{"id":17773,"date":"2021-04-22T21:26:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17773"},"modified":"2021-04-22T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:26:22","slug":"get-your-green-thumb-ready-for-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/get-your-green-thumb-ready-for-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your green thumb ready for Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Celebrate Earth Day with these events across Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Natalie\u200c \u200cDean\u200c<\/strong> \u200c|\u200c \u200cEntertainment\u200c \u200cEditor\u200c \u200c \u200c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Strap on some shoes, grab some water and spend time outside this Earth Day, on April 22. While it\u2019s always a good idea to reduce, reuse and recycle year-round, Earth Day aims to bring awareness to environmental concerns worldwide. The day can be celebrated with environmental activism, like picking up litter or cleaning up parks, dams and beaches. If plans are still up in the air, consider checking out these local Earth Day themed events happening across Oregon:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>\u201cEarth Day Succulent\u201d:<\/b><span> hosted by Student Engagement. April 22, 12 to 2 p.m. Located at The Grove on the Western\u2019s campus, Monmouth, OR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cEarth Day Block Release &amp; Oregon Truffle Party\u201d:<\/b><span> hosted by Coeur de Terre Winery. April 24, 1 to 3 p.m. Located at the Coeur De Terre Winery, 21000 SW Eagle Point Rd., McMinnville, OR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cEarth Day Volunteer Crew\u201d:<\/b><span> hosted by the Hoyt Arboretum. April 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Located at the Hoyt Arboretum, 4000 SW Fairview Blvd., Portland, OR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cEarth Day Event\u201d:<\/b><span> hosted by Washington Square. April 22, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Located at 9585 SW Washington Square Rd., Portland, OR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cKindness Farm Earth Day Celebration\u201d: <\/b><span>hosted by Kindness Farms. April 24, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Located at 7101 SE 127th Ave., Portland, OR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cEarth Day Spring Planting with SOLVE &amp; Hillsboro Downtown Partnership\u201d:<\/b><span> April 22, 12 to 4 p.m. Located at 409 E. Main St., Hillsboro, OR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cMHCC Beaver Creek Earth Day Cleanup\u201d:<\/b><span> hosted by Mt. Hood Community College. April 24, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Located at 26000 SE Stark St., Gresham, OR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cEarth Day of Service\u201d:<\/b><span> hosted by the University of Oregon. April 24, 1 to 4 p.m. Located at 1585 E. 13th Ave., Eugene, OR. In-person and virtual options.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cEarth Day Virtual Guided Hike\u201d:<\/b><span> hosted by the City of Keizer. April 22 through 30, 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Located at the Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Rd. N., Keizer, OR. In-person, virtually guided.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u201cCulture Club at Hilyard Community Center\u201d:<\/b><span> hosted by the Hilyard Community Center. April 24, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Located at 25080 Hilyard St., Eugene, OR.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:ndean17@wou.edu\">ndean17@wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Earth Day with these events across Oregon<\/p>\n<p>Natalie\u200c \u200cDean\u200c \u200c|\u200c \u200cEntertainment\u200c \u200cEditor\u200c \u200c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1024,161,642,51,526,1036,1031,1032,1037,1035,309,280,591,1034,643,1033],"class_list":["post-17773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-earth-day","tag-entertainment","tag-eugene","tag-events","tag-free-events","tag-gresham","tag-in-person","tag-in-person-2","tag-keizer","tag-mcminnville","tag-monmouth","tag-natalie-dean","tag-online-events","tag-oregon-events","tag-portland","tag-virtual"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}