green building Archives - Ecotrust

Defining direction for a regional climate response

We're working hard to shed new light on our regional opportunity to draw carbon out of the atmosphere.

Mike Mertens
October 22, 2018 23 October 2018

illustration of city skyline with buildings covered in greenery.

Biomimicry and the Urban Greenprint SeedKit

Urban Greenprint contributes this piece on looking to biomimicry to inform building nature-forward urban environments.

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April 26, 2017 27 April 2017

Three things to watch as tall wood buildings rise in the Northwest

A closer look at opportunities in the burgeoning Cross Laminated Timber market.

Brent Davies
February 4, 2017 11 September 2018

Environmental Justice leader Van Jones joins audience members at Portland State University for a photo

Forging a future economy with equity at its heart basis of Van Jones presentation at Portland State University

Van Jones speaks at Portland State University on the essential connection between the environment, social justice, and the economy.

Noah Enelow
November 10, 2015 10 November 2015

old flyer advertising the Portland truck terminal, ephemera

The Old McCracken Warehouse

We were looking for a place to call home, and in 1998, we found it in a turn-of-the-century warehouse ready for renewal.

Spencer B. Beebe
March 26, 2015 27 April 2015

Two women facing away from the camera, perched on a brick wall, dappled sunlight, trees outside of the rooftop terrace

Meet a Sundown sponsor: Portfolio 21

Portfolio 21's founder, Carsten Henningsen, answers our questions about the company and Portland.

Courtney Moss
June 11, 2014 01 October 2014

Viridian revives old wood

The wood—Jakarta Market Blend—arrived as shipping crates from Japan. It was reclaimed within a mile of the Natural Capital Center, milled in North Portland, and eventually crafted by furniture designer and Ecotrust building engineer Joel Miller into four tables and …

Emma Deans
September 3, 2013 01 October 2014

Creating Portland’s green design atlas

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August 1, 2013 01 October 2014

Crystal Bowersox will take the stage at tomorrow’s Sundown concert

Green Hammer and Ecotrust are excited to welcome Crystal Bowersox with Wayward Vessel tomorrow evening (Wednesday, July 24) as we continue the 2013 Sundown series. Join us from 5:30pm-8:30pm and learn more about the night’s theme of Treasuring FORESTS. The “Sundown Kid’s …

Emma Deans
July 23, 2013 01 October 2014

Reflection on glass building with multicolor painting behind

A quantum leap in green building

By Dennis Hayes Sometimes, incremental innovations can’t produce quantum change. You can tinker with carbon paper forever without producing a photocopier. The quill pen did not lead to a typewriter, and not a single typewriter company evolved to personal computers. …

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January 18, 2013 29 July 2016