We are proud to introduce you to our sponsors and partners for Emrg+N+See 2008: local businesses whose dedication to the arts and community events has helped Emrg+N+See emerge as Oregon's premier outdoor arts and music festival.
Langenburg Oxygen Water is a supremely health-focused organization with an unending dedication to the improvement of global health and wellbeing through research, education and healing. We are proud to be part of the momentum of change.
Precisely because water is so basic and integral to all living processes, we have sought solutions for health and ecological restoration in advanced water technologies. Langenburg Oxygen Water is a response to a deep desire to amend significant damage done to our world by industry. Our effort has been to harness the ability to make water whole again – to return water to its pristine natural state where it can again support life and health, not only in the human body but also in our rivers, fields, oceans and atmosphere.
From the fertile forests of South America, we bring you the finest organic yerba maté on the planet. We source our yerba maté from a sustainable 3-generation family farm in northeastern Argentina. Our farmers produce a pure-leaf, unsmoked yerba maté of exceptional quality.
Discover what the people of South America have known for centuries: yerba maté naturally raises energy and mood without all the jitters of other stimulating beverages. Packed with nutrients and antioxidants, this holly tree native to the forests of South America is nature’s ideal energy tonic!
Domes are nature’s perfect structure and provide a unique environment for every use. Pacific Domes has perfected the function and beauty of our portable Geodesic Domes for 27 years in Ashland, Oregon. We combine the sacred geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller with our progressively designed covers to bring you this futuristic, synergetic structure.
The vision of Pacific Domes is to populate the world with domes. Our goal is to help solve the shelter needs of humanity as well as to create global harmonic resonance. The synergetic geometry generates cosmic order wherever the dome is erected, creating peace and well being. The geodesic dome will play an important role in the future evolution of “Spaceship Earth”.
Welcome to a greener, cleaner future…Trellis Earth products are the true biodegradable alternative to toxic Styrofoam containers and polyethylene plastic bags.
What are bioplastics?
Bioplastics are degradable and in some cases, compostable, plastics derived from renewable raw materials such as starch (from corn, potato, or tapioca) or sugar cane fiber. Bioplastics are not hazardous in production and decompose in the environment when discarded.
Emrg+N+See staff Hospitality and Emrg+N+See food vendors using our product have made a conscious decision to drastically reduce the amount of waste left behind this weekend. Trellis Earth wants to work with your business to make the same transition.
Located in sunny Phoenix Oregon, Rising Phoenix Biofuels is Oregon’s First Biodiesel Station that does not serve gasoline. We are not a gas station, and we are committed to sustainable choices in all our business decisions. We have Oregon’s only heated biodiesel tank, powered by 100% renewable energy. If you are travelling from Washington to California, or passing by on the I-5, please stop by and share in this growing market for alternative fuels. We have a beautiful location with a creek, meadow for picnics, organic gardens, nursery, and eco-building warehouse. Come spend a few hours learning about the future of sustainable business, and see a practical application of 21st century technologies.
Ninkasi Brewing Company is Eugene’s hometown brewery. We produce superior ales and lagers using the finest regional ingredients. You can find our beer on tap at many reputable restaurants and bars in both Eugene and Portland.
Ninkasi is the Ancient Sumerian Goddess of Brewing. She is the goddess made to “satisfy the desire” and “sate the heart.” Sumerians were an ancient civilization located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (modern day southeastern Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylonia in the late 3rd millennium BC.
The Sumerians were the first recorded brewers to give up a nomadic way of life and become an agrarian society. They produced barley as early as 3500 BC from which they made bread and beer. The first people to have writing, schools, and laws, the Sumerians were also the first to practice organized beer production.
It is our goal to educate people about the significant role that beer has played in the cultivation of civilization. We are proud to carry out this tradition for our own community as we honor Ninkasi, the first spirit in brewing.
The Heartsong Pepper Brews and Heartsong Chai are pioneers in the beverage industry. These healthful and invigorating brews are the natural evolution of America’s energy drink fascination. There is nothing like Heartsong on the market. Our Brews, our organization, our Chai Hut, they are evolutionary points of light in industrial culture.
The mission of the Heartsong Herbal Brewing Company is to revitalize people’s bodies with healthful beverages while vitalizing our community through fair-trade business. Our goal is to revitalize people, while revitalizing business as an ecologically responsible and respectable part of community.
As rich and creamy as premium ice cream, Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss is a satisfying, delicious, and healthy alternative to dairy and soy-based frozen desserts. Made from a base of naturally rich coconut milk and sweetened with low-glycemic agave syrup, Coconut Bliss is certified organic and 100% vegan. Coconut Bliss is available in a wide variety of exciting flavors at natural food stores and some supermarkets throughout the Western United States.
