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EventsSunday April 20, 2008
(all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.or 503-638-0735 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 Organic Gardening 101 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.org 503-638-0735 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 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Jessica Antoine 360-619-1108 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. Free Indoors and Outdoors (all day)
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 third weekends of the month, February - July 2008, in and around Santa Cruz, 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 Indoor See website for details (all day)
www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Stephanie Wagner 503.636.4398 stephanie@tryonfriends.org Friends of Tryon Creek State Park present a Natural Cycles: Art in the Forest talk called Archus Branches. This talk explores the forms, shapes, and structures of organic materials within the context of a forest. This event includes a presentation by the Natural Cycles artist, Matthew Tucker Cartwright and a visit to the art installation along the Trillium trail within Tryon Creek State Natural Area. This is a free and public event. Indoor. Event is wheelchair accessible Start: 7:00 pm
Please join the Center for Earth Leadership and the First Unitarian Church for an evening to express gratitude for the privilege of living on our remarkable planet. The program will include special music and vocal performances, meditative singing, time for reflection, and a candle lighting ceremony. Free! Indoor Monday April 21, 2008
(all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.or 503-638-0735 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 Organic Gardening 101 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.org 503-638-0735 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 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Jessica Antoine 360-619-1108 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. Free Indoors and Outdoors (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Portland Permaculture Guild's meetings are held at Pacific Crest Community School at NE 29th and Davis. The optional potluck starts at 6:00 p.m, and the meeting topic starts at 7:00. Please bring your own plate/cup/utensils for the potluck. Everyone is welcome to attend. Now, read on for Rosi's description of her presentation. . . Tuesday April 22, 2008
(all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.or 503-638-0735 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 Organic Gardening 101 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.org 503-638-0735 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 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Jessica Antoine 360-619-1108 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. Free Indoors and Outdoors (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details (all day)
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Start: 5:20 pm
alexa@columbiariverkeeper.org Owners and stylists from over 45 Aveda salons are coming together for an enormous cut-a-thon hosted at Aveda Institute Portland. Imagine 100 stylists working side by side to provide beautiful haircuts and blowouts with 100% of the proceeds going to a local nonprofit, Columbia Riverkeeper www.columbiariverkeeper.org. Free, but many ways to donate. Silent auction, trees, martinis, haircuts and more. Indoors Bring yourself and some money to spend on a haircut, a tree, a drink or a donation Start: 5:20 pm
alexa@columbiariverkeeper.org Owners and stylists from over 45 Aveda salons are coming together for an enormous cut-a-thon hosted at Aveda Institute Portland. Imagine 100 stylists working side by side to provide beautiful haircuts and blowouts with 100% of the proceeds going to a local nonprofit, Columbia Riverkeeper www.columbiariverkeeper.org. Free, but many ways to donate. Silent auction, trees, martinis, haircuts and more. Indoors Bring yourself and some money to spend on a haircut, a tree, a drink or a donation Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
503-636-4112 x102 or register@berrybot.org If you want to be a successful organic gardener, you have to encourage birds to aid your efforts. Local author and fearless gardener Linda Beutler will explain how to enlist birds in a mutually beneficial relationship to enhance your garden and their livelihoods. Bring special beauty and life to your yard! $15 indoors Wednesday April 23, 2008
(all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.or 503-638-0735 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 Organic Gardening 101 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.org 503-638-0735 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 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Jessica Antoine 360-619-1108 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. Free Indoors and Outdoors (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details (all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
For more information please see website or contact Morgan at Oregon Wild: 503-238-6343 x 203, ml@oregonwild.org OREGON WILD PRESENTS: Beneath Big Trees: A Night With An Oregon Conservation Legend. In 1974, Andy Kerr sat around a campfire with two friends, lamenting the fact that much of the Oregon they loved was disappearing. Together, they decided to take action and formed the organization now known as Oregon Wild. Since that time Kerr has worked for over three decades to protect the wildlands that make Oregon a special place to live. FREE! AND all participants are entered into FREE raffle including Patagonia gear! Indoors; 915 SE Hawthorne Lucky Lab brew pub, Portland, OR Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
503-636-4112 x102 or register@berrybot.org What do golden sedge, western lady slipper, and ghost orchids have to do with Portland? What was life like before reed canary grass and English ivy? What did marine shipping have to do with putting Portland on the botanical map? Join John Christy to hear about these and other botanical oddities recovered from 100-year-old publications and specimens documenting Portland's flora in the days of horse-drawn traffic, and how it compares with today's flora. John Christy is an ecologist with the Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center at Oregon State University. $5 indoors Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:48 pm
Meghan Mix | (503) 227-2315 | info@earthleaders.org Each of us is a member of multiple circles of influence: a neighborhood, workplace, interest club, extended family, center of faith, school, etc. Each circle provides a natural arena for the work of the change agent seeking to create a more sustainable culture. This class covers the theory, practice, and tools of a change agent working within a chosen circle of influence. Each participant will select one circle of influence, develop a strategy for change, and take steps of early implementation, in consultation with other members of the class. Free Indoor pencil/paper Thursday April 24, 2008
