In what some would call a bad part of northern Portland, Oregon, and what others call home by choice or necessity, a parent photographs a crosswalk especially dangerous to children, while another snaps a shot of a boarded up former school, which now serves by default as a playground and site of nightly gang violence. [...]
Lydia Doleman is the founder of Flying Hammer Productions, a natural building company in Portland, OR focused on infusing the urban fabric with natural materials and empowering people to create their own healthy, natural beautiful spaces.
Lydia has nine years of experience working in the area of natural building. Her projects span a diverse range [...]
Ecovillages exist all over the place. These intentional communities involve people sharing resources and values of social, economic, and ecological sustainability.
Here in Portland, Oregon, there is one opening up within city limits, with the vision to be “an urban cohousing community creating caring, supportive relationships with each other, the larger community, and the earth.”
Columbia Ecovillage [...]
Have you ever walked past a fig tree bursting with delicious ripe fruit and wondered hmmm, “just one, I bet that would be ok.” Urban Edibles took that feeling and ran with it, creating an online resource to reconnect Portlanders with the vast wild food sources at their fingertips.
Portland, Oregon is known as one [...]
Compost toilets, grey water, cob, eco-villages– these terms are entering mainstream vocabulary more and more. Yet many old-fashioned codes and regulations are holding people back from adopting earth-friendly homes and lifestyles.
Recode Portland is an initiative to address this incongruity. Started by folks over on Tryon Community Farm, they believe that codes and regulations have not [...]
“Children have a natural affinity towards nature. Dirt, water, plants, and small animals attract and hold children’s attention for hours, days, even a lifetime” -Natural Learning, Robin C. Moore and Herb H Wong
How do we expect children raised by computers, indoor classrooms, and blacktop playgrounds to feel any connection to the earth or care about [...]
I had fun taking the ‘Women, Environment, and Activism’ class this Fall. Our PSU class learned a lot this quarter. One of the most important things I learned was that land can recover. This quarter, our class has explored this both academically, and in person. When our instructor, Marlene Howell, met me last year, [...]
(editors note: Womyn is an alternate spelling of the word “woman” or “women” which some use as a way to remove the perception of gender bias)
In ‘The Spirit’s Terrain,’ Christopher Childs postulates that we would do well to work towards a ‘world garden.[1]‘ The idea is to promote a worldwide sense of stewardship and spiritual [...]
