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Celebration
Earth Day 2008: DANCE of the DINOSAUR!
Submitted by earthdaypdx on April 1, 2008 - 6:20pm.Apr 19 2008 - 10:00am
Apr 19 2008 - 10:00pm
Overlook Park - 150 sustainable businesses/organizations, Kids' Village, 3 stages of entertainment and a bike ride to start off the day! Check out the website for more info!
http://cityrepair.org
Location(s)
Overlook Park
North Portland
Portland, OR, 97217RALLY Sat Nov 17 "Fight Against Global Warming" Downtown Portland 11am
Submitted by bernzx on November 14, 2007 - 4:03pm.Nov 17 2007 - 11:00am
Nov 17 2007 - 12:00pm
The National Environmental Trust invites you to a:
IPCC Rally with Guest Speakers
and
Media Event
Calling on Oregon’s Senators to be leaders in the fight against global warming
Time: Saturday November 17, 2007 11am-12pm, come rain or shine!
Location: One World Trade Center
121 SW Salmon St.
Portland, OR 97204
Please feel free to invite others and make signs for the cameras calling on our Senators to be leaders against global warming and bring attention to the latest report from the recent Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the more, the merrier.
Speakers at the event will be:
-Dr. William Barnes, Professor of Economics at the University of Portland and Focus the Nation Organizer
-Sister Pat Nagle of the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
-Jesse Jenkins of the Cascade Climate Network
Location(s)
One World Trade Center
121 SW Salmon St
Portland, OR, 97204The History Channel: Oil Apocalypse
Submitted by Jeremy on November 9, 2007 - 11:33am.Nov 13 2007 - 11:00pm
Nov 13 2007 - 11:58pm
The oil that our world runs on won't last forever. The gap between supply and demand is ever increasing. Will alternative energy save us or is it already too late? What would happen to the world as we know it when our oil dependent industries come to a grinding halt? A worldwide depression is a certainty but a power struggle for the basic necessities of life would be complete chaos.
Rating: TVPG
Running Time: 60 minutes
Genre:Science & Technology
http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=251195
Location(s)
Christmas - no PPO Meeting.
Submitted by Jeremy on September 10, 2007 - 9:06pm.Dec 26 2007 - 12:00am
Description:
Be with your family and your other friends.
Location(s)
Too close to New Years - no PPO Meeting.
Submitted by Jeremy on September 10, 2007 - 9:06pm.Jan 2 2008 - 12:00am
Description:
Be with your family and your other friends.
Location(s)
Thanksgiving - no PPO Meeting.
Submitted by Jeremy on September 10, 2007 - 9:06pm.Nov 21 2007 - 12:00am
Description:
Be with your family and your other friends.
Location(s)
Holloween - No PPO Meeting
Submitted by Jeremy on September 10, 2007 - 9:01pm.Oct 31 2007 - 12:00am
Description:
In light of Holloween, PPO will not be meeting but here is some more information on Holloween.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
Hallowe'en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, costume parties, viewing horror films, visiting "haunted houses", and participating in traditional autumn activities such as hayrides (which may have "haunted" themes).
Halloween originated under the name of Samhain as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Several other western countries have embraced the holiday as a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century.
Halloween is now celebrated in many parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and sometimes in Australia and New Zealand. In recent years, the holiday has also been celebrated in some parts of Western Europe.
The term Halloween (and its older rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening of/before "All Hallows' Day"[1], also known as "All Saints' Day". It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions[citation needed], until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although we now consider All Saints' (or Hallows') Day to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.
In Ireland, the name of the holiday was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, the name is still well-accepted, albeit somewhat esoteric. In Irish, the festival is known as Oíche Shamhna (Night of Samhain), or simply Samhain; in Scottish Gaelic it is Samhainn or Samhain; in Welsh, Calan Gaeaf to the Welsh; "Allantide" to the Cornish and "Hop-tu-Naa" to the Manx. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.
Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world, and when magic is most potent (according to, for example, Catalan mythology about witches and Irish tales of the Sídhe).
Location(s)
Potluck and Pub
Submitted by Jeremy on July 9, 2007 - 7:03pm.Aug 29 2007 - 7:00pm
Aug 29 2007 - 9:00pm
Description:
We will start the evening by having a potluck at St. Francis and many of us will be sliding on over to a nearby pub at some point during the evening.
Location(s)
St. Francis
1182 SE Pine St. please use the doors on the northside
Portland, OROregon Country Fair
Submitted by plunsfo on June 22, 2007 - 6:55pm.Jul 14 2007 - 9:00am
Jul 14 2007 - 9:00pm
Hosted by:
Washington County peak Oil
Body:
Washington County Peak Oil group is planning to attend the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, on Saturday, July 14th, to hear David Room, who will be giving a talk at 1:00pm on peak oil and sustainability.
We would like to formally invite you and all the Portland Peak Oil, Westlinn, and Yamhill Post Carbon groups to join us. At a minimum, it will give us all an opportunity to meet each other and network some.
Our intent is to caravan to Veneta for the event on Saturday morning, perhaps sharing breakfast along the way somewhere, going to the fair and hearing the talk at 1pm, and returning home in late afternoon or early evening. This should give everyone a good opportunity to have a look around the fair site.
The Oregon Country Fair website is: http://www.oregoncountryfair.org/ and tickets to attend are $20 per person if purchased in advance (call 800-992-8499 to purchase) or $25 at the gate.
Washington County Peak Oil Launch with screening of "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash"
Submitted by plunsfo on June 22, 2007 - 6:47pm.Jul 10 2007 - 6:30pm
Jul 10 2007 - 9:30pm
Hosted by:
Washington County Peak Oil
Body:
On the 10th of July, Washington County Peak oil will be launching their peak oil group by screening the film, (the Oregon premier) "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.
This outstanding film is internationally acclaimed and is currently showing in theaters in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with theater engagements in the UK and Switzerland later this summer.
The film focuses closely on the peak oil issue and investigates the implications for society. The film is quite sobering and carries the message very directly. It has won countless awards at dozens of international film festivals. The world premier was in Austin, TX, last year, at the SXSW Film Festival. You can learn more about the film at www.ACrudeAwakening.net .
We will screen the film at the Orenco Unitarian Universalist Church in Hillsboro, starting at 6:30pm (walking distance from the Orenco Max station.) The film will be followed by a Q&A and an overview of the purpose of our group.
