Sustainability Program
PDC is working to make the City of Portland the most sustainable city in the world by investing in high performance buildings and green streets, ecosystem restoration, businesses that create sustainable economic opportunities for all, green and healthy affordable housing, and social equity policies and practices.
In the words of Van Jones, we must ensure that today’s green wave lifts all boats. PDC is contributing to a world where people, prosperity and the planet can all flourish.
Highlights
- PDC 2009 Sustainability Report
- PDC 2010 Sustainability Plan
- LEED Needs to Add Health Standards - Scientific American, 6/7/10
- Portland's Green Tenant Improvement Guide (2010)
- Achieving Water Independence in Buildings (2009)
- Cost of Green Affordable Housing Study (2009)
- PDC – PSU Report: Indoor Air Quality in Affordable Housing (2009)
All of PDC's publications and notices are printed with soy-based inks on 100% post-consumer recycled paper.
Green Building Resources
- Green Building Incentives Brochure
- Green Building Technical and Funding Resources
- Cascadia Green Building Council
- U.S. Green Building Council and LEED
- Handbook: Planning and Conducting Charrettes
Small Commercial Green Building Rating System
Case Studies
| Green Building Hotline: 503-823-5431 |
Program Documents
| PDC REPORTS | PDC PLANS | PDC POLICIES |
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Climate Change
- Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (2009)
- Oregon Global Warming Commission Report to Legislature (2009)
- For the first time in human history, ships can now circumnavigate the North Pole due to massive loss of ice. Climate models had not predicted this to occur until 2070.
The Independent, August 2008 - Vast Antarctic ice shelf on verge of collapse
msnbc.com, 5/25/08 - America's Metro Areas: Carbon Leaders and Laggards
postwritersgroup.com, 6/1/08 - Study links Oregon's growing dead zone to climate change
Dead zones off Oregon and Washington likely tied to global warming, study
says
Low-oxygen areas that show scant signs of sea life have expanded. 'We seem to have crossed a tipping point,' a scientist says.
By Kenneth R. Weiss
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 15, 2008
NEWPORT, ORE. — Peering into the murky depths, Jane Lubchenco searched for sea life, but all she saw were signs of death... download PDF version - In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm
- Science: Global Warming
- Oregon's Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions
General
Transportation
Bicycling
Food & Gardening
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Video
- PDC Exceeds Minority Contracting Goals
- Oregon Sustainability Center
- Portland: Quest for the Livable City
- Vinyl & Brain Cancer - Healthy Building News, 2009
- Portland: A Sense of Place - e2, 12/2008
Click on Webcasts > Transport > Portland: A Sense of Place - Majora Carter: Greening the Ghetto - TED.com, 2/2006
Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx.
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