The Environmental Center

Walk+Bike Challenge
2015-05-01 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
MAY 2015
The Walk + Bike Challenge is a friendly competition aimed at encouraging more kids and families to walk and bike to and from school and throughout their neighborhoods. The Challenge is hosted by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) with support from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), our sponsors (Grouptrail and Chipotle), and other partners.
Register here!
Once you register your school for the Walk+Bike Challenge, be sure to order your free incentives! Incentives include: stickers, temporary tattoos, prize ribbons, and helmets. Check out the website for various tips, curriculum, and for your free coordinator packet that includes: tips and resources for promoting the event, organizing parent volunteers, procuring local prizes, and how to track active transportation trips taken by students.
New this year: Tracking all participants’ trips is even more important! For every child that participates in the Walk+Bike Challenge, Grouptrail will donate 10 cents to BTA’s Walk+Bike program. You can track on a weekly basis or for the whole month. The BTA will hold weekly prize drawings for schools that log trips each week to win extra incentives, gift certificates, and other great prizes

Sustainable Homes Professional (SHP); Module 4
2015-05-01 - 2015-05-02
SHP is an interactive six-month accreditation program that provides participants with the opportunity to develop the technical skills and knowledge required to design and build highperformance homes. Each two-day module integrates lecture and discussion, hands-on exercises and tours of certified homes.
Module 4: Mechanical Systems & Performance Testing
Two day Module Friday & Saturday from 9-5pm
This module provides an overview of load reduction and an exploration of many design and product options for conditioning systems within a home. Just as performance testing is necessary to verify the envelope’s construction, performance testing and verification of systems are also key components to creating high-performance sustainable homes.
Individual modules cost $295 each and can be taken in any order to achieve SHP accreditation.
More information and sign up
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