Ecologue

Danielle Heenehan received an SSI Travel Grant for $160.90 to attend the Portland Mushroom Cultivation Weekend in November of 2013. Danielle wrote a short summary and brought back a few pictures for the Ecologue. ————————————————————— Fungi are some of the most important and ecologically diverse groups of organisms on the planet. They play an important […]

Winter Work Party – Come help SSI prepare for spring!!! It’s the last garden work party of the season and we’re getting ready for spring with a bang! Help us prepare the SSI student garden for Spring Term and: Win fabulous and useful prizes! Enjoy provided snacks and beverages! Take a break from studying; clear […]

Tonight at 7:30 PM is the first of a 3 week workshop where Beth Young will teach how to bring the beauty of nature to your own backyard without using pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or even excessive watering! Learn how to work with nature to create the garden you’ve always wanted! The class, “Naturescape Your Yard”, is […]

The OSU Sustainability Office and Energize Corvallis have teamed up to help answer some burning questions. Did you know that by placing a 6-inch pan on an 8-inch burner you are wasting about 40% of the heating energy being used to prepare food?  …or that properly inflated tires save about 3% of your fuel use, the […]

Celebrate ArborDay and Earth Week with a Tree Planting on the Library Quad. One Hundred years ago the class of 1913 planted the majestic elm trees we now enjoy in the Library Quad. Come join in as we plant a tree as a gift to the next 100 years and honor and appreciate the gift […]

At OSU, we have been celebrating Earth Day ever since the first one in 1970. But we’re too hardcore for just one day of observance of this amazing planet we live on, so we celebrate for a full week! Hence: Earth Week, a week of fun and educational activities geared toward raising environmental awareness and […]

The City of Corvallis is inviting Corvallis residents to join in on the Healthy Streets Planning Initiative.  “Healthy streets” are specially designed to be more environmentally friendly as well as safer for everyone.  High visibility crosswalks help reduce vehicle/pedestrian crashes.  Shared-use paths and a bike corridor make biking easier and safer.  Curb extensions with rain […]

Northwest Earth Institute discussion courses are a popular way to engage in locally-relevant conversations about the topics of our time.  More than 130,000 people worldwide have participated in their discussion courses! Beginning April 2, a Global Warming: Changing Course discussion group is starting in Corvallis at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall, NW Circle and 29t St.  […]

The challenge of the Spring Creek Project is to bring together the practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the clarity of philosophical analysis, and the creative, expressive power of the written word, to find new ways to understand and re-imagine our relation to the natural world. Position Summary: The website developer will work closely with […]

To geographers, “sense of place” refers to shared perceptions among a group of people used to describe unique characteristics of a specific area or region. Experiencing a sense of place involves personal attachment to a community and/or bioregion. For example, I live in Corvallis and have an attachment to university here, to the people here, […]