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Bringing the Fish Home: Fish Reintroduction and River Restoration in the Upper Deschutes Basin
Sixty years after the construction of the Pelton Round Butte Dam Complex, migrating salmon and steelhead are returning to the Upper Deschutes Basin. This seminar will focus on the history of the reintroduction and ongoing restoration efforts to support these fish, which also benefit resident fish and other wildlife. Speakers: Megan Hill - Natural Resources…
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Bend COTA Work Events
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…
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RiverFeast 2023
River lovers, it's time to gather again to celebrate this beautiful watershed we call home. On Thursday, May 4th, join the Deschutes River Conservancy to learn about their latest restoration initiatives, uplift diverse perspectives, and spend quality time with fellow river champions. Enjoy passed appetizers and a signature cocktail as you mingle in the beautiful…
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Community Conversations: Emerging From Our Homes with Facilitator LeeAnn O’Neill
The Conversation Project Programs are sponsored by Oregon Humanities. They bring people together to talk about their beliefs and experiences around timely and important issues and ideas. For most, the pandemic meant spending more time in our homes. As we emerge from our homes, our sense of safety and vulnerability moving through our communities may…
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March Community Pint Nights at Deschutes Brewery
We are the designated nonprofit beneficiary for Deschutes Brewery’s Community Pint Nights in March. Join us on Tuesdays in March at the downtown Public House or Tasting Room and Deschutes Brewery will donate $1 from every pint sold to The Environmental Center. Mark your calendars—we hope to see you there! March 7, 14, 21, and…
Happy Hour in the Garden Kickoff
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…
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Energy Trust New Buildings Net Zero Fellowship Trainings
Join Energy Trust of Oregon to learn from Jessy Ledesma as she presents research on the potential to move toward a Path to Net Zero approach for affordable housing by clustering units, centralizing mechanical and hot water systems and optimizing multi-family development scale for solar microgrids. The research analysis focuses on the Milwaukie Courtyard Housing…
Make Your Voice Heard at the State Capitol
Learn about our priorities that will help us decarbonize our community during the 2023 legislative session in Oregon. This event will include training on how to write an effective testimony or letter to legislators, give you time to write and workshop, and ask questions of our expert coalition partners. All written testimony can be submitted…
Downtown Bend: Landscape Painting & the Conservation Movement
Explore the connection between art, conservation and National Parks. This is an in-person program. Masks are optional at all in-person library events. This presentation examines the long association between art, conservation, and National Parks, focusing on a group of landscape painters led by a young English immigrant named Thomas Cole that came to be known…
SheJumps | OR | Empowering Women Through Adventure Speaker Series
SheJumps, AdventurUs Women, & Crow's Feet "Empowering Women Through Adventure" Bend Women's Speaker Series featuring Janel Spilker with "Women in Cycling: Riding into a Female Future" Dec 14th - Chelsey Magness - "Adventure Racing: Empowering Women to Embody Adventure" Jan 11th - Janel Spilker - "Women in Cycling: Riding into a Female Future" Feb 8th - Ingrid Granlin…
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March Green Drinks with Oregon Shines
March Green Drinks with Oregon Shines at Humm Kombucha Taproom Oregon Shines is excited to co-host Green Drinks with Humm at the Taproom on Thursday, March 9th from 5:00-7:00pm. Lower your electric bill, reduce your carbon footprint, and enjoy some Kombucha! Join Humm and enroll in the Oregon Community Solar Program. You no longer have to install solar panels…
Bend COTA Work Events
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…
Relationships for Resilience with Facilitator Christina deVillier
In a time of intensifying social and ecological crises, in a cultural context of individualism, the pressure to practice "self-care," build "personal resilience," and "transform oneself" is pervasive. While "doing your own work" is important, we overemphasize the individual to the detriment of our human communities and the rest of the living world. The deep…
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Landscape Painting & the Conservation Movement at Sisters Firehouse
Explore the connection between art, conservation and National Parks. This is an in-person program. Masks are optional at all in-person library events. This presentation examines the long association between art, conservation, and National Parks, focusing on a group of landscape painters led by a young English immigrant named Thomas Cole that came to be known…
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Community Conversations: Emerging From Our Homes with Facilitator LeeAnn O’Neill
The Conversation Project Programs are sponsored by Oregon Humanities. They bring people together to talk about their beliefs and experiences around timely and important issues and ideas. For most, the pandemic meant spending more time in our homes. As we emerge from our homes, our sense of safety and vulnerability moving through our communities may…
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March Community Pint Nights at Deschutes Brewery
We are the designated nonprofit beneficiary for Deschutes Brewery’s Community Pint Nights in March. Join us on Tuesdays in March at the downtown Public House or Tasting Room and Deschutes Brewery will donate $1 from every pint sold to The Environmental Center. Mark your calendars—we hope to see you there! March 7, 14, 21, and…
State Transportation Electrification Strategies: Best Practices
Forth’s New Webinar Series. Mark your calendars - Forth’s 2023 webinar lineup is live! Forth's free monthly webinars take a deep dive into the most relevant themes in clean transportation.
A Prototype for Affordable Cottage Cluster Housing – Bend
Worthy Brewing continues its mission to put the local community at the forefront by supporting eco-friendly non-profit organizations dedicated to conserving and protecting our beautiful Northwest region. Worthy Brewing will host the Net Zero Fellowship research presentation for Central Oregon. REGISTER NOW
The Inflation Reduction Act and You!