(all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.or 503-638-0735 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 Organic Gardening 101 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.org 503-638-0735 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 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Jessica Antoine 360-619-1108 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. Free Indoors and Outdoors (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details (all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Start: 8:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
To register as a volunteer: https://www.htfsolutions.com/forms/cwf/volunteer.asp. Questions: Contact Lisa Peters at 503-823-7439 or lisa.peters@ci.por On April 24, 2008, more than 1,000 local 4th- and 5th-grade students will attend the Children’s Clean Water Festival at PCC-Sylvania. Through classroom presentations, stage shows, and exhibits, they’ll learn about water science, watershed ecology, and the vital role that water plays in our everyday lives. n/a Indoor Just yourself. Training and free lunch provided to volunteers. Friday April 25, 2008
(all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.or 503-638-0735 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 Organic Gardening 101 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
oec@tilth.org 503-638-0735 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 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Jessica Antoine 360-619-1108 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. Free Indoors and Outdoors (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details (all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Saturday April 26, 2008
(all day)
oec@tilth.or 503-638-0735 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 Organic Gardening 101 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
oec@tilth.org 503-638-0735 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 $20 Indoor and Outdoor (all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details (all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Start: 12:00 am
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Watch wintering and nesting western snowy plovers $40 Start: 8:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
The third annual Ready. Safe. Go. free training conference and volunteer recognition event is being held on Saturday, April 26 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm at Portland Community College’s (PCC) Cascade Campus in North Portland. Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Betty McArdle, 503-797-1842, naturescaping@yahoo.com At the Tigard Library: 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. Free and open to the public 70% indoor; 30% outdoor Pre-registration required Start: 9:00 am
volunteer@trlc.org or (503)699-9825. Marquam Nature Park Restoration Work Party - 9am-12pm - Saturday, April 26 - Join Friends of Marquam Nature Park and the West Willamette Restoration Partnership for a morning of urban forest renewal. Meet at Council Crest Park, see map at http://www.trlc.org/westwillamette/marquamworkparty. Please contact us before coming and for more info. (The site is not wheelchair accessible and could be on some uneven ground) Free, of course Outdoor Water bottle, work gloves, dress appropriate for weather Start: 11:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
Sheilagh Diez 503.636.4398 sheilagh@tryonfriends.org This workshop offers a rare opportunity to explore the world of creating hides and skins of mammals and to gain insight into a unique educational tool. Participants will receive a presentation of the world of hides and skins, hands-on experience of hide preparation and a field trip to a local tannery. Workshop fee: $25 ($21 for members). Pre-registration is required. Call 503.636.4398. Indoor and Outdoor. Event includes a field trip Start: 11:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
For more information call 503-636-4112 x102. More than 20 vendors, each with distinctive native and exotic plants, trees and shrubs FREE! indoors Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
503-675-2549 Engage in the exciting world of sustainable design! Join Toby Hemenway, a renoun Permaculturalist, and author of Gaia’s Garden to learn the fundamentals, principles, and ethics of Permaculture, and how this "cultivated ecology" is enacting social and ecological change worldwide. We'll discuss patterning, elements, functions, appropriate technology, regenerative gardens, and more! Appropriate for any gardener, farmer, policy maker, economist, designer, etc. Permaculture is one of the world's most integrated design systems. This class will cost $30 and take place at Jean’s Urban Forest Farm in SE Portland from 1-4pm. JEAN’s Urban Forest Farm is located at 3707 SE Johnson Creek Blvd. $30 Outdoor Start: 2:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
chad@tryonfarm.org Bloom 2008 Official Press Release www.tryonfarm.org/share/bloom-2008
Bloom 2008: Tryon Life Community Farm’s 4th Annual Spring Benefit THIS IS A BENEFIT FOR TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM Sliding Scale: $50-$10 (worktrade available-chad@tryonfarm.org) outdoor Sunday April 27, 2008
(all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details (all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Start: 2:00 pm
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Stephanie Wagner 503.636.4398 stephanie@tryonfriends.org This family event celebrates the environment and builds connections to the citizens of the natural world. This year’s focus is on the Pacific Lamprey, an important and little-understood animal which spends parts of its life-cycle in our lakes and rivers. This is a free and public event. Indoor and Outdoor. Event is wheelchair accessible Monday April 28, 2008
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Start: 12:00 am
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ongoing over a year or more none none as of yet FREE--donations accepted Zeratha Young open mooglicious@gmail.com No 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.” (all day)
Start: 5:00 pm
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www.earthflow.com/slo2008.php info@earthflow.com EarthFlow's Two Week Permaculture Design Course Intensive for Design Professionals, Homeowners & Students... This course has something for everyone. The training includes some of the most inspiring examples of sustainable land use and human ingenuity from around the world. $1450 for course includes meals and camping. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available. indoor and outdoor See website for details |