The Environmental Center

Nature Nights: Is Climate Anxiety Bad for the Planet?
2022-03-02 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Save the date! The Land Trust is pleased to present their 2022 Nature Nights series.
“The chronic fear of environmental doom” is how the American Psychological Association defines eco-anxiety, and it is on the rise around the world, as communities increasingly experience the effects of climate change. Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray as we take a look at climate anxiety. Drawing on her recent book, Dr. Ray will explore climate anxiety, who feels it, and how it affects our ability to address climate change. She’ll share details on how climate anxiety is leaving many immobilized and/or apathetic, and offer some emotional skills to help us all navigate this era of climate crisis. Learn how you can manage your climate anxiety and become a stronger advocate for climate action.
*This presentation is free and registration will open on February 2nd.

School Garden Greenhouse Tour at St. Francis School
2022-03-03 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Meet at St. Francis School to tour the recently updated and expanded school garden greenhouse, and hear how Terri has been gardening with students throughout the pandemic. We will also have 3 boxes of donated seeds from Moonfire & Sun for you look through to take back what you need to your classrooms and school gardens.
We are recognized by the Oregon Farm to School and School Garden Network as a Regional Hub Coordinator for Central Oregon, and are working closely with regional hubs around the state for both school garden education and farm to school procurement. This role, as well as our role as a FoodCorps Service Site, is furthering our commitment and ability to serve our local school garden efforts, as well as deepening our experience in the local, statewide, and national Farm to School & School Garden movement.
Through our role as the school garden education regional hub lead, we will continue to organize Garden Educator Network meet-ups, provide technical assistance to teachers parents and schools with school garden questions, send out periodic emails with local events and resources, and stay up to date with statewide and national efforts to further our commitment and ability to serve our local school garden efforts.
Email Denise Rowcroft to get on our Garden Educator Network email list for future events.

Winter PrideFest
2022-03-03 - 2022-03-06 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
A full weekend of fun and inspiring Winter events. Wigs ice skating, Panel Discussion, Film Screenings, Dance Party and more!!!
Celebrating Inclusivity Outdoors!! Winter PrideFest is not your typical “gay ski weekend”. Join us to celebrate Pride, Inclusivity, and our combined love of the outdoors in Bend and at Mt. Bachelor.
Click here to find a current listing of events for 2022!

Bend COTA Work Events
2022-03-03, 2022-03-10 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
When: Thursday Aug 11, Tuesday Aug 16, Tuesday Aug 23 and Tuesday Aug 30, 5:15 to Dusk
Where: Meet at the old Ray’s parking lot, NE corner of Simpson Ave and Century Drive in Bend
Worksite: Varies
There’s only one thing better than mountain biking in Bend, OR and that’s riding in Bend, knowing that you helped build and maintain the trails you love.
Please bring a hydration pack with water and a snack.
Be sure to bring appropriate layers to accommodate whatever the weather may be.
Questions? contact@cotamtb.com
All COTA trail work events require the following safety measures:
All participants are required to have the following protective clothing and equipment:

Sturdy shoes or boots
Gloves
Eye protection with clear or light colored lens
Long pants

Due to COTA’s insurance requirements and the inherent dangers of trail work, we must implement the following policy regarding children at work events:

For anyone 14 years of age or younger, we require one parent, guardian, or responsible adult for supervision of every four kids attending any COTA trail work events.
All minors under the age of 18 must have a parent or guardian available to sign our waiver.

Anyone who arrives for a work event may be turned away if he/she cannot meet the above requirements.

