The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

The Ecological Design Center is proud to offer a Portland Stormwater Tour on Saturday, April 5th. We will be visiting four locations in Portland to see a variety of creative designs to manage stormwater. These are the locations as well as who will be talking to us:

Metro Headquarters greenroof - Metro
Oregon Convention Center rain garden - Mayer-Reed
10th & Hoyt Apartments - Steven Koch
Tanner Springs Park - Greenworks

We will be leaving from the UO campus at 8 in the morning and returning by 6 in the evening with a lunch break in the Pearl District. Space is limited to 12 people so please RSVP as soon as you can commit.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

1st Annual - Sustainable Business Symposium


University Of Oregon School Of Law


April 11, 2008
Room 184


No charge for admission.


Directions to the event


9:00-10:35

Renewable Energy Policy Panel
Challenges and Opportunities in Renewable Energy Production, Distribution, and Consumption


Moderator: Erin Anderson, Attorney, Stoel Rives

* Michael Grainey, Director, Oregon Dept. of Energy
* State Representative Kathleen Law, Michigan
* Toan Nguyen, Lead Development Attorney, PPM Energy
* Steven Schell, Partner, Black Helterline
* Dick Varner, Power Management & Planning Supervisor, EWEB


10:35-10:45


Break
10:45-12:20


Sustainable Development and Green Building
Creating Communities and Buildings that
Embrace the New Green Ethos

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

Be a Hero. Take SETA's Vegan Challenge! (April 14th - 18th, 2008)


As part of UO's Earthweek, SETA is asking you to be a hero and take the Vegan Challenge. Spend a week eating for life! By enjoying a plant-based diet, you will:
** Save animal lives (both domestic and wild).
** Greatly reduce your carbon footprint.
** Boycott factory farming and the exploitation of other animals.
** Use less land, oil, and water. Cause less pollution.
** Eat plenty of healthy, good stuff.
SETA's Vegan Challenge week asks people to adopt a vegan diet for at least a week (any consecutive seven days you choose), enjoying plant-based foods instead of buying any animal's flesh, cow's milk, or chicken's eggs. This is a great chance to prove to yourself that you can live a healthy life without sacrificing anybody else's life or freedom.

Monday, April 14th
Cascadia Rising Tide: Connecting the links to a broader movement
5-6:30 PM FIR ROOM
Monica Vaughan, an Organizer from Rising Tide Cascadia addresses how we need to start thinking strategically about how to spark a nationwide uprising against the fossil fuel industry that not only disrupts business as usual, but inspires widespread resistance.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

Be a Hero. Take SETA's Vegan Challenge! (April 14th - 18th, 2008)


As part of UO's Earthweek, SETA is asking you to be a hero and take the Vegan Challenge. Spend a week eating for life! By enjoying a plant-based diet, you will:
** Save animal lives (both domestic and wild).
** Greatly reduce your carbon footprint.
** Boycott factory farming and the exploitation of other animals.
** Use less land, oil, and water. Cause less pollution.
** Eat plenty of healthy, good stuff.
SETA's Vegan Challenge week asks people to adopt a vegan diet for at least a week (any consecutive seven days you choose), enjoying plant-based foods instead of buying any animal's flesh, cow's milk, or chicken's eggs. This is a great chance to prove to yourself that you can live a healthy life without sacrificing anybody else's life or freedom.

Tuesday, April 15th
6 PM Lawrence 115- CASL presents a green cleaning workshop.
Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living (CASL) models ecologically and socially sustainable technologies and living practices that are both practical and rewarding. CASL is in the process of converting a university house into a green living demo house but while we wait join us to learn about non-toxic, low impact, inexpensive cleaning and other household products as well as general ways to reduce your waste output. Look out for more workshops from CASL this term and email casl@uoregon.edu for more information.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

Be a Hero. Take SETA's Vegan Challenge! (April 14th - 18th, 2008)


As part of UO's Earthweek, SETA is asking you to be a hero and take the Vegan Challenge. Spend a week eating for life! By enjoying a plant-based diet, you will:
** Save animal lives (both domestic and wild).
** Greatly reduce your carbon footprint.
** Boycott factory farming and the exploitation of other animals.
** Use less land, oil, and water. Cause less pollution.
** Eat plenty of healthy, good stuff.
SETA's Vegan Challenge week asks people to adopt a vegan diet for at least a week (any consecutive seven days you choose), enjoying plant-based foods instead of buying any animal's flesh, cow's milk, or chicken's eggs. This is a great chance to prove to yourself that you can live a healthy life without sacrificing anybody else's life or freedom.

