Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Where do those dwarf shrubs and the fascinating shapes come from? In this class you will learn the techniques, tools and art of grafting, demonstrated on conifers. Tobey Chadsey of Meadowcroft Farm has grafted thousands of conifers and Japanese maples during his 24 years as a nurseryman. There will be grafting knives available at the wholesale price of $30 and sheaths (the knives are sharp!) for $8. Bring your own knife if you have one. Other materials will be provided.
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
For more information, or to register, contact info@jcwc.org.
Join us to learn how you can build a beautiful rain garden! Not only are rain gardens a gorgeous addition to your landscaping, but they also help capture rainfall runoff and keeps it out of our overburdened sewers and streams. Co-sponsored by East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, Johnson Creek Watershed Council and Leach Botanical Garden. The workshop will be followed by Leach Botanical Neighborhood Open House from 1pm-4pm.Location: Leach Botanical Garden, 6704 SE 122nd Avenue, Portland.
Bark lends itself to a variety of techniques. Willow and other small fast growing trees have wonderful bark, often with mottled cloud patterns and adhering lichens and mosses. Join celebrated ethnobotanist and fiber artist, Margaret Mathewson, to learn about harvesting and preparing willow and other barks. Peel your own materials and weave strips of bark into several styles of plaited and coiled baskets.
Alia Johnson
atjohnson@ci.oswego.or.us
(503)534-5742
Volunteers are coming out to enjoy the Hallinan Natural Area while providing a service to nature. On Saturday April 5th from 10am until noon people will be helping haul away already-cut English holly (an invasive) out of the natural area and into conveniently located drop boxes.
To celebrate the arrival of the natural beauty of spring at Tryon Creek State Natural Area and bring awareness to watershed conservation, Friends of Tryon Creek State Park hosts the Trillium Festival and Native & Hardy Plant Sale. Activities include guided nature walks, children’s crafts, storytelling, live music, local gift vendors, and our annual photo contest and raffle.
Free
Indoor and outdoor. Event is wheelchair accessible,
Berry Botanic Garden Executive Director Scott Vergara, formerly director of the Rhododendron Species Foundation, will lead a tout of the garden’s Rhododendron Forest. Huge species rhododendrons will be cloaked in heavy trusses of blooms, spent flowers covering the ground.
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”
To celebrate the arrival of the natural beauty of spring at Tryon Creek State Natural Area and bring awareness to watershed conservation, Friends of Tryon Creek State Park hosts the Trillium Festival and Native & Hardy Plant Sale. Activities include guided nature walks, children’s crafts, storytelling, live music, local gift vendors, and our annual photo contest and raffle.
Free
Indoor and outdoor. Event is wheelchair accessible,
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Discover the
complex world
of lichens.
Examine lichen
structures and
learn terminology
needed
to discuss the
basics of lichen
identification. Collect lichens from the meadows
and forests around the Deer Creek Center, then
NeighborWoods Stewards receive free education from local arboriculture experts on such topics as tree identification, tree biology, proper tree care, Vancouver tree regulations, tree planting, natural area restoration, nursery tree production and the benefits of trees. After the training, the NeighborWoods Stewards will be equipped to take on the task of spreading accurate information about trees to their own neighborhoods. NeighborWoods Stewards volunteer to conduct a tree planting or tree-related education project in exchange for the training and education they receive. The Urban Forestry staff will offer guidance and assistance throughout the project.
Anuradha Mittal, an eloquent and unflinching advocate of social and economic justice, is the founder and director of The Oakland Institute, a California-based think tank that aims to help bridge policy think tanks with activist networks and social movements. She spoke on The Myths of Genetic Engineering and the New Green Revolution for the World’s Poor in Portland on February 10, 2007.
Peak Oil, many have argued, is just one symptom of an unsustainable culture. In this presentation, Toby Hemenway will describe how our civilization has become unsustainable, and will show how permaculture can guide us back to a way of life that can preserve both our species and the others we share the Earth with.
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Discover the
complex world
of lichens.
