President’s Environmental Youth Award

The President’s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) recognizes outstanding environmental projects by K-12 youth. The PEYA program promotes awareness of our nation’s natural resources and encourages positive community involvement. Since 1971, the President of the United States has joined with...

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WEBINAR: Innovation in Plastics – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Plastic has been an invention that has been seen until recent years as the perfect material for product packaging. However, its strengths are also its weakness. Businesses are increasingly looking at plastic reduction, closing the loop and finding more sustainable and less impactful substitutes....

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Placemaking Application deadline!

Do you see the street intersection paintings around town, benches made of earth, or food forests? Applications are live if you want our help to install these projects for 2019.  If you have questions and interest to do placemaking projects in your community or if you want to learn about how to...

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Placemaking Info Sessions

Do you see the street intersection paintings around town, benches made of earth, or food forests? Applications are live if you want our help to install these projects for 2019 and below are dates for info sessions if you have questions and interest to do placemaking projects in your community or...

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NWEI’s 25th Anniversary Celebration

We invite you to join friends and changemakers, new and old, as we celebrate 25 years of learning, action, and impact — including the record-setting 38,000+ people (you’re one of them!) participating in our programs this year.  We look forward to sharing this evening with you as we...

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Webinar: Education 2030 and the Future of ESD

With the Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) coming to an end in 2019, now is the time to look to the future.  In a series of intensive brainstorming symposia and a review of current ESD work, UNESCO has drafted a position paper on the future of ESD,...

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Job: SOLVE Communications Coordinator

Communications Coordinator Position type Part-time Exempt (Salaried), 25 hours per week, starting $25K Position reports to Director of Advancement Location Portland, OR Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in marketing, public relations, communications, or a related field, and...

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Volunteer at the Children’s Clean Water Festival

The Children’s Clean Water Festival is a one-day environmental education event for 4th grade students from around the Portland Metro area. The Festival reinforces STEM, Common Core and Next Generation Science concepts through water-focused classroom presentations, exhibits and stage shows....

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TSL 2019 International Schools Essay Competition & Debate

Young people are key to achieving SDG #15 (Life on Land).  The Trust for Sustainable Living is pleased to invite schoolchildren around the world to share their unique perspectives on the role young people can play in achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal #15 – to conserve and sustainably...

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Job: Volunteer & Community Engagement Manager

The Mount St. Helens Institute seeks a Volunteer and Community Engagement Manager who is responsible for the development and management of volunteer and community engagement opportunities that connect diverse individuals in our neighboring communities to Mount St. Helens.  Integral to all aspects...

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FREE Naturescaping Basics Workshop

This workshop will give you the knowledge to plan your landscape so that it is beautiful, easy to maintain, and beneficial to our local ecosystem. Plus, you will take home a free comprehensive workbook to get you started on your own Naturescape! Pre-register today to reserve your spot....

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