After many years, Demeter Design is complete, I am smiling from the amount we have accomplished in such a short time! The Demeter glossary will stay for now. The site is too valuable a resource to dump entirely :)

Thank you to my staff for your tireless efforts and to our clients and partners that worked with such enthusiasm to restore Oregon salmon habitat.

 My partner is now working as a NEPA specialist at an engineering firm and I am shifting my consulting services towards a non-profit. Much more straight-forward to begin a non-profit from the beginning rather than boot-strap the status onto an existing company. Check out the new site at http://landstudy.org!

The new site will focus more on my own work along with updates from our facebook, twitter, and linkedin accounts (yah social media!)

I am currently working with the Friends of Outdoor School to rebuild their website. Nothing fancy. Just plain and simple HTML to serve as a resource and marketing tool. I love the idea of "styling up" so the CSS will start small and get prettier as the content fills the site. I am hosting it for now until they decide on a new service. You can find the page in progress in the links page on the new site.

See you soon!

Cara

Long time no see! As you have likely intuited lots of changes (all for the better) here in Oregon. First on a personal note. My partner has moved on to work on NEPA for a telecommunications firm. I am still on the non-profit track but am going back to school (yeah!) for zoo animal biology. Luckily there is an affordable program through a local community college that just started. I am really looking forward to it. My passion has always been conservation biology but it is a difficult field to break into. So far all of my research has focused on the habitat side and I would love to work directly with animals.

Additionally with me taking over the firm I get the opportunity to revision and repurpose. The first thing I want to do is develop a more cohesive board. Most of our partners were too busy for any serious involvement (although their help and input was always greatly appreciated). I am looking forward to finding a more flexible group of people to participate.

Finally I am really looking forward to just being married to my husband and not his business partner. It puts a lot of strain (good and bad) on a relationship. We certainly went through a gauntlet and came out mostly* unscathed.

Hope to see you back soon, and look for a newly designed space both on this blog and our home site, demeterdesign.net

Finally check out the twitter feed, ceres.society

Cheers!