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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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Sprout Film Festival
Please join us to celebrate the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) community with an afternoon/evening of film. The Tower Theatre and Full Access present the Sprout Film Festival, a series of short films to highlight creatives from the I/DD community. Sprout Film hosts the largest and most diverse collection of films featuring people with intellectual…
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Green Energy Series #7: Vehicle-to-Grid and Vehicle-to-Home
Green Energy Series #7: Vehicle-to-Grid and Vehicle-to-Home
Solar Oregon presents a free webinar on vehicle to home and vehicle to grid power for our Green Energy Series. Register here!
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CIF Info Session (In Person/Virtual)
CIF Info Session (In Person/Virtual)
Do you have an idea for reducing waste in your neighborhood, workplace, school, your favorite park or restaurant, or other community space, but aren’t sure how to get started? Apply for the Rethink Waste Community Innovation Fund! The Environmental Center’s Rethink Waste Project will provide a total of $40,000* awards to individuals, businesses, or community…
The Whys and Hows of Food Waste Reduction and Composting (Bend)
The Whys and Hows of Food Waste Reduction and Composting (Bend)
Learn why food waste matters, how to reduce food waste, strategies for composting, and pros and cons of various at home compost bins. Open to adults and youth, composting beginners and pros! Attendees will be entered into a drawing for an at home composting system. Register here.
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May Green Drinks: Shakti Farm Design
May Green Drinks: Shakti Farm Design
We’re excited to co-host Green Drinks with Shakti Farm Design at Three Rivers School in Sunriver! Shakti Farm Design is committed to creating a sustainable food-growing world for the community. They recently built a Greenhouse for Three Rivers School in Sunriver with a Grant provided by Central Oregon Health Council. Join us to hear how…
Spring Farmer/Rancher Networking Night
Spring Farmer/Rancher Networking Night
Growing season is upon us, come join us to celebrate the coming of summer and the beginning of Local Season! HDFFA invites Central Oregon producers to come together at Schillings Garden Market for conversation, networking, and celebration. This event is for practicing farmers and ranchers in Central Oregon to network and build relationships with each…
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Book Presentation & Signing with William L. Sullivan
Book Presentation & Signing with William L. Sullivan
Author and hiking guru William L. Sullivan takes us on a tour of new or dramatically changed trails in the area between Bend, Salem, and Eugene, featured in the newly released edition of his guidebook, “100 Hikes: Central Oregon Cascades.” Included are reopened trails impacted by fires, alternatives to trails requiring permits, and new hikes…
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Food Justice at the Intersection of Food, Politics, Art, and Culture
Food Justice at the Intersection of Food, Politics, Art, and Culture
How can we create a world in which all Americans, regardless of income, geography, or race have access to healthful, fresh, affordable, and culturally appropriate food? In this interactive talk, Bryant Terry will take us on a journey of his more than two-decade career as a chef, author, publisher, and community builder committed to creating…
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…
Our Plate is Political: Using the Table as a Tool for Social Justice
Our Plate is Political: Using the Table as a Tool for Social Justice
In this lively cooking demonstration, Bryant Terry will show us how easy it is to make delicious, vegetable-forward meals that not only satisfy us but also serve as a catalyst for growing the food justice movement. After this event, Bryant Terry will be giving a keynote presentation -- Food Justice at the Intersection of Food, Politics,…
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Closing the Food Loop: How to Make Composting Work for Your Restaurant
Closing the Food Loop: How to Make Composting Work for Your Restaurant
Each year, an estimated 25 to 40 percent of all food produced or imported for consumption in the United States is never eaten. Of that wasted food, 40 percent is estimated to come from consumer-facing businesses— like restaurants, event venues, etc. And all that wasted food means wasted money, by some estimates as much as…
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Talk & Walk Clinic for Noxious Weeds and Native Plants
Talk & Walk Clinic for Noxious Weeds and Native Plants
Join the Crooked River Weed Management Area for a FREE Talk and Walk Clinic. Topics include: Invasive Plant Identification Weeds vs Native Plants Control Methods Emerging Plant Invaders Bring a chair and a lunch and come join us for this clinic!
