Earth Advantage's Portland Office

PAE Living Building

Earth Advantage has been located in a downtown location since our inception in 2010 in order to be close to many of the partners we work with and allow for easy commuting for our staff. It has been a desire for over ten years to find a location that aligns with our mission of advancing building sustainability and after two years of searching we were able to sign a lease with PAE. The downtown office is located on the third floor of the brand new (Fall 2021) PAE Living Building, the most sustainable commercial building in Portland, and possibly the entire U.S. The building was constructed under the requirements of the Living Building Challenge, the most rigorous benchmark of sustainability in the built environment.

Our new space represents not only a monumental shift in aligning our physical space with advanced green building principals, but a sea-change in terms of how we work as an organization. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forced us to rethink our work environment, like so many other organizations. The result of that was a realization that much of our staff could productively work remotely, and we could significantly reduce our square footage in our office. The current open floor plan office space is only 1,500 square feet and we have limited the maximum number of occupants at any given time to ten. The superior ventilation and high ceilings of our new office contributes to having a productive but safe office space for those who wish to take advantage of it.