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SUMMARY:Strategies for Success Forum & Networking Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Planning for Independents Week Activities\nPizza provided by Hot Lips Pizza!\n\nCome 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.
LOCATION:Studio Ten Fifty (event space at The Lippman Co)\, 50 SE Yamhill Street\, Portland\, Oregon 97214 ( Entrance on Water Ave)
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SUMMARY:Declare Your Independence: Think indpendently-shop locally-owned!
DESCRIPTION: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
LOCATION:Waterfront Blues Festival & Saturday Market
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SUMMARY:New Seasons BBQ Fundraiser - Volunteers and Customers Needed!
DESCRIPTION: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.\n \nPlease 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! 
LOCATION:All New Seasons Market locations
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SUMMARY:The Small-mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nIn 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.\n\nMichael 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 \n$12 in advance before Sept 10 (ticket reservations at 503 232-2943)
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church\, 1011 SW 12th Ave.
DTSTART:20060914T193000
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Give Green! Holiday Gift and Harvest Food Fair
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:Double Tree Lloyd Center\, Portland
DTSTART:20061104T100000
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SUMMARY:Buy Local Day 
DESCRIPTION: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.
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SUMMARY:STACY MITCHELL-- author of BIG-BOX SWINDLE
DESCRIPTION: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) \n\nIn 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.\n\nMitchell 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.\n\nStacy 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.
LOCATION:Powell’s Books 1005 West Burnside\, Portland
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SUMMARY:Visionary Luncheon & Networking Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:CubeSpace  622 SE Grand Ave.
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SUMMARY:Creating a Sustainable Local Economy
DESCRIPTION:Presented by SBNP\, ShoreBank Pacific and Albina Community Bank.  \nSBNP 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.\n\nRegister by March 5th - $25 for SBNP members and students $45 non-members\nAfter March 5th - $40 for SBNP members and students $60 for non-members \n\nGo to Events tab for conference details. Contact Robyn at 503 232-2943 to register. \n
LOCATION:Friendship Masonic Center 5625 NE Alameda
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben - author of Deep Economy
DESCRIPTION:"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.
LOCATION:Powell’s Books 1005 West Burnside\, Portland
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SUMMARY:Visionary Luncheon & Networking Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:CubeSpace  622 SE Grand Ave.
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SUMMARY:Visionary Luncheon & Networking Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:CubeSpace  622 SE Grand Ave.
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SUMMARY:The Importance of Place in a Truly Sustainable Economy
DESCRIPTION:Village Building Convergence and SBNP present: Salmon know it\, going upriver. Monarch butterflies know how to find the pine\ngrove in Michoacan. The doves that nest near my house in SW Portland know how to find this place\nin spring. And we humans--what question\, story\, song\, lullaby\, idea\, or quest calls us here to\nPortland? Come join the Sustainable Business Network of Portland and writer/storyteller Kim\nStafford as we invite you to relish the mix: taste\, listen\, remember\, and follow for home. An\ninteractive evening exploring this wonderful place we call Cascadia and giving voice to our stories\,\ndreams and visions. Come learn why place matters in a truly sustainable economy. Local songwriter\nTimothy Hull will also perform songs of place.\nIn its 7th year - the Village Building Convergence (VBC) is a ten-day community building and\neducation event that incorporates hands-on natural building and placemaking activities on 30 sites\nacross Portland. Coupled with daytime workshops and evening speaking and cultural events\, the\nVBC connects over 100 speakers\, presenters\, architects and natural builders with thousands of\ncommunity members from across the country. This year\, SBNP is hosting one evening of the ten day\nevent. Check out www.cityrepair.org to find out more about the rest of the VBC events.\nKim Stafford is a Portland native\, and founder of the Northwest Writing Institute\, a zone for\nexperimental expression about place\, identity\, and story.He is the author of "Having Everything\nRight: Essays of Place\," and Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's\nCraft." That book includes the following manifesto: "In our time is a great thing not yet done--it is\nthe marriage of Woody Guthrie's gusto and the Internet. It is the composing and wide sharing of\nsongs and stories by those with voice for those with need."\nMany of singer-songwriter Timothy Hull's songs explore familiar "folk" themes such as economic and\nsocial injustice\, and ecological conservation\, yet it would be inaccurate to say that they are really\n"about" them. Instead\, Hull's songs are about life lived on a human scale\, as captured in his vivid\nsnapshots of playing and living on the streets or in a makeshift camp by a river\, of wandering and\nrambling the roads and the rails\, of making do in difficult circumstances. And in the immediacy and\nsimple "dailiness" of these images\, we feel the resonance of those larger themes more keenly.\nTimothy will share some of his songs of PLACE this evening. $15 at the door.
LOCATION:Disjecta\, 230 E. Burnside\, Portland
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SUMMARY:Visionary Luncheon & Networking Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:CubeSpace  622 SE Grand Ave.
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SUMMARY:Free Movie at Bagdad: Independent America
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:Bagdad Theatre\, SE 37th/Hawthorne Blvd
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SUMMARY:Free Movie at Bagdad: Independent America
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:Bagdad Theatre\, SE 37th/Hawthorne Blvd
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SUMMARY:Recycled Art Show at Albina Bank
DESCRIPTION:First Thursday Recycled Art Show\, featuring the sculpture of local artist Todd Samusson. Part of SBNP's Independents Week celebration.
LOCATION:Albina Bank\, Pearl Branch\, NW 10th/Glisan
DTSTART:20070705T170000
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SUMMARY:Fundraising BBQ at New Seasons Markets
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:All New Seasons Market Entrances
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SUMMARY:Fundraising BBQ at New Seasons Markets
DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:All New Seasons Market Entrances
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