Conference & Event Listings
High Country News offers free Web listings of your upcoming conferences, events and free eco-educational opportunities.
Would you like to Submit a free conference or event?The Energy Trust Better Living Show
We produce the largest sustainable lifestyle event in the Northwest. Find everything green, good and sustainable in one place - Portland, Oregon. The Energy Trust Better Living Home and Garden Show. If you are looking to live a more earth friendly life, this is the festival for you. Seminars, workshops and music add to the expo. Admission is free to this show. Contact Michael O'Loughlin for this and other trade shows.
Southwest Herb Gathering,2010
The event in Truth or Consequences, NM includes the dedication of the Michael Moore Memorial Medicinal Plant Garden, speakers, herb walks, organic farm tour, medicine making demonstrations, children's herb walk, vendors and educational booths.
For more information or to register: www.swherbgathering.com
SynergyFest
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STOP BY THE HIGH COUNTY NEWS BOOTH! Workshops A variety of sustainable power generation, conservation and education lectures, demonstrations and speakers. |
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Solar Power Stage Featuring Las Vegas-area musicians and childrens' presentations. |
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Sustainability services A wide variety of companies, government organizations and and public service organizations involved in energy will have displays and information available. |
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Sunshine Kids Village Kid-friendly games and activities that are enjoyable for the whole family. |
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Vendors A number of concessionaires will have food and drink for sale during the day. |
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Solar Oven Cookie baking using the sun! |
Desert Conference
The Oregon Natural Desert Association is proud to partner with the Hells Canyon Preservation Council, National Landscape Conservation System, The Wilderness Society, and the High Desert Committee of the Sierra Club to bring you Desert Conference.
A multitude of issues face the evolving desert landscape including renewable energy development, habitat fragmentation, climate change, public lands grazing and de-watering of desert lakes and rivers. Desert Conference provides a forum for land-managers, conservation organizations, academics and advocates alike to cooperate for better environmental protections.
Desert Conference will be held at Washington Family Ranch near Antelope, Oregon, in the heart of the John Day Basin. From here you will have the opportunity to explore and help restore nearby wilderness and proposed wilderness areas. This year’s conference will feature author Craig Childs and Peter Illyn, an Environmental Stewardship Minister, music by Craig Caruthers plus panels on topics covering a variety of desert issues.
Water Loss Asia 2010 Conference & Exhibition
Water Loss Asia is a specialized event on Non – Revenue Water. Improve your knowledge on managing NRW and be attracted by a wide showcase of products on managing water loss effectively.
THUNDER IN THE DESERT 2012
American Indian World's Fair. An invitation to all indigenous cultures of the world to share their unique cultural expressions with indigenous peoples of other tribes and a formal request for participation by dance groups, musicians, poetic and literary artists, pow-wow folks, war mothers and veteran's societies, seventh generation youth and golden age groups, tribal tourism, art and craft vendors and tribal commercial exhibits, sponsors and volunteers are welcomed. We also send out an invitation to all four directions of the world to invite the four races of mankind, the red, the yellow, the black and the white to participate, share, experience and taste this unique event of ten thousand years of cultures, one hundred-fifty tribal nations, 10 days all at one location - Tucson, Arizona, USA. To be held on December 30, 2011 through January 9, 2012. "Thunder in the Desert 2012" will feature parades, fashion shows, birds of prey, equestrian events, pow-wows, concerts, midnight friendship dance, elder's, veterans', children's and world indigenous people's exhibition days and a lot more.

