Most environmental organizations, in response to today's challenges, advocate answers: sustainability
Illahee Forum
Since 1999, Illahee has brought over 100 environmental, social, and economic innovators to Portland. The Illahee Forum has consistently been in the vanguard of exploring topics crucial to the fabric of our culture here in the Pacific Northwest, and to the survival of our civilization on the planet. As we chart a course for our next decade, we must look back and take stock of what we have learned.
11/26/2017
Please join us for an informal closing reception on Monday 27 November. 5:30 - 6:30 pm, in PNCA’s Design Corridor, 2nd Floor (511 NW Broadway).
The following week, our pop-up sharing space opens on Thursday 7 December. 5:30 - 7:30, 1st Thursday Reception and Open House (511 NW Broadway).
Over-consumption and waste: many of us are aware of these twin problems but, what can we do to help? How can we start shifting our own entrenched habits?
10/12/2017
PNCA students physically exploring economic inequality via quintile modeling in a workshop led by Chuck Collins and Rob Dietz, Post Carbon Institute. Chuck & Rob speak on Equity & Sustainability 7pm tonight at PNCA. http://pnca.edu/graduate/events/cd
09/28/2017
Oct 12 7:00PM Reducing Inequality on a Finite Planet:
How Equity is the Underappreciated Cornerstone of a Sustainable Society
Chuck Collins and Rob Dietz, Post Carbon Institute.
http://www.postcarbon.org/events/reducing-inequality-on-a-finite-planet/
Daryl Jones: Leadership in Times of Crisis
Please join us for another Twilight Talk this afternoon, April 19.
Our guest, Daryl Jones, will talk about his research on leadership and decision-making in times of crisis. His findings suggest we need to re-think leadership.
Where: PNCA (511 NW Broadway) in BridgeLab (1st Floor, NW corner).
When: Happy hour starts at 5pm. Talks begin at 5:30.
11/09/2016
Eliza Byard on Twitter “This is how the future voted. This is what people 18-25 said in casting their votes. We must keep this flame alight and nurture this vision.”
11/04/2016
Anyone in PDX who's in need of a place for catharsis during these very emotional and polarizing times should come out and attend The Remedy Club: Not At The Dinner Table on tonight at 6pm. We've got a great panel line up and would love to add your voice to the conversation!
The Remedy Club Returns: Not At The Dinner Table This edition of THE REMEDY CLUB invites you to bring everything you can't say at the dinner table. Held 4 days before this year's (draining, unsettling) presidential election, this event aims to provide everyone with cocktails and as much conversation and catharsis as possible. We can tell we all ne...
01/12/2015
Pre-game Portland style:
TODAY, 4 PM
The Bison Building, 421 NE 10th, Portland 97232
Sensing and participating in numbers: creative outcomes (for designers!) of the new numeracy project.
Dr. Wakeford will explore a research project, funded by Intel, which sought to look at numbers not in terms of the learning of math (and associated discourse of talent and phobias) but rather in terms of knowing, sensing and participating.
Nina Wakeford is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.