Join Brad Lancaster (author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series), Dave Elkin of Greenworks, Lisa Petterson of SERA Architects, Kati Falger and Chris Heckman (residents of Kailash Eco Village), and Kevin Cavenaugh of TENPOD and the Burnside Rocket, to bike-tour dynamic projects pushing beyond mere sustainability (baseline survival), and aiming for integrated regeneration (thriving evolution).
All these sites and the people behind them aim to turn “problems” into solutions, as they harvest and enhance free, local, on-site resources to reduce or eliminate the “need” to import costly, polluting, off-site resources.
Date: Friday, June 1, 2012
Time: 1–6 pm (followed by an optional dinner at Noble Rot—seating limited!)
Address: Meet at Shattuck Hall Annex on the PSU Campus (1914 SW Park Ave, Portland)
Link to: Proposed Map (in-between sites will be visited as time allows)
Cost: Tour is free, but bring CASH if you’d like to eat or drink at Noble Rot after the conclusion of the tour
What you should bring: Your bike, water, snacks, $ if you want to eat or drink at the Noble Rot afterward
Link to a self-guided sustainable stormwater bike tour folks can do on their own: www.portlandonline.com/bes/index.cfm?c=34604&a=53568

• The Oregon Sustainability Center, to see how the center was planned to shift from a consumer of resources to a producer of resources, achieving the Living Building Challenge of being net-zero energy, water, and waste;
• The Kailash Ecovillage, to see and hear the story of how an old apartment complex and its grounds are being converted into an ecovillage that turns “wastes” into resources for its residents and neighbors;
• The Burnside Rocket and Noble Rot, to learn how very simple and inexpensive strategies are being used to grow food on site, and passively heat and cool the building in a very urban setting; and
• Sustainable Stormwater projects passively turning stormwater flooding liabilities into free irrigation assets producing food, shade, wildlife habitat, clean air, fish, and more.
After the bike tour and dinner, Brad will be giving a free public talk, Beneficial Ruins and Water Webs, back at PSU’s Shattuck Hall Annex.
FMI: Kai Pannu, (971) 244-3548.