Events

This is the largest annual solar conference in the region with dozens of exhibits and expert speakers. One will come away with a wealth of information on the nuts and bolts of solar energy technology, the industry as a whole, it's role in our society, and the costs and benefits for Oregon residents.

$12 each day

http://www.nwsolarexpo.com/

The third annual Ready. Safe. Go. free training conference and volunteer recognition event is being held on Saturday, April 26 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm at Portland Community College’s (PCC) Cascade Campus in North Portland.

This annual training is a partnership between the Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) Crime Prevention Program and the Portland Office of Emergency Management (POEM) and is sponsored by Portland Community College (PCC). Twenty training workshops will be offered on a variety of crime prevention and disaster preparedness topics, which appeal to both the experienced and beginning public safety volunteer.

As part of the First Unitarian Church of Portland's Community for Earth Film Series, they are showing the movie "Crude Awakening".

www.oilcrashmovie.com

OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.

As food prices soar, salmonella stalks the supermarket, and fresh and local claim their place at the table, city dwellers are getting back to the land by opening their back doors. With visions of Victory Gardens and sugar snap peas in their heads, urbanites are rediscovering how to turn their lawns and landscapes into larders.

Interested in growing your own food? Or growing MORE food?
Join me in attending this free presentation from Metro.

Glen Andresen, the presenter, has many varieties of dwarf fruit trees in his backyard and raises honey bees! Register for the presentation by email:
education@rebuildingcenter.org

See you May 13th at the ReBuilding Center!
3625 N. Mississippi Ave., Portland, OR 97227

Kaarin Thompson
OSU Master Gardener

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NW Vegetable Gardening: How to keep your garden bountiful, sustainable, and healthy for you and the earth.

With Glen Andresen, Metro Natural Gardening Program Educator

Tuesday May 13th 6:30-8:30pm

Free; optional donation to support The ReBuilding Center's Education program

This presentation will include many of the following topics:

-Organic vegetable gardening
-Converting lawn to raised vegetable beds
-How to incorporate inexpensive and reused materials for your raised beds
-What healthy soil is and how to get it

The three Liquefied Natural Gas terminals and pipelines planned for Oregon would devastate Oregon’s rivers, farms and forests. Annually they would emit as much greenhouses gases as 11 million cars.

Learn more about these projects, how they threaten renewable energy, and how we are going to stop them!  Please join Oregon Sec. of State Bill Bradbury, Oregon’s leading advocate working to fight global warming, and lead activists, farmers and others working to protect Oregon and Washington from LNG.

www.columbiariverkeeper.org  or 541-387-3030