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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/
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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!
