{"id":225,"date":"2010-03-05T03:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=225"},"modified":"2010-03-05T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:16:10","slug":"portland-the-most-sustainability-conscious-u-s-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Portland: the Most Sustainability Conscious U.S. City"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Portland<\/a>

Portland is #1<\/p><\/div>\n

Since 2004 the growth of the search term on sustainability has been slow and bumpy, but UP.\u00a0 And the state with the highest volume of search? Oregon with Vermont close behind and in 2009 close to closing the gap.\u00a0 And while Eugene outpaces Portland if you look at the period 2004 to the present, Portland outpaces all U.S. cities in 2009. Denver is close behind. It would be a good thing for the cities lagging behind to benefit from the expertise here in Portland from the leaders among all economic sectors.\u00a0 \"SUSTAINABILITY\"<\/a>Starting from the bottom of the top ten, cities such as Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Diego, Minneapolis & St. Paul, Seattle-Tacoma, Raleigh-Durham, Boston, and Phoenix would benefit from a transfer of skills and expertise. This is part of the reason EarthSayers.tv has started the Portland Sustainability Leadership Channel <\/a>(PSLC).\u00a0 We collect already available videos from around YouTube that feature Portland’s leaders.\u00a0 Aggregating the content increases the likelihood of finding Portland’s leader from among the YouTube sea. Its search function is extremely limited. The PSLC is then linked to EarthSayers.tv <\/a>giving them national and international exposure. We twitter and tweet as well. Both YouTube (#4 on search volume) and twitter (no. 1 on fastest rising by 1250%) are heavily searched terms on Google and, as such, are busy places to reach an audience. While EarthSayers is new and growing, over the last two months there have been over 6,000 visits, with 2,000 of them being unique as visitors return 3x. We also create original content (thanks to filmmaker Barry Heidt) by interviewing leaders. The folks we have interviewed so far include Rob Bennett of the Portland Sustainability Institute,<\/a> Marcelo Bonta of the Center for Diversity and the Environment<\/a>, Dennis Wilde of Gerding Edlen Development Company,<\/a> Mary Vogel, urban designer, of PlanGreen<\/a>, Willem and Evan of Where Are Your Keys<\/a>, Peter Bauer of Urban Scout <\/a>Rewilidng, Lindsey Newkirk of Elysium Events,<\/a> Kristy Alberty of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, Carl Grimm of\u00a0 Metro<\/a>, and Kate Miller, consultant, sustainable Lighting.<\/p>\n

\"SUSTAINABLE\"<\/a>

Sustainability, Climate Change, and Global Warming Trends<\/p><\/div>\n

What other steps could be taken to promote Portland’s planning and urban design professionals, green building experts, and business owners who have worked hard at the business and civic levels and contributed to Portland’s sustainability reputation?\u00a0 They have helped Portland “turnaround” from the un-development following World War II that Michael Mehaffy has written left Portland “a hollow shell bisected by freeways, invaded by trendy but lifeless buildings and deserted by families heading for the suburbs.”\u00a0 Transformation was in order. Portland attracts people and jobs in a large part because of its sustainability reputation or brand.\u00a0 Now would be a good time to help the many consultants and professionals here in Portland export their skills and expertise to help other communities and in the process rebuild their own businesses clobbered by an economic collapse. We will continue to grow the Portland Sustainability Leadership Channel and seek support from the business community to fund our efforts (Chelsea Peil is the curator of the Channel and is extending invitations to companies with high integrity and a sustainability track record to be channel sponsors at a very modest rate for the branding- chelsea@earthsayers.com), but this is not enough.\u00a0 Let’s put our heads together and come up with more ideas for marketing the talent and brains of sustainability from right here in Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EarthSayers.tv’s Portland Sustainability Leadership Channel is a start at giving the local sustainability expertise and leadership national and international exposure. How can we help the experts, consultants, and sustainability professionals gain access to national markets, applying the best practices of sustainability AND growing their businesses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[208,200,192,202,73,206,201,193,198,205,207,196,195,204,194,197,199,203],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-uncategorized","tag-carl-grim","tag-center-for-diversity-and-the-environment","tag-cities-and-communities","tag-dennis-wilde","tag-earthsayers","tag-elysium-event","tag-gerding-edlen","tag-google-insights","tag-leaders","tag-linsdsey-newkirk","tag-metro","tag-micahel-mehaffy","tag-oregon","tag-plangreen","tag-portland","tag-portland-sustainability-leadership-channel","tag-portland-sustsainability-institute","tag-rob-bennet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}