Cascadian Resource Center

Your regional resource center portal for facilitating bioregional exchange !

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Creating the context for freedom and consciousness emerging worldwide by creating a global resource center for regional and local networking. www.ICResource.com

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For people, projects, programs, media, businesses and organizations regionally in the Cascadian bioregion area willing to network and share resources. Create a local resource center today!

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  • Derek Xu
  • The Oregon Green Expo
  • Stephen Buckley
  • Linda Cotrufello
  • ken brown
  • Global Business Development Services
  • Cascadian Resource Center

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Ecotrust News & Updates: Spring 2009

Please enjoy this quarterly news update from Ecotrust.

Oregon woodland owners consider selling carbon credits | EcoTrust

With all the worries climate change conjures — swelling carbon footprints, dissolving Antarctic ice sheets — it helps to walk through Peter Hayes' woods and hear how they could help slow the planet's warming. As rain drips off Douglas fir branches onto his green slicker, Hayes explains how he and other forest owners can capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and maybe make money doing so. "You're getting triple the carbon storage on our land by having these older stands," said Hayes, who owns and manages 770 acres on three tree farms, including this one in the foothills of the Coast Range.

Oregon's plate is full of sustainable food | EcoTrust

Leaders say it's one bright spot in an otherwise dim economic forecast. Demand for sustainable food is strong, and regional leaders are working to keep it that way.

The Cost of Climate Inaction | EcoTrust

But this assumes that all costs involved in mitigating climate change — and there will be costs — represent new costs, without acknowledging the massive error in our market system that equates the price of carbon emissions to zero. This fundamental error skews everything that follows, because if emitting carbon costs nothing on a balance sheet, all steps to reduce pollution count as "new costs."

More Than 100 Economists Band Together to Fight Climate Change Skeptics | EcoTrust

In recent times, junk economics has replaced junk science as the cause of inaction on climate change issues. The case for inaction is no longer argued on the grounds of skepticism about the science; instead, some claim that it is too expensive to take more than token action on key initiatives. In response to this trend, more than 100 of the country’s leading economists have banded together to launch RealClimateEconomics.org, an effort dedicated to using the weight of economic evidence to support effective public policy and business responses to the climate crisis. RealClimateEconomics.org is inspired by the success of RealClimate.org, a longtime effort by climate scientists to dispel the junk science popularized by climate skeptics.

Will the Ocean be Zoned to Meet Energy and Fishing Needs? | EcoTrust

Spilling of secrets, range war, guinea pigs and stacked pennies. Who knew zoning could be so interesting? You’ve heard of land use planning to shape growth on land. Now it seems the great, wide ocean isn’t big enough for all the different interests that want a piece of it. The surge of wave power projects may be the final straw to bring zoning to the high seas. Tom Banse reports from Charleston, on the south Oregon coast.

Voyage to the Centre of the Plastic Vortex

A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex."

Built Green

Our builders and other associates provide sustainable housing in an area of more than 4,000 square miles in the State of Washington, covering King and Snohomish Counties. Built Green homes are designed to provide homeowners with comfortable, durable, environmentally friendly homes that are cost-effective to own and operate. These resource-efficient homes are crafted to exceed building codes and provide homeowners with years of healthy, quality living, while protecting the precious Northwest environment.

1% For the Planet

1% For the Planet is a growing global movement of 1145 companies that donate 1% of their sales to a network of 1,769 environmental organizations worldwide.

Resource Centers

Ashland Resource Center

Your local resource center for sharing events, projects, information and media ! Enjoying steady growth from its 430+ members having posted 1632 photos, 160 songs, 270 videos, 59 discussions, 323 events and 199 blog posts. We received over 1,814 unique visitors, 4,410 visits and 34,993 page views over the last month.

Friends of the Ashland Public Library

* Storytellers for Children * Ashland Mystery Readers * Author Night at the Library * Summer Reading Programs for Children & Young Adults * Special Book Purchases and Library Book Sales * Volunteerism * Your Voice in the Community.

Your Local City

Business Articles, Networking Groups, Business Coaching - Start Building A Stronger Today!

Family Resource Center

Original articles, resources, and critical information about early childhood development, nutrition, medical and legal aid, family counselors, housing, health insurance, child care, etc., as well as sources for spiritual and personal development.

Local Resource Center

Success Education Course

Planning Skills and Evaluations

FROM SUCCESS EDUCATION COURSE

Plan for Your Life

Your education will be ongoing. It will continue through your life. For the truly living, it's not going to ever stop.

In the words of Bob Dylan, "a man not busy being born is busy dying."

