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EventsFriday May 09, 2008
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Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project (all day)
info@permaculture.org Wind River Ranch, Las Vegas NM - learn practical solutions for sustainable living: from basics of nature-based design, to natural building, alternative energies use, productive ecologies, food forests and orchards design to rainwater harvesting, community building, alternative economics and more. Through learning outdoors, lecture, video, guest speakers, field trips and hands-on work opportunities gain understanding of permaculture and its applications for personal and community-wide sustainability. With Scott Pittman of Permaculture Institute. Early bird registration until March 25th, last day to register is April 23rd – more information at www.permaculture.org (all day)
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Hike an unroaded section of California’s north coast and observe the state’s fourth largest seabird colony, foraging seabirds, migrating gray whales, a rookery for the threatened Steller’s sea lion, and the mouth $40 Saturday May 10, 2008
(all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project (all day)
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Hike an unroaded section of California’s north coast and observe the state’s fourth largest seabird colony, foraging seabirds, migrating gray whales, a rookery for the threatened Steller’s sea lion, and the mouth $40 (all day)
see www.earthflow.com or email us permaculture@earthflow.com You are invited to join L. Santoyo, Director of EarthFlow Design Works, and a host of other local and international leaders in the world-wide sustainability movement, and learn how to create the conditions for sustainability to happen. This permaculture design certificate course is offered the second weekends of the month, February - July 2008, in and around Santa Barbara, CA. Complete attendance required for certification, but you are welcome to register for 1 day or 1 module of the course as well. $90/day, $175/weekend or $950 for entire course. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available Indoor See website for details Start: 9:00 am
End: 6:00 pm
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 a.m. Place: 1900 Building, Room 2500A 1900 S.W. Fourth Avenue, Portland, OR Registration fee: $40 (includes instructional materials and lunch) SPIN stands for S-mall P-lot IN-tensive and is a production driven, organic-based system that will help you achieve levels of productivity that go far beyond current home gardening practices. Backyards, front lawns and neighborhood lots can be transformed into a steady and dependable supply of vegetables. $40.00 indoor Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Betty McArdle, 503-797-1842, naturescaping@yahoo.com In Sherwood, site TBA: This introduction gives participants experience with steps involved in planning a project. Learn to measure your property, assess your lifestyle and garden style choice, determine site concept, and make site analyses. Free and open to the public 70% indoor; 30% outdoor Pre-registration required, Pre-requisite - completion of the Basic Naturescaping workshop Start: 9:00 am
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Mary Paetzel was a self-taught botanist, lepidopterist, and solitary $40 Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
Karen Munday at kmunday@audubonportland.org, 503-292-6855 x116, www.audubonportland.org Located at Sellwood Park, just south of Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. Join Audubon Society of Portland, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the City of Portland for a Celebration of Migratory Birds. Free, no regisration required. Outdoors at Sellwood Park with bird walks through Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge Start: 10:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
For more information or to register: 503-636-4112 x102 or register@berrybot.org Take your garden to a new level. Author of celebrated home permaculture guide, Gaia’s Garden, and PSU adjunct professor, Toby Hemenway has devoted many years to the science and art of functional and beautiful landscapes. In this day-long workshop, learn to design natural landscapes that not only produce food and beauty for people, but also shelter birds and beneficial insects, harvest water and preserve biodiversity. Workshop includes: basic principles of ecological landscape design, efficient and pest-resistant garden layout, selecting plants that have many uses, drought-proofing your yard, creating plant communities that work together and conserving energy through careful landscape planning. $50 indoors Sunday May 11, 2008
(all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project (all day)
see www.earthflow.com or email us permaculture@earthflow.com You are invited to join L. Santoyo, Director of EarthFlow Design Works, and a host of other local and international leaders in the world-wide sustainability movement, and learn how to create the conditions for sustainability to happen. This permaculture design certificate course is offered the second weekends of the month, February - July 2008, in and around Santa Barbara, CA. Complete attendance required for certification, but you are welcome to register for 1 day or 1 module of the course as well. $90/day, $175/weekend or $950 for entire course. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available Indoor See website for details Monday May 12, 2008
