Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network - GPSEN

Spent the day with sustainability people-AOR's 2019 Fall On the Road Tour: Cruising to the Coast on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019.

Yes!  It really was a fascinating visit to the Tryon Creek Waste Water Treatment plant, in Lake Oswego.  https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/publicworks/tryon-creek-wastewater-treatment-plant-project I didn't realize how many cycles of cleaning and aerating the water goes through before being pumped into the Willamette.  It would be worth scheduling...

Good question!  I do my best to avoid the list of items here, such as carrying a metal straw in a cutlery case, along with bamboo silverware and chopsticks, several reusable mugs, and cloth bags.  But, sometimes vegetable bags get me, or more like plastic bags in the bulk section.  I tend to reuse plastic bags at home, but I forget to put them...

Talking with them and learning about their lives. Then I can engage with them and cultivate that deeper connection.

Canning is new to me, so I'm starting small with apple sauce. 

The trees in our neighborhood seem to be the most impacted. We've had a lot of trees cut in our neighborhood in the past few months, with no effort to replant, and it really hurts me to see the short-term mindset without anyone seeming to understand the consequences.

It wasn't hard - I use it for getting to the gym we go to. We just walk to a local station either a TriMet train or a streetcar, and use the connections we need as they arrive.

I'm kinda fine. But I'm also kinda concerned that world news this week seems to be downplaying our current (Oct. 2019) risk of 'loose USA nukes' in Turkey! (Incirlik AB, near Syrian border). ...Beyond geopolitical/global security, seems like an environmental risk of paramount importance....

Challenge is going really well! 

I just bought carbon off-sets for a mentoring trip that I took.  Sometimes when I offer these types of trainings I am able to do them by live-streaming and webinars.  I am going to take the presentation and turn it into a video so that others can watch it without me having to fly to them.  Happy to advise via the phone and social media tools,...