It might just be that we don't really die. We just stop regenerating and healing. With this commitment to your life locked in to your consciousness, you can begin to plan your life as if it might just go on forever.

Everything you learn, perceive and experience, every communications and contact with others is potential information that could be usefully integrated into your plan. But you must be very discerning not to include information that is irrelevant. So be alert, listen carefully and don't miss the diamonds in the rough.

With what you've learned in this course and the other continuing education programs to follow, you can confidently step into structuring and planning for financial independence to meet your goals and objectives. So now you are going to start doing a plan for your life.

Your Life is the Project

Your life is your most important project of all. Imagine and think deeply about what might be the action steps necessary to take this project, your life, from concept to action to completion. Now, this is quite a forward-thinking plan. You might have to look ahead seven generations into the future. But let's begin by creating a 3-month plan, a 1-year plan, and a 5-year plan. The rest will follow. Begin by formulating your purpose, if you have one. And if you don't have one, then it's time to consider what the purpose of your life just might be.

Taking Inventory

Consider your life a research project as well as your business development. If you do not have the information you need to begin or complete your individual or business plan, then you must do your own research. You can accomplish this through networking access to the key people, projects, programs and media in your local area? There is your local and regional area, national and global resources that might have to be found. You can learn how to use Internet search engines to be able to selectively find exactly what you're looking for. Remember, to have discernment in all areas of your research and be able to sort through the information and the disinformation.

As you begin to assemble the research and all the pieces of the puzzle, be sure to have a tracking system, some method of organizing and filing the information so you can retrieve it at will. Information is only as good as your ability to track it.

So first you're doing research and taking inventory. Second you've got to evaluate the information and screen for relevance. Third, you might have to create communications as well as writing a business plan, doing market research and a capitalization plan. Do not be overwhelmed. Take one step before the other, just like walking. Once you get good at it, you'll be able to run.

In summary, planning skills and evaluations include:

  1. A plan for your life
  2. Considering your life is a project
  3. Taking inventory of your resources.

Being a True Human

A Master Inside of You

A Master Inside of You

There is a master inside you. It is an ideal. It is you at your best. Keep working.
You are calm, thoughtful, patient and confident.
You are honest, trustworthy, responsible and reliable.
You are loyal and proud.
You are humble and reverent.
You are tough, self-reliant, persistent and hard working.
You are organized, neat and poised.
You are inquisitive and teachable.
You are healthy, vibrant and enthusiastic.
You are kind, friendly, helpful and generous.
You are brave and daring.
You are moral and ethical.

Latest Activity

GUCHI, Derek Xu and The Oregon Green Expo joined Cascadian Resource CenterJune 19
The Oregon Green Expo updated their profile photoMay 30
The Oregon Green Expo updated their profileMay 21
A blog post by The Oregon Green Expo was featuredApril 29
“Just about everyone knows by now that we have to start living within our means, and the planet’s. This expo will be a great place to learn ways to do that.”- Jeff Golden of www.immensepossibilities.com April 28, 2009 – With the momentous 40th an...
The Oregon Green Expo added a blog postApril 29
“Just about everyone knows by now that we have to start living within our means, and the planet’s. This expo will be a great place to learn ways to do that.”- Jeff Golden of www.immensepossibilities.com April 28, 2009 – With the momentous 40th an...
3 blog posts by Cascadian Resource Center were featuredApril 29
An event by Cascadian Resource Center was featuredApril 29
The Oregon Green Expo at Medford Armory
July 3, 2009 to July 5, 2009
Cascadian Resource Center added an eventApril 29
The Oregon Green Expo at Medford Armory
July 3, 2009 to July 5, 2009
Cascadian Resource Center added a blog postApril 29
Sustainability is defined as a way of development that does not compromise the capacity of future generations for living in this planet. On the other hand, Web 2.0 is the new technological generation based on user communities, social networks, b...
Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, he argues, needs to change.
A video by Global Business Development Services was featuredApril 13
Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air.
Cascadian Resource Center updated their profileJanuary 28
 

Introducing and Launching - Cascadian Resource Center

Dear Friends,

Along with many visionaries spanning four decades I have worked diligently to create a local, regional and global resource center platform to facilitate the conscious emergence of an enlightened planetary culture.

After many starts and stops over the years, finally the technology, resources and team are organized to accomplish such a grandiose vision. With several powerful web platforms integrated together, the capacity to communicate, network and manage information about people, projects, programs, media, organizations and businesses exists like never before.

