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.”
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.
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
that have returned to Gold Bluffs Beach, in
Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP). Look at
their life history and reasons that led to their listing
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
