Green City

Tomorrow (April 22), the Wednesday Farmer’s Market in Corvallis will reopen in its new location at S.W. Second Street and S.W. D Avenue. We’ve got details…

Event: Feeding Our Community – Promoting Self-Sufficiency
Learn about federal and state regulations on agriculture, present status of mid-valley agriculture, and its potential for feeding our population.

Gazette-Times Publisher Mike McInally spoke with Catherine Mater, president of Mater Engineering and posessing more than 30 years of research and design experience in the forest industry. Read the entire Q&A.

If you’re a member of a group that would like access to people during the Earth Week Community Fair, now’s the time to sign up for a booth to spread your word.
Earth Week is a week of events focused on environmental issues put on by groups from campus and the greater Corvallis community.
This year’s events [...]

Oregon State University will host a seminar series focusing on different aspects of climate change that begins Wednesday, April 1, with a talk by Ricardo Matano, who will discuss the oceans and climate. The series is being coordinated…

Have a great recipe for springtime local produce? Enter the spring local foods cook-off sponsored by the Ten Rivers Food Web.
Use your favorite spring vegetable in your favorite dish for a chance to win gift certificates to local restaurants or gift basket full of local stuff.
What you need to do:

Register for the contest.
Plan your recipe. [...]

Michelle Long, executive director and co-founder of nonprofit Sustainable Connections, will speak in Eugene Thursday, March 26 about how ‘All Sustainability is local.’
Long has been actively working with Sustainable Connections to address social and environmental challenges through business for over a decade. The nonprofit was formed to model an economy built on sustainability
Long is the [...]

Want to learn more about keeping chickens in your backyard? Get ready for the Cooped up in Corvallis tour sponsored by the Corvallis Environmental Center.

What: Lecture, Beyond Environmentalism: The Case for a New Politics with Michael Shellenberger, Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment”
When: 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 4

Interested in self-reliant living? Check out a seminar next week hosted by The Oregon Coast Community College and OSU Extension. Details…