Join us for a Power Hour with Neighbors for Climate Action and learn about new federal funds that are available for home energy upgrades through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The IRA is the largest single investment in climate action and includes $369 billion in financial incentives to help local communities reduce energy costs, improve energy efficiency, build community resilience, shift to clean energy in our homes, buildings and transportation infrastructure, and develop our local workforce for the clean energy economy.
Know Underwater: What Can Algae Tell Us? at Redmond Prof. Academy
Explore the future of aquatic ecosystems with algae research. This is an in-person program. Masks are optional at all in-person library events. Algae come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from single spherical microscopic cells to forests of giant kelp that can extend up to 60 m. Collectively, this diverse array of aquatic plants fuel…
Our Common Ground: America’s Public Lands as a Political and Conservation Success Story
Join professor and author John Leshy at the Tower Theater in Bend for ONDA's event in the High Desert Speaker Series as he discusses his new book, Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands. Professor Leshy will offer some lessons that history suggests for future public land policy, such as how, as he…
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Geoengineering – An overview of potential earth cooling technologies
Learn about the Earth cooling technologies being researched and how they fit with other climate strategies with Dr. John Perona. Register here.
Beers, Books, and Belted Kingfishers
A Benefit for Greater Hells Canyon Council Join Bend's Marina Richie, author of the award-winning book Halcyon Journey, In Search of the Belted Kingfisher, for a lively photo and story-filled evening of natural history, myth, memoir, and conservation. She will have books to sign and sell before and after her presentation. Marina is on the…
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Bend COTA Work Events
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…
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MEER – Mirrors for Earth’s Energy Rebalancing
Learn how surface-based solar reflectors could provide localized cooling benefits and stabilize Earth's temperatures to prevent overheating.
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Ride About Bike Parade
Good Bike Co. is celebrating Springtime the best way they know how – by bike. Join for a kids duathlon and the tipsy leprechaun slow race. It'll conclude with a bike parade from Pioneer Park to Good Bike Co. All are welcome. Join the Parade »
Spring Clean-Up Day at The Museum At Warm Springs
Spring Clean-Up Day at The Museum on Saturday, March 18, 1-5 p.m. with Reception to Follow from 5-6:30 p.m. In honor of The Museum’s 30th anniversary, which is being celebrated throughout 2023, The Museum At Warm Springs is planning a Spring Clean-Up of its grounds. Everyone is invited. Bring your rakes. Garbage bags will be…
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The EVOLVE Experience
COCC's Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Afrocentric Student program presents The Evolve Experience on March 19 and 20 at the Tower Theatre. The Evolve Experience is a unique arts-based performance that explores the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color through monologues and past interviews with police officers. The Evolve Experience was created by…
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The EVOLVE Experience
COCC's Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Afrocentric Student program presents The Evolve Experience on March 19 and 20 at the Tower Theatre. The Evolve Experience is a unique arts-based performance that explores the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color through monologues and past interviews with police officers. The Evolve Experience was created by…
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March Community Pint Nights at Deschutes Brewery
We are the designated nonprofit beneficiary for Deschutes Brewery’s Community Pint Nights in March. Join us on Tuesdays in March at the downtown Public House or Tasting Room and Deschutes Brewery will donate $1 from every pint sold to The Environmental Center. Mark your calendars—we hope to see you there! March 7, 14, 21, and…
Happy Hour in the Garden
Happy Hour in the Garden
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…
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Bridging the Gaps: The Future of the Intergenerational Climate Movement
Amid devastating wildfires, a global pandemic, and a rapidly changing world, young people across the planet have stepped up to lead in the movement for climate, racial, and social justice. In this workshop, high school organizers Adah Crandall and Danny Cage will offer dialogue and case studies from their involvement in youth-led projects and campaigns:…
Downtown Bend: Know Underwater – What Can Algae Tell Us?
Explore the future of aquatic ecosystems with algae research. This is an in-person program. Masks are optional at all in-person library events. Algae come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from single spherical microscopic cells to forests of giant kelp that can extend up to 60 m. Collectively, this diverse array of aquatic plants fuel…
Nature Night: Wild Horses, Wolves, and Other Wildlife of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation
Registration for this Nature Night will open on February 22nd. Wild Horses, Wolves, and Other Wildlife of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation The Warm Springs Indian Reservation is a vast (640,000 acres) and diverse landscape that is home to a wide range of wildlife. Join Deschutes Land Trust and Austin L. Smith, Jr., the General…
Wild Horses, Wolves, and Other Wildlife of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation: 2023 Nature Nights series
Save the date! The Land Trust is pleased to present its 2023 Nature Nights series. The Warm Springs Indian Reservation is a vast (640,000 acres) and diverse landscape that is home to a wide range of wildlife. Join Deschutes Land Trust and Austin L. Smith, Jr., the General Manager of the Branch of Natural Resources for…
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March Community Pint Nights at Deschutes Brewery
We are the designated nonprofit beneficiary for Deschutes Brewery’s Community Pint Nights in March. Join us on Tuesdays in March at the downtown Public House or Tasting Room and Deschutes Brewery will donate $1 from every pint sold to The Environmental Center. Mark your calendars—we hope to see you there! March 7, 14, 21, and…
Solar Geoengineering – Research on solar radiation management technologies
Researchers from Harvard will discuss stratospheric aerosol injection and other technologies they are studying to cool the Earth. Register here!
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ODOT’s Community Charging Rebates Information Session
Are you interested in applying for ODOT’s Community Charging Rebates (CCR)? ODOT has contracted with Forth to provide technical assistance and support to applicants on their journey to installing EV charging. Whether you need basic information about installing and maintaining EV charging stations or assistance with submitting a rebate application – Forth is here to…