active transportation

Restoration Bike Tour at Johnson Creek!

Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 9:30am to 11:30am
Johnson Creek Watershed Counci
Address: 
Foster Road between SE 104th and SE 111th avenues
Portland, OR 97266
United States

Restoration Bike Tour

Email courtney@jcwc.org to save your spot! Just 8 spots left!

Come be a part of the fun restoration bike tour in outer Southeast Portland with JCWC Executive Director, Daniel Newberry!

-Meet at the Foster Floodplain Natural Area Located on Foster Road between SE 104th and SE 111th avenues
-Saturday, Sept 17th, 9:30-11:30am

-Tour length: 2 hours.

-Bicycle route: 3 miles each way on the Springwater Trail in outer Southeast Portland. Stops to learn about local ecology at several past restoration sites on Johnson Creek and Powell Butte.

-(Optional after-bike fun) Join us for lunch at Cartlandia, we'll bike the 2 miles there and continue our discussion.
Hope to see you there!

Contact Name: 
Courtney
Contact Phone: 
5036527477
Contact Email: 
courtney@jcwc.org
Venue Details: 
Meet at the Foster Floodplain Natural Area Located on Foster Road between SE 104th and SE 111th avenues

Oregon Walkways: Connect the Park Blocks on the Green Loop

Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
The Green Loop, Better Block PDX, Oregon Walks

On Saturday August 20th from 10 – 4PM, Better Block PDX and Oregon Walks are co-sponsoring the “Oregon Walkways: Connect the Park Blocks on the Green Loop” public event along SW Park Avenue between NW Hoyt and SW Market, demonstrating what the Green Loop might feel like through downtown Portland.

Feel free to contact Volunteer.betterblockpdx@gmail.com if you are interested in learning more, helping out, have any ideas, or have any other questions!  Also, feel free to share and invite others to the planning meetings and the event!

Come enjoy a stroll through downtown on Park Avenue, learn about the history of planning and transportation of Portland’s Central City, engage with local businesses, merchants, entertainers and organizations along the route!  See the latest from the Loop PDX Design Competition winners!  Fun for the whole family!

Contact Name: 
Mark Raggett
Contact Email: 
Mark.Raggett@portlandoregon.gov
Venue: 
SW Park Avenue between NW Hoyt and SW Market

EcoChallenge 2016: October 14-28

Friday, October 14, 2016 - 8:45am to Friday, October 28, 2016 - 8:45am
Northwest Earth Institute

EcoChallenge gives you the tools and inspiration to reduce your impact on the planet and contribute to a healthy, vibrant, and sustainable future -- while engaging the people in your life and having fun in the process. Choose a Challenge that stretches your comfort zone, stick with it for two weeks, and make a difference for you, your community and the planet!

We invite you to engage your organization, community, workplace, or business in the EcoChallenge this fall -- it's fun, free and makes a big impact.

The 2016 EcoChallenge runs from October 14-28. What will your Challenge be?

Contact Name: 
Kerry Lyles
Contact Phone: 
503.227.2807
Contact Email: 
kerry@nwei.org
Cost: 
Free

EcoChallenge 2016 Registration

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 8:45am to Friday, October 14, 2016 - 8:45am
Northwest Earth Institute

EcoChallenge gives you the tools and inspiration to reduce your impact on the planet and contribute to a healthy, vibrant, and sustainable future -- while engaging the people in your life and having fun in the process. Choose a Challenge that stretches your comfort zone, stick with it for two weeks, and make a difference for you, your community and the planet!

We invite you to engage your organization, community, workplace, or business in the EcoChallenge this fall -- it's fun, free and makes a big impact.

Contact Name: 
Kerry Lyles
Contact Phone: 
5032272807
Contact Email: 
kerry@nwei.org
Cost: 
Free

Intertwine Alliance Fall Summit

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 12:00pm to 6:30pm
The Intertwine Alliance

Featuring the 2016 Force of Nature Awards luncheon (see the 2014 winners here), compelling break-out sessions, and happy hour

Stay tuned for RSVP info, Force of Nature Awards nominations, and more event details.

For now, please save the date! 

Contact Name: 
Lauren Gottfredson
Contact Email: 
lauren@theintertwine.org
Venue: 
Oregon Zoo

Washington County Summit

Monday, October 3, 2016 - 1:00pm to 6:00pm
The Intertwine Alliance

The Intertwine Alliance continues its 2016 series of county summits with Investing in Nature for Healthier Communities in Washington County.

Join us for a look at the many ways nature keeps our communities thriving. It'll be a chance to find out about the range of efforts going on in the county supporting the health-nature vision, along with ways to connect your organization or programs to the work. Former Kaiser Permanente pediatrician and Intertwine Alliance Board Member Dr. Phil Wu will give a keynote address about the latest evidence supporting nature-based positive health outcomes. Attendees will be inspired, in the Innovation Cafe session, by projects going on in the county that are coming up with creative solutions to long-standing challenges.

