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Welcome to

SUSTAINABILITY

TOWN HALL 2019

March 7, 2019

Our Vision

Corvallis is a community

in which the needs of the

present are met without

compromising the ability

of future generations to

meet their own needs.

It is a flourishing and thriving city with a vibrant

economy that respects, restores, and cares for the

community of life.

Sustainability Guiding Objectives(based on the Natural Step system conditions for a sustainable society)

OUR PARTNERS3 Degrees

350 Corvallis

A&S Accounting

Abundant Solar

Acme Construction Co.

Akro Construction Corp

Alliance for Recreation and Natural Areas (AFRANA)

American Dream Pizza & CrowBar

American Toy LLC

Animal Crackers Pet Supply

AnOvation Group LLC

ANS/HPS - OSU Student Chapter

Apicurious

The Arts Center

ASOSU Environmental Affairs Task Force

Associated Students of Oregon State University

ATCO America

Audubon Society of Corvallis

Avery Addition Neighborhood Association

B.E. Solar

Bahá'í Community of Corvallis

Baklava Mediterranean Cafe

Bald Hill Farm

Barker-Uerlings Insurance, Inc.

Beit Am Jewish Community

Bella Vino Gift Baskets

Benton County

Benton County Community Rights Coalition

Benton County Democrats

Benton County Env. Issues Advisory Committee

Benton County Fair

Benton County Master Gardeners

Benton County Rural & Special Transportation

Services

Benton Habitat for Humanity

Benton Soil & Water Conservation District

Beyond Toxics

Birch Consulting

Blackledge Furniture

Block 15

Blue Dawg Promotions

Blue River Building LLC

Bombs Away Café

Bonnie Arent Lorenz, Acupuncture

Bountiful Backyard

Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis

The Brave Life Initiative

Broadleaf Architecture

Browser's Bookstore

Burcham’s Metals, Inc.

Business Enterprise Center

Carol Trueba, Broker - Town & Country Realty

Carts and Tools

Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation &

Development

Cascades West Rideshare

Cascadia Expeditions

CascadiaNow!, Corvallis Chapter

CASSE - Center for the Advancement of the Steady

State Economy

Cattail Creek Lamb

Collaborative Employment Innovations

Central Willamette Community Credit Union

Charles R. Gerke AIA Architect

Chintimini Wildlife Center

Cirello's Pizza

Citizens Bank

Citizens' Climate Lobby Corvallis Chapter

City Club of Corvallis

City Delivery Service

City of Corvallis

Clean Corvallis Air

Cleland Marketing

Cloudburst Creative

Coast Range Association

Coffee Culture

CoHo Ecovillage

Committees of Correspondence for Democracy &

Socialism

Community Action for Racial Equity (C.A.R.E.)

Community Independent Business Alliance (CIBA)

Community Outreach, Inc.

Community Services Consortium

Compassion Entrepreneurs

Confluence Design & Construction

Corvallis Access Media

Corvallis Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

(CAMPO)

Corvallis Bicycle Collective

Corvallis Chamber of Commerce

The Corvallis Clinic, P.C.

Corvallis Community Acupuncture

Corvallis Copy Center

Corvallis Custom Kitchens and Baths

Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center

Corvallis Environmental Center

Corvallis Evening Garden Club

Corvallis Fall Festival

Corvallis Family Clothing Swap

Corvallis Friends Meeting (Quakers)

Corvallis Furniture

Corvallis Housing First

Corvallis Interfaith Climate Justice Committee

Corvallis Matters

Corvallis Men's Shelter

Corvallis Montessori School

Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center

Corvallis Oddfellows I.O.O.F.

Corvallis Pedicab

Corvallis Public Schools Foundation

Corvallis Radiology

Corvallis Right of Way

Corvallis Rowing Club

Corvallis School District - 509J

Corvallis School District Safe Routes to School

Corvallis Senior Cohousing Project

Corvallis Sister Cities Association – Gondar

Corvallis Social Equity Research Group

Corvallis Spring Roll

Corvallis Waldorf School

Corvallis Zen Circle

Corvallis-Albany Farmers' Markets

Country Vitamins

Coyle LLC

Craft Biscuit Bakery

OUR PARTNERSCrawforDesign, Inc.