Examine lichen
structures and
learn terminology
needed
to discuss the
basics of lichen
identification. Collect lichens from the meadows
and forests around the Deer Creek Center, then
NeighborWoods Stewards receive free education from local arboriculture experts on such topics as tree identification, tree biology, proper tree care, Vancouver tree regulations, tree planting, natural area restoration, nursery tree production and the benefits of trees. After the training, the NeighborWoods Stewards will be equipped to take on the task of spreading accurate information about trees to their own neighborhoods. NeighborWoods Stewards volunteer to conduct a tree planting or tree-related education project in exchange for the training and education they receive. The Urban Forestry staff will offer guidance and assistance throughout the project.
Find out about a new Urban Ecovillage/Cohousing condominium forming in NE Portland. Come meet current members and the developer, learn about our plans for intentional, multigenerational, multicultural, sustainable community, and how you can become a part of it. More info at columbiaecovillage.com.
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Discover the
complex world
of lichens.
Examine lichen
structures and
learn terminology
needed
to discuss the
basics of lichen
identification. Collect lichens from the meadows
and forests around the Deer Creek Center, then
NeighborWoods Stewards receive free education from local arboriculture experts on such topics as tree identification, tree biology, proper tree care, Vancouver tree regulations, tree planting, natural area restoration, nursery tree production and the benefits of trees. After the training, the NeighborWoods Stewards will be equipped to take on the task of spreading accurate information about trees to their own neighborhoods. NeighborWoods Stewards volunteer to conduct a tree planting or tree-related education project in exchange for the training and education they receive. The Urban Forestry staff will offer guidance and assistance throughout the project.
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”
NeighborWoods Stewards receive free education from local arboriculture experts on such topics as tree identification, tree biology, proper tree care, Vancouver tree regulations, tree planting, natural area restoration, nursery tree production and the benefits of trees. After the training, the NeighborWoods Stewards will be equipped to take on the task of spreading accurate information about trees to their own neighborhoods. NeighborWoods Stewards volunteer to conduct a tree planting or tree-related education project in exchange for the training and education they receive. The Urban Forestry staff will offer guidance and assistance throughout the project.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Experience the awe inspiring presence of five to ten
thousand snow geese and Ross geese during the
Klamath Basin’s astounding spring migration. Early
April should be the perfect time to view migratory
see www.earthflow.com or email us at permaculture@earthflow.com
You are invited to join L. Santoyo, Director of EarthFlow Design Works, and a host of other local and international leaders in the world-wide sustainability movement, and learn how to create the conditions for sustainability to happen. This permaculture design certificate course is offered the second weekends of the month, February - July 2008, in and around Santa Barbara, CA. Complete attendance required for certification, but you are welcome to register for 1 day or 1 module of the course as well.
$90/day, $175/weekend or $950 for entire course. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available
Learn about Native plants, natural landscapes and environment friendly gardening practices. Get ideas for your garden, a guide book and a native plant to get you started. View Naturescaping examples, get advice on native gardening, identify native plants and great Naturescaping tips.
Jenifer Naas
WSU Clark County Extension
360-397-6060 x 7703
Washington State University Clark County Extension Watershed Stewards and the Clark County Clean Water Program will sponsor a workshop on non-toxic house cleaning on Saturday, April 12th, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. at Michael Servetus Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 4505 E. 18th St in Vancouver.
This workshop is being designed specifically to address the needs of students enrolled in the Leadership for Ecology, Culture and Learning (LECL) program at PSU. However, members of the public are also welcome and encouraged to attend.
Gift economy basis. Participants pay an amount that feels good and right and fair to you, can afford, and can give joyfully.
Indoor
Provide for your own lunch. There are nearby eateries. Kitchen facilities will not be available.
Join us for this 2-day party with a purpose!
Come celebrate what’s working in our communities — for people, for business and for the environment. You’ll enjoy more than 150 visionary speakers, great how-to workshops, interactive kids’ activities, delicious organic cuisine and diverse live music. Shop in our extensive green marketplace of more than 300 exhibits — everything from all-natural cleaning products and Fair Trade gifts to solar panels, eco-cars and socially-responsible investing. You’ll find inspirational and practical ideas for healthy, earth-friendly living at Green Festival.
Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”
