Tag Archives: Design and Engineering

Urban Greenspaces Institute

Mission statement:  To ensure that parks, regional trail systems, greenways and greenspaces are integrated with the built environment in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region; and to promote urban greenspace efforts nationally and internationally.

Motto: “In Livable Cities is Preservation of the wild.”

According to the webpage this motto was “chosen as a correlary to Henry David Thoreau’s aphorism, In Wildness is the Preservation of the Wild.”

The Group’s focus is on preserving and introducing nature and wilderness into urban areas.

Organization Type: Non-Governmental Organization

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(503) 319-7155

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Urban Greenspace Institute
 PO Box 6903 Portland, OR 97228-6903

Cogentech Inc

From their website:

“COGENTECH, Inc. is a Professionally Licensed Engineering and General Contracting Corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon.  We are focused EXCLUSIVELY on power project development, Engineering / Procurement / Construction (EPC), and Build / Own / Operate / Maintain (B.O.O.M.)  services for custom, on-site energy projects.

We specialize in the custom application of proven and cost-effective Combined Heat & Power (CHP) and renewable biofuel technologies for industrial, agricultural and commercial business end-users.”

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

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(503) 203-2695

Address

PO Box 3246 Wilsonville, OR 97070

Portland Permaculture Guild

The Portland Permaculture Guild is an informal group dedicated to permaculture as a system of conscious, sustainable, ecological design.  They offer classes, workshops and other activities based on public interest.  They often work with other like-minded organizations in the region to promote sustainability education and implementation.

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Northwest Association of Environmental Professionals

The Northwest Association of Environmental Proffesionals (NWAEP) is a group of Washington and Oregon environmental professionals whose goal is to provide opportunities for the professional development and recognition of members through meetings, conferences, and other activities.  According to the webpage:

Membership in the Northwest Association of Environmental Professionals is open to anyone in the Northwest who is involved or interested in the environmental professions and who conducts their work in accordance with the Environmental Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice. By definition, an “environmental professional” is someone who either earns their livelihood from, or has a specific skill or experience in, one or more environmental areas. Included in this broad category are environmental managers, engineers, consultants, educators, regulators, attorneys, vendors and suppliers, technicians, activists, and students, among others.

Many members of NWAEP are also affiliated with the National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP), but membership in the latter organization is not required.

They are a nonpolitical and interdisciplinary organization.  They promote advancement in scientific education, planning, research, assessment, review and management.

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NWAEP PO Box 141 Portland, OR 97207

Ecotrust Canada

There mission states: Ecotrust Canada is an enterprising nonprofit whose purpose is to build the conservation economy in coastal BC and beyond. We work at the intersection of conservation and community economic development promoting innovation and providing services for communities, First Nations and enterprises to green and grow their local economies.

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

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(604) 682-4141

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200 -1238 Homer St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 2Y5 Canada

City Repair Project

As stated on the webpage, “City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.”

City Repair emphasizes sustainability through localization.  With Placemaking as a sustainability strategy, they hope to foster engaged and active relationships between community members and the spaces they inhabit.  They assist community members in creating communal and ecologically oriented places through educational or hands-on projects such as Intersection Repair and Village Building Conference.

Other City Repair fields include:

•Urban Planning and Design

•Ecological and Social Sustainability

•Community resource localization

•Nonhierarchical decision-making

•Equality, diversity and peace

•Cultural identity and Bioregionalism

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(503) 235-8946

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PO Box 42615 Portland, OR 97242

Northwest EcoBuilding Guild

The NEG is a non-profit of “builders, designers, suppliers, homeowners, and partners concerned with ecological building in the Pacific Northwest.” The guild’s seven chapters organize tours, workshops, and other resources related to sustainable architecture. The Code Innovations Database, produced by the guild in cooperation with Thurston County, is “a clearinghouse of examples of successfully permitted green building, high performance and other innovative design strategies, materials and technologies.”

Mission: The guild’s stated mission is “to support through education the progressive work of our members in the Pacific Northwest in order to improve the relationship between our communities and our built environment.”

Vision: To offer a wide array of sustainable building resources, connect design professionals interested in sustainable systems, and spread awareness of the possibilities for sustainability and green action in architecture and design in the Pacific Northwest.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(206) 575-2222

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P.O. Box 58530, Seattle, WA 98138