Inequity in Healthcare: Seeking Mental Health Dharma Cortes Services after Experiencing Healthcare Discrimination
2022-03-03 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Professors Cortés and Progovac will provide an overview of their work and guide the audience through one of their cornerstone research projects. Their research seeks to understand how experiencing healthcare discrimination impacts peoples’ preferences for and willingness to seek mental health services as well as how that prior discrimination can impact their current dialogue with providers. Cortés and Progovac will share patient and provider narratives and discuss one of the essential elements to equitable healthcare: respect.
*FREE and OPEN to the public. Registration opens 1.10.22

Bonfires, Bikes & Brews
2022-03-04 16:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Good Bike Co., 284 NE 3rd St., Prineville, OR, 97754, United States
Every other Friday this winter Good Bike Co will open their patio and strike up the fire cauldron. Bring your neighbors, family, and friends out to enjoy the warmth of community. Their bar hosts a rotating selection of some of the finest Oregon craft brews around. All are welcome. Pet friendly.

Author! Author! Literary Series 2022: Neil Gaiman
2022-03-06 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Prolific writer NEIL GAIMAN is the author of dozens of works of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre and films. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline and The Graveyard Book. His numerous awards include the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. In 2013, his novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.

Federal Funding Opportunities for Trails on Federal Lands Webinar
2022-03-09 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Learn from federal land managers working in Oregon about how different kinds of federal funding can be utilized by agencies and partners for trail restoration, improvement, development, and access.

Cancelled-All We Can Save Book Circle Bend, Oregon
2022-03-09, 2022-03-16 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join 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 women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. While the book is compiled and written by women, everyone is welcome to join the book circle.
DATES: The group will meet Wednesdays starting Feb 9th. No meeting Mar 23rd due to Bend La-Pine school district spring break. Last circle meeting is Apr 20th (just before Earth Day).
**Class size is limited to 10 people. Please purchase a copy of the book at Roundabout Books, Dudley’s, Barnes and Noble, or your favorite online seller. Loaner copies of the book will be available to borrow for the 10-week circle.
More info about All We Can Save book circles
More praise for All We Can Save

Know Underground – Birds Who Burrow
2022-03-09 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Take a tour of Oregon’s burrowing birds and their habitats.
What do Tufted Puffins, Leach’s Storm-Petrels, Belted Kingfishers, Bank Swallows, Rough-winged Swallows, and Burrowing Owls have in common? They nest in Oregon and in unusual places: underground. Take a tour of the state’s birds of burrows and their habitats– from the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge to riverbanks and the high desert. Presenter Marina Richie also will share personal stories from her observations of kingfisher nests, including a citizen science discovery of aerial ramming of an earthen bank.
This is an in-person program. Masks are required at all in-person library events.

How to Go Solar
2022-03-09 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-03-14 12:00 - 13:00 | 375 SW Powerhouse Dr Suite 100, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
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 the Solar Within Reach incentive.

Events Creating the American Perimeter Trail
2022-03-09 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
What does it take to create a trail wrapping around the entire contiguous United States? Join Oregon Wild for a discussion with the founder of the American Perimeter Trail to find out!

Consider This with Robin Wall Kimmerer
2022-03-10 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join Oregon Humanities for an online conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss. Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. This event will be streamed live.

Climate Justice as Freedom
2022-03-10 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Julie Sze, Ph.D. believes that climate justice is a freedom struggle: one involving both negative and positive freedoms. Climate justice activists use the term “frontline” to make issues of race, class, indigeneity, citizenship, and gender more prominent and to highlight the disparities of who is most impacted and most responsible. Sze will discuss how frontline climate justice movements focus on well-informed radical hope and visions that help bring us into an emancipatory future.
*FREE and OPEN to the public. Registration opens 1.10.22

The Farewell | IndieWomen Screening Event
2022-03-10 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join BendFilm at their next IndieWomen event on Thursday, March 10th at 6PM for a screening of The Farewell!
All IndieWomen get in for free or $10 for non-members!
Food and beverages will be provided, as well as a discussion following the film with BendFilms Head of Programming, Selin Sevinc!
More about the film: A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

Backcountry Film Festival 2021-22 (Discover Your Forest)
2022-03-12 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join Discover Your Forest on the evening of Saturday, March 12th, 2022 for their annual winter fundraiser, the Backcountry Film Festival! This year’s theme is “Embrace the Brrr”, and that’s exactly what Central Oregon’s attendees will do. With their first-ever outdoor screening, DYF will host their favorite film festival in The Embark Coworking Community lot in NW Bend.

