Climate

Join the Central Oregon Chapter of Great Old Broads for Wilderness at an upcoming broadchats! Conversation and presentation about “ Climate Change and Rivers." Please bring $5.00 to cover costs of snacks and drinks and off set rental space. Register here.  

Join The Oregon Youth Climate Strike in collaboration with The Vocal Seniority and 350 Deschutes to protest in coordination with strikes across the globe to demand action against climate change, now! Youth, adults, and all in-between are invited to come take action to ensure a future for the next generations. All over the world, people of…

The Bend High Environmental Club is hosting a second climate strike at Peace Corner (Wall & Newport by Bank of America) in downtown Bend. Although it's organized by our community's amazing youth, anyone and everyone is invited to participate. Bring your signs!

Fleets of NASA satellites capture images and data about Earth’s ocean, land and atmosphere. But can humans act on the powerful information we learn from them? Join oceanographer, educator and former NASA science administrator Michael Freilich to learn about the spaceborne tools that monitor our planet — from as far as a million miles away…

In his truth-telling style, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki talks Climate, capitalism, curbing growth, and where we’re headed as a species.  Life creates the very things we need to survive, and our responsibility should be to protect those things—the foundation of the way we live.  We don’t know enough to say it’s too late—you’ve always got…

Join OLCV, members of the Climate Action Steering Committee – Laurel Hamilton, Eric Duea, and Jamie Klopp – and City of Bend senior management analyst, Cassie Lacy, to learn about the climate action plan. Find out how the plan will help reduce GHG emissions and fossil fuel use, ask questions, and find out how you can ensure that our community moves forward with this important work.

Learn how native plants can help mitigate the effects of climate change. Christina Veverka, Botanist with the Deschutes National Forest, will explore the latest research from around the globe on climate change and the effects that scientists are seeing to native plant communities. Not all ‘doom and gloom,’ Christina will highlight current research on the…

Oregon for Climate Action (OCA) Presents:  The Role of Innovation and Technology in an Increasingly Carbon-Constrained World. As an emerging hub for innovation, Central Oregon is ripe for creating technology solutions in response to the risks being caused by climate change that also help grow our economy. Join Bend-area speakers Rita Hansen of On-Board Dynamics…

Diesel soot is everywhere. Its toxic particles are so small, they lodge in your lungs and create respiratory and health problems years later. Children breathe it on school buses. You breathe it when following a truck or bus. People and workers in neighborhoods undergoing construction breathe it. Throughout Oregon, concentrations of diesel particulate matter, the…