MAPS is a 501 (c) (3) corporation chartered in 1986 as a membership-based research and educational organization. MAPS was founded one year after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made MDMA a Schedule 1 drug and criminalized both its recreational and therapeutic uses. MAPS focuses on the development of beneficial, socially-sanctioned uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana. Such uses may include psychotherapeutic and physiological research and treatment, treatment of addiction, pain relief, spiritual exploration, creativity research, shamanic healing, psychic research, brain physiology research and related scientific inquiries.
MAPS pursues its research mission by helping and/or sponsoring scientific researchers to design, obtain governmental approval for, fund, conduct and report on psychedelic and marijuana research in human volunteers. MAPS pursues its educational mission through its website, a willingness to engage the media in dialogue, thepublication of books and a quarterly Bulletin that is sent to its members as well as government policy makers and academic experts.
In essence, MAPS is a non-profit pharmaceutical company. MAPS’ top priority projects involve researching the potential of 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, Ecstasy) and marijuana to become FDA-approved prescription medicines.
The mission of Old Library Studio is to inspire and educate young artists using the tools of digital technology. Old Library Studio is a unique music-technology classroom and recording studio for teens. We work to ensure that teens from a broad range of musical and non-musical backgrounds can learn to compose and record their own music, guided by staff and professional mentors. Every program we offer results in excellent new music written, performed and recorded by our students.
Since 2004 Old Library Studio has brought a cutting edge after school music program to Portland teens and established a reputation with schools and alternative programs for engaging at-risk youth in creative learning. Old Library Studio has been recognized for artistic excellence by the Oregon Arts Commission, and our executive director, Noah Kleiman was awarded the 2006 Skidmore Prize for work in the Arts.
We provide creative opportunities for teens which they don’t find anywhere else. Most music education programs concentrate on instrumental or vocal instruction. Several otherwise traditional music programs provide limited music recording opportunities, but Old Library Studio is the only program which emphasizes individual musical creativity, over performance practice. In essence, our students learn “what makes music tick”, by actually creating real music themselves.
Old Library Studio fills a significant gap in our community by engaging teens, from all socio-economic quarters, in the creative process of music production and studio recording. Old Library Studio has a strong track record of successful partnerships with programs which serve at-risk teens. The impact our programs have on students can be profound. Students from Portland Public Schools have found the motivation to finish their high school education, and turn their lives around.
Dr. Wiggins is a key part of the Emrg+N+See Medical Staff, as part of a long-standing partnership with NW Rock Med; this will be her second year with Emrg+N+See. Dr. Wiggins practices in Portland, as part of the Urban Wellness Group, in Southeast Portland.
It is Dr. Wiggins’ pleasure to offer a general primary care practice, which welcomes all to experience the opportunity holistic primary care can offer. She has extensive experience with women’s health, pediatrics, diabetes, mental health, urgent care and is developing a wide repertoire of internal, as well as, external beautification practices.
Her passion is to empower people to attain health, through various means in order to enjoy life to the fullest. Attaining health and well-being is an integral part of being present for your family and friends and truly being able to enjoy one’s daily life.
NW Rock Medicine was started in 1995 by Rob Zalunardo in Portland, Oregon at the Memorial Day Grateful Dead show with a handful of friends and fellow medics. Since then, we have developed into an organized group of over 100 volunteers, over 40 of them active. When Rob left to chase a dream in the culinary arts at the close of 1999, Seth Grant assumed the task of organizing NW Rock Medicine along with some very dedicated friends.
Based on a similar volunteer organization in San Francisco (Rock Medicine, est. 1973), we share ideologies to provide non-profit, non-judgmental volunteer medical support to concerts in the region. From sunburns to psychedelic management to heart attacks, all of our services are free of charge, thanks to donations. Our staff ranges from MD to layperson, and all trained in CPR and First Aid.
We do what we do to accomplish two goals:
We accomplish this through the application of non-judgmental healthcare at the site, itself. By operating a first aid station and employing teams into a venue, we can treat and release many more patrons than traditional methods have allowed.
We coin ourselves as “The NW Music Lover’s HMO” because a lot of people out there don’t have adequate healthcare. What we offer is that basic healthcare that most of these individuals would not otherwise have. Additionally, we offer the insight of preventative medicine. Doing a “walk-through” of a venue before a show and correcting trouble spots makes our jobs much easier and keeps the crowd a lot safer. The stats on crowd safety speak louder than words and we are making a difference.