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.
