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SID21C Tours
Leaders of Sustainability Portland Tour, May 10-12, 2011
If you want to be a leader in sustainability,
then this is the tour for you, to learn first hand from other leaders in sustainability and their
lessons learned. The group will be split up into options – the first is Renewable Power and Green
Manufacturing – to learn about what’s happening with solar, wind, wave technology, as
well, as, green manufacturing. The second option is Sustainable Urban Planning and
Development. Here, you will get to meet with various departments and organizations affiliated with
the City of Portland to learn how they’ve become sustainable and made their programs work.
Under Sustainable Urban Planning and Development, you will also meet some local architects
and engineers, too.
This tour is limited to 10 sustainability leaders in the making – 5 for Renewable Power & 5 for
Sustainable Urban Planning and Development. In being sustainable, only public
transit will be used to get around Portland and its neighbouring communities.
If intersted contact nattalia at nattalia@shaw.ca
Past Tours
Sustainability in Action Tour, May 24-28, 2010.
Seattle:
Boeing Plant
Mithun Architects
Seattle Steam Company
Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment
Starbucks
LaFarge Cement Plant
Portland:
First Stop Portland
Nike
Oregon Economic & Community Development
Portland Office of Sustainability
THA Architects
CH2M Hill
SolarWorld
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