Rethink Waste
Recycled Materials Bag Sewing Party
The Environmental Center 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, ORCalling all seamstresses! St. Charles Medical Center and Bend Anesthesiology Group are partnering with The Environmental Center to create reusable tote bags out of sterile blue wrap, used to sterilize surgical instruments. This repurposed material is water resistant, sturdy, functional and with your help, fashionable! If the material is not being reused, it is immediately…
Plastics and Your Health (Webinar)
ZoomA troubling study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March found that the presence of microplastics particles in heart tissue caused a measurable increase in people's risk of heart attack, stroke and premature death. With each new study published, plastics’ negative impacts on human health are becoming clearer and more widespread. What does this mean…
Bend Gear Meet with Outdoorist Oath
The Gear Fix 550 Industrial Way, Suite 183, Bend, OR, United StatesThe Outdoorist Oath and Pattie Gonia alongside trusted allies Outside’s Gear Up Give Back program and local collaborator The Gear Fix invite the Bend, OR community to an evening of gear swaps, gear repairs, gear giveaways, and celebrating our love for the outdoors! Here are all the juicy deets for the event! This is a…
Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show
The Pavillion 1001 SW Bradbury Dr., Bend, OR, United StatesAGENDA 5:00pm - Doors Open (VIP Ticket Holders) 5:30pm - Doors Open (General Admission) 6:30pm - Runway show STARTS 7:30 - INTERMISSION 8:00pm - Second 1/2 of the show Rooted in a love of fashion, an appreciation of art and a passion for the planet, the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show fuses environmental responsibility, funky…
Chaco For Life Tour at Crux
Crux Fermentation Project 50 SW Division Street, Bend, OR, United StatesREPAIR CUSTOMIZE CHILL Come celebrate 35 years of Chaco with us on the Chaco For Life Tour! Visit our mobile factory to get your trusty Chacos repaired*, create your own custom sandals (adult sizes only), grab some swag, or just kick it with us. *Each first repair is FREE; any additional sandals will be repaired…
Chaco For Life Tour at Crux
Crux Fermentation Project 50 SW Division Street, Bend, OR, United StatesREPAIR CUSTOMIZE CHILL Come celebrate 35 years of Chaco with us on the Chaco For Life Tour! Visit our mobile factory to get your trusty Chacos repaired*, create your own custom sandals (adult sizes only), grab some swag, or just kick it with us. *Each first repair is FREE; any additional sandals will be repaired…
Chaco For Life Tour at Crux
Crux Fermentation Project 50 SW Division Street, Bend, OR, United StatesREPAIR CUSTOMIZE CHILL Come celebrate 35 years of Chaco with us on the Chaco For Life Tour! Visit our mobile factory to get your trusty Chacos repaired*, create your own custom sandals (adult sizes only), grab some swag, or just kick it with us. *Each first repair is FREE; any additional sandals will be repaired…
Chaco For Life Tour at Crux
Crux Fermentation Project 50 SW Division Street, Bend, OR, United StatesREPAIR CUSTOMIZE CHILL Come celebrate 35 years of Chaco with us on the Chaco For Life Tour! Visit our mobile factory to get your trusty Chacos repaired*, create your own custom sandals (adult sizes only), grab some swag, or just kick it with us. *Each first repair is FREE; any additional sandals will be repaired…
Greenwashing 2.0: Debunking Recycling Myths
People often ask what really happens to their plastic recycling. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter where your discarded plastic is collected, whether at the end of your driveway, at your local recycling center, or in a municipal recycling bin: Most plastic items collected as recycling are not actually “recycled.” Many people are now realizing that plastic is not designed to be…
Food Waste Prevention and Rescue Workshop
The Environmental Center 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, ORDid you know that wasted food makes up over 25% of waste at Knott Landfill by tonnage - making it the largest category of waste in the landfill? Yet, in Deschutes County, 1 in 8 people is food insecure, meaning they don't always know where their next meal will come from. In addition, the average…