Crescent Valley High School

CSC Youth House Gardens

Da Vinci Days

Darkside Cinema

Debonair Enterprises

Denison Farms

design.christonium

Dev Ethos Consultancy Corp.

Devco Engineering

DH Renewables

Diane's Urban Farm Retreat

DoubleCheck Writing & Editing, LLC

Dynamic Sustainability Consulting

Eads Broadcasting Corporation

Earth & Sea Salts

Earth Charter Initiative

Earthfort

EcNowTech

Ecotecture® Publications

Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon

Edward Jones - Tim Euhus

Edward Jones - Trevor Bulman

Element Graphics, Inc.

Emerald Forest Architecture

Energy Trust of Oregon

Energy Wise Lighting

Enviofuel

Ethnographica Consulting

Fairfield Farm

Farmland LP

FireWorks Restaurant

First Alternative Food Coop

First Congregational United Church of Christ

First Presbyterian Church

First United Methodist Church

Fitzpatrick Ecological Consulting

Footwise

Freshwaters Illustrated

Friends of Corvallis Parks & Recreation

Friends of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library

Friends of Witham Oaks

Furniture Share

Gaia Landscapes, Inc.

Garden Spaces Sustainable Landscapes, LLC

Garland Nursery

Gathering Together Farms

Get Organized!

Gluten Free RN

The Golden Crane

Good Samaritan Episcopal Church

Goodfoot Farm

GooseFoot Farm

Grace Center for Adult Day Services

Grass Roots Books & Music

Green Girl

Green Planet Dreams

Green Spring Farms

Greenbelt Land Trust

Greenwillow Grains

Growing Family Birth Center

Harcombe Farm

HatchLab Corvallis

Healthy Youth Program - Linus Pauling Institute

Heartland Humane Society Thrift Shop

Holly Oak Music Studio

Home Grown Gardens

Home Life

Hospitality Vision

HOUR Exchange

Hull Home Efficiency

IBEW Local 280

In the Moment Stress Reduction

Indoor Airman

Innovate Oregon

Institute for Applied Ecology

Integrated Resource Management

Intertech

Jackson Street Youth Services

Jammin' for the Hungry

Jobs Addition Neighborhood Assn

Jon's Headlight Restoration

JTI Supply, Inc.

