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• Organic Food Delivery Service

  06Sep
  Categories: Food & Drink, Hawthorne neighborhood, Living Green, Organic, Portland Comments Off

  Organic Food Delivery Services make healthy eating easy with a complete selection of natural foods, including fruits, vegetables, milk, bread, pasta and ready-made meals delivered right to your door. But how do you decide which one is right for you? It can certainly be difficult to decipher which one will work for you so here’s a couple of our favorites:

  spud!: Created back in 1998, spud! started as a small organic foods delivery service in Vancouver, B.C. Now with departments in LA, San Francisco, & Portland, they are the largest organic food delivery service in North America. Just because they’re big doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten their roots as they still abide by their sustainability perspective:

  • Protect the environment by buying local, organic, minimally packaged and eco-friendly products.
  • Build community by creating direct connections between our food suppliers and customers.
  • Reduce the impacts of climate change by delivering groceries to each neighborhood on a set route once a week.
  • Educate our customers about important food issues through our weekly newsletter.
  • Give back by supporting local charities and donating leftover food to food outreach groups.

  With a large delivery range, spud! is available to almost everywhere in Portland and Vancouver, WA.

  Organics to You: Created in 2001, Organics to You is a locally owned and operated food delivery service bringing fresh, local farm direct produce to your front door. They buy direct from local farmers to ensure quality and keep prices low. You can even search the farms you’ll be getting your groceries from! Always super friendly and great customer service is why Organics to You is a solid choice. Organics to You also has a huge delivery area including all of Portland and Vancouver, WA.

• And the winner is…

  26Aug
  Categories: Apartments, Food & Drink, Grand Opening, Hawthorne neighborhood, Living Green, Portland, Smart Living Fair Comments Off

  What an amazing turnout for the official Grand OPening & Smart Living Fair! From 3-6pm on Saturday August 22, 2009 The 20 on Hawthorne hosted a fabulous day full of food, fun, and learning.

  We’ve also chosen the winner of the $50 Gift Certificate to one of the Hawthorne neighborhood’s best restaurants, Sel Gris. After a completely random selection, the winner is: Casey Cotton! Casey, please call Michael at 503.445.3898 or email at michael@livethe20.com to claim your gift certificate.

  We still have a limited number of apartments still available, so let us know if you want to be a part of our unique community!

• New Celebrity on the East Side

  25Aug
  Categories: Apartments, Architecture, Hawthorne neighborhood, Living Green, Portland Comments Off
  

  The bigger celebrity is definitely The 20

  With his distinct voice and repertoire of real estate catch phrases, its easy to see why the Portland media simply loves Damin Tarlow. However, the real celebrity over the last few days has not been Damin, but the building he has spoken so much about, The 20 on Hawthorne and its unique parking garage.

  Major media outlets including The Oregonian, KGW Channel 8, The Daily Journal of Commerce, and KOIN Local 6, have flocked to The 20 recently to view the innovative ideas only the likes of Gerding Edlen and GBD Architects can provide.

  While the puzzle lift parking system, installed and built by Harding Steel, receives the majority of the attention, we can’t overlook the smart design of the apartments which are certainly why The 20 is over 50% occupied and 70% leased in only a couple months of being open.

  Take a look at the links below and maybe you’ll see why the media has created a new celebrity on the East Side.

  http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2009/08/portlands_new_commuting_toy_ro.html

  http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/08/21/parking-robot-stacks-the-deck/

  http://www.kgw.com/video/video-index.html?nvid=392036&shu=1

  http://www.koinlocal6.com/content/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=11891@koin.dayport.com&navCatId=345

• Oregon Sustainability Center

  24Aug
  Categories: Architecture, Living Building Challenge, Living Green, OR, Portland Comments Off

  It’s hard to find a more emblematic project for the contemporary sustainability movement than the Oregon Sustainability Center. Now in the final stages of a feasibility study, this highly sustainable high rise in Portland, Ore., combines the efforts of the nonprofit, education, business, and public sectors to create a building that adheres to the most stringent sustainability certification standard that exists, and uses several distinct design languages and systems to get there. It takes the sustainability conversation out of the design lab and into classrooms, civil servant offices, business board rooms, and nonprofit outreach centers. The center will serve many functions: offices for nonprofits and businesses, university classrooms, a place for building performance research. Its designers and tenants hope it will emerge as a literal icon of sustainable urbanism for one of the nation’s most progressively green states and cities.

