of the Portland Sustainability Institute.
What is the Portland Sustainability Institute? Here are some words from Portland’s Sustainability Institute explaining who they are:
“We were founded in 2009 to systematically bring together business, higher education, nonprofit and municipal leaders to drive a set of next-generation initiatives for urban sustainability in the Portland metro region. The goal — big and game changing ideas that weave together community livability, ecological resiliency, and broad-based prosperity. We believe the results will fuel business and policy innovation, enhance our quality of life, and create cities and neighborhoods that are not just sustainable, but restorative”.
Upcoming Workshop
Workshop: The Gateway to EcoDistrict Pilot: This interactive workshop will deliver the results of several months of EcoDistrict assessment and exploration in Gateway. PoSI collaborated with a group of PSU graduate students to engage the Gateway community and collect data to inform strategy recommendations. The workshop will include a presentation of community feedback and data collected as well as recommendations for development focus areas and key strategies. Free and open to the public.
Held Wednesday, May 12th, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 12505 NE Halsey St
Photo Courtesy of Brian Libby
The News is out from Portland Architecture:
“For all of Portland’s leadership in the field of sustainable design, the city and its architecture firms have been continually on the outside looking in when it comes to the biggest national architecture prize for green buildings, The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment’s Top Ten Green Projects list”. Read the full article.