Kaleidoscope Studios

Kapa Landscape Design LLC

Kate Hickok Media Productions

Keller Williams Realty Mid-Willamette

Kidco Head Start – Kids & Company of Linn County

LadyC's CakePan

Laughing Planet Café

League of Women Voters of Corvallis

Legend Homes Corvallis Communities

Lemon Twist Web Design, LLC

Life in Balance Acupuncture

Linn Benton Food Share

Linn Benton Health Equity Alliance

Live Well Studio

Lorraine Anderson, Writer/Editor

The Majestic Theatre

Mamalia's Baklava

Manage My Co-op

Marys River Gleaners

Marys River Grange

Marys River Watershed Council

Mattress Mania

McLellan Temporaries

MicroEPIC Productions

Mid-Valley Bicycle Club

Mid-Valley Doula Network

Mid-Valley Harvest

Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates

Midway Farms

The Mushroomery

NAACP Corvallis/Albany Branch

OUR PARTNERSNative Plant Society of Oregon

Natural Choice Directory

Nearly Normals

Neighborhood Naturalist

Never the Same

North by Northwest Transportation Foundation

North Jackson Company

Northwest Earth Institute

Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Northwest Naturescapes

Northwest Realty Consultants

Novo Veritas

Old Blue Raw Honey

Old Mill Center for Children and Families

Orange O Barber Salon

Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation

Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative

Oregon Ceremonies

Oregon Green Schools

Oregon Screen Crafts

Oregon State Credit Union

Oregon State University

Oregon Wildlife Institute

OSU Advantage Accelerator

OSU Campus Recycling

OSU Center for Civic Engagement

OSU College of Forestry

OSU Divest - Students Engaging Tomorrow

OSU Ecampus

OSU Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative

OSU Environmental Health Sciences Center

OSU Extension - Benton County

OSU Folk Club Thrift Shop

OSU Hydrogen Club

OSU Spring Creek Project

OSU STEPs

OSU Student Sustainability Initiative

OSU Transportation Services

OSU University Housing & Dining Services

Our Climate

Owen Dell & Associates

Pacific Green Party Linn-Benton Chapter

Pane Relief Window Cleaning

Peak Sports

Pegasus Games

Permaculture Rising

PFLAG Corvallis/Albany

Philomath Montessori School

Play It Again Sports

Post Carbon Institute

Premium Efficiency, Inc.

PreservationWORKS

Produce for the People

Rapid Refill Print Solutions

Republic Services

RESULTS Corvallis

RHT Energy

Rice's Pharmacy

Rod Terry, Designer

Ron Hall Concrete

Room at the Inn

Roxy Dawgs

Samaritan Health Services

Schroff, Tudor Insurance Agency, Inc.

Seeds for the Sol

Shady Grove Farm Corvallis

Shelton Turnbull - Green Solutions Printing

Shonnard's Nursery, Florist, & Landscape

Showing Up for Racial Justice, Corvallis Chapter

Sibling Revelry

Sierra Club - Marys Peak Group

Sierra Club - Oregon Chapter

Silverman Studios

Sky High Brewing

Slow Food Corvallis

Smith, Davison & Brasier, PC

Softstar Shoes

Soilsmith Services, Inc.

Solar Ki

SoupCycle

South Corvallis Food Bank

Spindrift Cellars

St. Anne Orthodox Church

St. Mary's Catholic Church

Sunbow Farm

Sunbow Produce

Sundborn Children's House

Sunrise Corner Community Garden

SunWize

Susan Binder, Designer

Sustainable Forestry Partnership

Sweet Yoga

T. Gerding Construction Company

Ten Rivers Food Web

The Reynolds Law Firm

The Society of National Industry

The Thyme Garden

Timberhill Athletic Club

Tina Taylor - Stress Solutions

Town & Country Realty

Tyee Wine Cellars Ltd

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis

Valley AIDS Information Network

Valley Eye Care

Veterans for Peace, Linus Pauling Chapter

Virginia Shapiro, DC – Integrity Natural Health

Visit Corvallis

Vivacity Spirits

Welding Wizardry

Western Pulp Products

White Wind Superfoods: Organic Juice Bar

Whiteside Theatre Foundation

Wild Garden Seed

Wild Yeast Community Supported Bakery

Willamette Disc Golf Club

Willamette Gardens

Willamette Investment Advisors

Willamette Living Magazine

Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services

Willamette Watershed Productions

Windsmith Music

Wineopolis

Youth Volunteer Corps of Corvallis

Zoetic Architecture

Volunteers

A Model Sustainable Event

Waste1. Compostable

food service

2. Waste stations

3. Bathroom paper towels


Energy1. 1,000 kWh of

Blue Sky power= CO2 emissions

reduced by 940 lbs

2. Lighting

3. Real time utility monitoring


Food1.Local 6 foods

– Foods from Benton

County plus the

five counties

touching it

2.Municipal tap

water


Water1. Bathroom sinks

are all

“Conservers”

2. Low flow toilets

and urinals

FREE and open to all…

THANKS to our sponsors!