  Developed by Gerding Edlen and Designed by both GBD Architects (Designers of The 20 on Hawthorne) and SERA Architects, this building will be entered into the Living Building Challenge. Any building that wins the Living Building title must perform at net-zero energy, water, and waste. Essentially, the challenge requires buildings to be nearly as environmentally unobtrusive as a tree. No one has yet succeeded in meeting the Living Building Challenge.

  http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek09/0619/0619d_oregon.cfm

• Grand Opening & Smart Living Fair

  20Aug
  Categories: Apartments, Food & Drink, Grand Opening, Hawthorne neighborhood, Living Green, Smart Living Fair Comments Off

  Tour our model apartments, find out about the 20 minute lifestyle, watch the puzzle parking system in action, enter to win prizes, sample local food & beverages, all while absorbing ways to increase your sustainability.

  • Preview a Smart Car • Learn how to use Zipcar

  • Demo folding bikes/Coventry Cycle Works • Get tips/Organizers NW

  • Ride a Segway/SK NW • Sample organic vodka from Highball Distillery

  • Check out a moped/Ptown Scooters • Start container gardening/Dennis’ 7 Dees

  • Also: Deschutes Brewery, MHD Interior Design, Sel Gris, Hot Lips Pizza, Devine Color, Healthy Pets Northwest, Doggy Duty + more

  We’ll see you all on Saturday!

• Is it time for you to make friends with a bike?

  06Jul
  Categories: Hawthorne neighborhood, Living Green, Transportation Comments Off
  

  Elaine, the super cycle-commuter

  I have a friend, who cycle-commutes regularly, from SE Portland all the way out to Beaverton, and she’s always wearing the cutest outfits. I’ve often wondered how she pulls it off, riding her bike on a daily basis, and not damaging her wardrobe. She’ll show up for downtown events, meetings or lunch, and always looks great. Elaine sat down with me and gave me a few tips for new urban riders.

  Elaine says it’s better to be safe than sorry. She always takes her raingear with her, even if the weather report has her geared up for sunshine. With Portland’s many different microclimates, Elaine recommends layering your clothes, choosing items that can be easily added or shed, as the temperature dictates. Don’t be afraid to ride in street clothes; at the same time, she cautions that a chain guard for your bike, to protect your clothes, is essential. Since you’re using your bike as a transportation alternative, you don’t have to treat it as a workout — if you don’t want to. Keep to a relaxing pace, enjoy the scenery, and you’ll arrive at your destination fresh and dry. In the winter months, good bike lights are essential for your safety.

  From Hawthorne, cycle-communters should aim for Madison Street to cross the Hawthorne Bridge, leading to downtown and Max. Hawthorne is busy, so it’s best to take side streets where there is less traffic. Follow the Metro green signs for the best routes and pick up a “Bike There” map for ideas. If your destination is further west, Elaine suggests riding all the way to Goose Hollow; it’s faster that sitting through all the downtown light rail stops.

  

  A great space saver, the folding bike, from Coventry Cycleworks.

  To get used to Max, try it once on a weekend to get the hang of it. Look for the cars with blue handicapped stickers in the window; their doors open to street level, enabling you to simply roll on your bike. And these cars have bike hooks inside. The hooks are easy to use: just pull your front wheel up and slide it over an available hook.

  For fun rides, head over to Ladd’s addition and hook up with Market Street, which will lead you to OMSI. From there, you can take the Esplanade loop along the edge of the Willamette River. Head south from that same point, and you can ride to Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge and connect to the Springwater Corridor, as well as other parts of the 40-Mile Loop recreational trail system.

  Now for what to ride: Elaine’s choice is a low maintenance “city bike”, with an upright riding position, comfy seat and easy step-through frame design. But there are many other options out there, and Hawthorne has three great specialty bike shops that can fit you to almost any style. Coventry Cycle Works, at 20th, specializes in folding, recumbent, tricycles, cargo bikes and many more models. Clever Cycles, at 9th, features city bikes, folding, cargo, family and kid’s bikes. And Veloce Bicycles, at 32nd, specializes in road bikes. With their own racing team, Veloce Bicycles is known for its custom-fitting service and custom-built bikes. All three shops carry helmets and accessories to outfit you and your bike, as well as keep
  it maintained.

  

  Marilyn of Coventry Cycles and the unfolded bike.

  A folding bike is a great idea for commuters who want the ease of keeping their bike inside their home and office. One of the best models is the “Tikit”, made in Eugene, by Bike Friday. You can carry it just about anywhere, and it folds down small enough to fit inside a small closet or even under your desk.