Bending the Curve: Pathways Out of Houselessness
Bending the Curve: Pathways Out of Houselessness
Across Central Oregon, a robust system of services are in place to meet the needs of those experiencing houselessness. Yet there are gaps in this system, and many fall through these cracks. Join for a presentation and extended Q & A with Cheyenne Purrington, Deschutes County Houseless Response Director and Eliza Wilson Director of J…
TED Ed Educator Talk
TED Ed Educator Talk
i4Education is proud to partner with Hayden Homes and TED Masterclass for Education to reimagine professional development for educators. This professional learning program will help schools and districts surface and celebrate their best ideas. Now, more than ever, we need your help to center and listen to educators in order to reimagine what education could be. Learn more…
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COTA Trail Love
COTA Trail Love
Trail Love is a community event that COTA hosts to gather folks to come out for a day of collective trail work. The riding season has just started and the moisture in the soil allows for great trail work conditions. Our goal is to get 100+ volunteers who are passionate about trails get a ton…
Kristen Jokinen—author of Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina
Kristen Jokinen—author of Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina
Meet the Author: Kristen Jokinen for a conversation and signing of her new book Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina! After party at Crux Fermentation Project.
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Introduction to Growing Food in the High Desert
Introduction to Growing Food in the High Desert
Spring is here! Get ready to garden and join our Growing Food Class. In this class, you will learn how to prepare your garden and start planting. Topics will include soils and soil amendments, bed preparation, starting seeds at home, direct seeding in your garden,transplanting seedlings and navigating challenges . This is a great class…
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Raise the Deschutes Seminar – Many Voices, One Plan: The Future of Water in the Upper Deschutes
Raise the Deschutes Seminar – Many Voices, One Plan: The Future of Water in the Upper Deschutes
From the Cascades to Lake Billy Chinook, the Deschutes River has been over-tapped for decades. Fish, farmers, and families all depend on water supplies that are impacted by drought and climate change. The Deschutes Basin Water Collaborative, a consortium of more than 45 stakeholders, is working to accelerate funding, market-based solutions, and implementation of water…
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The Whys and Hows of Food Waste and Composting (Redmond)
The Whys and Hows of Food Waste and Composting (Redmond)
Learn why food waste matters, how to reduce food waste, strategies for composting, and pros and cons of various at home compost bins. Open to adults and youth, composting beginners and pros! Attendees will be entered into a drawing for an at home composting system. Register here!
Cashing in on Clean Energy: Save Money and the Climate
Cashing in on Clean Energy: Save Money and the Climate
In 2022, Congress passed the largest climate investment in our history with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which included what is now the Affordable Clean Energy Plan. It passed because people like you never stop fighting for what we need - a clean energy future that centers racial justice and equity. It will be successful…
Wild Life: love is a force of Nature Screening
Wild Life: love is a force of Nature Screening
Wild Life: love is a force of Nature Screening If you’ve been on this earth for a while, hopefully you’ve made a few of those truly great friends. Friends who are like family and continue to do things that inspire and challenge you. Kristine Tompkins is one of those friends for us. Kris started her…
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Sense of Place Webinar Series: Indigenous Perspectives of Earth, Water and Sky – Inside Indigenous Classrooms
Sense of Place Webinar Series: Indigenous Perspectives of Earth, Water and Sky – Inside Indigenous Classrooms
We are delighted to announce the 12th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky – Inside Indigenous Classrooms, featuring NASA EZIE Mission Program Manager Dr. Nelofar Mosavi, Indigenous students, Maverick teachers, Lego robotics and coding, and more! This webinar will take place May 25th, 2023, at 3:30…
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VIRTUAL Workshop: Supporting Gender Expansive and Transgender Youth
VIRTUAL Workshop: Supporting Gender Expansive and Transgender Youth
The TransActive Gender Project is based in Portland and provides a holistic range of services and expertise to empower transgender and gender expansive children, youth, and their families to live healthy lives that are free of discrimination. Workshop participants will gain a better understanding of gender identity development, cultural gender myths, and stereotypes and their impact on…
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Energy Efficiency and Smart Electrical Panels
Energy Efficiency and Smart Electrical Panels
Free educational event highlighting the innovative smart electric panel. Join us for a panel discussion and presentation.
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Green Energy Series #8: Batteries and Fire Code
Green Energy Series #8: Batteries and Fire Code
Solar Oregon is presenting a Green Energy series - free talks for those interested in learning more about the technologies and design of zero energy buildings. Solar Oregon is a non-profit educational organization leading the way to a clean energy future. These one-hour seminars will explore solar, energy storage, and energy-efficient equipment and design. Envisioned…