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Calling Portland’s Sustainable Small Businesses!

Calling Portland’s Sustainable Small Businesses!

ustainability. The word brings to mind such different images depending on who you ask. We know it’s important. We strive to attain, live and share its practices. But really…what does it look like and how does it change the way we do business?

That’s exactly the answer we’re hoping to provide by asking real businesses (small ones) in the Portland Metro area to contribute their sustainability practices in a new crowd-sourced book called “The Portland Bottom Line: Practices for Your Small Business From America’s Hotbed of Sustainability”.

Disturbed:  5 Mind-Bending Take-Aways from ReVisioning Value 2010

Disturbed: 5 Mind-Bending Take-Aways from ReVisioning Value 2010

At yesterday’s ReVisioning Value 2010 Conference, Amy Pearl of Springboard Innovation challenged us as participants to be disturbed and compelled to action by the ideas to which we were exposed. At the time, I thought, “What is she talking about? This is fantastic stuff, I’m totally pumped and motivated by all these ideas! What’s there to be disturbed about?” Yeah…that “disturbed” part sunk in on the way home.

Driving Community Impact with 4P’s:  Christmas for Kids and Majestic Eagle Agency

Driving Community Impact with 4P’s: Christmas for Kids and Majestic Eagle Agency

Here’s the thing that impressed me about Bill: the sheer degree of understatement with which he describes the Christmas for Kids program and his personal role in making it happen…it’s bewildering. My expectations about the program were blown away as Bill nonchalantly listed off a few of their community partners. Columbia Sportswear. Fred Meyer. The Standard. Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. Tigard Police Department. Local School Districts. United Healthcare. Kaiser Permanente.