Last year, Operation Peacebulb set a Guinness World Record with 850 simultaneous bulb-planters. Join local community members Saturday, April 18th, from 9:00-11:00am for a massive bulb-planting event! The goal is to set a new record with 1000 individuals simultaneously planting bulbs.

Please bring your kids, friends, neighbors, work buddies, church group, class, senior pals, sports team, etc. The event will be at The White Oak Savanna (2425 Tannler Drive, West Linn). Bring a garden trowel or spade with you to help get the native bulbs in the ground. Bulbs supplied. Contact Roberta Schwarz if you would like to join this momentous planting event!

Oh no, folks! Sylvania’s coffee mug board is nearly empty and needs more mugs to share. If you have any mugs that can be retired, contribute them to the community reusable mug board. You will help someone to not use a paper cup! If you know of faculty members with one of the many missing mugs please gently remind them to bring them back.

Great job Sylvania Facilities Management Services office for becoming a certified Green Office at the Gold level!

They are the fourth off to become a certified PCC Green Office. PCC is proud to have offices dedicated to promoting sustainability and working towards helping lower the campuses carbon footprint.

If you would like to learn more or see if your office qualifies check out Green Office Certification for more information.

Great job again, Sylvania Facilities Management Services office! Keep up the good work.

Rock Creek Learning Garden Weekly Volunteer Schedule

Spring Term

Harvest Crew: Tuesdays

Join a team to harvest food for the cafeteria and farm stand. Help run the farm stand in the afternoon.

Where and when:

• 8am-12pm at the garden
• 12pm-4pm at the farm stand

Garden Gurus: Fridays

Come learn about organic gardens and small scale farms. Lend a hand to help us take care of the garden!

Where and when:

• 10am-2pm at the garden

Volunteer rewards: free food!

Volunteer for 4 hours and receive $20 worth of fresh produce or flowers at Rock Creek’s Portlandia Farm Standia

Open the 4th week of April – October, every Tuesday from 12pm-4pm.Find it between Buildings 2 & 3, rain location inside Building 3 mall

No prior gardening experience or RSVP necessary! We’ll provide you with the tools and know-how. Find us at the Learning Garden across the street from Building 9.

Cob Oven Update

Friday, March 13, 9:00am-1:00pm
Cutting timbers and posts for the roof
Sylvania’s Learning Garden

The team did some nice planning last Friday sourcing reusable materials for the oven project.

This Friday they will cut and notch posts and have them ready for concrete after the inspector visits.

They hope to have our permit by next week, and then there will be some big work parties to get the roof finished so they can start on the oven next term.

Walk-ins are very welcome too.

Portland has a neat secret alternative to Craigslist’s free section: Freecycle. Well, it may not exactly be a secret, but it is sure a handy tool to clean your house of things you don’t want anymore. Or a great resource to find free things from your local Portland neighbors. Join or learn more about .

There is also an informal freecycle table at Sylvania. If you have good quality items that need a new home, bring them to the table in the lower CC mall near the cafeteria.

20+ students, instructors, and staff smashed 234 hard drives & collected 152 other computer items for responsible eCycling! That’s approximately 351 lbs. of hard drives that were saved from the waste stream & a whole lot of data that won’t be available for identity theft – what a rewarding two hours!

Thanks to the Engineering students’ machines that held up under their first real world test, and thanks for all of your help in advertising, supporting, and participating in this event. Plans are in the works to continue our efforts during Earth Week and beyond.

Saturday, February 28, 9:00am-12:00pm
Ma Olsen’s Garden, St Helens Road & NW 108th, Portland

Such nice weather we’re having! Why not get out and help Oregon’s native plant species? If ridding hillsides of invasive species, replanting native plants, and uncovering hundred-year-old walls sounds like your thing, join the Sylvania’s Environmental Club in restoring the land near the downtown area that was once known as Linnton. The area was demolished in the 1960’s and today, it needs some TLC. Come join the Environmental Club, and help SOLVE in restoring this area.

Wear comfortable work clothes and sturdy shoes. The Oregonian in you should be prepared, but we’ll remind you to be ready to face wet and muddy conditions on the rough terrain. Don’t let that discourage you though! Volunteering makes you and your community look good.

If you would like to get involved with this event, send an email or smoke signal to either Lauren or Venus.

(Above: The reclaim bins)

February 9th-11th ASPCC members at the Rock Creek campus hosted an eCycle event. What is an eCycle event? An eCycling event is where you take your old/unused electronics such as computers, cell phones, cameras, microwaves, etc to the event to be recycled! This helps keep electronics out of the waste stream and allows valuable parts to be reused/refurbished.

Rock Creeks eCycle event was full of activities, fun and chocolate! I attended the event February 11th, there was a card making station to make that special someone a handmade gift for valentines day. There was a selfie photo booth as well, where you were able to take a selfie with a fun valentines day background and have the chance to win a $50 giftcard to the bookstore. There was music, delicious chocolate and chips as well!

(Above: Students making cards for Valentines Day)

(Above: Students having fun at the selfie booth)

The event collected:

(Above: Student recycling dead batteries from her calculator)

• 1 Microwave
• 1 Speaker
• 7 Phones
• 8 Cellphone Chargers
• 1 Walkman
• 2 Laptop Chargers
• 1 Remote Control
• 1 Electric Razor
• 1 Keyboard
• 2 Mice
• 1 Printer
• 4 Laptops
• 1 CPU
• 2 Hard Drives
• 1 Monitor

If you missed this event but have an old hard drive you want to get rid don’t worry! There will be a hard driving smashing event at the Sylvania Campus on February 25, 2015. This will be held in building CC in the Mall, 3 – 5pm. For more details email Peter Ritson.