Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living
Existing Support
What is CASL?
Primary funding for CASL has come from:
- The School of Architecture and Allied Arts
- The ASUO Senate
- The ASUO Programs Finance Committee
- Donations from kind and generous sustainably minded people!
Primary support for this project has come from:
- Dan Williams, former Vice President for Administration at the UO, who has commited a University-owned house to become CASL. His office has indicated that a house will be identified sometime this summer.
- The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) who have designated CASL as an autonomous student run organization. CASL has been given ASUO funding for the 2004-2005 school year.
- The UO Ecological Design Center (EDC) who remains a close partner, though CASL is no longer an official project of its organization. While CASL remains autonomous in its personnel and funding efforts, it is coordinating its actions with the EDC. The Advisory Board for the EDC has fully endorsed CASL.
Other organizations that are in support of CASL are:
- The Environmental Issues Committee (an advisory group to the UO's Vice President)
- The Environmental Studies Program
- The Landscape Architecture Department
- The UO Campus Recycling Program
- The Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB)
- B.R.I.N.G. Recycling
- The Helios Network
- ...and numerous faculty, professionals, and community members.
In-kind donations have come from:
- Red Barn Natural Grocery
- Sundance Natural Foods
- Holy Cow Cafe
- Eugene City Bakery
- Prince Pucklers
- 1up USA
- Burley
- Correll Cider Presses
- Bob Jones
- Gary "Spruce" Houser
- And many others...
Publicity for CASL has included a formal presentation at the West Coast Education for Sustainability Best Practices Conference held on the UO campus in October, 2002, the ELAW Conference held on campus in March, 2003 and the September 2004 conference of the Education for Sustainability Western Network (EFS West) in Portland. The project was also featured in the 2003 H.O.P.E.S. Conference on "Ecological Urbanism" and was the subject of the 24 hour design charette in 2004 H.O.P.E.S. "The Future Isn't What It Used To Be".
Questions or comments? Contact the CASL.