Week of Events
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…