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Strategies for Success Forum & Networking Meeting   Studio Ten Fifty (event space at The Lippman Co), 50 SE Yamhill Street, Portland, Oregon 97214 ( Entrance on Water Ave), 2006-06-15 18:00:00 - 2006-06-15 20:00:00

Planning for Independents Week Activities Pizza provided by Hot Lips Pizza! Come join other members of SBNP and Think Local First to get info on our upcoming Independents Week, July 1-8. Find out how your business can participate and benefit! Please RSVP to Robyn.

New Seasons BBQ Fundraiser - Volunteers and Customers Needed!   All New Seasons Market locations, 2006-07-29 10:00:00 - 2006-07-30 16:00:00

We need volunteers to help staff this event - a barbecue at all 7 New Season's parking lots. New Seasons will cook the food, we need to staff tables to sell the food as well as table about the campaign. If you would like to get involved please call Robyn at 503 232-2943. Please make sure to tell your friends, family and customers about this event and stop by any New Seasons location on that weekend to support us!

Declare Your Independence: Think indpendently-shop locally-owned!   Waterfront Blues Festival & Saturday Market, 2006-07-01 11:00:00 - 2006-07-01 14:00:00

Uncle Sam will be strolling thru the crowds carrying a sign urging folks to take the 10% challenge and commit to spending at least 10% of their dollars with locally-owned independent businesses. We need folks to help get people to sign up for the challenge. Please call Robyn at 503 232-2943 to volunteer. Waterfront Blues Festival from 11am-2pm & Saturday Market from 3-5pm

The Small-mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition   First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave., 2006-09-14 19:30:00 - 2006-09-14 21:30:00

Contrary to popular belief, many small, locally owned businesses actually out-perform their “big box” and Fortune 500 competition—both in outright profitability and the value they bring to consumers, workers, and communities. Unlike mega-stores and multi-national chains these small businesses stimulate the economy by buying supplies and services locally, adapt to (rather than fight against) higher local environmental and labor regulations, and stick around for many years, often many generations. In this lecture, The Small-Mart Revolution, Michael Shuman details dozens of specific strategies small and home-based businesses are using to successfully out-compete the world’s largest companies. And it shows how consumers, investors, policymakers, and organizers can effectively revitalize their own communities by supporting local businesses. Michael Shuman, an attorney and economist, is vice president for enterprise development for the Training & Development Corporation (TDC). He has written, co-written, or edited six books, including Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age, and, most recently, The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition. He is currently on the Board of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). This presentation is co-presented by SBNP and the Northwest Earth Institute. Doors open 6:45 p.m. $15-$20 sliding scale at the door or $12 in advance before Sept 10 (ticket reservations at 503 232-2943)

5th Annual Give Green! Holiday Gift and Harvest Food Fair   Double Tree Lloyd Center, Portland, 2006-11-04 10:00:00 - 2006-11-05 17:00:00

Provides businesses that offer healthy and sustainable gifts, food items, and services an opportunity to jump start their holiday sales. Pleae visit www.GiveGreenFair.com for more information. Be sure to stop by the Sustainable Business Network Booth from 10-6pm on Nov. 4th and 11-5pm on Nov. 5th. To volunteer to staff a booth, please contact Robyn at 503 232-2943.

Buy Local Day   , 2006-11-25 00:00:00 - 2006-11-25 00:00:00

This is the best time of year to make Portlanders aware of the important role they play in our local economy. Mayor Tom Potter has offcially proclaimed the Saturday of Thanksgiving Weekend, Nov. 25th as BUY LOCAL DAY. From now until the end of December, SBNP's Think Local First campaign will be focusing on educating the public about the importance of "Thinking Independently and Shopping Locally-Owned" this holiday season.

