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Mountainfilm on Tour is Back in Bend for the 19th Year! A favorite fundraiser for The Environmental Center will be offered in-person and virtually. Mountainfilm on Tour-Bend will be offered as a hybrid event this year that can be experienced from the comfort of home and at the theater. Mountainfilm on Tour showcases a selection…
$65 – $75
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Housing and houselessness are visible and divisive issues in local media, in politics, and across different communities within our state. Many community members were experiencing housing instability and economic uncertainty even during the “boom” times before the COVID-19 crisis. This conversation will explore common assumptions and perspectives about the experience of houselessness and how many…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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It is a known fact that racism is a problem on public lands, and many communities do not feel safe or welcome when recreating. While efforts have been made by individual leaders and organizations to create more equitable and inclusive conditions, the work is far from over. Luckily, there are state-based solutions that seek to…
$65 – $75
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Housing and houselessness are visible and divisive issues in local media, in politics, and across different communities within our state. Many community members were experiencing housing instability and economic uncertainty even during the “boom” times before the COVID-19 crisis. This conversation will explore common assumptions and perspectives about the experience of houselessness and how many…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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. |
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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…
$65 – $75
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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.
$65 – $75
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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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!
$65 – $75
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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… |
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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.
$65 – $75
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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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.
$65 – $75
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Learn about many of the emerging ways to sequester carbon dioxide and how they will factor into our response to the climate crisis.
$65 – $75
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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… |
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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…
$65 – $75
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Learn about new agricultural practices and technologies that have potential to rebuild depleted topsoil and store carbon in the soil.
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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Learn about the emerging methods to pull CO2 directly from the air
$65 – $75
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…
$65 – $75
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Learn about the role oceans could play in removing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide.
$65 – $75
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Join us and The Peaceful Presence Project for Green Drinks to learn about Green Burial on the Green Day of the year--St Patrick's Day! Whose green burial is it anyway? Join us for an engaging discussion with four panelists about current body disposition options connected to green burial and human composting. Using the article ‘Whose Green Burial…
$65 – $75
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…
$65 – $75
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Learn to sequester CO2 at home with a master gardener
$65 – $75
Join Earth Advantage & BetterBuiltNW for this three-part webinar series on envelope building science, installing exterior insulation, and ERV/HRV design best practices.
$65 – $75
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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.
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Celebrate our Community by joining us for activities, connections, music, and more at the Pavilion! Goodbye Winter & Hello Spring! ¡Celebremos en Comunidad esta Primavera! Nos despedimos del invierno y le damos la bienvenida a la primavera con actividades divertidas, recursos para familias, música y más en nuestro centro de recreación The Pavilion!
$65 – $75
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Celebrate the 1st Day of Spring Spring forward to save Worrell Wayside Join to save Worrell Wayside Park on March 20, 1st day of spring 1:30 – 4:00 at the Gazebo in the Park. Come and see how Worrell is showing signs of spring, how and why this little park needs to stay in our…
$65 – $75
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At this workshop, you'll learn everything you need to know to feel confident adding solar or energy storage to your home or business.
$65 – $75
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Forty years of geothermal exploration and attempted development on Newberry Volcano has yet to result in geothermal electricity production. Since the National Volcanic Monument was formed in 1990, all drilling efforts have been on the volcano flanks where deep wells have encountered very high temperature at depth (320 C and 3 km), but no significant…
$65 – $75
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Discover the fascinating symbiotic relationship between Plants and Fungi. Fungi and plants have been allies for millions of years! Learn about the fascinating relationship between these organisms, and how to harness this ancient symbiosis to enrich green landscapes at any scale. You will hear about the use of mycorrhizal fungi, gardening with edible mushrooms, and…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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Books in Common NW welcomes environmental activist and eco-communicator Leah Thomas to share her new book INTERSECTIONAL ENVIRONMENTALIST.
$65 – $75
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Join Earth Advantage & BetterBuiltNW for this three-part webinar series on envelope building science, installing exterior insulation, and ERV/HRV design best practices.
$65 – $75
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The Rotary Club of Crook County is once again teaming up with Crook County Parks and Recreation, Deschutes Land Trust, SOLVE, Crook County, Republic Services and Crooked Roots Brewing to do an in stream cleanup of Ochoco Creek before high water hits and a general Parks Clean-up. Following the cleanup, folx will meet at Crooked…
$65 – $75
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Attend the Oregon Public Transportation Conference March 29-March 30th!
$65 – $75
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Curious about how the 2022 legislative session ended — what legislation passed and what failed? Join the Bend Chamber for a post-session wrap-up with two of our Central Oregon legislators, Senator Tim Knopp and Representative Jason Kropf. Both will share highlights of the 35-day short session and take questions about what’s on the agenda in…
$65 – $75
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Join Panelists from Central Oregon Community College in coordination with the World-Wide Global Teach-In being organized by Bard University. Faculty and staff will engage the audience in dynamic 5-minute presentations focused on climate change from the perspectives of forestry, psychology, physics, microbiology, public health, art, sociology and more, followed by an interactive student-moderated discussion.
$65 – $75
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…
$65 – $75
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This series will explore homegrown opportunities to produce energy right here in Deschutes County and Oregon. First up, geothermal energy!
$65 – $75
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Save the date! The Land Trust is pleased to present their 2022 Nature Nights series. You might know the America pika as a fuzzy little creature that chirps and runs away with grass in its mouth while you’re hiking in the mountains, but they are oh so much more than that! Join the Deschutes Land Trust…
$65 – $75
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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…
$65 – $75
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Join OSU-Cascades for a special evening with one of the world’s leading and most influential climate scientists, Michael Mann, to learn why we must work together now to reverse decades of climate inaction and how we can still prevent the worst impacts of a climate crisis.
$65 – $75
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Join Earth Advantage & BetterBuiltNW for this three-part webinar series on envelope building science, installing exterior insulation, and ERV/HRV design best practices.
$65 – $75
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Native Bees and Plants taught by OSU Master Gardener Toni Stephan Many pollinators are suffering due to loss of habitat and floral resources. However, research shows that even the smallest of home gardens is beneficial for our pollinators. This class will cover some of the things every gardener can do to help our pollinators. A photo…
$65 – $75
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Greenhouse Design for All-Season Growing taught by Eileen Obermiller, Landscape Architect What can I expect to germinate, grow, and harvest with a residential All-Season Greenhouse? How much effort does it take to make it work? How is a residential All-Season Greenhouse different from a typical greenhouse? Does it need winter heating? What happens when temperatures drop…
$65 – $75
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Gala de Oro moves to Redmond LCA will celebrate their 2022 Gala de Oro fundraiser in Redmond, at Eagle Crest Resort, 1522 Cline Falls Road, on April 2, from 5 p.m. to midnight. SAVE THE DATE ~ GUARDA LA FECHA
$65 – $75
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