(all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Start: 6:00 pm
Don Tarbutton 503-235-8432 Find out about a new urban Ecovillage/Cohousing condominium forming in NE Portland. Come meet current members and the developer, learn about our plans for intentional, multigenerational, multicultural, sustainable community, and how you can become a part of it. Free Indoor Tuesday May 13, 2008
(all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Start: 9:16 am
For more information, contact Kate Chester, Community Relations Manager, PCC Sylvania, at (503) 977-8233. Spring cleaning to celebrate Mother Earth: PCC Sylvania hosts first-ever ‘E-Cycling’ drive Spring cleaning just got easier, thanks to PCC Sylvania’s “E-Cycling” drive with Bear eCycling and GreenWall Industries, to make recycling old electronics equipment fun, convenient and cost-efficient!Mark the calendar for Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be held at the Sylvania campus, 12000 SW 49th Ave., in the P10 parking lot (follow signs and volunteer flaggers). free for first 500 monitors or TV's outdoors Bring old electronics that you would like to recycle. Wednesday May 14, 2008
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Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Thursday May 15, 2008
(all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
erica.maharg@oregon.sierraclub.org Changing the Paradigm: The Transition from Uneconomic Growth to Sustainability When: May 15th Third Thursday Who: Rob Dietz, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Free Indoor Just you and your friends Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
For more information, contact Who: Speakers: Elaine Ingham, Soil Food Web, Inc. (owner/researcher) free Friday May 16, 2008
(all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project (all day)
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Come spend the weekend celebrating spring with expert naturalists. Courses offered include Birding Deer Creek Center, Birding by Ear, Botany for Beginners, Ferns in the Field and more! Stay at the beautiful Deer Creek Ranch in Selma OR, enjoy free evening presentations on owls and bird song. varies outdoor Saturday May 17, 2008
(all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project (all day)
Start: 12:00 am
End: 12:00 am
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Come spend the weekend celebrating spring with expert naturalists. Courses offered include Birding Deer Creek Center, Birding by Ear, Botany for Beginners, Ferns in the Field and more! Stay at the beautiful Deer Creek Ranch in Selma OR, enjoy free evening presentations on owls and bird song. varies outdoor Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon SOLV Outreach Specialist brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 Help restore Hall Creek in Beaverton as part of SOLV’s Down By The Riverside event on Saturday, May 17. The event starts at 9 am and will be over by 1 pm. Volunteers will be removing invasive, non-native plants and mulching. By volunteering you will be helping improve habitat for birds, small mammals, and fish in this important urban stream. Free Outdoor Appropriate foot and outwear. Enthusiasm. (all day)
see www.earthflow.com or email us at permaculture@earthflow.com You are invited to join L. Santoyo, Director of EarthFlow Design Works, and a host of other local and international leaders in the world-wide sustainability movement, and learn how to create the conditions for sustainability to happen. This permaculture design certificate course is offered the third weekends of the month, February - July 2008, in and around Santa Cruz, CA. Complete attendance required for certification, but you are welcome to register for 1 day or 1 module of the course as well. $90/day, $175/weekend or $950 for entire course. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available Indoor See website for details Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Robin Smith Enjoy the sun with the Hillsboro Development Commission and SOLV in a planting party this Saturday, May 17 from 9 am to 1 pm. Tenants and local volunteers will plant and landscape around a the Sierra West apartment complex in Hillsboro. FREE! Outdoor Water, sunblock! Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Ray Pratt, City of Portland This Saturday, May 17 from 9 am to 1 pm join the City of Portland and SOLV to clean up the Willamette River in Portland from the Fremont to Sellwood Bridges. We will be breaking the river up in sections and assigning each to an interested resident, business, or volunteer to manage and pick up trash. The garbage bags will be picked up by boaters and transferred to a barge with dumpsters that will be traveling up and down the river. Since this cleanup is taking place along the Willamette be cautious working along the banks and watch out for homeless camps and poison oak. Bring your OWN DRINKING WATER, snacks, litter grabber, work boots, camera and if in a boat, your own PFD. Free! Outdoor Water, sunblock, litter grabbers, boots, camera Start: 9:00 am
Meghan McGuire office - (503) 808-2695 cell - (541) 840-9906 mmcguire@natlforests.org Hi Dirters!
