The mission of Spreading Roots, Spring Forth (SRSF) is to strengthen the connections between people and the environment.

SRSF believes that education facilitates community dialogue and action. SRSF makes timely information and resources on the local environment available and accessible to all members of the greater Portland area. SRSF serves to encourage people from all walks of life to learn and engage in environmental activities that are both enjoyable and beneficial to their local environment and communities.

Everybody wants clean air to breathe and water to drink. Everyone has the power to make a change in their lives that will affect the outcome of the whole. By exposing people to a variety of different environmental groups, issues, and activities, SRSF hopes to inspire people to believe that real possibilities of change exist so that we can live life in a more sustainable manner as a society.

To this end, SRSF educates the general public and involved community groups by providing exceptional access to information and environmental activities taking place in and around the Portland metropolitan area. We promote these activities in an inclusive and non-confrontational manner. We hope that by publicizing a wide variety of activities, people can feel free to participate at whatever level is most comfortable for them. We want to reach out and encourage people who want to be more active, but are not sure how. Additionally, we place great importance on strengthening and supporting the community of activists already working on particular issues like salmon, forests, watershed health, energy, food sustainability, globalization, transportation, natural building, etc.

Thank you for your interest. By choosing to support our work, you support growing our collective awareness of the interconnectedness between humans and other aspects of the world in which we live.