Our booth at Open Streets

[ami...@willamettewatershed.com]

Hello, Energy and HHS Action Team members!

 

I’ve signed up for a booth at Open Streets on Sunday, June 29, to be co-sponsored by two of the Sustainability Coalition’s action teams: Energy and Health & Human Services. In case you’re not familiar with Open Streets, it’s an amazing, dynamic festival held annually in a different part of Corvallis. This year’s festival is in South Corvallis. Details are here: Open Streets Corvallis – A free festival that features a mile of walkable, bikeable streets and showcases a different neighborhood every year.

 

The focus of our booth will be both climate adaptation (how to stay safe in a changing climate) and climate mitigation (actions to reduce or prevent further greenhouse gas emissions from entering earth’s atmosphere).

• The Coalition’s Outreach Specialist, K’Rene Kos, will be staffing the booth, focusing on ways to stay safe during hot weather. (Thanks to HHS Action Team member Jennifer Nitson for finding the attached handout!).
• I’ve created a simple game based on the Hot Weather handout. Anyone who plays is eligible to enter our drawing for a new water bottle – a $35 value!
• We will also have someone from the Energy Action Team’s Shift Together group who is knowledgeable about the energy- and cost-saving opportunities that are currently available, as well as handouts from Energy Trust of Oregon.

 

I’d like to find a few volunteers who can help out in 90-minute shifts between 10:00 am and 3:30 pm.  Please let me know by this Friday 6/20/25 if you’re available at one of the following times to help at our Open Streets booth:

 

10 am – 11:30 am (includes set-up)

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm (includes take-down)

 

Thanks!

 

Annette

 

Annette Mills, Facilitator/Director

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition

https://sustainablecorvallis.org

541-230-1237 (No texting, please)

 

I live within the traditional homeland of the Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya.  Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya …Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations at either Grand Ronde or Siletz. Today, the Kalapuya live on tribal lands or tribal-ceded lands throughout the region. Many Kalapuya are active members of the sovereign nations of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde or the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. Kalapuya culture is alive. To learn more, please check out the online Champinefu Webinar Series, plan a trip to the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center, and/or make a gift to our Champinefu Fund.