Education &
Projects
"To promote the link between ecology, economy and community in the Columbia Gorge"
is the mission of our parent organization, the Columbia Gorge Earth Center.
Related to that mission is the Gorge Rebuild-it Center's underlying goal to
"foster sustainable building design in the Columbia Gorge."
The following projects highlight our efforts to meet these goals.
Green Building
Columbia Gorge Earth Center's 6th Annual
Enviro-House Tour
Saturday, October 6th, 2007 10-4pm
ALSO
Hops Fest
Saturday, October 6th, 2007 noon-9pm
Featuring RiverHOURS and the Earth Center Eco Village
This is a self-guided tour of environmentally friendly homes in the Gorge, so that you can see a variety of techniques and materials for building or remodeling your home with a lower cost to the environment.
From straw bale walls to solar panels, you can see the homes and hear the stories of local people doing their part to make a difference.
This year's Enviro-House Tour is going to be better than ever with many new exciting green projects, including several inspiring houses fresh to the Tour, a LEED-certified commercial building in downtown Hood River, plus the nation's largest LEED-certified green and solar residential development in Mosier !!!
For more information, follow this link…www.cgec
Until then, you can click here to see an overview of the homes featured in past tours. Thanks to all of the homeowners who have opened up their homes in order to educate us about cutting-edge and environmentally-friendly building practices!
Workshops
From time to time, we host workshops on environmentally-friendly building practices or materials through the Film & Lecture Series of our parent organization, the Columbia Gorge Earth Center., presenting on topics like solar power, retail lighting efficiency, new building efficiency, and renewable energy programs. For more information about upcoming events, click on the link to the Earth Center!
We want the Gorge Rebuild-it Center to evolve into an information hub for green building design, complete with a resource library and information about alternative building products, codes, local builders, and services. We remind interested folks that our education goals are presently limited by a lack of human resources to implement. We are always searching for volunteers who have specialized knowledge/training and/or the time to help us foster local discussion about sustainable building design. Check for future workshops or contact us to volunteer to organize a workshop!
Occasionally we have the opportunity to host field trips at Gorge Rebuild-it center. This year we have enjoyed the company and shared our mission with over 70 students from Dufur, OR, and Klickitat County, WA. And we always do our best to educate our volunteers!