The People vs. Agent Orange: virtual screening premier
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The People vs. Agent Orange: virtual screening premier
Please join in the nationwide virtual screening premier of The People vs. Agent Orange, March 5-18, 2021. Synopsis: The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, playgrounds… It wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed…
Osher Lifelong Learning Open House
Join OLLI-UO From Your Home for a Week of Program Offerings! OLLI-UO is now virtual! They offer thought-provoking lectures, discussions, and study groups for adults 50 and better. Their classes are offered via Zoom right now, and invite you to join for a sample of their programming. Attend one session—or all! Monday, March 15–Friday, March…
Rise Above Plastic Pollution Day
This year we’re celebrating Rise Above Plastic Pollution Day on March 15th! Join us to celebrate and rally around solutions to the plastic crisis and hear from Oregon leaders like State Representative Janeen Sollman and Senator Jeff Merkley on the importance of taking action to reduce plastic pollution. In 2019, when Governor Kate Brown first…
How to Go Solar webinar
As we enjoy some extra warm and sunny weather here in Oregon, learn more about how to start your journey towards solar energy! At the How to Go Solar workshop, you'll learn everything you need to know to feel confident adding solar to your home or business. Lauren Williamsenviro
Webcast: Inside the (virtual) Oregon Legislative session
Every other year the Oregon Legislature convenes a “regular session” - meeting for five months to consider thousands of bills on hundreds of topics. The pandemic has turned this year's “regular” session into anything but a regular affair, with the capital closed and almost all legislative business switched to a remote environment. The silver lining…
OSU Science Pub: Climate Change Impacts Around (the) Bend
March 17, 2021 | 6-7:30 P.M. | Virtual Event CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS AROUND (THE) BEND Larry O’Neill, Associate Professor, OSU College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; OSU Climatologist Larger and more frequent wildland fires, smoke severe enough to threaten air quality, and drought are signs of how climate change is changing the U.S. West. But how…
Nature Night-Reciprocity with the Natural World
Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer for a talk on our connections with the natural world. Drawing upon both scientific and indigenous knowledge, Dr. Kimmerer will explore the idea of reciprocity, how we might use the gifts of the Earth, and the responsibilities that humans have to support the mutual thriving…
A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky, Featuring Dr. Henrietta Mann
Registration is now open for webinar "A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives of Earth and Sky," featuring Dr. Henrietta Mann. Dr. Henrietta Mann, Tsetsehestaestse (Cheyenne) was Director/Professor in Native American Studies at the University of Montana, Missoula for some 28 years. In 2000 she became the first individual to occupy the Katz Endowed Chair in…
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…
Global Climate Strike: Central Oregon
Join youth and environmental groups locally and across the world in the Global Climate Strike to demand action on the climate crisis! Climate change has only gotten worse. In the past years of inaction and denial, the crisis has become more severe than ever before and is already affecting our lives and communities. With a…
Springtime Bird Walk
Central Oregon Womxn in Conservation will be ringing in springtime with some downtown birding. Join at Drake Park amphitheater for a physically-distanced, masks-on stroll to hang out with some local feathered friends. Central Oregon Womxn in Conservation welcome birders of all skill levels and backgrounds. If you have a pair of binoculars, bring them. If…
Virtual Lecture: Equinox and the Seasons
Celebrate the spring equinox with Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory while learning about the seasons and humanity’s ties to the Earth’s relationship with the Sun. Discover how ancient cultures created calendars and marked significant dates such as solstices and equinoxes, and how modern society studies seasonal changes and natural cycles of the Earth and Sun.