Supporting the local/sustainable community
www.live2blocal.com
Bikram’s Beginning Hatha Yoga is a scientifically formulated series of 26 postures and two breathing exercises. Bikram worked with his teacher, Bishnu Ghosh, to create a series of postures designed to heal the body from chronic illness and/or injury and to maintain the body in a healthy condition. Bikram stresses that by “healing the body” he means removing the symptoms of ill health. Bikram’s Yoga is therefore both rehabilitative and preventative.
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
- Sister Corita Kent
Green Hammer is a multi-disciplinary team of architects, construction managers, certified Building Performance Institute specialists, Certified Passive House Consultants, engineers, LEED AP’s, FSC millwrights, skilled craftspeople, and dedicated staff. Our team has the capacity to design, engineer, and build the most energy-efficient buildings in the world. Additionally, Green Hammer’s sister company, Urban Timber Works, a small urban log salvage, milling, and wood processing company, provides Green Hammer with exceptional local wood products from large slabs to trim material.
We have a deep commitment to using non-toxic, low carbon footprint, and ecologically sound systems and products on all of our projects. Green Hammer is currently the only Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody (COC) certified building company in the United States. We have taken this step to not only support a type of natural resource management we believe in, but to invest in a future where grand biodynamic forests thrive for the generations to come.
To conserve natural resources our designers and builders focus on reuse and repurposing of materials first. Our build team is fully committed to the reduce, reuse and recycle mantra on site integrated with our time proven waste management systems allowing us to claim 90% and higher waste recycling rates on our sites. Green Hammer further diverts waste from the landfill by utilizing salvaged materials from the deconstruction process and suppliers like Rebuilding Center and our own Urban Timberworks log salvage and milling company for use during the construction and restoration process.
We support regionally based craftsmen, suppliers and manufacturers to keep our dollars within our community. We are dedicated to preferring local, responsible sources first within reason of the project goals. For instance we use only lumber salvaged locally or from Oregon forest stewards committed to FSC standards or better. Our efforts hope to ensure the restoration of our Oregon forests, decrease fossil fuel dependence, benefit local jobs and enhance connections in the local economy.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau
• Organics to You is a locally owned and operated Portland organic produce delivery company. We’ve been delivering the finest, farm fresh, local organic produce and groceries since early 2001.
• How does our service work? Organics to You Works with Local Farmers directly and with other local purveyors of organic produce, that deliver the produce to our warehouse in central S.E. Portland, then from there, to you to enjoy! There are lots of different sizes of produce boxes to choose from along with some grocery needs you may have. All you need to do is sign up and the best, freshest, local, organic produce will come to your door!
Why do people choose our service?
• One reason One reason to choose Organics to You would be quality of goods we deliver, but beyond that, there is a convenience factor, and overall value you get from our delivery. We have had price comparison shopped the contents in our boxes and have found it our favor, even by $20 or so, sometimes…
We also offer a wide range of organic groceries, so with Organics To You not onlycan you save money, but you can also save time by not going to store, and the frustration of traffic, along with those impulse purchases people can make at stores and “shopping club” database systems which can hide the full price of things on the shelf. You get none of that with us.
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it.
- Curtis Judalet
VOIS is uniting forward-thinking business leaders, nonprofits, policymakers and individuals to create a prosperous and sustainable future for our region. By joining together to create a large, coordinated community of like-minded sustainability professionals, we create a Voice for Oregon Innovation & Sustainability.
A healthy sustainable business is a fantastic vehicle to create social change. VOIS is founded in the idea that if we encourage businesses to become sustainable, and if we support those sustainable business so that they can become successful, they will begin to change the world around them through their impact on their employees, their vendors, their customers, and then eventually their legislators. People who start businesses tend to be leaders in every area of their lives. They embody the entrepreneurial spirit that can solve the world’s problems. If they have sustainability as a base, it means that they are looking at these problems and solutions holistically, in a way that ensures health and true prosperity for the whole planet in the long term. If this is a good description of you and your business now, or if it a good description of where you’d like to be in the future, please join us.
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day’s great sun. ~Charles Hanson Towne www.live2blocal.com
Located at the Sachi Wellness Center, our unique space provides a range of therapeutic equipment for you to create your own relaxation and healing experience. We offer 60 minute private sessions for you to enjoy the space by yourself or with your guest.
In addition to our self-service modalities, we are proud to be the first wellness spa to offer magnetic resonance stimulation in the Portland area, which will be assisted by our trained staff.
Clean Energy Works Oregon (CEWO) is a non-profit program established to reduce energy waste by encouraging homeowners to take direct action. CEWO is transforming the old into new, restoring our communities and reviving our economy. Our plan is to transform at least 6,000 homes in only three years.
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
- Oprah Winfrey