Free! Outdoor Start: 9:00 am
Courtney Vengarick It is supposed to be gorgeous on Saturday. Why not be outside? Invasive species threaten to push out other plants and animals all across Oregon. Garlic Mustard is one of the many invasive species taking over Oregon's landscape and it is making an appearance at the Berry Botanic Garden in SW Portland. If uncontrolled it may overwhelm this lovely plant-filled oasis. Join volunteers this Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm at the Garden at 11505 SW Summerville Ave, 97219. For more information contact Courtney Vengarick at courtney.vengarick@berrybot.org or 503-636-4112 x105. Directions to the garden can be found at http://www.berrybot.org/administration/directions.html. With the forecast for warm weather this weekend, please bring your own water to this event, preferably in a re-usable bottle. Free Outdoor water Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:03 pm
Brett Lyon Want to take advantage of the sunny weather forecast this weekend? Concerned about the spread of invasive species in Oregon? Then come out to Metro’s Native Plant Center in Tualatin on Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm where volunteers will remove old fence line, invasive blackberry, mulch and weed around rare or threatened native plants and perform maintenance at the center. These native plants or their seeds will be used in restoration projects on Metro’s natural areas throughout the region. With the forecast for warm weather we are asking volunteers to bring their own water to the event. For more information visit: http://www.solv.org/programs/event_details.asp?eventID=13546 or contact Brett Lyon at SOLV at 503-844-9571 or brett@solv.org. To register contact Brett or visit: http://www.solv.org/programs/forms/form_dbr_registration.asp?EventID=13546&EventDt=5/17/2008&eventName=Invasives Removal at Metros Native Plant Center Free Outdoor Water, sunblock! Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
For more information or to register: 503-636-4112 x102 or register@berrybot.org A teacher of basketry for over 15 years, Kim Black will guide us through a modern exploration of a traditional Native American craft. Take home your own handmade pine needle bowl. Extra supplies and instruction materials available for purchase. $40 Space is limited. Registration required. indoors Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon SOLV Outreach Specialist 503-844-9571 brett@solv.org Help restore the Sunrise Wetland across from Clackamas High School in Clackamas as part of SOLV’s Down By The Riverside event on Saturday, May 17. The event starts at 9 am and will be over by 1 pm. Volunteers will be removing invasive, non-native plants and mulching. By volunteering you will help improve habitat for birds, small mammals, and fish in this important urban waterway. Free Outdoor Appropriate foot and outwear. Enthusiasm. Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon SOLV Outreach Specialist brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 Help restore the Beacon Hill Wetland and Johnson Creek Watershed in Beaverton as part of SOLV’s Down By The Riverside event on Saturday, May 17. Plantings start at 9 am and end by 1 pm. Volunteers will be removing invasive, non-native plants and mulching. free outdoor Appropriate foot and outwear. Enthusiasm. (all day)
kyla@redirectguide.com Join us at the Greener Homes and Gardens Expo on May 17/18 and become more self-sustained in your garden by attending free seminars about making your own soil amendments, caring for urban chickens, managing small–scale beekeeping, harvesting rainwater, incorporating pet-friendly gardening techniques, utilizing permaculture practices and more. $3 suggested donation to benefit Habitat for Humanity ReStore At the Portland Expo Center (all day)
Tom Costello, Portland Audubon Society 503 292 6855 Portland Audubon's annual Native Plant sale is on Saturday May 17 and Sunday May 18. Over 100 species of Oregon wildflowers, shrubs, and trees will be available to enhance your yard. 10AM to 4PM at 5151 NW Cornell Road. Free speakers at 1 PM and 2 PM Saturday. Free Under cover, wheelchair accessible (all day)
katieh@redirectguide.com The ReDirect Guide is presenting our 6th annual home & garden show, the Greener Homes & Gardens Expo. This year's show will be more exciting and action-packed than ever before. Over 100 different exhibitors will be offering environmentally-friendly ideas and solutions for your home & garden, but that's just the beginning! This year there will be hands-on workshops and seminars for you to learn new things, a Meet the Candidates Environmental Forum, a Seed Swap and Start Market, an Environmental Film Festival in a virtual drive-in with alternative vehicles and electric cars, a 411 Eco-Info Booth for all home & garden project questions, a Creative & Custom Bike Competition, children's activities, live music, food, and more! Come on up, and have a full day of fun and exciting things to do! And the entire show is a benefit for the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, so you get to help families get into new houses while you're having fun, learning, dancing and eating. Does it get any better than that? $3 suggested donation to benefit Portland Habitat for Humanity ReStore Indoors, accessible, convenient to public transportation, bike parking available Sunday May 18, 2008
(all day)
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project (all day)
