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The Rebuilding Center is hosting a fundraising Event
(May 19, 2010 • Calendar of Events, Sustainability in Portland • 0 comments
OPEN THE DOOR TO SUSTAINABILITY
Please join us on June 19th to celebrate the
vibrancy of sustainability in our region with
local food, one of a kind reclaimed art and
entertainment .
Open the DOOR to Sustainability will be
Portland’s first waste-free fun(d)-raising
event full of recognition and continued joint
efforts to bring sustainable living to the
forefront of our communities. Show your
support for sustainability and the work of
The ReBuilding Center while enjoying the
spirit that makes our region such a unique
and wonderful place to live.
THE AUCTION
The event will feature a very special door carved by premiere Northwest artist, LeRoy Setziol, on display for the first time. To learn the unique story of how this door almost wound up in the landfill click here.
Inspired by the story of how LeRoy’s door came to The ReBuilding Center and by his incredible craftsmanship, over 50 local artists created original works of art from our own salvaged doors. Each art door embodies the ethos of sustainability. These doors will be auctioned at the event — offering a unique opportunity to own an original work of art by a talented local artist. For more information about the doors and the artists behind them, click here.
An exciting “Best of Live” raffle offers the opportunity to win the Live Auction item of your choice for only $100. Only 100 tickets will be sold.
The auction event will be full to the brim with amazing packages and items including:
- LeRoy Setziol hand carved door
- Sustainable art doors by local artist
- One Week vacation rental on Orcas Island
- Electric Scooter from Columbia Scooters
- Mt. Hood Meadows 2010-2011 Season Lift Tickets
- An escorted, behind the scenes tour of Trailblazers Central – for 15 people
- Two Nights of casual sophistication at the Nines Hotel
- “Romeo and Juliet” two night package at The Heathman Hotel
- One full year of Organic Valley Milk
- And so much more…
ENTERTAINMENT
In addition to a live and silent auction, guests will enjoy live music; local, organic food catered by Abby’s Table; and locally produced beers, wines and spirits. We hope you’ll join us.
While we already have many exciting auction items, there is always room for more! We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to support this event with a donation. Consider things like: pottery, stained glass, items made from salvaged materials, tickets, gift certificates, dinners, art, music and vacations. Get creative! Click here to learn how.
Strategic Partnership between Portland State University & PGE
(April 6, 2010 • Sustainability in Portland • 0 comments
This was a great announcement from Portland State University announcing a partnership between Portland State University and PGE. One of the new partnership’s goals is to enhance the study of energy and sustainable design.
Portland State is helping PGE with its plans to install 2,000 charging stations for electric cars. Portland is one of five test markets in the United States where Nissan is launching its Leaf electric cars in December.
Initiatives like these help keep Portland in the forefront of being a leader in sustainability. This is good for housing, remodeling and many other business sectors, because all of these initiatives create a very desirable quality of life in terms of our community.
News: President Wiewel formalizes partnership with PGE
It began with a simple request for a donation. Portland State University (PSU) needed money for science research. Portland General Electric (PGE) was willing to contribute, but its leaders wanted to do more than just write a check. The result: a new strategic partnership that will help push Portland to the cutting edge of innovation in electric vehicles and sustainable energy.
The partnership, formalized March 30 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, aims to bring more resources, jobs, and recognition to the entire Portland area.“It’s not about moving PSU forward or moving PGE forward, it’s about moving the region forward,” President Wim Wiewel said at the signing ceremony. “That’s really what we’re about.”
The public university and the private utility have already teamed up on issues such as preparing for a major launch of electric vehicles in Portland.“We can take research directly from the lab right to real life examples,” said Jim Piro, president and CEO of PGE. “We can talk about it in a school or classroom or research area, but then we can immediately transfer that to business applications, which is really exciting.”
Portland State is helping PGE with its plans to install 2,000 charging stations for electric cars. Portland is one of five test markets in the United States where Nissan is launching its Leaf electric cars in December.“The introduction of the electric vehicle is a big thunderbolt, and we have to be ready in this region,” Wiewel said. “We are really jointly helping create the future.”
Piro said the University could become a center of excellence around electric vehicles as PSU researchers study how drivers access the charging stations, whether the stations are in the right locations, and other consumer issues.
One of the new partnership’s goals is to enhance the study of energy and sustainable design. “We hope the partnership will help the University continue to expand our expertise in the technology that lies behind sustainability,” said Kevin Reynolds, chair of the Chemistry Department. “One of those critical technologies is renewable energy, energy without a carbon footprint.” In order to hit the ground running, the PGE Foundation gave Portland State $50,000 to create a new Renewable Energy Research Lab. The new lab space helped the University recruit chemistry professor Erik Johansson from the California Institute of Technology to develop photovoltaic devices that are more efficient and robust.
Wiewel and Piro agree that the partnership allows the two institutions to leverage their resources and bring in more partners and funding to do more for the Portland area. “What happens to this region is totally critical to our well-being as institutions,” Wiewel said. “And what we do as institutions critically contributes to the well-being of the region.”
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