With a vast network of resource people worldwide already on the path towards raising consciousness, the time is now to combine Internet technology with the people who are capable of making a difference and doing/being the greatest good.

For our initial launch ICR is launching three resources centers with many more to be organized nationally, regionally and locally.

Resource Center Platforms

For our initial launch ICR’s “Cascadian Resource Center” network has invited you and ninety-nine other key people, organizations and businesses in the local community to become founding members, contribute blogs, photos, music and videos, and submit your local event calendar listing absolutely free.

Share your favorite resources, information, books, seminars with a small, but growing community of friends. Invite your network to become members and participate in resource groups and discussions.

ICR's network is simple, elegant and easy to use even if you do not have computer skills. If you're willing to take 30 minutes, learn and read the "FAQ's & Tutorial", you'll have years of enjoyment and be able to network with some of the most dynamic and interesting people on the planet.

Respectfully yours,

John David Van Hove, Founder
Cascadian Resource Center
Institute for Communications Resources
258 "A" St. Ste 1-102
Ashland, Oregon 97520
Toll-Free: (800) 640-5947
Email: icr@ICResource.com
Web: www.ICResource.com

Events

July 3

Friday

Cascadian Resource Center - Featured Events

The Art of Entrepreneurship Seminar | Live Seminar (GBDS.US)(Ashland, Oregon)

Iceberg

with John David Van Hove and Raymond Brown

DATE: Saturday, May 16th, 2009 (10 AM - 6 PM PST)
LOCATION: Ashland, Oregon

Dear Clients, Associates & Friends,

What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye.

  • Have you ever wanted to start a project or a business, but didn't know where to begin?
  • Have you ever had a great idea, but didn't know how to manifest it?
  • Are you already in business and want to expand your knowledge of best-of-breed business tools for growing your company?
  • Do you desire success in every aspect of your living integrated with your business?

As said by some of the great teachers, we've all got blind-spots, places we cannot see. "It's what you don't know you don't know that can keep you from manifesting your dreams." As R. Buckminster Fuller said, "You've got exactly twelve seconds to manifest an idea before it slips back into dreamland."

If you're planning, or just dreaming, of starting a new business or project, whether for profit or a humanitarian effort, this seminar is for you. Explore what's possible for you in this one-day seminar in Ashland, Oregon this February.

Biographies

One Day Seminar Agenda & Purpose

Onlne webinar calendar

  1. Getting the Most Out of Social & Business Networking
  2. Web Empowerment Software for Building & Managing Business Websites
  3. RSS & XML: The Future of Publishing

Thank you and enjoy!

John David Van Hove
Raymond Brown
Global Business Development Services LLC - GBDS.us
Ashland, Oregon
Phone: 800.304.7507
Fax: 866.583.3039
Email: info@gbds.us

A Business Solution Space Company - GBDS.US applies best-of-breed web-based solutions to increase revenue, decrease expenses, and improve communications. Learn more today at www.gbds.us. Email us at info@gbds.us or phone (800) 304-7507 and find out more!

Blog Posts

The Oregon Green Expo

Announcing The Oregon Green Expo! | Medford Armory (July 3rd, 4th & 5th, 2009)

“Just about everyone knows by now that we have to start living within our means, and the planet’s. This expo will be a great place to learn ways to do that.- Jeff Golden of www.immensepossibilities.com

April 28, 2009 – With the momentous 40th anniversary of Earth Day just behind us, “going green” is clearly going mainstr… Continue

Posted by The Oregon Green Expo on April 24, 2009 at 8:00pm

Cascadian Resource Center

Sustainability 2.0? What-Why? | EQ,TV



Sustainability is defined as a way of development that does not
compromise the capacity of future generations for living in this
planet. On the other hand, Web 2.0 is the new technological generation
based on user communities, social networks, blogs, wikis, and
applications that encourage dynamic part… Continue

Posted by Cascadian Resource Center on April 29, 2009 at 7:41pm

Cascadian Resource Center

Chemtrails: Fact or Fiction?


Dear Friends,
It doesn't concern me in the least whether or not you come over "on my side" concerning the issue of chemtrails. If you wish to remain ignorant, blind, unobservant, and uninformed, that is your prerogative. Your willful blinding to the fact that large scale aerosol operat… Continue

Posted by Cascadian Resource Center on April 3, 2008 at 7:00pm

Ashland Resource Center - Featured Events

Getting the Most Out of Social & Business Networking | Live Presentation (Ashland, Oregon)

With John David Van Hove and Raymond Brown

DATE: Friday, June 5th, 2009 (12 PM - 1:30 PM PST)
LOCATION: Ashland, Oregon

Dear Clients, Associates & Friends,

At Global Business Development Services we're offering a series of free, introductory webinars in emerging web technologies for developers, entrepreneurs and businesses who want to learn about what's up and coming so they can stay upwards on the curve during these recessionary times.

