ANY Person Engaged in ANY Activity Involving Hazardous Materials and Waste MUST Successfully Complete an Annual/Triennial Training & Testing Program

Federal law requires all persons engaged in any activity involving hazardous materials, substances, chemicals and waste to complete an updated training program on the Federal regulations requiring compliance.

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Get into the water now! Come learn about soil science and water quality at Highbanks Metro Park.

Participants will explore how the Ag industry is improving soil integrity and water quality. These lessons address Ohio Science Standards in 7th and 8th grade science, Biology, and Environmental Science.

• How do we connect our students to water and soil quality?
• Why are clean water and healthy soil important to our future?
• How can our students explore the importance of agricultural science as it relates to our ecosystems?
• How is agriculture helping to create clean water around the state?
• How will agricultural careers shape our students' future?

Network with industry and fellow educators, practice a variety of labs focused on water and soil science, and connect agriculture to your classroom. Here's the agenda:

• Soil and sustainability: texture and structure, nutrient testing, lawn chemicals and edge of field impact
• Lunch: Industry experts discuss the importance of technology in agriculture as it relates to soil and water quality
• Water quality: chemical tests, biotic sampling, and quality conclusion

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An insect invasion is a scary thought but knowing more about critters can help you get rid of them! Other questions may be, why doesn’t that store-bought product work? What products are safe for my family and pets? If I do have to call an exterminator, how do I know they are doing a good job?

We will discuss it all at this event. Join us for the best information at the safest and lowest cost!

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Please meet us at the starting bar. We provide gloves, grabbers, and buckets and you pay for your own drinks as we go. Make new friends, help the community, and reward yourself with some drinks!

We pick up litter on this walking bar crawl through Cleveland’s neighborhoods. Please meet us at Nano Brew at 6. We provide gloves, grabbers, and buckets and you pay for your own drinks as we go. Make new friends, help the community, and reward yourself with some drinks! We will visit Great Lakes and Hansa and then end back at Nano Brew!

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The walking movement is changing— encountering opportunities one could not expect several years ago and which have increasingly influenced the work of the national walking movement. The national walking movement has always been informed by local work to create safer, more accessible, well-connected networks of mobility.

There are no one-sized fits all solution--strategies that are employed to create safer walking environments must reflect the history, culture, and background of each community. With that in mind, America Walks has decided to embrace the opportunities brought on by these changes and redefine the 2019 National Walking Summit to focus on localized geographic-based convenings that will feature the unique characteristics of each place and will highlight the home-grown solutions and adaptations that are at work in communities.

Learn more at www.walkingsummit.org

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If you have ever wondered how to hire someone with a felony in their background, has a developmental disability, someone who needs to see the light at the end of the school-tunnel, or has barriers to employment, this is the event for you!

Come out to the Medina County University Center and hear from experts in the field as well as fellow employers talk about their experiences, how you can get involved and what money is available to support those efforts.

A light breakfast will be served.

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The Summit on Sustainability is MORPC's signature environmental conference, bringing hundreds of community leaders together to explore and share sustainable ideas and solutions, and to celebrate individual and collaborative sustainability efforts with the Regional Sustainability Awards. For more information please visit our Summit webpage here.

Why attend the 2019 Summit on Sustainability?

1. Get firsthand information on sustainable practices for government, business and the community with professional development opportunities.
   
   
2. Network with over 500 other people from diverse backgrounds who share a common interest in environmental issues.
   
   
3. The programming is top notch! The plenary sessions and breakout sessions feature food for thought and real-life solutions on how to create communities that are increasingly self-sustaining and environmental sound.

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We need YOUR help to plant 200+ trees at the beautiful Sherwin Preserve! Join us for a beautiful fall day of meaningful restoration work on a scenic property in Lake County. 

Event Details:
Date & Time: Thursday, October 3 from 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Sherwin Preserve | 9600 Smith Road. Waite Hill, OH 44094
Tools, water, gloves, and lunch will be provided
All volunteers are required to sign a waiver
There is no rain date scheduled for this event

Agenda:
8:30 AM | Volunteer arrival and registration
9:00 AM | Planting & clean-up begins
12:30 PM | Lunch

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Are you looking for a way to advance your professional learning as an informal educator? Are you interested in engaging with your colleagues to build a culture of reflective practice at your science center? Reflecting on Practice(TM) is a modular program developed at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC-Berkeley.  The program is designed for adoption by informal learning institutions so that all educators in their organization can participate and learn together.

Workshop fee:  $100 / person (Includes a $25 deposit, breakfast & lunch both days, and training materials)
Stipend upon completion of the workshop:  $200

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The year 2019 marks the 400th year since 20 Africans arrived in Jamestown, Va. as indentured servants in 1619, representing the earliest documented record of Blacks in, what is now, America. This system of indentured servitude rapidly gave way to the enslavement of Blacks which would endure until 1865 and was followed by almost another 100 years of Jim Crow racial segregation.

This 400-year history of racial oppression created a racially-stratified society in which racial inequities are deeply embedded in virtually every structural institution and system in American society, bolstered by a philosophy of White supremacy and Black racial inferiority.

The Project 400 Conference features high profile speakers to frame the historical and contemporary effects of slavery and institutional and structural racism in the perpetuation of racial disparities and inequities found among the African American population today. The conference will begin with a keynote address by world-renown literary scholar, author, Emmy-winning filmmaker, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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