Sustainable Resources for Design & Deliverables
This is a project that I'm volunteering for that I happen to also be spearheading. This tool will step land development designers through the process of incorporating sustainable principles into their designs and deliverables. Take a look at the prototype that I created for one best management practice "Save a Tree".

Board Member, Oregon Community Trees
This is a non-profit organization dedicated to "promote healthy urban and community forests". This all volunteer board has an all day meeting quarterly. Duties include blogging, promoting the organization, working on the website, and of course, attending meetings.

Board Member, Secretary, Multnomah Neighborhood Association
This board meets once a month on the 2nd Tuesday of every month to help "Multnomah neighborhood residents in their efforts to participate in neighborhood related government processes, maintain quality of life, assure public safety and prevent crime." As the secretary, I take notes.

Sears Armory Community Advisory Committee
Starting December 8th, I'll be serving on the Sears Armory Community Advisory Committee to assist with the public process associated with the redevelopment of the Sears Armory site located in Multnomah Village (at 2730 SW Multnomah Blvd). Community Partners for Affordable Housing has been awarded the use of this site to master plan affordable housing. Article link here.

Volunteers for SOLV plant trees for riparian restoration at Trillium Creek in SW Portland. OK, this wasn't a very rainy day...

Oregon Building Congress
I serve as an eMentor for the students of the ACE Academy (Architecture, Construction & Engineering) so, they email questions, which I answer.

I also ran a workshop for students attending the Clackams County Community College who are building a "green" community garden under one of OBC's summer programs. I gave an overview of sustainability, we learned about soils and did an infiltration test, we learned about vegetation, stormwater, land use changes, and how these all intersect to either damage or support the health of our ecosystem.

SOLV, Stream Team Captain for Team Up for Watershed Health
My husband and I received training as Stream Team Captains to direct volunteers to plant trees in sensitive riparian areas to restore watershed health. On rainy Saturday mornings in the winter, I can often be heard yelling, "Dig, you scurvy dogs! Dig!" In summer 2008, I assisted an Americorps volunteer monitor plants at established sites about 4 days.

Metro, Pervious Surfaces Seminar
I met with Lyn Bonyhadi, an organizer of the event, a number of times to identify key information, approaches to presenting, and just to do some good old fashioned brainstorming. I also presented a general overview and site preparation considerations at the seminar.

Columbia Land Trust
I served on the Lands Committee from Sep 2004-Mar 2008 meeting about once a month, to bring an engineering perspective to the process of recommending lands for purchase to the board of directors.

Other smaller stuff
Clackamas Community Land Trust: facilitating eco-charrette for an affordable housing project.
OSU online stormwater modeling tool for small coastal communities: providing feedback on the stormwater model
Earth Advantage: providing feedback on small Commercial green building certification standards.
Salmon Safe: provided feedback on new residential certification standards .

Cascadia Green Building Council, Living Building Challenge
I performed research and wrote narratives for the User's Guide for site-related prerequisite requirements for version 1.3 and then 2.0 of the Living Building Challenge certification, a guide to the why, how, who, when, and where of applying best management practices.

Metro Regional Language Bank
This has been an ongoing set of meetings with members of Nature in Neighborhoods, regional agencies folks, and stakeholders from non-governmental organizations to create standardized language and definitions when educating homeowners regionally.