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.

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

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

This THURSDAY May 22nd @ 1pm- Take a Late Lunch and…
 
Take a Stand Against Global Warming, Liquefied Natural Gas(LNG)
& Increasing Oregon’s dependence on Foreign Fossil Fuels!
 
 Join the Protest at NW Natural’s Annual Shareholders meeting!
NW Natural Offices (220 NW 2nd Ave in Portland)

NW Natural is supporting plans to more than double gas imports into Oregon through the NorthernStar LNG project and NW Natural’s Palomar Pipeline and THIS THURSDAY is your chance to let the people who own NW Natural what you think of these actions.
 

http://www.firstunitarianportland.org/calendar-main/copy3_of_community-for-earth-film-series/?searchterm=None 

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.