BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Bioneers conference offers workshops, music An Oregon Bioneers conference will be held Friday through Sunday at Lane Community College. The conference will feature comments via satellite from Terry Tempest Williams Terry Tempest Williams (born 1955), is an American author, naturalist, and environmental activist. The main subject of her writings is the deserts of the American West. She is considered an ecologist and a naturalist, but writes about other issues as well, including issues of and other noted authors and innovators. Workshop topics will include urban restoration, ecoliteracy, food safety, wildlands protection, breakthrough economics and globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation . The event will also include an exhibit hall, live music, dance and film. Cost is $40 for one day or $100 for all three days. Participants may register online at www.bridgingworldsnw.org or www.bioneers.org. Call 345-6919 for more information. Founded in 1980, Bioneers is a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. group that promotes practical and innovative environmental solutions. Bioneers define themselves as biological pioneers working with nature to heal nature and humanity. Amazon in for a cleanup on appreciation day Explore Eugene's own Amazon channel at the 13th annual Amazon Appreciation Day on Oct. 23. Main events start at 9 a.m. Volunteers of all ages will help plant native plants, remove invasive species
Invasive species is a phrase with many definitions. The first definition expresses the phrase in terms of non-indigenous species (e.g. , pick up trash, and learn more about the Amazon channel at several activities, including: Bird walk with an Audubon expert at 7:30 a.m. Meet at the Hilyard Center for an excursion along the channel and an opportunity to meet its feathered feath·ered adj. 1. Covered, provided, or adorned with feathers. 2. Having feathering, as an animal's coat. 3. Moving swiftly: feathered feet. 4. inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. . Meet at the following locations at 9 a.m. for tools, gloves and directions: Hilyard Center; 18th and Chambers behind Albertsons; Oak Patch and Amazon channel. Lunch, prizes and an Amazon student art show at noon. Gather at the Hilyard Center. Stream Team coordinator Lorna Baldwin hopes entire families will come out for the event and truly develop an appreciation for Amazon channel together. "This is a fun, family affair," she says. "Now that the event has been relocated to the fall, we can not only clean up the creek but create healthier habitat by planting native plants." She recommends dressing for outdoor work and unpredictable fall weather. The Stream Team will provide tools, gloves and instruction, and Eugene Weekly The Eugene Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Eugene, Oregon. The paper, published every Thursday, has a circulation of 39,850.[1] It publishes an annual "Best of Eugene" list, a restaurant guide ("Chow!"), and special sections on festivals, will host a comfort booth with refreshments re·fresh·ment n. 1. The act of refreshing or the state of being refreshed. 2. Something, such as food or drink, that refreshes. 3. refreshments A snack or light meal and drinks. at the event. For more information, call 682-4850 or e-mail lorna.j.baldwin@ci. eugene.or.us. Send announcements to: Briefly News at The Register-Guard, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene, OR 97440, fax 683-7631 or e-mail rgnews@ guardnet.com. |
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