STACY MITCHELL-- author of BIG-BOX SWINDLE   Powell’s Books 1005 West Burnside, Portland, 2006-12-06 19:30:00 - 2006-12-06 19:30:00

A reading and discussion with STACY MITCHELL-- author of BIG-BOX SWINDLE: The True Cost of Mega Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses (FREE EVENT) In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement—and she shows how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively fighting back. Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of mega-retailers —from big boxes like Wal-Mart and Home Depot to chains like Starbucks and Old Navy—and the precipitous decline of independent businesses. Drawing on examples from virtually every state in the country, she unearths the extraordinary impact of these stores and the big-box mentality on everything from soaring gasoline consumption to rising poverty rates, failing family farms, and declining voting levels. Along the way, Mitchell exposes the shocking role government policy has played in the expansion of mega-retailers and builds a compelling case that communities composed of many small, locally owned businesses are healthier and more prosperous than those dominated by a few large chains. Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the New Rules Project, a program of the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance. A frequent speaker at conferences and public forums, she has advised numerous communities on strategies and policies to limit chain store proliferation and strengthen locally owned businesses. Her latest book, Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (Beacon Press, 2006), was described by author Bill McKibben as "the ultimate account of the single most important economic trend in our country." Mitchell regularly contributes articles and commentaries to magazines and newspapers, and produces an acclaimed monthly email newsletter, The Hometown Advantage Bulletin. She lives in Portland, Maine.

Visionary Luncheon & Networking Meeting   CubeSpace 622 SE Grand Ave., 2007-02-14 11:30:00 - 2007-02-14 13:00:00

Topic: "Sustainable Employee Practices" -- Luncheons provide an opportunity for local businesspeople to network and learn about a variety of sustainable business practices. Bring your own brown bag lunch or enjoy local Hot Lips Pizza. Parking at US Bank lot at SE 6th and Alder. Please RSVP to Robyn.

Visionary Luncheon & Networking Meeting   CubeSpace 622 SE Grand Ave., 2007-04-11 11:30:00 - 2007-04-11 13:00:00

Topic: TBA -- Luncheons provide an opportunity for local businesspeople to network and learn about a variety of sustainable business practices. Bring your own brown bag lunch or enjoy local Hot Lips Pizza. Parking at US Bank lot at SE 6th and Alder. Please RSVP to Robyn.

Visionary Luncheon & Networking Meeting   CubeSpace 622 SE Grand Ave., 2007-05-09 11:30:00 - 2007-05-09 13:00:00

Topic: TBA -- Luncheons provide an opportunity for local businesspeople to network and learn about a variety of sustainable business practices. Bring your own brown bag lunch or enjoy local Hot Lips Pizza. Parking at US Bank lot at SE 6th and Alder. Please RSVP to Robyn.

Creating a Sustainable Local Economy   Friendship Masonic Center 5625 NE Alameda, 2007-03-15 08:00:00 - 2007-03-15 12:00:00

Presented by SBNP, ShoreBank Pacific and Albina Community Bank. SBNP is delighted to host a half day conference bringing together locally owned businesses to share and clarify our vision, inspire action and provide practical tools to create a vibrant sustainable local living economy in the Portland metropolitan area. Whether you are involved in a locally owned business, nonprofit leader, policymaker or conscious consumer, there is something relevant for everyone as we come together to strengthen our community. Register by March 5th - $25 for SBNP members and students $45 non-members After March 5th - $40 for SBNP members and students $60 for non-members Go to Events tab for conference details. Contact Robyn at 503 232-2943 to register.

Bill McKibben - author of Deep Economy   Powell’s Books 1005 West Burnside, Portland, 2007-04-02 19:30:00 - 2007-04-02 20:30:00

"Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities & the Durable Future” - book reading & discussion with author Bill McKibben at Powell's Books 1005 W. Burnside 7:30pm (Free event) Deep Economy offers a realistic, if challenging, scenario for a hopeful future: the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.