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Sustainability Office

Champions

Sustainers

Supporters

Sponsors

FUMC Environmental Care Team

Town Hall Heroes

AFRANA • Bettina Schempf • Bill & Nancy EvensonBrian Lee • Candace Russo • Cecily Feudo

Claudia Keith • Corvallis Baha’i Community • Court SmithCynthia Spencer & Patrick Hadlock • David Sprowls

Diane Arney • Diane McGrath & Judith EdelsteinEmily Bowling • Gregg Kleiner & Laurie Salus • Jim & Carol Holm

Joey & Ashley Merback • John Trelstad • Julie Manning Kathy & Frank Hall • Kim Lamont • Larry Weymouth • Lee Holt

Lorraine Anderson • Lyn & Jerry Larson • Molly Engle Pat & Dee Mooney • Pete Nelson • Peter Greenberg

Ruby Moon • Skip & Jackie Rochefort • Softstar Shoes Tom & Lynn Ekstedt • Thomas Field • Tru Denton

Veterans for Peace • Willamette Gardens • Xan Augerot

Engaged Partners

CHAMPIONS

Alvin Eshe & Janet Wolf-Eshe • Anna-Maria & Jim Phelps

Biff & Maret Traber • Bud & Jan Ames

Chris & Kate Mathews • David Eckert & Annette Mills

Diane H. McInally, CPA, LLC • Fred Prahl

Jim Boyle • Ken & Sarah Edwardsson • Liz Frenkel

Lorie Bailey & Stephanie Heindel • Peg Cornell

Peter Stoel & Karen Josephson • Phil Sollins

Ralph & Marge Alig • Robert & Maria Scott

Thomas & Susan Palmrose

Engaged Partners

SUSTAINERS

Alan Deitch • Blackledge Furniture

Cheryl Stevenson & Jim Cannon

Cindee Lolik • Corvallis Odd Fellows • Dave Rabinowitz

David Wells • First Alternative Co-op • Jack Elder

Jason & Kristin Bradford • Jeff & Maureen Kinevey Gump

John Swanson & Jeanne Holmes • Leslie & Bill Glassmire

Martha Clemons & Charlie Miller • Scott & Chris Newsham

Sevenoaks Native Nursery • Theresa Gibney

Vanguard Charitable Trust on behalf of Cliff & Gay Hall

Engaged Partners

SUPPORTERS

Audubon Society of Corvallis • Bailey Payne & Leigh Santy

Brandon Trelstad • Corvallis Copy Center • David & Linda Smith

Deborah Carey & Raymond Shockey • Denison Farms • Devco Engineering

Don Alan & Roberta Hall • Earthfort • Janet Throop • Jim Stratton

Joey & Ashley Merback • Judy Dugan • League of Women Voters of Corvallis

Lee & Suzanne Lazaro • Liv & Dave Gifford • Loma Hammond

Marie Long • Marilyn Henderson • Marion Ceraso • Michael Neeley-Brown

Mike Beilstein • Pacific Green Party – Linn Benton Chapter

Pat & Betty Malone • Peak Sports • Phil Harding

Richard & Rosalie Clinton • Rochelle Murphy • Sarah Spangler

Si Simonson • Sky High Brewing • Suzanne Ortiz

Vicki Wilderman • Viviane Simon-Brown

Organizing Team

Fair Coordinator

Lani Beavers

Town Hall Organizers

Annette Mills Andrea Norris

Brandon Trelstad Dave Eckert

Heidi Lewis John Deuel

Kathy Thompson Gautami Pawar

Sean McGuire

Town Hall Volunteers

Greeters & Registrars

Exhibitors & Action Team Members

Musicians

Transportation Monitors

Recycling Station Monitors

Discussion Leaders & Recorders

Presenters

We Honor and Acknowledge

THEME:

Climate Action –

Changing Course

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AGENDA

PART 1: Individual Pathways to Change

PART 2: Organizational Change

PART 3: Immediate Action

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Intergovernmental

Panel on

Climate Change

(IPCC)

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100 solutions to

mitigate and reverse

climate change

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Solutions will create

• Jobs

• Social stability

• Crop productivity

• Higher quality food

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Solutions will increase

• Soil health

• Biodiversity

• Water retention

• Clean air

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Solutions will reverse

• Marine desertification

• Coral bleaching

Changing Course:Climate change as opportunity

• Model climate action

• Become a catalyst

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Individual Pathways to Change

• FOOD

• TRANSPORTATION

• CONSUMPTION

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Organizational Change

Individual Pathways to Change

Look for actions that will help you reduce

your greenhouse gas emissions

Community Scrapbook:

PART A

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PART A

2018 Accomplishments

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../Scrapbook/2019_Community_Scrapbook_slides_Part_A.pptx

Table Discussion #1

1st Round: Tell us your name and your affiliation.

