ILFI Portland Collaborative

Each individual green building is part of a larger attempt to find a truly sustainable built environment. As building professionals, we understand that a more sustainable future involves stakeholders beyond the building process. During this moderated panel, we will hear from architects and activists about the policy challenges at all levels of government, and about [...]

In 2015 the Paris Agreement forged a world-wide consensus on an ambitious but achievable target: limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since then, IPCC scientists, local governments and businesses of all scales have grappled with the paths to a carbon-free future, but one thing is clear: the building industry must radically accelerate ACTION [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. Sustainable Buildings for All (SB4A) is an effort to create an incentive policy to accelerate climate action in the building industry in Portland while centering equity and racial justice. This effort has been in progress for several years, has a continuously growing coalition of stakeholders, [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. As part of Sustainable Building Week 2020, Manufacturers for Transparency (MfT) is hosting an event focused on the experience of general and sub-contractors in this industry as it moves toward more transparency building products. General contractors and sub-contractors operate in the space between architects/designers and [...]