We are one week away from our Sustainability Symposium! Check out all of the Symposium program details, including all of the presentations and our speaker bios. What an amazing group of presenters! We can’t wait to share the day with you. Be sure to purchase your tickets soon. In...
Stories of whales, turtles, and seabirds with guts filled with plastic have become increasingly common. Recently, a team of scientists wanted to determine the extent of plastic pollution and its effects on animals by investigating the most remote regions of the ocean, sending vehicles to the...
With a generous grant from Metro, the Eco-School Network is thrilled to launch the Eco-School Waste Fellowship to help nearly 10,000 students develop lifelong waste reduction habits. Parent leaders from 20+ schools across our four districts have been accepted as fellows. With the guidance of a...
The Green Schoolyards Collective is launching! After a few years of planning, we’re finally lifting this idea off the ground with a kick-off eventrescheduled for Tuesday, March 12, from 9 a.m. to noon. This will be the first time we bring together members and those who want to find...
Outdoor School for All! Diverse Programming and Outcomes in Oregon is a participatory evaluation effort building understanding and knowledge about current outdoor school programming and its intended outcomes. This is an ongoing collaborative project of the Outdoor School Program and the Oregon...
The climate crisis is a wave that will impact communities of color and low-income communities hardest. In this time, it’s easy to feel discouraged, but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement have generated widespread enthusiasm for a Green New Deal (see inspirational...
Trash for Peace began a partnership with The Rosewood Initiative’s Refugee and Immigrant Hospitality program to provide sustainability-themed activities for the children of adult English class participants. We’re grateful to the United Way of the Columbia-Willamette for supporting this...
Check out our Mid-February Newsletter! Highlighting community events, classes, jobs, curriculum and news, we are proud to share this vital resource with the greater Portland region. For more information on all of these updates, check out our Regional Hub. Not only do we have an...
Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates made headlines last month as they both penned op-eds about their investments in global health — which total a cool $10 billion in the last two decades — and the need for continued global support in achieving Global Goal 3 on good health for all. Now they’re...
GPSEN, who are we? We are explorers, minimalists travelers near and far, diverse humans differing in few base pairs few proteins, but, driven by common core of a double helix bonded by curiosity, passion to learn and to share because we care. We are doers, movers go-getters competing to with the...