Earth Day 2010: Get Involved!
Earth Day 2010 "Re-Seeding our World" Each year, Earth Day a community-based event is held to promote awareness of environmental issues and progressive organizations. This beloved celebration is entirely planned, designed, organized, built and run by volunteers on a minimal budget. The Earth Day Coalition is honored to share this framework for running a large, non-corporate, ecologically sustainable event with other organizations ...
City Repair at SEAChange: The Apathy Rehabilitation Place
City Repair and the VBC are pleased to announce a month long event called The Apathy Rehabilitation Place. Located at the SeaChange Gallery (625 NW Everett St.) downtown and beginning March 4th through the 28th. Everything from the Exhibit and Instillations to the Workshops and Celebrations will become a bonafide explosion of everything that makes City Repair and The VBC ...
WW HOT SEAT: Roberto Cassanueva and the Reware Market
City Repair's Reware Upcycle Market SEA Change Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 110. Sunday Dec 27th, Noon-6 pm Original article BY KATE WILLIAMS | KWILLIAMS AT WWEEK DOT COM [December 16th, 2009] It’s mid-December. Holiday planning and shopping usually take top priority. For City Repair’s ReWare organizer Roberto Casanueva, however, all of this shopping is completely absurd. He, along with volunteers for the nonprofit, have ...
Portland’s first residential bike parking shelter raises questions
By Jonathan Maus Original Article A new residential bike parking shelter on SE Washington near Laurelhurst Park. (Photos © J. Maus) We’ve closely documented the City of Portland’s efforts to create new bike parking in business districts — but what about bike parking in residential areas? A Southeast Portland couple wondered the same thing, and now their home boasts the city’s first ever, ...
The Vision of City Repair
City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.City Repair began in Portland, Oregon with the idea that localization - of culture, of economy, of decision-making - is a necessary foundation of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented places, we plant the seeds for greater neighborhood communication, empower our communities and nurture our local culture.
Our projects include the annual Village Building Convergence, where people gather at neighborhood sites throughout Portland to engage in intersection repair, natural building, and other forms of placemaking. We also host Earth Day, the Village Planting Convergence (also known as City Riparian), and operate a mobile tea house called the T-Horse.
Throughout the year we educate the community with workshops on all forms of sustainability and offer the invaluable placemaking guidebook and one-on-one consulting for those who want to repair their own neighborhood. If you are interested in helping our efforts please visit our volunteer page.
As an almost entirely volunteer-driven nonprofit organization, we rely solely on the support of our community. Please consider donating to help ensure our vision becomes a reality.
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