Friends of Energy Park

07/01/2024

More fun with heavy machinery!

06/25/2024

A few photos from the last work party!

06/04/2024

Thanks to everyone who volunteered at the recent work parties! We received and moved a bunch of large wooden material, and replaced the first post in the center booth. Our capital projects are on track, and we already did some great cleanup and unplanned but needed repairs. The next work party is Saturday, 6/15. Hope to see you there!

02/13/2024

Finally the federal funds described in this article are filtering down to the states! The demand is hitting us in the solar industry like a green-powered freight train full of goodies. I guess it's good to be busy :)
If you work for a public or low-income service provider non-profit, check out this solar + battery funding opportunity!

The US government has announced plans to finance projects that can help combat climate change.

09/08/2023

https://youtu.be/wgUkjbMhF18?si=dW2NTHAiCPbeIPCT

Earthships are off-grid houses made of trash. These off-grid homes are fully self sustainable and do not require any utilities for comfortable living. Amazin...

06/22/2022

TWO work parties last weekend, thanks to all the staff who came out! We started a new booth, set up solar arrays for cell phone charging, and worked with Fair Archaeology on fence post replacements. Fairly productive!

06/11/2019

2019 WORK PARTIES:
All dates 11:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday 6/15
Sunday 6/23
Sunday 6/30
*Please let Thomas know if you'd like a meal ticket!*

Here’s some pics of Ryan, Rountree, and Jeremy rebuilding the water tower yesterday!

10/08/2018

Article about OCF in the New York Times mentions Energy Park. For better or worse, we’re famous! Ha ha...

At the Oregon Country Fair, a three-day summer festival in Veneta, Ore., “people in society that can’t do what they want to do can do it here.”

06/20/2018

Work Party Time!
2018 Work Party Dates are:
Sunday, June 24
Saturday, June 30
Sunday, July 8
All dates around 11:00 start, and run until everyone leaves. Let me know if you'd like lunch! If you don't have my cell number just comment here or PM me. Bring tools (drill, saw, cheap paintbrushes, and gloves) consider mosquito repellent! If you can't bring tools, just bring your can-do spirit. Tyvec suits not required... Lumber and hardware donations are also appreciated.
For the first party there are several red tags to address, and we will rebuild the info booth counter and bench, and h**p oil as much as possible!
-Thomas Brex

06/14/2017

Thanks for a fun and productive work party! The next work parties are the next two Sundays, the 18th and 25th 11:00ish start. As always please bring tools, gloves and a drill, a saw if possible! Call me or reply here if you want a lunch ticket. OCF 2017 here we come!

02/18/2017

It's EPUD's Green Grant time again. If you can think of a public or non-profit organization that could use $40K worth of solar electric, let me know and I may offer to help with the application: https://www.epud.org/my-account/green-programs/green-grant-program/ - Thomas

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01/30/2017

MEETING MINUTES November 6th, 2016

The next Energy Park meeting will be Sunday February 26, 2016
(NOTE: Date Changed)
at the Hub Yurt on the fair site
social hour begins at noon and continues until
oneish - when we start the meeting

we will be Skypeing (or possibly just conference calling) if you want to Skype please let [email protected] (and please include your phone number) know so she can call you when it is time to set up the group
her Skype name is gaelenergy
(you can also call her, check email or inquire for her number.)

AGENDA FOR FEBRUARY MEETING
Introductions
Announcements
Reports on Action Items listed at the bottom of November minutes, which follow
(your agenda item here)

Green Wings trainings will be held after each meeting


INTRODUCTIONS
Skype -
Phone - Thomas
In-Person - Gaelen, Blake, Anna, Ty, Josie, Larry, Jalisa, Kory, Mark, Jaylie, Dave

FACILITATOR - Larry
SCRIBE - Kory

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Blake - Five positions and two alternates were elected at the last OCF meeting
Anna - Is willing to continue doing the Green Wings training for EP and other OCF staff, she is making a call for co-presenters that want to help run the trainings, contact [email protected] if interested
Blake - would like coordinators to rewrite their job descriptions this year to make sure they’re up-to-date

MOTIONS
Anna made a motion to change the Security coordinator position to be called “Sweep Coordinator”
The motion passes

COORDINATOR ASSIGNMENTS
General Coordinator - Blake (with a commitment to make EP great again...)
Entertainment - Layne
Scribe - Kory
Operations - Mark (“I’ll be Operations coordinator this year...I have know idea what it does…”)
Teens - Laura
Sweep Coordinator (formerly known as Security) - Michael
Clean Up - Dave
Path Troll - Sandy
Construction - Thomas
Camp Host - Michael + Sherman
Staff Registration - Larry
Booth Registration - Nick + Gabe co-coordinating
Showers - Sue + Tony with Beth shadowing
Information Booth - Cindy
PR - George
Cell Phone Charging - Lelia + Ron
Webmaster - Loren
Secretary Treasurer - Gaelen

CENTRAL STRUCTURE REBUILD UPDATE
Thomas - still waiting to hear from OCF about what’s allowable with the County, which should happen by next meeting
Blake - OCF is having larger structure issues with the County, it’s impacting EP in our ability to make plans for our new structure, initially Kirk told us not to tear down and build with what we already have
Larry - with the current footprint, we could replace the main posts slowly over time, which would spare us from the permitting process
Blake - We still need to hear about the outcome of OCF’s meeting with the County because there may be limitations with height, etc.
Anna - we can still use this time to begin discussions with our stakeholders who use that central structure to understand what is desired/needed in that space
Thomas - still looking for people to join the sub-committee
Anna, Kory, and Larry joined

2017 EP MEETING DATES
Proposed: February 26th, April 9th, May 21st, June 11th, July 7th/8th/9th
Green Wings trainings will be held after each meeting

ACTION ITEMS
Contact Michael to ensure that he wants to do Sweep Coordinating
Blake/Kory will send the coordinators their coordinator job description that currently exists
Reach out to the users of the central booth to find out if their needs aren’t currently being met by the structure’s layout/amenities