Sustainable Northwest Wood Reflects on the First Ever SBW!

Sustainable Building Week – Wow what a week! It’s been a week and a half since the first annual Sustainable Building Week (SBW) ended and I think I am finally rested up. The three goals of Sustainable Building Week were to empower design and building professionals to learn, connect and collaborate. I can say from first hand experience that all three of these goals were met for me. The week of 21 events was the result of a collaboration between eleven non-profit professional organizations and three local universities. Events during the week covered the gamut from A Walk in the Woods to an Innovation Bazaar to AIA’s Green Champions to a set of presentations from small firms called “Small but Mighty.” Continue reading here…
By Terry Campbell

Forest Bathing in Forest Park….
One of my favorite events of this first annual Sustainable Building Week was the Happy Hour Hike with The Build Local Alliance. Led by Forest Conservationist Michael Ahr and BLA co-founder and forest owner Peter Hayes of Hyla Woods, this educational stroll through Forest Park, got us out out of the office and into nature on a rare sunny October day in Portland… Continue reading
By Lynn Morgan