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Event date: Sep 25, 2010
Event location: Various locations around Portland
On Saturday, September 25th, thousands of volunteers will clean up Oregon’s beaches from the California border to the Columbia River—and also work along rivers, creeks, lakes and other waterways throughout Oregon and SW Washington—improving the quality of water that we all use for drinking, recreation, agriculture and more. This is the first year that SOLV has expanded our popular fall beach cleanup to include more...
Event date: Aug 27, 2010
Event location: Mid-County Health Center, 12710 SE Division Street
For the first time in Portland, artwork by 15 artists representing a variety of Portland's ethnic communities will become a permanent exhibition at Multnomah County Health Department's Mid County Health Center. The Mid County Health Center is the only community clinic that provides refugee health screening services. Artist Kwa Franklin's painting of his family life in Cameroon will be displayed along with Shu-Ju more...
Event date: Sep 25, 2010
Event location: A tour of sites featuring green building applications around the city of Portland and free info fair at Ecohaus, 819 Southeast Taylor Street
Presented by the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, twenty-two inspiring and innovative green residential projects will be open around the Portland Metropolitan Area. Chat with homeowners and contractors about small space living, Passive House, ecoroofs, rainwater harvesting, natural landscaping, affordable housing, aging-in-place, water and energy conservation, healthy building materials, alternative more...
Mayor Sam Adams announced last week that the City of Portland has re-launched the fully functional version of Business Portland (www.Portland4biz.com), a new web site that connects Portland businesses to resources to help them grow and prosper. Developed by the City of Portland and the Portland Development Commission, Business Portland is envisioned as the go-to resource for local companies to find information related more...
Event date: Jul 17, 2010 → Jul 18, 2010
Event location: Ed Benedict Community Park
The East Portland Exposition is a weekend community festival with 11 live bands and multicultural performances, great food, lots of exhibitors, a multicultural share fair, a fun center with a water slide and other inflatables as well as a rock wall, and free health testing. We will also be showing Transformers on Saturday and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Sunday starting at dusk. There is no entry fee. more...
Event date: Jun 5, 2010
Event location: Port of Portland Headquarters
Join us for a fun afternoon at the Port's brand new headquarters at PDX! Tours and presentations will be given on the building's green elements, including a large ecoroof and an onsite wastewater treatment plant, the Living Machine.® Other Port project updates and displays will also be on-hand. Validated parking available in the long-term parking garage. more...
City Repair's Village Building Convergence (VBC) is pleased to announce that its housing search has begun! Looking for a way to meet fabulous folk and get a free ticket to the VBC in the meantime? Host a visitor in your home and get one ticket for every night you host an out of town visitor! This ticket is good for a pass to the evening's events or towards one of the daily workshops. We will do the work to match you more...
Governor Ted Kulongoski and Portland Mayor Sam Adams today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the City of Portland and State of Oregon $20 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) funds for residential and commercial energy retrofits across the state. More than 150 communities submitted applications worth more than $3.5 billion for the $452 million available. The Portland and Oregon more...
Help families get adjusted to their new homes and community by volunteering with Human Solutions. We are looking for volunteers who have the following experience: Knowledge of nutrition/cooking for a diabetic Mentoring a 14 year old girl (would like a young female adult) Mentoring a 24 year old single mom of 3 Mentoring a Spanish speaking more...
Community art project invites Portland residents and businesses to “represent” Making Place is a photo blog and community event that explores how cities are made, how they are made better, and how they are made worse, through open public participation. “Making Place Portland” will be featured at the city’s Open Engagement social-practice arts conference, May 15, 2:30 p.m., Portland more...