Plastic Campaign Web Mail Manager Needed! This technologically savy individual is needed to help merge all of our petition signers into a cooler email account so we can message to them and coalition groups. Please contact Charlie at cplybon@surfrider.org
Man I’ve always wanted one of these things and now the opportunity is coming to Portland this spring! Grain Surfboards is bringing their class to Portland March 4-10 to help you build that sustainable hand-crafted board you’ve been waiting to call your own. Registration doesn’t come cheap, but you’re fed and walk away with a board ready to glass so it all comes out as a pretty good deal in the end. Find out more information here: Grain Surfboard Class PDX.
Join us this Tuesday night, 7:30pm at the SE Lucky Lab Brewery meeting room for a social mixer and chapter meeting. Learn about volunteer opportunities and how to get involved with more with your local chapter! And…just in case you missed it, we may even show a little snippet from Portlandia where SF and BTB was featured recently!
This coming Tuesday, December 13th, join us at the SE Lucky Lab at 7pm for the monthly Portland Chapter of Surfrider Foundation meeting. Social half-hour from 7-7:30 and meeting and presentation to follow. This month, Green-Go Solar Project is presenting on their work in Baja to help bring affordable and accessible energy to those in need. The mission of the Green-Go Solar Project is to promote the use of affordable and accessible solar energy in rural Baja, Mexico through education, hands-on participation, and service. If you’ve ever surfed or visited Baja, you’ve probably seen the strong separation between the tourist industry and the many impoverished natives to the area. The Green-Go Solar project aims to help close that gap and bring sustainable trainings to the local communities of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Do you or someone you know love the ocean? Give the gift of a Surfrider Membership.
Memberships include the following benefits:
To join go here!
Calling all Winter Lovers. That familiar chill is in the air and it’s time to celebrate! Join Core Concepts, The Mountain Shop & the Snowrider Project on Wednesday, November 9th at the Ace Hotel from 5-9 pm. Be our guest to preview the 2011 Core Concepts Winter Collection of technical apparel and enjoy a complimentary Widmer seasonal ale on us. Great raffle prizes and swag from The Mountain Shop and Core Concepts will be given away throughout the night. A special opportunity to pre-order from the new Core Concepts Winter Collection will be available.
10% of all pre-orders that evening go to benefit Snowrider PDX.
Core Concepts features top notch performance outdoor layers that combine the highest quality branded technical fabrics with unique design elements and custom print accents.
No Admission!
Complimentary Widmer Beer!
Raffle and Prizes!
Please join us at SE Lucky Lab at 7pm for “Meet and Greet”. Learn about future volunteer opportunities and how you can help! The meeting will start at 7:30pm. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Interested in building an Ocean Friendly Garden?
Beach Cleanups?
Email Lisa at: lisa.lynch@oregonsurfrider.org
Volunteer and receive a free retro Portland Chapter Surfrider Foundation T-shirt!
“Bring Your Bag“ Education and Outreach Week is Coming, Get involved!
We’ve partnered with the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to help educate the public about the city-wide plastic bag ban going into effect on October 15, 2011. We will be doing outreach at local grocery stores to remind the public to bring their reusable bags. Come join us at one or all of the following locations after the implementation of the plastic bag ban.
Saturday, September 17, we’re not just cleaning up beaches along the coast, river’s and canyons upstream too! Save the date. Snowrider is kicking off the inaugural Salmon River Canyon Cleanup on Mt. Hood. If you plan to attend please send us and email to snowriderpdx@gmail.com and include the names and number of participants. Space this year is limited to 50 adults. More on the snowrider blog.
Rain, rain go away!
We’re going to have to mark stormdrains another day.
With the thunderstorms overnight, and the likelyhood of more showers through the day, we’re unfortunately going to have to cancel stormdrain marking for tonight, as we need 8-12 hours of dry weather to completely dry out the porous concrete to make it the adhesive stick.
Our next stormdrain marking dates are set for Tuesday August 16th, and Monday August 22nd, both dates we’ll meet at 6:00pm, and will again attempt to mark in the SE 10th and Franklin neighborhood. Hopefully Noah’s Ark won’t be floating by at that point. : )
Thanks for your interest, enthusiasm and patience. We’ll get some dry weather soon, and put ya’ll to work.
If you’re interested in helping out with future markings, we can always use more volunteers! Sign up with Gregg: stormdrainmarkingpdx@gmail.com
