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Where Is Away?
This week’s Lunch Bites Highlight focuses on sustainable living and specifically, where our garbage goes once we…
Record Garden Grants Awarded as Outdoor Classrooms Become Essential During Covid-19
We are excited to announce the recipients of our 2020/2021 school year garden grant awards. Due to…
Lunch Bite Highlights: Recycling Activities & Read-Aloud Story
Lunch Bite Highlight 1 One of our lunch bite highlights this week focuses on the process of…
Turning Kids into Scientists – Introducing Lunch Bites!
Children’s curious and intuitive minds lead to an abundance of learning opportunities. To help foster their learning…
Preventing Food Waste with Roommates
When you’re living with roommates, you probably don’t get the option to store your food like this…
Youth Education Intern Spotlight: Erika Cook
Erika Cook has been around The Environmental Center for quite some time, so you may recognize her!…
Take action: Share your priorities with Bend City Councilors
New City Council Means New Goals Let The Council Know Your Thoughts Today Every two years, right…
Wrap it up: we’re talking about the holidays.
Holidays happen all the time. So does gift giving. These tips are great for the great, grand…
Recycle your Holiday Tree
As our Deschutes County Knott Landfill continues to fill up (it is anticipated to be full by…
Update on Rethink Waste Project’s multifamily recycling project!
Remember WAY back in 2019, that The Environmental Center’s Rethink Waste Project won a grant from DEQ?…
Single Use Disposables. Are they actually better than reusables?
What’s better, paper or plastic? Single-use foodware made of petroleum-based or compostable plastics? A reusable canvas bag…
What do you do with broken crayon bits? Don’t toss ’em!
Ya know when you’re using a box of crayons and they break into little bits to the…