Equity Design

Move Your Money Southern Oregon

Real Wealth of Portland, in partnership with Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice Southern Oregon Move Your Money campaign over the holiday weekend.

Hope and Food

Have we lost the way of hope? When I say “we”, I mean we “modern, affluent, developed, able, self-actualized” folk. When I say “way”, I mean a real, rooted, dirt under the fingernails, not merely ethereal or the sort of stuff simply for a Sunday-School discussion.

When a rain barrel is more than a rain barrel

Two years ago, during one of our first forays into urban homesteading, my Father’s Day present from Aimee was permission to install our first rain-barrel. It was a romantic thought to me. “Let’s not waste the water-from-heaven gift (even though we receive it some 300 plus days a year), let’s harvest it.”

Neighbors, “Armageddon” and Trap-doors

Truth be told (and this is embarrassing), I am much better at talking about “neighborhood” then I am at simply being a neighbor. I have a hard time getting to know the middle-aged single recluse next door. I have to ask Aimee to remind me the name of Donna’s husband across the street. I struggle to make it to more than an occasional neighborhood-association meeting. My hypocrisy is so insipid that, reading the Overlook Neighborhood monthly newsletter is the pinnacle of my dedication. Shameful.

Urban chickens and irresponsible spending

Here's the deal, despite all the sentiment out there about "all the money we will save" through homesteading practices, the reality is that it just doesn't pencil out. I hate to bust the myth.

Getting Political

Have you been feeling like politics get in the way of things improving? I have, but due to recent law changes in Oregon, it is clear we can break from our traditional ruts. read on...

MYM-PDX at Pioneer Square

It's time to Move Your Money! Make your way down to Pioneer Courthouse Square for a big outdoor celebration of our local economy and the role local banking plays in it. Representatives of local banks and credit unions will be on hand to provide you with information about how you can move your money out of the big banks and into a financial institution that supports our local economy.

Move Your Money Portland

Our communities are not resilient. Americans are mad at big banks. There is a relation and something we can do about it...

Resilient Communities

What enables us, ourselves, our families, our communities, to weather storms and disruptions in our lives? When we are honest with ourselves, we are much less “resilient” than we’d care to acknowledge.

Opening Weekend Started Out With A Bang

COME JOIN US FOR "LORD, SAVE US FROM YOUR FOLLOWERS" AT FOX TOWER THIS WEEKEND Many of our dear friends have been working for 4 years on this great new film. It is finally in theaters. Please join us for this entertaining exploration of cultural discourse and religious exchange.