2nd Round: What is one action you will take to move

beyond your comfort zone and become a model of

climate action for others?

• Discuss with partner

• Discuss with whole table

Organizational Change

Look for ways you can be a catalyst to

help your organization reduce

greenhouse gas emissions


PART B

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Community Scrapbook

PART B

2018 Accomplishments

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../Scrapbook/2019_Community_Scrapbook_slides_Part_B.pptx

Table Discussion #2

What will you do to help your organization,

institution, or workplace move beyond

“business as usual” and become a more

effective model in terms of climate action?

• Discuss with partner

• Discuss with whole table

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Mary Christina Wood

“Immediate Action:

Responding to Our Climate

Emergency”

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Table Discussion #3

Divide table into 2 groups – Each group gets

a “clicker”.

3 questions to provide guidance to the

Sustainability Coalition and our partners

• Discuss (5 minutes)

• VOTE as a group (1 minute)

Table Discussion #3

QUESTION 1: What changes are you and people you

know most willing to make related to FOOD choices?

A. Eat plant-centric meals

B. Waste less food

C. Support local agriculture

FOOD

A. Eat plant-centric meals that include fewer

or no animal products

B. Waste less food through more conscious

purchasing, preparation, and storage

C. Support local agriculture through

your food choices

FOOD

Table Discussion #3

A. Eat plant-centric

meals

B. Waste less food

C. Support local

agriculture


know most willing to make related to FOOD choices?

Table Discussion #3


know most willing to make related to

TRANSPORTATION choices?

A. Reduce or eliminate air travel

B. Share rides more often

C. Walk, bike, or ride the bus more often

Transportation

A. Reduce or eliminate air travel

B. Share rides more often

Transportation

C. Walk, bike, or ride the bus more often

Transportation

Table Discussion #3

A. Reduce or

eliminate air travel

B. Share rides more

often

C. Walk, bike, or ride

the bus more often


know most willing to make related to TRANSPORTATION

choices?

Table Discussion #3



CONSUMPTION choices?

A. Reduce the use of fossil fuel-based

energy

B. Reduce water use

C. Choose used items instead of new

ones more often

Consumption

A. Reduce the use of fossil fuel-based energy

B. Reduce water use

Consumption

Consumption

C. Choose used items instead of new ones

more often

Table Discussion #3

A. Reduce use of fossil-

fuel based energy

B. Reduce water use

C. Choose used items

instead of new ones



CONSUMPTION choices?

Pledge to change course in the following area(s): __Food __Transportation __Consumption __Other

Join the Sustainable Corvallis Google Group and volunteer with a Coalition action team or partner organization (specify): ______________________

Donate or pledge to support the Sustainability Coalition Climate Action Fund

__Donation enclosed __Please contact me

Response Envelope

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Community Inclusion

Economic Vitality

Energy

Education

Health & Human Services

Housing

Land Use

Natural Areas

Transportation

Waste Prevention

Pledge to change course in the following area(s): __Food __Transportation __Consumption __Other

Join the Sustainable Corvallis Google Group and volunteer with a Coalition action team or partner organization (specify): ______________________

Donate or pledge to support the Sustainability Coalition Climate Action Fund

__Donation enclosed __Please contact me

Response Envelope

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Mayor Biff Traber

City of Corvallis

Commission Chair

Annabelle Jaramillo

Benton County

Community Leaders

Next Generation of Leaders

Marc Chenard

Crescent Valley High School

Lauren Reichman

Corvallis High School

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