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The Importance of Place in a Truly Sustainable Economy   Disjecta, 230 E. Burnside, Portland, 2007-05-21 19:00:00 - 2007-05-21 22:00:00

Village Building Convergence and SBNP present: Salmon know it, going upriver. Monarch butterflies know how to find the pine grove in Michoacan. The doves that nest near my house in SW Portland know how to find this place in spring. And we humans--what question, story, song, lullaby, idea, or quest calls us here to Portland? Come join the Sustainable Business Network of Portland and writer/storyteller Kim Stafford as we invite you to relish the mix: taste, listen, remember, and follow for home. An interactive evening exploring this wonderful place we call Cascadia and giving voice to our stories, dreams and visions. Come learn why place matters in a truly sustainable economy. Local songwriter Timothy Hull will also perform songs of place. In its 7th year - the Village Building Convergence (VBC) is a ten-day community building and education event that incorporates hands-on natural building and placemaking activities on 30 sites across Portland. Coupled with daytime workshops and evening speaking and cultural events, the VBC connects over 100 speakers, presenters, architects and natural builders with thousands of community members from across the country. This year, SBNP is hosting one evening of the ten day event. Check out www.cityrepair.org to find out more about the rest of the VBC events. Kim Stafford is a Portland native, and founder of the Northwest Writing Institute, a zone for experimental expression about place, identity, and story.He is the author of "Having Everything Right: Essays of Place," and Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft." That book includes the following manifesto: "In our time is a great thing not yet done--it is the marriage of Woody Guthrie's gusto and the Internet. It is the composing and wide sharing of songs and stories by those with voice for those with need." Many of singer-songwriter Timothy Hull's songs explore familiar "folk" themes such as economic and social injustice, and ecological conservation, yet it would be inaccurate to say that they are really "about" them. Instead, Hull's songs are about life lived on a human scale, as captured in his vivid snapshots of playing and living on the streets or in a makeshift camp by a river, of wandering and rambling the roads and the rails, of making do in difficult circumstances. And in the immediacy and simple "dailiness" of these images, we feel the resonance of those larger themes more keenly. Timothy will share some of his songs of PLACE this evening. $15 at the door.

Visionary Luncheon & Networking Meeting   CubeSpace 622 SE Grand Ave., 2007-06-15 11:30:00 - 2007-06-15 13:00:00

Topic: Marketing That Matters: 10 practices for socially responsible and green marketing-- Speaker: Eric Friedenwald-Fishman, President and Creative Director of Metropolitan Group. Luncheons provide an opportunity for local businesspeople to network and learn about a variety of sustainable business practices. Bring your own brown bag lunch or enjoy local Hot Lips Pizza. Parking at US Bank lot at SE 6th and Alder. Please RSVP to Robyn.

Free Movie at Bagdad: Independent America   Bagdad Theatre, SE 37th/Hawthorne Blvd, 2007-07-02 19:00:00 - 2007-07-02 20:30:00

A free showing of "Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop" as part of SBNP's Independents Week celebration. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Free Movie at Bagdad: Independent America   Bagdad Theatre, SE 37th/Hawthorne Blvd, 2007-07-03 19:00:00 - 2007-07-03 20:30:00

A free showing of "Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop" as part of SBNP's Independents Week celebration. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Recycled Art Show at Albina Bank   Albina Bank, Pearl Branch, NW 10th/Glisan, 2007-07-05 17:00:00 - 2007-07-05 20:00:00

First Thursday Recycled Art Show, featuring the sculpture of local artist Todd Samusson. Part of SBNP's Independents Week celebration.

Fundraising BBQ at New Seasons Markets   All New Seasons Market Entrances, 2007-07-28 11:00:00 - 2007-07-28 17:00:00

Join us for a delicious lunch or dinner featuring seasonal, locally grown food cooked on the grill. Menu includes grilled portabella mushrooms, turkey burgers or organic beef burgers, two side salads and fresh squeezed lemonade, made on the spot... all for just $7! All proceeds go to SBNP to continue our work of creating a truly sustainable local economy.

Fundraising BBQ at New Seasons Markets   All New Seasons Market Entrances, 2007-07-29 11:00:00 - 2007-07-29 17:00:00

Join us for a delicious lunch or dinner featuring seasonal, locally grown food cooked on the grill. Menu includes grilled portabella mushrooms, turkey burgers or organic beef burgers, two side salads and fresh squeezed lemonade, made on the spot... all for just $7! All proceeds go to SBNP to continue our work of creating a truly sustainable local economy.