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My name is Zeratha Young and I am a graduate student through Goddard College’s ‘Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities’ program. My area of focus is whole systems design and participatory sustainable development. Currently I am working on a thesis project which will result in a participatory public ecological art restoration installation’. The installation itself will serve as a visual, interactive, educational, restoration focused whole systems map of the Portland area bioregion including components of social, natural and economic systems and capital. It is titled: Art as a Transformative Environmental Education Process: A Participatory Community and Systems Based Approach to Place Based Ecological Art Installations and Restorations.”

description:  It's that time of year! It's getting COLD.

Luckily, Community Energy Project is starting up their weatherization classes again. Learn how to save energy in your home by altering behavior and using specific materials to stop drafts. Do it yourself!

description:  It's that time of year! It's getting COLD.

Luckily, Community Energy Project is starting up their weatherization classes again. Learn how to save energy in your home by altering behavior and using specific materials to stop drafts. Do it yourself!

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When you garden with native plants, natural landscapes, and healthy gardening practices, you use less water and fewer chemicals, reducing runoff and pollution.  This class will help you to make informed choices about what you plant, where best to plant it and how to care for it.  Native plants attract birds and butterflies and require less time and energy for their care.  You’ll receive a free workbook and native plant to take home.  Rain or shine, we’ll be going outside to study plants in the garden.  

description: The ultimate revenge against insect pests is for them to be eaten by a plant!  Scott Vergara will show you how to create a suitable (and beautiful) habitat for growing our native cobra lilies and sundews, as well as Venus flytraps, Sarracenias (hardy pitchers) and other intriguing insectivorous plants.

description: Hiker, backpacker and award-winning author Douglas Lorain shares his decades of experience through a colorful slide show captured on trips in the Pacific Northwest.  Many outdoor lovers are unaware that the Northwest is home to some outstanding displays of autumn foliage – you just have to know where (and when) to find them.  Discover some of our area’s best kept secrets--where to see hillsides covered with quaking aspens, western and alpine larches, huckleberries, vine and bigleaf maples, and other fall-color specialists, all waiting for you and your camera to enjoy.

 

description: Free-form trough construction produces a planter in ANY form you wish with a rugged, organic finish.  Trough planters are molded by packing a planting medium to the desired conformation and shaping the trough mix inside this mold.  Instructor Ginny Maffitt will help you create the shape that is perfect for your garden.

 

description: Patios in garden rooms, the art of paths, the functional grace of a well-placed wall—what are your hardscape desires?  Award-winner Woody Woodhead of Woody’s Custom Landscaping has creative answers to your construction questions.  Materials, techniques, sources and tools, this class will cover it all.  Bring beauty and structure to your garden!

 

description: Work party to remove invasive plants, develop trails, build steps and other much-needed maintenance and organization projects.

 

Students, take note: this is the perfect opportunity to complete required community service hours.

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Work party to remove invasive plants, develop trails, build steps and other much-needed maintenance and organization projects.

Students, take note: this is the perfect opportunity to complete required community service hours.