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Come spend the weekend celebrating spring with expert naturalists. Courses offered include Birding Deer Creek Center, Birding by Ear, Botany for Beginners, Ferns in the Field and more! Stay at the beautiful Deer Creek Ranch in Selma OR, enjoy free evening presentations on owls and bird song. varies outdoor (all day)
see www.earthflow.com or email us at permaculture@earthflow.com You are invited to join L. Santoyo, Director of EarthFlow Design Works, and a host of other local and international leaders in the world-wide sustainability movement, and learn how to create the conditions for sustainability to happen. This permaculture design certificate course is offered the third weekends of the month, February - July 2008, in and around Santa Cruz, CA. Complete attendance required for certification, but you are welcome to register for 1 day or 1 module of the course as well. $90/day, $175/weekend or $950 for entire course. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available Indoor See website for details (all day)
kyla@redirectguide.com Join us at the Greener Homes and Gardens Expo on May 17/18 and become more self-sustained in your garden by attending free seminars about making your own soil amendments, caring for urban chickens, managing small–scale beekeeping, harvesting rainwater, incorporating pet-friendly gardening techniques, utilizing permaculture practices and more. $3 suggested donation to benefit Habitat for Humanity ReStore At the Portland Expo Center (all day)
Tom Costello, Portland Audubon Society 503 292 6855 Portland Audubon's annual Native Plant sale is on Saturday May 17 and Sunday May 18. Over 100 species of Oregon wildflowers, shrubs, and trees will be available to enhance your yard. 10AM to 4PM at 5151 NW Cornell Road. Free speakers at 1 PM and 2 PM Saturday. Free Under cover, wheelchair accessible (all day)
katieh@redirectguide.com The ReDirect Guide is presenting our 6th annual home & garden show, the Greener Homes & Gardens Expo. This year's show will be more exciting and action-packed than ever before. Over 100 different exhibitors will be offering environmentally-friendly ideas and solutions for your home & garden, but that's just the beginning! This year there will be hands-on workshops and seminars for you to learn new things, a Meet the Candidates Environmental Forum, a Seed Swap and Start Market, an Environmental Film Festival in a virtual drive-in with alternative vehicles and electric cars, a 411 Eco-Info Booth for all home & garden project questions, a Creative & Custom Bike Competition, children's activities, live music, food, and more! Come on up, and have a full day of fun and exciting things to do! And the entire show is a benefit for the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, so you get to help families get into new houses while you're having fun, learning, dancing and eating. Does it get any better than that? $3 suggested donation to benefit Portland Habitat for Humanity ReStore Indoors, accessible, convenient to public transportation, bike parking available Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
For more information or to register: 503-636-4112 x102 or register@berrybot.org Ethnobotany is the study of how humans use plants. In this entertaining workshop naturalist Deb Scrivens will share her knowledge of plants traditionally used for food, medicine, baskets and many other uses. $15; $10 Children 12 and under. Space is limited; registration required. indoors/outdoors Monday May 19, 2008
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Brett Lyon brett@solv.org 503-844-9571 x 332 http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species. FREE outdoor Depends on project (all day)
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Refresh and hone your skills in keying and field recognition of grasses found in southwestern Oregon. Learn to recognize introduced and native local grasses by sight or by checking a few distinctive $90 outdoor Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Join us Monday May 19 for one of Portland's favorite topics - humanure - from a fresh perspective! Laura Dvorak will share her presentation entitled R.E.S.O.U.R.C.E., (Reclaiming Everyone's Soil: Opportunity to Understand Relational Cycles of Ecology). It represents an ethnographic inquiry of composting toilets in Portland (as related to watershed restoration/education and cultural perceptions), and a brief overview of appropriate technologies and innovations in other countries. It is an exploration of the current human condition- the environmental crisis and spiritual catharsis- framed around the misunderstood and wasted resource of human excreta. free, bring a dish if possible indoor Tuesday May 20, 2008
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For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org Refresh and hone your skills in keying and field recognition of grasses found in southwestern Oregon. Learn to recognize introduced and native local grasses by sight or by checking a few distinctive $90 outdoor Start: 6:00 pm
Don Tarbutton 503-235-8432 Find out about a new urban Ecovillage/Cohousing condominium forming in NE Portland. Come meet current members and the developer, learn about our plans for intentional, multigenerational, multicultural, sustainable community, and how you can become a part of it. Free Indoor Wednesday May 21, 2008
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To Volunteer: contact Jesse Rosenbluth at (503) 281-1132 or jesse.rosenbluth@columbiaslough.org Explorando el Columbia Slough! To All Volunteers Seeking Summer Excitement: Do you: It's Free!  |
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