Raymond and I are personally inviting you to our next presentation at the appointed date from 12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM PST, at 800 Liberty Street. in Ashland, Oregon. Several other people and companies from the community will be there for the same reason and to network with each other.

  • One-Hour Presentation
  • Free Lunch Served
  • Business Networking

This week we'll be giving a free presentation and orientation to the important emergence of social and business networking and how you can professionally benefit through its application and integration in your business and website.

We will show you how to use and integrate social and business networking into your day-to-day marketing practices to drive prospects to your website and generate sales. These are some of the social networks we'll address.

Presentation registration and coordinates

THERE STILL IS SUCH A THING AS A "FREE LUNCH" PRESENTATION (WITH LUNCH SERVED)!

Upcoming webinar calendar

  1. Getting the Most Out of Social & Business Networking
  2. Web Empowerment Software for Building & Managing Business Websites
  3. Social Bookmarking as Part of Your Content Management System
  4. Simple, Elegant, Yet Easty to Use Project and Contact Management Systems
  5. RSS Feeds & XML: The Future of Online Publishing

Thank you and enjoy!

John David Van Hove
Raymond Brown
Global Business Development Services LLC - GBDS.us
Ashland, Oregon
Phone: 800.304.7507
Fax: 866.583.3039
Email: info@gbds.us

A Business Solution Space Company - GBDS.US applies best-of-breed web-based solutions to increase revenue, decrease expenses, and improve communications. Learn more today at www.gbds.us. Email us at info@gbds.us or phone (800) 304-7507 and find out more!

Cascadian Resource Center - News Articles

Green Showcase | Mail-Tribune

Goodbye 2-by-6 studs with fiberglass insulation, vapor barrier and a lot of screws, nails, pounding — and seeping of air between the many joints. Say hello to SIPs.

Today's green, energy-efficient and sustainably-built house can be framed entirely with SIPs — Structural Insulated Panels — which are a foot-thick sandwich of polystyrene foam between layers of oriented strand board, a product that costs a little more than lumber but which cuts building time and pays for itself in saved energy bills.

Thomas Berry, Renowned Cultural Historian, Dies | Greens News

GREENSBORO - Father Thomas Berry, a Greensboro native and world-renowned cultural historian, died Monday at the Well-Spring retirement community. He was 94. (Photo: http://handsofalchemy.blogspot.com)

Berry, a Passionist Catholic priest, was considered a leading ecological thinker and held eight honorary degrees and numerous awards and honors. His ideas have influenced people across the world - from corporate globalization critic David Korten to Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya .

Berry's health had declined over the years and his family expected his death, said his sister, Dr. Margaret Berry.

"He had a quiet death and the family was with him when he died," Berry said. "We have people from all over the world who are e-mailing and planning to attend one of the four services."

Thomas Berry articulated a vision of an approaching "Ecozoic Era" in which human societies would live in a sustainable and mutually beneficial manner with the natural world. The Center for Ecozoic Studies in Chapel Hill plans to publish a tribute to Berry this year.

 

Governor to Attend 100 Best Green Companies Event | Oregon Business News

Gov. Ted Kulongoski will attend Oregon Business magazine's celebration of its first annual 100 Best Green Companies to Work For in Oregon. The event will be June 1 at the Gerding Theater in Portland. "We are honored to have the governor help us recognize the importance of green ethics in the workplace," says Oregon Business Editor Robin Doussard. "And grateful for his enduring commitment to making Oregon one of the greenest states in the country."

The 100 Best Green Companies | Oregon Business

The 100 Best Green Companies were selected based on sustainable practices sections from the 100 Best survey process, completed by 372 employers last fall. Participation in the 100 Best survey is voluntary and free of charge. Companies had to employ at least 15 Oregon workers at the time of taking the survey.

Employee survey For the 2009 survey nearly 30,000 Oregon workers rated satisfaction and importance in five statements related to sustainable practices.

Institute for Communications Resources - News Articles

Goodbye, GM | Common Dreams

I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.(Photo: http://juliohuato.wordpress.com)

As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes and businesses in the city have been abandoned. Imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city where almost every other house is empty. What would be your state of mind?

