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Make your own bottle path!

  1. Use the whole bottle, flat-bottomed ones only

  2. Pound with a rubber mallet into partially dug out hard soil

  3. Fill to the top with pea gravel

  4. Exactly one year from completion, every bottle will have a native fern inside
  5. It's the nature of spores and the right conditions for germination

Now Available at Multnomah County Library!

May 12, 2008

 

Due to popular demand, the Tolman Guide will be available for borrowing from Multnomah County Library.  Two copies were delivered to the library the past month, and will be available soon for Portland residents.  Tolman, Lasley, and Parker are continuing to research publishers for wider distribution. 

 

Press Release: The Tolman Guide to Green Living in Portland

February 26, 2008

 

Is it possible to eat healthy and organic on $7.00 a day? A new resource guide on living green in Portland says “Yes It Is.” To get you started, The Tolman Guide to Green Living focuses on Portland’s area neighborhoods and offers over 230 tips on simple, sustainable, and affordable do-it-yourself projects in the categories of water, air, energy, food gardening, biodiversity, and processes. The guide is a compilation of many sources such as books, peer-reviewed journals, popular journals, magazines, newspapers, technical manuals, brochures, and websites with photos of examples from Portland neighborhoods. A Natural Resource class offered through Portland State University’s Geography Department initiated the effort in spring of 2006 and Michelle Lasley and Joe Parker have packaged the final form. The project prompted Portland State University Professional Development Funds to provide printing materials while the Geography Department at PSU provided the printer and as a result of the grant money, the authors want to give away the first 100 hard copies. The Tolman Guide on green living practices in and around the home is now available to the first 100 people who request it. You can get your free hard copy at one of three places: Metro’s Solid Waste and Recycling (600 NE Grand Ave.), Ecotrust (721 NW Ninth Ave., Suite 200), or Portland’s Office of Sustainable Development (721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 350). A free PDF is available online at www.tolmanguide.geog.pdx.edu. You may also contact us at tolmanguide@pdx.edu for more information.

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Cover:  Illustration by Dianne Tolman, a small business owner of Big Pine Native Plants.

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