Wednesday April 16th
6 PM-7:30 Coquille and Metoluis
Stephanie Boston, an organizer from Stumptown Earth First! The
Portland Animal Defense League, and Rising Tide North America will be giving an interactive presentation on breaking down systems of social and environmental oppression, and making links between radical ecofeminism and environmental ethics.
Stephanie recently completed the Radical Eco-Feminist West Coast Spring tour, presenting a two hour presentation with another womyn that recognizes "the need for radical analysis over reformist thinking- working to drastically change the system rather than working within it". The presentation also emphasizes the importance of animal liberation into the radical-feminist-environmental analysis.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

Be a Hero. Take SETA's Vegan Challenge! (April 14th - 18th, 2008)


As part of UO's Earthweek, SETA is asking you to be a hero and take the Vegan Challenge. Spend a week eating for life! By enjoying a plant-based diet, you will:
** Save animal lives (both domestic and wild).
** Greatly reduce your carbon footprint.
** Boycott factory farming and the exploitation of other animals.
** Use less land, oil, and water. Cause less pollution.
** Eat plenty of healthy, good stuff.
SETA's Vegan Challenge week asks people to adopt a vegan diet for at least a week (any consecutive seven days you choose), enjoying plant-based foods instead of buying any animal's flesh, cow's milk, or chicken's eggs. This is a great chance to prove to yourself that you can live a healthy life without sacrificing anybody else's life or freedom.

Sustainability is not a trend; it is the social movement of our time. To embrace this social movement we must fundamentally transform the way we think. Through design we draw on difference to strengthen the link between our individual creativity, our society, and the environment. As we synthesize these currently disparate ecologies, we locate an intersection of values that can inspire our attitudes and actions.


Keynote Speakers: Natalie Jeremijenko, Randolph Hester, John Abrams, Eric Corey Freed, and Nate Cormier.


HOPES Website

Thursday April 17th
7 PM Willamette 100
SETA presents "Peaceable Kingdom" part of Earth Celebration Movie Series. compelling behind-the-scenes stories of farmed animals, former farmers,and animal rescuers, struggling against an out of control agricultural system that hardens us humans and treats our fellow animals like pieces of meat. Despite these challenges, Peaceable Kingdom offers us an inspirational and poignant vision of a more peaceful world that is well within our reach.

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

Be a Hero. Take SETA's Vegan Challenge! (April 14th - 18th, 2008)


As part of UO's Earthweek, SETA is asking you to be a hero and take the Vegan Challenge. Spend a week eating for life! By enjoying a plant-based diet, you will:
** Save animal lives (both domestic and wild).
** Greatly reduce your carbon footprint.
** Boycott factory farming and the exploitation of other animals.
** Use less land, oil, and water. Cause less pollution.
** Eat plenty of healthy, good stuff.
SETA's Vegan Challenge week asks people to adopt a vegan diet for at least a week (any consecutive seven days you choose), enjoying plant-based foods instead of buying any animal's flesh, cow's milk, or chicken's eggs. This is a great chance to prove to yourself that you can live a healthy life without sacrificing anybody else's life or freedom.

Sustainability is not a trend; it is the social movement of our time. To embrace this social movement we must fundamentally transform the way we think. Through design we draw on difference to strengthen the link between our individual creativity, our society, and the environment. As we synthesize these currently disparate ecologies, we locate an intersection of values that can inspire our attitudes and actions.


Keynote Speakers: Natalie Jeremijenko, Randolph Hester, John Abrams, Eric Corey Freed, and Nate Cormier.


HOPES Website

The EDC's new competition! Submit your studio project to the Top Ten Green Projects competition and see how it stacks up.

Winners will be announced at HOPES 14, and their work will be displayed at the conference and archived on the EDC's website. For more information, go to the Top Ten Green Projects website.

Sustainability is not a trend; it is the social movement of our time. To embrace this social movement we must fundamentally transform the way we think. Through design we draw on difference to strengthen the link between our individual creativity, our society, and the environment. As we synthesize these currently disparate ecologies, we locate an intersection of values that can inspire our attitudes and actions.


Keynote Speakers: Natalie Jeremijenko, Randolph Hester, John Abrams, Eric Corey Freed, and Nate Cormier.


HOPES Website

This tenth annual Earth Day Celebration is an environmentally-based event that celebrates the Earth and its resources. This year’s event theme is "Power to Change" and features educational activity booths, the John H. Baldwin Film & Lecture Series, two musical stages, a Procession of All Species, and much more! The event is produced by the volunteer efforts of the Earth Day Steering Committee.

Earth Day 2008 Website