It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh -- and that wouldn't start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly ignored the "inferior" Japanese and German cars, cars which would become the gold standard for automobile buyers. And it was hell-bent on punishing its unionized workforce, lopping off thousands of workers for no good reason other than to "improve" the short-term bottom line of the corporation. Beginning in the 1980s, when GM was posting record profits,

 

Allow unemployed to go to school & collect benefits | The Career News

President Barack Obama says he wants unemployment insurance to become a steppingstone for future work by making it easier to enroll in school or job training. Whether that happens will depend on the willingness of states and colleges to change the rules. (Photo: www.clutchmagonline.com)

People who have been laid off and want to go back to school often have to give up their unemployment benefits. If they return to work, they often don't qualify for federal aid because eligibility is based on the previous year's income.

Under rule changes Obama outlined Friday, the Labor Department will ask states to make exceptions during economic downturns so that the unemployed can keep their benefits if they go to community college or pursue other education or training.

 

Recalculating Happiness in a Himalayan Kingdom | Central News Agency

THIMPHU, Bhutan - If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on an answer.

"Greed, insatiable human greed," said Prime Minister Jigme Thinley of Bhutan, describing what he sees as the cause of today's economic catastrophe in the world beyond the snow-topped mountains. "What we need is change," he said in the whitewashed fortress where he works. "We need to think gross national happiness."

 

Harameins Universal Model Receives One of its Largest Confirmations | The Resonance Project

Nassim Haramein for more than two decades has been claiming that black holes are the source of creation, not the result of it.  His model early on permitted him to predict that black holes would be found at the center of all galactic formations.  In many cases Haramein produced large controversy stating that black holes were most likely there prior to galactic formation, or even star formation, and that even our own sun and the atomic structure that makes up our reality is centered by black hole dynamics, or what he calls the spin horizon of a white whole/black whole.

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Environment & Earth

greenLIFE | KVTL Channel 10

Local television station covering green and sustainability issues. Sponsor of the Oregon Green Expo.

Oregon's plate is full of sustainable food | EcoTrust

Leaders say it's one bright spot in an otherwise dim economic forecast. Demand for sustainable food is strong, and regional leaders are working to keep it that way.

Slow Money: Investment Strategies Appropriate to the Realities of the 21st Century

Think about it: a hundred thousand Americans providing millions of dollars a year for investment in local food systems. Is it typical philanthropy? No. Is it investing as we've come to know it? No. Is it achievable? Yes.

Shell on Trial: Landmark Trial Set to Begin Over Shell's Role in 1995 Execution of Nigerian Human Rights Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa

A landmark trial against oil giant Royal Dutch Shell’s alleged involvement in human rights violations in the Niger Delta begins this Wednesday in a federal court in New York. Fourteen years after the widely condemned execution of the acclaimed Nigerian writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, the court will hear allegations that Shell was complicit in his torture and execution.

Antonia Juhasz on "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report"

Now Chevron’s annual report reports that 2008 was the company’s most profitable year in history. Just ahead of Chevron’s shareholder meeting, a new report released today tells shareholders more about the hidden and underreported costs of these profits. The alternative annual report is called “The True Cost of Chevron.” It brings together stories from communities across the world—Angola, Burma, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, Ecuador, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States—all directly affected by and in struggle against Chevron’s operations. We speak to the report’s author and James Craig, media adviser for Latin America for Chevron.

Energy, Shelter & Infrastructure

Rob Saladoff

Architect Rogue Valley Ashland Oregon

inERGYhomes.com

Eco-Friendly, High Efficiency, High Performance Homes - inERGYhomes.com - Eco-Friendly, High Efficiency, High Performance Homes. Building Science Technologies and Green Building are improving the way we’re building homes. inERGY Homes is at the forefront of viewing the whole house as a system in building techniques for High Performance Homes.

National Sustainable Building Advisor Program

The National Sustainable Building Advisor Program (NaSBAP) offers a 9-month certificate training course and exam specifically designed for working professionals eager to apply sustainable concepts to the buildings they design, develop, and construct.

Built Green

Our builders and other associates provide sustainable housing in an area of more than 4,000 square miles in the State of Washington, covering King and Snohomish Counties. Built Green homes are designed to provide homeowners with comfortable, durable, environmentally friendly homes that are cost-effective to own and operate. These resource-efficient homes are crafted to exceed building codes and provide homeowners with years of healthy, quality living, while protecting the precious Northwest environment.

Bamboo Hardwoods

Bamboo Flooring Manufacturer

GBDS.US Develops Powerful Websites, Networks and Blogs

GBDS.US applies best-of-breed communications and networking technology to facilitate sustainable business development.

Basecamp project management and collaboration

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