October 12- 23, 2020 Virtual Morning, noon and late afternoon events will include tours, discussion panels, product showcases, virtual happy hours… and more! SBW 2020 will be virtual and expanded to a 2-week format with three events per day. This will provide for rich content and meaningful connectedness while not overburdening our stamina for “screen-time.” Several key events are locked in, including: AIA Oregon COTE’s Green Champions Summit Solar Oregon’s virtual building tours AIA happy hour ReBuilding Center’s Salvage Showdown Education forums from Portland Green Schools, Build Local Alliance, Portland Materials Transparency, ILFI Collaborative, OSU, and Carbon Leadership Forum For more info: https://bit.ly/2Fp14fa
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Portland VegFest
October 5 & 6, 2019 Oregon Convention Center Exhibit Hall A Join 8,000+ people of all ages and 180+ vendors at Oregon’s premier plant-based food and lifestyle event. The largest vegan food festival in the Pacific Northwest, Portland VegFest celebrates its 15th year with 180+ food vendors, favorite veg restaurants all in one place, cooking demos from top vegan chefs, talks from leaders in the vegan movement including doctors, lawyers, activists, business owners and environmentalists, a fitness stage, activities specific to kids and teens, and more. For more info and to apply: portlandvegfest.org
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Essential Oils to Tame Mosquitos
Summertime means sunshine, camping, hiking, gardening, and an all-around good time being outside. But with the great outdoors comes one big bugaboo: mosquitoes! Rather than spraying on a synthetic cocktail of chemicals with conventional bug spray, we prefer to use natural essential oils. There seems to be one winged menace that’s especially difficult once the weather turns hot and humid. Not to worry … Here are seven essential oils that naturally discourage mosquitoes: 1. Cypress Essential Oil A 2013 Greek study looked at eight species of cypress to assess their e effectiveness against mosquito larvae from Aedes albopictus. Three of the essential oils (C. benthamii, C. lawsoniana, and C. macrocarpa)…
