The 2020 Green Schools Conference & Expo (GSCE) will be held March 2-4 in downtown Portland. GSCE is the premier education and engagement opportunity for leaders and advocates who are passionate about the future of healthy, sustainable schools throughout the country and around the world. It is...
In the overlapping space between two ecosystems, an abundance of nutrients and new life emerges. Inspired by this natural phenomenon, the Elevating Impact Summit looks to the peripheries of our practices for ingenuity and resilience. On Friday February 7, explore social innovation across...
We, The World’s Monthly Online Interactive Welcome to WE! Show Hosted by Karen Palmer and Rick Ulfik Climate Collaboratory: Artivists for the Planet Panel Discussion and Online Broadcast Tuesday December 17th at 6PM Eastern Time (USA) Watch LIVE at: https://www.facebook.com/TheWeCampaign...
UN Update with Peter Yeo On November 21 at 5 p.m., join Peter Yeo, President of the Better World Campaign, to hear his insight on how the UN funding crisis is unfolding, and what UN advocates can do to take action. As a founding member of the UN, the United States plays a vital role in promoting...
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, WorldOregon’s International Speaker Series is one of the nation’s premier platforms for international affairs. For two decades, the series has put you in the room with the global leaders, visionaries, and inspiring voices that are changing our world. And this year...
The Center for Diversity & the Environment is honored and pleased to announce that through generous funding from Metro Nature and Neighborhood and The Collins Foundation we are offering another Environment 2042 Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders cohort in 2020. Our E42 Emerging Leaders...
The United Nations has declared climate change as the defining issue of our time. You are invited to come learn about taking Climate Action. Join Keynote Speaker, Gillian Wilson, Communications Associate at UNA-USA, Washington, D.C., to explore how to address climate change through an advocacy...
Do you see the street intersection paintings around town, benches made of earth, or food forests? This event will explore how communities design and install the projects through the City Repair Project. This is a great event if you want to do such a project in your community or if you want to...
“Ghost Net Landscape” by Emily Miller opens October 7th at the Kathrin Cawein Gallery. The collaborative exhibit will feature Emily Miller’s finished sculptures created from plastic marine debris (“ghost net”) as well as over 1,000 pounds of unprocessed fishing rope and net. For four weeks,...
Hosteling International USA, United Nations Association Portland, the Jubitz Family Foundation’s War Prevention Initiative, the Rotarian Action Group for Peace, and the Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN) are co-hosting this year’s International Day of Peace...
This September, Global Citizen — in partnership with National Geographic, Procter & Gamble, and RadicalMedia — is launching an unprecedented, six-part documentary series featuring artists and activists such as Pharrell Williams, Usher, Hugh Jackman, Rachel Brosnahan, Common, and Darren Criss....
For two decades, Bark has worked to create opportunities for people to experience the forest firsthand and to learn about the flora, fauna, rivers & meadows, as well as the threats posed by industrial logging. Bark’s boots-on-the-ground approach strengthens our advocacy and legal tactics and...