And, as always, there'll be a social hour to connect with peers and new individuals/groups interested in working collaboratively in our region.

RSVP here by Sept. 28.

Contact Name: 
David Cohen
Contact Email: 
david@theintertwine.org
Venue: 
Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus Event Center
Venue Details: 
17705 NW Springville Road, Portland, OR
Cost: 
Free

Lake River Big Canoe Picnic Paddle

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 10:00am to 1:30pm
Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership

Join the Estuary Partnership for a family friendly canoe paddle through the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. Participants paddle 14-passenger 29' canoes to Lake River's confluence with the Columbia River. Bring your lunch- we'll have picnic on the beach. Estuary Partnership staff will be on each canoe to steer, offer paddling advice, and share information about the river and surrounding ecosystem.

Who can paddle?

Big Canoe trips are open to the public and are suitable for ages 5 and up. Previous paddling experience is not necessary. 

Contact Name: 
McKenzie Miller
Contact Phone: 
503-232-0782 x 229
Contact Email: 
mmiller@estuarypartnership.org
Venue: 
Ridgefield Marina
Cost: 
Free

Rewilding Free Skills Series: Natural Movement

Saturday, July 30, 2016 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Rewild Portland
Address: 
NE 6th Dr.
Portland, OR 97211
United States

We would like to invite you to this month's Rewilding Skill Series. The Rewilding Free Skills Series is a class & networking event that happens monthly, that usually occurs (but not always) on the last Saturday of the month. It is a place for social networking where people make new friends and hang out with old friends learning skills to connect us with humanity's ancestral past and more local and sustainable future. We ask for a $5 - $10 suggested donation with no one turned away.

This month's theme is Natural Movement. Most people these days in first world countries like the United States grow up with their feet firmly planted in shoes, walking on hard, flat ground. We sit in chairs, hunched over a keyboard (as I am right now), for hours on end. This isn't what our Gene's have in mind for the way in which our bodies are meant to interact with the world, and in nature. So how do we move naturally? We'll be looking at animal movements, MovNat techniques, and other aspects of how humans have moved, and still move today, without the aid of shoes, in rough and wild terrain. Come learn what our bodies can really do, and share what you may already know!

Contact Name: 
Peter Michael Bauer
Contact Phone: 
5038638462
Contact Email: 
peter@rewildportland.com
Venue: 
Children's Arboretum
Venue Details: 
See our website for exact map.
Cost: 
Free!

TreeHug PDX: The World's Greatest Tree Hug

Saturday, July 18, 2015 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Hoyt Arboretum Friends
Address: 
4000 SW Fairview Blvd
Portland, OR 97221
United States
Park/Trail: 

Where else but Portland, who else but you? Two years ago, attendees set the Guinness World Record with 936 tree-huggers at Hoyt Arboretum. This year, more than 1200 huggers are needed to top the new record set by South Korea.

Organizers have also challenged both Seattle and Vancouver to a Cascadia Cup of Tree Hugging to see once and for all who is the greenest, tree-huggiest city of the northwest.

Contact Name: 
Becky Schreiber
Contact Phone: 
503-823-1649
Contact Email: 
Becky.Schreiber@portlandoregon.gov
Venue: 
Hoyt Arboretum
Venue Details: 
near the intersection of SW Kingston Ave and SW Knights Boulevard. Take the Max train to the Washington Park stop or use free Washington Park bus shuttle to move around Washington Park.
Cost: 
FREE

MAX Birding Trip

Saturday, June 20, 2015 - 9:00am to 2:00pm
City of Hillsboro Parks & Recreation Department

Travel by light rail to local green spaces where hidden treasures await! We venture east to the Tualatin Hills Nature Park and then to Washington Park where we get off the train in the middle of a mountain range! Learn about local streams, wetlands and geology while seeing what the local nesting songbirds are up to.

Adults and children over 10 years

Meet at Hillsboro Civic Center

Steve Engel

Program number: 47199  

Sat       6/20      9 am -- 2:00 pm

$10 resident, $15 non-resident

Contact Name: 
Steve Engel
Contact Phone: 
503-681-6283
Contact Email: 
steve.engel@hillsboro-oregon.gov
Venue Details: 
We will board the MAX train at the Hatfield Government Center MAX Station, Stop ID 9848, and head east towards Merlo Rd / SW 158th station. Then to the Washington Park station in the middle of the Tualatin Mountains. Some time spent walking and birding at each stop and then we return. Bring lunch, money for a day pass ($5 adult / $2.50 under 18), binoculars and dress for the weather.
Cost: 
$10 Hillsboro Resident / $15 Non-resident

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