Category: portland
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Urban Chickens Build – 3
A crappy weather weekend, but some major progress today… :: the roof framing goes in :: the front plate is where the removable ecoroof will attach :: plywood goes on (window to the right, egg hatch capture door to the left) – giant shrubbery attacking the roof is from my overzealous pruning of the lilac…
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Yard Sharing
An article in today’s Oregonian has a bevy of local resources for one of the cooler trends of the urban agricultural movement, garden sharing, “… a trend that appears to be spreading roots across the metro area as apartment dwellers and landowners, strangers and neighbors unite to grow their food at a time when seed…
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Biophilic v. Technophilic Solutions
As part of an ongoing mapping project of green building and sites being conducted through a group of local architectural and environmental groups, a small side-committee of Oregon ASLA members is looking at dissecting the idea of sustainable sites. To this end, we are using the Sustainable Sites Initiative (as well as some other systems)…
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Urban Chickens Build – 2
A summation of days 2 & 3 of the experiment in urban chickens… with the final form framed out and the interior in place, ready for roof framing and plywood, and eventually ecoroof and siding. Should be habitable by this weekend… :: 2 walls down… :: and 3… :: and four… :: framing the interior…
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Urban Chickens Build – 1
After a lovely weekend day spent rounding up materials for the Experiment in Urban Chickens, I spent Monday putting together the foundation, floor and starting to frame out the walls… some pics. :: my trusty helper Ginger inspecting the building pad :: finished and level base to keep the chickens off the ground :: the…
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Experiment in Urban Chickens
I’ve posted before about the preponderance of urban chickens (especially in Portland) – and I just had to share the plans we have for our deluxe urban eco-coop in the back yard… (now if I could just register for LEED with this… 🙂 I’ll post some progress pics as is goes together… for now some…
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It’s a Quantity Thing…
It’s interesting to see the yardstick in which trends are measured… in the case of green roofs, it’s pretty easy to add up square footage and declare a winner. A recent post on Land8Lounge showed the annual sizing up of metropolitan areas in North America… and impressive listing for sure with a total of over…
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Bad Idea of the Week
It’s almost summer in Portland (aka the Rose City), thus time for the annual schlock-fest we like to consider the Rose Festival… in that spirit, the bad idea of the week goes to the tacky Neon Rose atop the John Yeon designed building (that previously was the visitor’s information center and has sadly sat partly…
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Clean Water Services – Field Operations Center
A recent trip out to a meeting at the Clean Water Services Field Operations Center yielded some interesting images of some of the innovative stormwater ideas that were implemented into this project, which opened in 2003. The design was completed by Pivot Architecture from Eugene, along with Murase Associates from Portland as landscape architect. ::…
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Plant Propaganda
A recent visit to the Clean Water Services Field Operations Center in Beaverton offered the added bonus of some interesting signage about native plantings… While I’m not a native purist by any means, I like the inventive way of conveying the idea. :: images by CWS – photos by author Stay tuned for some pics…