We are excited to announce that Marta Hanson (she/her) has joined the Lloyd EcoDistrict team as our Interim Executive Director. In this time of transition for the organization, Marta is providing direction and support for our organizational planning and program operations work, including the EcoDistricts Certification process.
Marta brings over a decade of experience in gender and racial equity work, community development, and institutional change. She co-led the Women's Community Center at Stanford for five years, helping build and support a thriving intersectional feminist community, and has raised funds for numerous progressive causes and candidates, including NARAL Pro-Choice America and Kamala Harris. In her independent consulting and volunteer work, Marta has supported dozens of nonprofits and advocacy organizations across the country, including New Leaders Council and Common Cause Oregon. Marta grew up in the Portland area and loves exploring the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about Marta here.
If you want to introduce yourself to Marta, you can send her an email at marta@ecolloyd.org
Sign Up to Help Re-Plant the Pollinator Corridor
Come help us and the Lloyd Community Association to green the Multnomah Street Planters! Learn about pollinators, native perennial plants, and local ecology on Thursday, February 24, 2022, from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Get your hands dirty while you help beautify our neighborhood, protect pollinator species and habitat, and improve street safety. Along NE Multnomah St. from NE 2nd to NE 15 exist 34 large concrete planters, creating a protected pollinator corridor bikeway across the Lloyd. Community partners installed the planters and planted native/hardy pollinator plants between 2016 & 2018. While many of the planters are filled with flowering pollinator species, some of the planters need to now be supplemented with a variety of native species. All planting supplies will be provided, but please come wearing a face covering, closed-toed shoes, a filled reusable water bottle, and gloves. If you would like to participate and learn more information, please click the button below.
Volunteer at our Upcoming
Peace Memorial Park Cleanup
Our first cleanup of the year will be on Saturday,February 12, 2022. Join Lloyd EcoDistrict and SOLVE volunteers from 10:00 AM -12:00 PM to clean up Peace Memorial Park and the surrounding areas in the Lloyd neighborhood (Eastbank Esplanade/Convention Center/Moda Center). All tools and supplies will be provided. Please come wearing a face covering, closed-toed shoes, and a filled reusable water bottle. If you have your own gloves, litter grabber, litter bags, or bucket, you are encouraged to bring those as well. If you would like to participate and learn more information, please click the button below.
PBOT has proposed a new Event Parking District in Lloyd and wants your input. This would set higher parking rates during events with over 10,000 people. Districts like these encourage less driving and more use of transit, biking, and other transportation options. This reduces traffic and makes it easier for people who live or work in the area to find parking. Take their survey by February 6 to be entered to win a $25 Fred Meyer gift card.
On April 22, 2022, the world will celebrate Earth Day. We’re inviting businesses to join us in championing Earth Day and the importance of Lloyd EcoDistrict’s work by becoming one of our Earth Day Oregon Business Partners.
What is Earth Day Oregon? It’s a statewide collaboration between sustainably-minded businesses, like yours, and nonprofits, like us, to team up to amplify the impact of Earth Day.
How can your businesses help? Earth Day Oregon Business Partners commit to supporting their Nonprofit Partners on Earth Day. This may mean writing a check, or gifting an in-kind item, or donating a percentage of sales for the day, week, or month. You decide what works for your business, and together we’ll advance sustainable solutions in the Lloyd and beyond.
Interested in learning more about Earth Day Oregon or becoming our partner this year? Contact us to talk more.
EcoDistricts Joining
Partnership for Southern Equity
Lloyd EcoDistrict is excited to hear that the EcoDistricts, the organization behind the EcoDistrict Protocol, is becoming part of the Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE). PSE advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South. The acquisition will help PSE expand its Just Growth programming and community engagement platform – with a clear focus on centering sustainable urban growth through racial equity. Over the coming year, PSE, EcoDistricts, and a committee of national experts will work together through an inclusive design and planning process to combine programming, local power building, and fee-for-service consulting opportunities to support a growing number of communities that are looking to integrate equity and sustainability into neighborhood and district scale redevelopment (like Lloyd EcoDistrict). On January 26, at 10 AM PST, Nathaniel Smith, PSE’s dynamic founder and Chief Equity Officer, and Rob Bennett, founder of EcoDistricts, will be hosting a roundtable with Ryan Gravel and Julian Agyeman to discuss the acquisition and the future of just growth at a pivotal time in our country’s history.
At Metro’s State of the Region, Council President Lynn Peterson will share recent wins for the region, including expanded affordable housing, improved public garbage collection and a new nature park in Oregon City. She’ll be joined by Marcus Mundy, Executive Director of Coalition of Communities of Color on January 21, from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. Register for the event here.
Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience will be in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center for a limited engagement. Learn more here.
Find a COVID test @ Oregon Convention Center or another location near you. Click here.
Multnomah County is distributing free PPE to nonprofits and community groups. Learn more here.
Portland Winter Light Festival is happening February 4 - 12, 2022. The theme is "Within the Ecosystem." Check back on the website to see what properties in or near the Lloyd are participating in the light festival.
PBEM Training: BEECN (Basic Earthquake Emergency Communication Nodes): This free, 90-minute training will introduce participants to the BEECN system on January 24, 2022 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM. Learn where BEECNs are located, how they are set up, how to connect with other volunteers and deploy BEECNs in the case of a large earthquake that takes down phone lines. Learn more and register here.
Multnomah County is working on an update to its Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan. Your comments and answers to a few questions will help improve the plan. Click here.
A Home for Everyone is looking for volunteers to help with this year's Multnomah County Point-in-Time Street Count, conducted every other year by Portland State University and the Joint Office of Homeless Services. Learn more here.
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