Community partnerships challenge each of us to understand our own relationships and experience, to come to grips with your own day to day living - a comparison action that you have to take part in.  Mr. Patton was addressing the NW Environmental Health Conference sponsored by Portland State University, February, 2012 as a panelist on A Case Study of University-Community Partnership in Portland, Oregon.  Special thanks to videographer Maegan Prentice of Eyeopening Video.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of Bright Horizons, 25 employees were selected to spend a week in the poorest zip code in America creating a learning and play space for young children and their families. This is their story.

Author of WeThink Charles Leadbeater talks about how web communities are revisiting older, more traditional forms of order.

Parts of a lecture by M. Jahi Chappell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Justice at Washington State University, Vancouver to the Social Sustainability Colloquium at Portland State University, January 27, 2012. Entitled, Ecological Sustainability, Food, and Human Rights: The Necessity of 'Action Ecology' Dr. Chappell discusses the role of scientists as citizens and credible advocates. He suggests both are appropriate and when coupled with participation and outreach to the community, especially in the University setting, are effective at changing the status quo.

Videotaped by Ruth Ann Barrett, Sustainability Advocate, and founder of www.EarthSayers.tv, voices of sustainability.

Sarah Crowell has been a dancer and an arts educator for over 20 years. She has taught dance, theater and violence prevention to youth all over the Bay Area, in schools and community centers since 1990. Sarah talks about the Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, California and their Raise the Roof campaign to locate Destiny Arts Center in a permanent home.
DESTINY (De-Escalation Skills Training Inspiring Nonviolence in Youth) Arts Center exists to end isolation, prejudice and violence in the lives of young people ages 3-18,

Sarah was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv, voices of sustainability at the Bioneers Conference 2011 in Marin County, California.

The Other Inconvenient Truth: How Agriculture is Changing the Face of Our Planet by Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota and leader of  the IonE’s Global Landscapes Initiative. Foley’s work focuses on complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies.

We typically think of climate change as the biggest environmental issue we face today. But maybe it's not? In this presentation, Jonathan Foley shows how agriculture and land use are maybe a bigger culprit in the global environment, and could grow even larger as we look to feed over 9 billion people in the future.

Greg Spencer presented at the TBN National Conference 2011, speaking about the Paradigm Project, a for-profit business providing healthy, efficient stoves to Africa that drastically reduces a family's consumption of wood and inhalation of smoke and improves their economic stability.

Not only does their business help the poor, it leverages billions of dollars of value in the carbon markets, reduces deforestation, and changes the paradigm faced by many that creating profits from the poor cannot profit for the poor.

Check out the other presentations, videos and audio recordings from the conference at http://www.tbnetwork.org/uknc11/media

As Public Works Director and City Engineer of Oregon City, Nancy Kraushaar, P.E. directs a dedicated top-notch staff who are well-trained and committed to serving customer needs when it comes to public infrastructure and facilities. Their job is to deliver safe and reliable sewer, storm water, transportation, and potable water systems to their users. The Public Works staff plans, constructs, and maintains these systems with a close eye on high quality, progressive practices, controlling costs, and customer service. Oregon City was the first city in the United States west of the Rocky Mountains to be incorporated. It is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon.

Interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv at the APWA Sustainability conference in Portland, Oregon, June 27, 2011.