This month's Steering Committee meeting will NOT be held on the 2nd Wednesday of the month. The meeting has been moved instead to June 17th. We will still meet at the downtown Bend library in the Hutchinson Room on the 2nd floor from 5 pm to 6:30 pm. We would love for you to join us!  

Rex Parris is the popular three-term mayor of Lancaster, California, where he has put his city well on the way towards becoming a carbon neutral, zero net energy community. Parris will be in Bend on June 18th and 19th for several presentations about how his city has successfully developed a proactive strategy to reduce its…

Organized by the East Cascades Audubon Society and started in 2011, the Dean Hall Woodpecker Festival is an opportunity to visit a beautiful area and enjoy our local birds.  There are 11 nesting species of woodpeckers here and there is a good chance to see them all … as well as lots of other cool…

Be a part of the EPS vanguard and gain a competitive edge! EPS is a tool to assess a home's energy consumption, energy costs, and carbon footprint. Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® contractors can use EPS to help homeowners determine how to lower their energy costs and increase the comfort of their home. Energy Trust…

Bend Area Habitat to Hold Affordable Housing & Information Session In Bend Bend, OR – Bend Area Habitat for Humanity is looking for families and individuals to apply for their homeownership program in Bend. On Thursday, June 19 at 5:30 p.m., Bend Area Habitat for Humanity will offer a Housing & Information Session in Bend…

Birder’s Night  So Much White:  Is it Snow or Snow Geese Each spring over 200,000 Snow and Ross’s Geese migrate through the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.  For the past sixteen years, Kelly Hazen has volunteered her time to study Ross’s and Snow Geese as they rest and feed at Malheur during their northbound migration.  She…

Deschutes County, City of Bend Fire Department, Oregon Department of Forestry and the Deschutes National Forest invite Central Oregon residents to a panel discussion and film on wildfire in our community in mid-June. The goal is to help people understand more about Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) wildfires, wildfire risks to our community and reducing those risks…

Looking Inward to Prevent Sprawl at Pints and Politics Join Oregon League of Conservation Voters and special guest, Moey Newbold, advocacy programs manager at Central Oregon Landwatch, to get the scoop on the Bend Central District (BCD) Initiative. The Bend Central District is the area east of downtown bounded roughly by Revere Avenue on the…

Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Bob Woodward for a photographic journey in Skyline Forest. Grab your camera and lend a hand to document some of the historical sites in Skyline Forest. On this journey we’ll explore Bend’s early logging history by visiting and making record of a 1916 lumber mill. Registration is required and…

Join us July 1st & 2nd, 2017 for a fabulous, colorful weekend! The Central Oregon Wildflower Show and Native Plant Sale exhibits hundreds of native wildflower species bursting with color. The show also provides a glimpse of Central Oregon's native grasses, shrubs, sages, fungi, mosses and lichen. Exciting lectures at SHARC, vendors, wildlife hikes, and…