How to Go Solar
In these free webinars, Solar Oregon will answer your questions about how solar energy systems work, share information about incentives available, and help you take the first step to add solar to your home or business. In addition, at each workshop, you will discuss one of three special topics: solar + storage, community solar, and…
Carbon Sequestration – An overview of carbon capture and storage solutions
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesLearn about many of the emerging ways to sequester carbon dioxide and how they will factor into our response to the climate crisis.
Unlocking the Power of the Grid: Oregon’s Next Big Energy Opportunity
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesHow can we best harness all the clean and efficient energy needed to power our lives? What investments are needed to upgrade the aging power grid? Presenters at OEC’s next Business and Environment Forum will share how large-scale solutions (regional energy markets) and small-scale systems (local micro-grids and battery storage) are both needed for clean…
Regenerative Agriculture – Sequestering carbon in agricultural soil
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesLearn about new agricultural practices and technologies that have potential to rebuild depleted topsoil and store carbon in the soil.
Know Underground: Soil Health Presentation at The Environmental Center
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesThe soil beneath our feet is teeming with life. Join Garden Educator Denise Rowcroft at The Environmental Center's Learning Garden to get your hands dirty learning about soil. You'll discuss the four principles of creating and maintaining healthy soil, and you'll leave with hands-on practical ways to improve your garden or just protect the biodiversity…
Happy Hour in the Garden
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesJoin us in our Kansas Avenue Learning Garden for our ongoing volunteer work party series. In 2022, volunteers contributed over 200 hours to help keep our learning garden maintained over the growing season. We couldn’t do it without you! This event is open to all ages and gardening abilities! No experience or tools required. Beer…
Small Splendors, Vast Landscapes
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesContinuing ONDA’s High Desert Speaker Series, Ellen Bishop will present “Small Splendors, Vast Landscapes.” Oregon’s deserts offer serene and yet provocative landscapes that invite contemplation. Yet sometimes, in viewing their sweeping vistas, we overlook the details that provide insight to their origins. These micro views of a macro landscape tell stories of epic floods, volcanic…
Water Use and Conservation
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesUpper Deschutes Watershed Council is coordinating a six-part informational speaker series about Whychus Creek and its watershed! They are working with natural resource partners to present an educational watershed series for community members to learn about the history, hydrology, habitat conditions, native fish, water conservation, stream restoration activities, and ways that YOU can become an…
Direct Air Capture – Pulling carbon out of the air
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesLearn about the emerging methods to pull CO2 directly from the air
Cancelled-All We Can Save Book Circle Bend, Oregon
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesJoin for an in-person, self-organized book circle. Over 10-weeks this small group will create a safe and open space for climate conversations and read "All We Can Save: Truth, Courage & Solutions for the Climate Crisis" by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson. All We Can Save is an anthology of writings by 60…