Know Underground: Soil Health Presentation at The Environmental Center
2022-03-13 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The 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 in your yard. Folx will meet outside in the Kansas Avenue Learning Garden. In case of inclement weather, you will head inside The Environmental Center for a slideshow presentation. This presentation is geared towards adults, but the digging bed will be available for children to explore soil on their own, weather permitting.
This is an in-person program. Masks are required at all in-person events.

No Man's Land Film Festival's "Diversify Our Outdoors"
2022-03-13 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join our friends at Bend Film for their annual IndieWomen Appreciation screening of the No Man’s Land Film Festival’s “Diversify Our Outdoors” program on Sunday March 13th at 6pm The Tower Theatre.

Bend filmmaker, photographer and climber Jules Jimreivat will be in attendance for a Q&A following the program. Read Jules’s bio here. Happy watching!

Use this code for ticket discounts: ski-n-film

Carbon Sequestration - An overview of carbon capture and storage solutions
2022-03-14 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Learn 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
2022-03-15 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
How 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 energy. They will also discuss how federal and state programs can accelerate the use of not only proven, but also emerging, clean and efficient technologies.

Regenerative Agriculture - Sequestering carbon in agricultural soil
2022-03-15 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Learn 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
2022-03-15 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The 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 in your yard. Folx meet outside in the Kansas Avenue Learning Garden. In case of inclement weather, you will head inside The Environmental Center for a slideshow presentation. This presentation is geared towards adults, but the digging bed will be available for children to explore soil on their own, weather permitting.
This is an in-person program. Masks are required at all in-person library events.

Happy Hour in the Garden
2022-03-15 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join 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 and non-alcoholic beverages are provided for all who volunteer. Each event includes seasonal ongoing tasks as well as special projects as needed throughout the growing season. Volunteers are welcome to pop in for an hour or stay the whole time. No need to RSVP or commit ahead of time. (Pro tip – put the following dates in your phone calendar now – then when it pops up you can decide if it works out for you or not!)
In 2023, Happy Hour in the Garden will once again run twice a month from March through October. This schedule throughout the extent of the growing season offers meaningful volunteer experiences for all who come, and deeper care for the garden when it needs it.
For Spring 2023, our Happy Hours will be 4-6pm, on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of the month.
March & April Happy Hours sponsored by Wild Ride Brewing

March 7 & 21
April 4 & 18

May & June Happy Hours sponsored by Worthy Environmental

May 2 & 16
June 6 & 20

Stay tuned for confirmation of dates for July through October, as these might switch to the 2nd & 4th…)
Contact Denise, Garden Program Manager, if you have any questions about getting involved.

Small Splendors, Vast Landscapes
2022-03-15 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Continuing 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 explosions, violent storms and more, as well as providing an entree to wildlife that we may overlook. Ellen’s image-rich talk is a guide to how we can read the details in these treasured landscapes that are precious to us all.
*Registration will open on February 15 and close two hours before the event begins.

Water Use and Conservation
2022-03-15 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Upper 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 engaged steward for Whychus Creek. They will coordinate each session with presentations from their partners from the Deschutes National Forest, Deschutes River Conservancy, Oregon Water Resource Department, the Fly FIsher’s Place, the City of Sisters, Three Sisters Irrigation District, and others. The series will culminate with an in-person tour of restoration projects along Whychus Creek.
The speaker series will be held at the Sisters Library. All presentations will be delivered in-person with a virtual attendance option. The Whychus Watershed Tour will be held outside in-person. Pre-registration is required.
For more information or to register contact: kmiller@restorethedeschutes.org

Direct Air Capture - Pulling carbon out of the air
2022-03-16 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Learn about the emerging methods to pull CO2 directly from the air

Oceans - Sequestering carbon in the sea
2022-03-17 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Learn about the role oceans could play in removing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide.
