Eastern Oregon Climate Change Coalition (EOC3)

Climate Conversation - Short History of the Earth
2023-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Robert Carson, PhD – Short History of the Earth.
7 pm on Zoom. Email info@eoc3.org to request a Zoom Link!

EOC3 Board Meeting
2023-12-05 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-01-02 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-02-06 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-03-05 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-04-02 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-05-07 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-06-04 11:30 - 13:00, 2024-07-02 11:30 - 13:00 and 10 more dates
Members are welcome to attend. Email info@eoc3.org to request a Zoom link.

Happy Holidays! (No program in December)
2023-12-19 19:00 - 20:00

Climate conversation with Brigit Farley – Environmental history as a foundation for the climate change era.
2024-05-21 19:00 - 20:00
Brigit will provide a mini-history of the environmental movement (perhaps including a survey of environmental legislation of the late ‘60s and the 1970s) and how it built a foundation for the climate change effort beginning in the 1990s. Will likely also include a discussion of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and its influence on the environmental movement.

Climate conversation with Don Hartley – Local forest restoration practices and their implications for climate change.
2024-06-18 19:00 - 20:00
Don and his wife Karen are restoration ecologists living in Pendleton. They have a thousand acres of forest land in the Blues, and a thousand acres of dryland wheat ground near Adams. They have done extensive restoration work on the mountain ground, and they also have a 58-acre wheat field in organic production. Don’s program will feature their restoration practices on the forested property.

Climate conversation with Daniel Hancock – Residential and commercial solar options, including IRA grants for solar.
2024-07-16 19:00 - 20:00
Dan is involved with renewable energy project development and finance. He has been working in that industry for the last 15+ years – from private Islands in the Caribbean to Indian Reservations in California. He works for a company called StraightUp Solar. He and his employer often work on community solar projects – they have a $14M community solar project going now in Illinois that will be almost 4 years from start of development to energization. Dan will discuss residential solar, community solar (current emphasis for Pendleton, for example) and how the new IRA grants factor into the equation.

Climate conversation with Andrew Mitsch – Historical and extreme weather and climate events for eastern Oregon (9-county area).
2024-08-20 19:00 - 20:00
This program will include some of the same topics as a program presented by Ed Townsend (NWS meteorologist) in August 2023. Floods, historic winter storms and cold waves, heat waves, drought, wildfire, etc. will all be touched on, including those with a climate change signal. Actual historical data pertaining to individual extreme events, for the 9-county area (spanning a century), will be presented.

Climate Conversation Program: Climate change tipping points and abrupt climate change
2025-01-21 19:00 - 20:00
Climate conversation program on Zoom

Climate Conversation Program: Climate change vulnerabilities and adaptation in the Blues
2025-02-18 19:00 - 20:00

Climate Conversation Program: Braiding indigenous and western knowledge
2025-03-18 19:00 - 20:00

Climate Conversation Program: Climate resilience and adaptive management for rangelands
2025-04-15 19:00 - 20:00

Climate Conversation Program: Climate change effects on western juniper and its expansion
2025-05-20 19:00 - 20:00

Have a great summer! (No program in June)
2025-06-17 19:00 - 20:00
