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Resilient Ideas: Reclaim, Repair, Rebuild
The house-building boom has gone bust, but the rebuilding boom has just started. The ReBuilding Center, a non-profit in Portland, Ore., is a building supply store for sustainable construction. All the stock is entirely reclaimed and local.
Portland has one of the most comprehensive and accessible networks of reclaimed building materials and fittings in the country. Even so, demand at the ReBuilding Center is such that each day, 300 visitors browse through stock that is refreshed every 15 minutes. But salvaging these materials takes skill and labor; old buildings are dismantled by hand.
That's why the ReBuilding Center has a companion deconstruction service. "When you demolish something, you treat it as a liability," says executive director Shane Endicott. "When you deconstruct, you treat those resources as an asset." He notes that deconstruction creates six to eight jobs for every one demolition job, while benefiting the environment and saving homeowners 50 percent–90 percent over new materials.
Susan DeFreitas wrote this article for A Resilient Community, the Fall 2010 issue of YES! Magazine.
More Resilient Ideas
|A Hand-Built Home
|Low-Impact Urban Living
|Bike As You Are
|Return of the Mercantile
|Processing Food Where the Food Is
|Beekeeping on City Rooftops
|Reclaim, Repair, Rebuild
|Making Fruit Public
|Get Off the Grid
|Sunshine on the Menu


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Mixed Birds Decals for Ceramic, Glass and Enamel
Mixed Birds Decals for Ceramic, Glass and Enamel
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What to Expect at SXSW
Who to look for and what to expect as Austin's critically acclaimed South By Southwest festival kicks off this weekend. WSJ's John Jurgensen reports.
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W.H. changes course on sequester
For the last six months, the White House told the groups that will suffer the biggest blow if domestic cuts go through one thing: We've got this.
But a week before the sequester deadline, they've decided to change course, summoning cops, teachers, nurses and first responders to the White House for meetings on how to pitch their case to lawmakers on Capitol Hill reluctant to cut a deal.
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( Also on POLITICO: Sequestration: Excuses, excuses, excuses)
Senior White House and Cabinet aides have been holding daily meetings this week focusing on the real-world implications of the budget battle and how to shame Republicans into coming to the table — even after the cuts take effect on March 1.
They've even turned their Cabinet members loose, dispatching them across the country after previously keeping them under a gag order on the spending cuts. The White House put the Office of Management and Budget in charge of the messaging on the domestic side of the cuts for agencies, keeping agency heads on a short leash when it came to talking about sequester — leaving Obama to do most of the talking himself. The Cabinet trips suggest the White House realizes they need to bring new voices into the fight as both sides jockey to avoid getting blamed for the cuts in the closing days.
( Also on POLITICO: Sequestration poll: Republicans to be blamed most)
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack traveled this week to his home state of Iowa warning about the implications to rural America if the cuts go through, while Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Education Secretary Arne Duncan testified about the cuts last week before the Senate Appropriations Committee. The panel has also posted more than 20 letters from the FBI to NASA and the State Department detailing the planning under way.
"If there was a gag order, I'd say it's certainly been lifted," said Joel Packer, one of about 45 education officials who met Tuesday with White House and Education Department officials to discuss sequestration at the Old Executive Office Building.
( PHOTOS: What they're saying about sequestration)
During another meeting Wednesday, administration officials told public health experts they had a "critical window" starting on March 2 — the day after sequestration starts — until the expiration of the continuing resolution on March 27 "to make noise so lawmakers feel it when sequestration takes effect," said Emily Holubowich, an advocate for health budgets and also a spokeswoman for a broad collection of about 3,000 groups trying to save the discretionary budget from sequestration.
The Obama aides — including Heath and Human Services Deputy Secretary Bill Corr, Office of Public Engagement Acting Director Stephanie Valencia, White House policy aide Carole Johnson and Tom Reilly of the Office of Management and Budget — told the health groups that OMB would be issuing a sequestration order March 1 that gives the different federal agencies specific directions on how they should apply the cuts to their different programs, projects and activities.


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Gatineau, Quebec
(map) Immediately across the border from Ottawa, Gatineau contains the formerly independent city of Hull and houses the Quebec-Gatineau Railway (QGRY) and Hull, Chelsea, and Wakefield (HCW) scenic steam railway.
May 13th, 2019
Heartbreak in Gatineau: The Hull, Chelsea, Wakefield is truly no more, with both the track and the train itself ripped up. While the Union Pacific gets Big Boy 4014 up and running again, this is what Canada's national capital region tourist train looks like today. Surely we can do better. I had a chance to ride this train in 2006 and chasd it in 2005. It was closed almost a decade ago by washouts and never recovered, the equipment put up for sale and vandalised too much to save before it could be sold.This image viewed 1 times, as of last night.